Nebraska’s governor is standing firm on his plans to reject $18 million in federal funding to help feed children who might otherwise go hungry while school is out.
Look folks our state population is suffering. The only thing we can do now is deny the children here proper nutrition. That way they are stunted and too dumb to leave the state. Now before you start protesting and saying this won't work. I say it will, because it has! Just ask your parents.
I would love for us to be able to do that without harming people who are not responsible for the governor's actions and are stuck in Nebraska (which seems like punishment enough).
Does this mean we can finally end the ridiculous ethanol subsidies? Both Iowa and Nebraska have come out as anti-welfare so it's the only logical next step.
Yeah, I get that. Though I doubt undernourished children and most of their parents (some people are truly terrible, so I would not be surprised if there are some cheering on their own children being denied federal funds for food) are cheering it on.
Yup. Many of them are still upset that women have The Pill. Drives 'em crazy. Radicals like Coke Can Clarence signaled they'd like to do something about it, too.
this guy has principles and beliefs and he can't just drop them because children are hungry.. sure, his beliefs make him an asshole but he's nothing without his beliefs.. this makes him nothing but an asshole, but that's a sacrifice he's willing to make..
(AP) — Nebraska’s Republican governor on Friday reiterated his rejection of $18 million in federal funding to help feed children who might otherwise go hungry while school is out.
That statement came as advocates for children and low-income families held a news conference outside the Governor’s Mansion in Lincoln to call on Pillen to change his mind before the Jan. 1 deadline to sign up for the program.
The program — part of federal assistance made available during the COVID-19 pandemic — would provide pre-loaded EBT cards to families whose children are eligible for free and reduced-price lunches at school.
Kim Reynolds announcing that decision last week and saying, “An EBT card does nothing to promote nutrition at a time when childhood obesity has become an epidemic.”
Pillen insisted Friday that the state would continue to help food-insecure children through the Summer Food Service Program, which provides meals and snacks at various sites when school is not in session.
Preston Love Jr,, a longtime community advocate in Omaha, on Friday questioned whether Pillen was bowing to political pressure in rejecting the federal funding.
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We found eleven significant correlations between conservative [Moral Intuition Survey] judgments and the Dark Triad – all at significance level of p<.00001 – and no significant correlations between liberal [Moral Intuition Survey] judgments and the Dark Triad. We believe that these results raise provocative moral questions about the personality bases of moral judgments. In particular, we propose that because the Short-D3 measures three “dark and antisocial” personality traits, our results raise some prima facie worries about the moral justification of some conservative moral judgments
As I recall the death and destruction wrought in Sodom and Gomorrah came from a malicious third party, and here we're talking about the malicious local leader. In other words, this is what happens when democracy fails.