Back at the height of the depression, as in 1932, farmers were sitting on too many farm products that they couldn't get to market and couldn't find buyers for. Some school districts in Southern Missouri needed to borrow some money from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to cover the cost of labor in preparing and serving school lunches.
This was expanded in 1933, 1934, 1935, and 1936. Big changes in 1941 and 1942. Major changes in 1946 when HST signed the National School Lunch Act!
As recently as 2007, the gob'mint spent in excess of $9,000,000,000 (Nine billion tax dollars) on this one program alone. How many hundreds or thousands of gob'mint employees make a living in this work in inestimable.
In the grand scheme of today's budget deficits, $9 Billion is chump change -- but it does beg two questions......
-Why, eighty years after the Great Depression, is the federal gob'mint feeding lunches to local school district children across the land? Isn't that the job of the states and local school districts?
-How many hundreds (thousands?) of similar monster federal programs have grown over the years in the constant attempt to build a Nanny state? And how much do they cost us, the tax payer each year? Last I heard, the gob'mint doesn't have any money, except what it takes from us.................the taxpayers!
Just asking..........
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