WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.919 Hey, folks, are your elementary or high school kids hungry, 2 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:06.719 Well maybe they should get a job so that they 3 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:10.080 could eat lunch at school. It sounds ridiculous, right, Well 4 00:00:10.199 --> 00:00:15.119 not according to one Georgia congressman, I can't even begin 5 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:17.800 to tell you how baffled I am by this whole thing. 6 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:20.760 But Helen, maybe you can start us off. What the 7 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:21.879 hell is going on here? 8 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:27.120 So and taking the food out a mouse of babes 9 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:32.159 News Republican congress and richmondcormick basically said children who are 10 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:36.560 receiving free school lunches shouldn't as they should be able 11 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:40.880 to work. Apparently, this real life supervilion things that child 12 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:45.479 labor laws are bad and probably merely a suggestion, And 13 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:46.119 it's forwartan. 14 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:48.200 We see where the money is being spent. 15 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:52.679 Rather than going to headstart, kids which are mostly preschoolers, 16 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:57.159 get breakfast the subplemental food programs few millions of poor 17 00:00:57.240 --> 00:01:00.000 children around the United States. But I guess second graders 18 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:04.480 should good jobs picking berries. According to McCormick, this is 19 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:07.239 so disgusting to defend. I am starting to wonder if 20 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:10.680 these politicians have a black void where their. 21 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:11.359 Heart should be. 22 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:15.680 It seems the right forgot Jesus's message of feeding the 23 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:19.439 hungry and charitable works. I get another example of how 24 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:23.920 the almighty dollar dollar is the real god Republicans worship. 25 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:25.519 This story is. 26 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:30.599 FROMBC News by Rebecca Shabad on January twenty eighth, twenty 27 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:33.239 twenty five. And I'm going to say it, I hope 28 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:37.319 this guy gets murder hornets in his pee hole because 29 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:38.519 this is just terrible. 30 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:40.519 And it's just terrible. 31 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:41.200 Yeah. 32 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:44.200 Yeah, this guy is fucking stupid. 33 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:49.920 AJ There really are no words for stories like this, Okay, 34 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:54.200 Like he's claiming that the reasons he thinks that's a 35 00:01:54.239 --> 00:01:57.000 good idea is because you know, it's going to give 36 00:01:57.000 --> 00:01:59.599 the government a chance to see where the money is 37 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:01.879 really spent, as Helen mentioned earlier. 38 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:03.439 But the thing is. 39 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:08.120 That this money is being spent on things like head start, right. 40 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:12.240 This takes care of kids between birth and age five. 41 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:18.520 It's because for low income families that need this support. Yeah, 42 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:22.199 obviously it is giving kids that are older up to 43 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:25.639 you know, they come out of high school three meals. 44 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:28.479 What is the problem with that? Are suddenly going to 45 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:31.800 put like an age requirement for you know, like hey, 46 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:35.840 at age fourteen, you can no longer get free lunch. 47 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:36.759 What are they going to do? 48 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:39.439 I don't know what they're going to do, but I 49 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:43.639 don't think that this is a legitimate stance. Let's just 50 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:46.759 face it. This guy is a Republican. He has been 51 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:50.479 threatened by Elon Musk and unelected. I don't know what 52 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:53.080 to call him. I almost said official, but he's just 53 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:57.280 an unelected guy hanging out around the new president, the 54 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:01.439 again president who has threatened all other Republican congressman and 55 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:04.159 senators to go along with what he wants or else 56 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:08.000 he will fund a primary against them. So Elon Musk 57 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:13.599 and his cronies want to take away food programs in schools, 58 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:16.439 and this congressman has no choice. If he wants to 59 00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:19.039 keep his seat and keep his power and keep the 60 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:21.639 coffee warm right where it is and not make any 61 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:24.919 changes and just be there, has to go along with it. 62 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:28.439 And so he's coming up with this stupid justification that 63 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:33.759 an adult should not be repeating like this is asinine, 64 00:03:33.759 --> 00:03:36.960 this is unheard of, and I don't believe he actually 65 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:40.680 believes this stuff. Rob does McCormick actually feel this way 66 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:45.840 or is his argument just another Republican puppet string. 67 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:49.360 I ultimately have no way of knowing, and in many 68 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:52.560 ways it doesn't matter because it's what he's saying, so 69 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:55.120 that's what he's doing. So something that is hard for 70 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:59.879 me me personally rob is knowing that people lie to me. 71 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:01.919 Like I was, just when people say things, I just 72 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:03.879 assume that they're telling me the truth. Is why would 73 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:07.199 I assume that people lie things? So I just assume 74 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:10.360 that when people speak, they're telling me a thing they 75 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:12.719 think is true or wish we're true. So if he 76 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:15.960 says this is what he's thinking should happen, then then 77 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:19.480 I am actually obligated to believe that this is his stance. 