Comments about ‘Fewer hungry children getting free summer meals’

Hungry children are caused by parents, not society or government or the taxpayers. Why don't these people go knocking on the doors of their local churches and charitable groups for food? That is their purpose, to aid the hungry, homeless, and foreign nationals. Putting this on government is unfounded and irresponsible greed.

These poor children with parents, working or not, or homeless, all get food stamps, use them to feed your children and not go begging for more free handouts from government. By giving food stamps to greedy families the government has done more than they should at taxpayers expense.

The parents must be more responsible in caring for their children and how they spend their tax free food fund allowances. They don't need food stamps and prepared meals. If the state does supply prepared meals, then they should charge it against the food stamp cards. Why should the parents expect all 3 services for free? They get free food stamps and WIC funds and they want free prepared meals too? Absurd.

There are no hungry children, just greedy parents and religious sects.

Interesting line from the article: "Low-income children across the country clearly bore the brunt of budget cuts." What, would they rather take free lunches away from the high-income students? Is there a way to lay the "brunt of budget cuts" onto those children?

And while any child going hungry is a tragedy, this is a symptom of a bigger problem. It doesn't take a social scientist to know that a high portion of these children are from broken or dysfunctional families.

That is NOT to say we shouldn't try to help, but free lunches during the summer are pretty negligible in the big picture. We need to focus more on fostering strong families.

@my2cents
yikes! Your childish arrogance is only out paced by your ignorance "my2cents." it must be nice in your little self righteous world. Your parents must be so proud of you.

Amen My2cents. We have got neighbors that invite us to the "Free" lunch program. I won't go....because it is not free. It has and will come out of my taxes. The lunch is not free.

Where is the compassion? What better use of money than to help feed hungry children? And, My2Cents, how is it appropriate to punish children for the mistakes of their parents?