School lunches torpedoed
Ferner, Mike
School lunches torpedoed Nervou.t seventh graders from Toledo's Glenbyrnc Jr. High marched into the glare of the TV lights and saluted a ten-loot model of the U.S.S. Toledo. The students had built...
...Who will protect them...
...In the next report on the evening news, a House committee had just voted lo curtail the federal entitlement for school lunches, dismantling a program started in 1046 to address a national disgrace: children so poorly nourished that they had failed their army physicals in World War II...
...The TV announcer shared the students' excitement...
...Poor kids are the most vulnerable among us...
...The welfare reform debate is not about welfare or reform...
...We need to ask whether the government undermines the work ethic of CEOs who run industries on publicly financed electricity...
...It's about who has Ihe political power to hold on to their entitlements...
...When Newt Gingrich and his allies wield the budget ax, they loudly proclaim that we must think of the poor: welfare forces them into dependence...
...MIKEJT-.RNF.R Mike Ferncr wax formerly on the Toledo City Council...
...But ask them to eliminate subsidies handed out to corporations and military contractors, and they lull silent...
...The students had built the model and were waiting excitedly for the real thing - a $750 million submarine with nuclear-weapons capability -to he commissioned the next day...
...Or whether arms manufacturers are '"entitled" to billions...
...345,000 Ohio students ate at least one decent meal a day because of the lunch entitlement-at a fraction of the cost of the U.S.S...
...it increases the deficit their children will have to pay buck...
...Last year...
Vol. 122 • March 1995 • No. 6