78 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:23.319 If it's not, then we have two problems. Not one 79 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:25.839 it's just dumb. This is this is actually like going 80 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:30.120 a couple articles pack back, whereas boy howdy, isn't inconvenient 81 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:33.439 that every study shows that if you are poor and uneducated, 82 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:35.199 you're more likely to be religious. And one of the 83 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:38.360 best ways to get people into education is if we 84 00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:42.480 can feed them, because we in America have built a 85 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:45.319 society where the parents have to go to work while 86 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:48.160 the while the kids go get educated, So ideally they 87 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:51.199 get food like that that's an important thing for those families, 88 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:53.879 is that's a meal they don't have to supply, so 89 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:56.800 I mean, I grew up with with free lunch, and 90 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:59.439 free lunch is useful. There's more we can talk about 91 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:02.639 with like his employ but it's just I'm going to 92 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:05.279 assume that he means what he means what he means 93 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:07.680 what he says, because it would be dishonest. Not too 94 00:05:07.879 --> 00:05:09.199 I hope he's not dishonest. 95 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:14.079 Well, I don't have any hope that that is that 96 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:16.120 is the case, but you know, I will shift to 97 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:18.959 Helen and ask what are your perspectives on what's happening 98 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:22.680 here and more specifically talk to us about the problems 99 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:24.839 that the government is actually causing. 100 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:28.439 So so many problems. It's a lot of shock and 101 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:32.600 awe going on right now. So because this is a 102 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:37.040 microcosm again of a wider thing that's going on, he 103 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:42.000 says something completely acid eye, supervillain shit. That's fine, And 104 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:44.839 it's not that I have a problem of looking at 105 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:48.959 budgets and seeing if you know, money can be better utilized. 106 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:51.560 We can all agree that's a reasonable thing to do. 107 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:57.439 But not not taking food away from like meals on 108 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:02.399 wheels and head started wick these programs. 109 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:04.079 And it's not like I. 110 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:07.360 Don't know what he thinks these kids are getting like, 111 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:09.199 they're not eating like steak dinners. 112 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:13.360 This is free school lunch. This is wig programs. 113 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:16.040 So parents getting like peanut butter and peas and milk 114 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:17.160 to feed their toddlers. 115 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:21.759 This is uh. You know, elderly people that are stuck 116 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:22.199 in their. 117 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:27.720 Homes cannot work anymore and rely on this government programs 118 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:28.839 to bring them food. 119 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:33.639 And guess what, We're human beings. We need food. We 120 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:34.600 need food to survive. 121 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:39.399 This has nothing to do with trying to, you know, 122 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:42.079 make it more efficient and look at where you know, 123 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:44.959 where the money is going, because they bitch about welfare coings. 124 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:47.600 But they create the problem, you know, they make They 125 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:49.839 make it so inflation goes up. 126 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:51.120 We just do not go up. 127 00:06:52.360 --> 00:06:54.800 People don't have access to the healthcare that they need, 128 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:58.040 so they might not have access to things like birth control, 129 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:01.639 and then they're lion the government to take care of them. 130 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:03.519 And this is not a shamed thing. This is just 131 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:08.199 creating the problem, you know, and that that's the issue. 132 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:11.000 And what happens is that then they get mad for 133 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:14.480 the problem they created and blame it on the victim. 134 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:18.439 It's victim blaming and that's what McCormick is doing. He's 135 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:22.160 blaming it on poor people. But guess what why are 136 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:23.439 people poor? People poor? 137 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:27.000 It is because the system is rigged so the. 138 00:07:27.079 --> 00:07:31.480 People cannot get up into a better place of economic opportunity. 139 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:36.639 But regardless, that is not an excuse to take food 140 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:40.360 away from children people. 141 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:41.480 I don't mean anybody. 142 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:44.959 I will keep I will keep parketing back to the 143 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:47.720 point that people that are overly religious come for the 144 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:52.839 kids first. You know, the Republicans, Conservatives in this country 145 00:07:52.920 --> 00:07:57.680 are closely associated, openly uh with far right Christianity, far 146 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:01.959 right Christian nationalism. And there's really no difference if it's 147 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:05.600 a you know, some foreign religious government that is affecting children, 148 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:08.879 or if it's right here in the United States, when 149 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:13.600 you've got religious audiologues in your government, the same things 150 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:14.279 bound to happen. 151 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:14.759 A J. 152 00:08:14.920 --> 00:08:17.879 I want to know how do policies like these affect 153 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:19.920 Republicans' own constituents. 154 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:24.360 Well, if you look at the voting history of supporters 155 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:30.000 of Conservative elect officials, they are usually people in rural areas, 156 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:34.600 in relatively poor areas, so they are getting government assistance 157 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:38.320 as well. And this guy here went on a really 158 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:43.000 weird tangent during his speech about this topic, he said 159 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:48.240 that RFK is all about producing not just calories but nutrition. 160 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:50.159 I don't I don't really know why he was talking 161 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:53.519 about that, but one of his quotes was that when 162 00:08:53.559 --> 00:08:56.799 in history have we had our poorest people also be 163 00:08:57.039 --> 00:08:59.600 or fastest people. That's for the first time here in 164 00:08:59.639 --> 00:09:04.559 America traditionally or poorest people living live very skinny and 165 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:06.200 very under nutrition. 166 00:09:06.799 --> 00:09:07.200 Whatever. 167 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:11.240 What the fact that that quote means, He's basically implying 168 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:16.320 that poor people are lazy for taking government assistance and 169 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:20.639 fat because they're getting free breakfast and lunch like it. 170 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:21.840 It's wild to me. 171 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:26.320 That his supporters support that kind of person with those 172 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:27.519 type of ideologies. 173 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:29.559 That is actlutely going to affect them. 174 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:31.159 And I think he was alluding to the fact that 175 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:33.879 they're fat because they're lazy. That's what I got out 176 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:36.679 of that, And so aj I initially was going to 177 00:09:36.759 --> 00:09:38.399 see this question up for you, but I want to 178 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:40.320 kick that over to Robs since you kind of already 179 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:44.039 started down this past. But Rob on the on the 180 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:47.559 note that he says that people are there are the 181 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:51.480 people now are the fattest and poorest, I would say 182 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:54.399 there's certainly a difference between an adult abusing or being 183 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:57.720 hooked on government assistants, which is what I think that 184 00:09:57.799 --> 00:10:01.360 he's alluding to. But setting kids up for success, I mean, 185 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:04.559 that's a completely different thing. That is not we can't 186 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:06.600 just take high school kids and say, well, they're like 187 00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:09.480 these people that abuse the system. What's your take on 188 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:12.559 that difference and where he gets it wrong. 189 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:15.519 So just a couple of quotes from him. Before I 190 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:17.840 was even thirteen years old, I was picking berries in 191 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:22.000 the field before child labor laws that precluded that. I 192 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:24.120 was a paperboy. And when I was in high school, 193 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:28.159 I worked my entire way through and like cool, Like 194 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:29.759 that's like literally all I've got to say that is 195 00:10:29.799 --> 00:10:33.240 like cool, you did jobs, But like it very much 196 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:35.919 comes off as I got spanked and I turned out 197 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:38.000 fine vibe where it's like, well I did it, so 198 00:10:38.039 --> 00:10:41.679 why don't you. Here's one more he says, versus just 199 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:45.279 giving a blanket rule that gives all kids lunches in 200 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:48.039 high school who are capable of going out and actively 201 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:51.639 getting a job and doing something that makes them have value. 202 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:55.080 Here's the thing where I'm probably going to be unpopular 203 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:57.559 with some people. I actually don't hate the idea of 204 00:10:57.639 --> 00:11:01.120 employing kids. And I'm going to say that very specifically, 205 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:02.240 and like, I don't want him to go out in 206 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:05.279 the coal coal mines, right, and we don't need dangerous things. 207 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:09.000 But we all have like classroom helpers for a reason. 208 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:12.679 Kids want to help. They want to do things when 209 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:14.440 I teach my staff, because I work with kids when 210 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:16.720 I teach my staff. If there's a kid who's like board, like, 211 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:18.879 give them a job, they want to go out and 212 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:21.559 do stuff. And in this specific quote, he's talking about 213 00:11:21.639 --> 00:11:24.720 high schoolers, people who already go out and get a jobs. 214 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:26.919 But I want to harp on a very specific thing. 215 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:30.399 He says, going out and actually getting a job and 216 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:34.279 doing something that makes them have value. Why do they 217 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:38.879 need to have a job to have value. I agree 218 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:43.720 that a person with a job gains more monetary value, 219 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:47.799 but like the fact that in his mind right, the 220 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:51.840 way you speak betrays the way you think these people 221 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:57.039 lack value minus a job. This is not just a 222 00:11:57.080 --> 00:11:58.200 school lunch problem. 223 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:01.399 Yeah, well this is a larger problem. So I would 224 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:04.840 say not only not only is it one of these 225 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:07.120 things where he says, well, I was spanked, and you know, 226 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:09.159 to use your example, I was spanked and I turned 227 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:11.200 out fine. I don't think he turned out fine. I 228 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:13.759 don't think he turned out fine at all. I think 229 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:18.120 that he is in He backed himself into a corner 230 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:21.639 and just kind of kept talking because he's dependent on 231 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:27.519 keeping whatever position he has. And this idea that making 232 00:12:27.559 --> 00:12:31.159 a job or getting a job will make children better off. 233 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:34.039 I don't think that you can force a child that's 234 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:38.000 supposed to be in school, supposed to be learning, into 235 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:41.320 a position where they're not where they're going to be busier, 236 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:43.279 where they're going to not have as much time for 237 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:45.480 their studies, and expect them to be better off. They 238 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:47.960 may end up in another forty years telling people that 239 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:50.759 they should give their kids jobs picking berries instead of 240 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:52.559 learning arithmetic. Right. Yeah. 241 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:54.440 To be clear, my point is like, if they want 242 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:57.519 to go get a job, absolutely, dude, that should not 243 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:01.039 be because you have to. It's because they personally have 244 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:02.360 the ambition to do so. 245 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:04.720 And I have no issue there with that, except the 246 00:13:04.759 --> 00:13:07.240 issue I do have is with him saying, well, everybody 247 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:10.000 should do exactly what I did because that's the way 248 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:13.240 things should be. Well, that speaks to a mindset where 249 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:16.799 there's no growth over generations, and and hele and I 250 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:20.440 want to turn it to you. Is the government at 251 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:24.039 this man being a government official or an elected representative 252 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:28.240 kind of giving these you know, giving these tidbits of knowledge, 253 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:31.759 if you will. Is the government responsible for leading a 254 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:32.759 culture shift? 255 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:36.039 Yeah, because it trickles down like if anyone, if anyone 256 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:38.919 is in a position of power and they have influence, 257 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:44.039 and if people don't have their thinking braids on, and 258 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:46.519 for people that want to like pass the book very easily, 259 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:48.759 because it's very easily to pass back to light and 260 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:51.519 say things, I'd like you as welfare queens or you know, 261 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:54.120 people taking advantage of the system, blah blah. That's a 262 00:13:54.200 --> 00:13:58.159 very easy thing to say, rather than for the government 263 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:01.679 to take any sort of personal response in our current 264 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:07.600 administration of what the actual problem is. And that is 265 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:09.559 the issue that we're facing. That's what that's what we're 266 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:14.039 looking at, you know, because from my perspective, the government. 267 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:15.279 Is there to serve us. 268 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:18.519 We elect them, we work, we pay taxes that pay 269 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:19.200 their salaries. 270 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:22.759 Right, absolutely, you work. 271 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:28.080 For me, okay, And if I think that children and 272 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:32.519 the elderly should get food, because most people who have 273 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:35.639 a kind heart will recognize that not everybody can work, 274 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:37.279 but the basic human. 275 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:40.440 One of your basic human rights is food. 276 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:43.879 I don't mind paying extra money for people to eat, 277 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:47.240 and we already have so much food waste in this 278 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:50.000 country and so many problems. That's a a whole other 279 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:53.200 thing that this leads into, also issues with food deserts, 280 00:14:53.320 --> 00:14:57.399 and the fat shaming is gross. I'm sorry that just 281 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:00.720 because you're overweight does not mean you don't get to eat. 282 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:08.720 I'm sorry, that's not fair, and he's and like the idea, 283 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:11.000 Like I worked in high school. I had a job, 284 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:14.639 you know, and my parents were basically like, hey, we 285 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:16.440 give you food, clothing, and shelter, but if you want 286 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:17.519 to do anything extra. 287 00:15:17.279 --> 00:15:19.360 You got to start to work. But I was fifteen, 288 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:21.279 sixteen years old when you usually start working. 289 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:24.840 And that's because I wanted to, you know, my parents 290 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:27.840 wanted to, and so kind some kind of work ethic 291 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:28.240 into me. 292 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:31.799 Because I needed the one dollar pizza on Fridays, right, 293 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:33.120 you guys had Pizzaday? 294 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:35.759 Yeah, exactly, And also I want and also I wanted 295 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:37.559 to go to Dunkin Donuts and buy coffee down the 296 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:38.440 streets at my school. 297 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:41.639 I have regardless of that. 298 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:45.480 But that's normal teenager shit like this, Like we were 299 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:47.480 saying like eight year olds need to go out in 300 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:51.799 the fields and pick berries, like there's something very fundamentally 301 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:55.679 wrong with you. So and also too, there just one 302 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:58.600 more point, there are children out there that do work. 303 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:03.240 We do have child slavery in this country where like 304 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:07.120 immigrant children are forced to work and they are abused. 305 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:12.200 So that guy can go fuck himself because the things 306 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:13.799 that he says is completely acidyne. 307 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:16.039 It's going to lead to abuse and lead to problems. 308 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:17.600 So again, fuck this guy. 309 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:20.200 And there's a certain there's a whole safety issue that 310 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:22.879 we could do another show on. I mean, I have 311 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:25.159 a three year old and a sixteen year old and 312 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:27.159 I wouldn't well, especially the three year old, but I 313 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:28.840 wouldn't even put the sixteen year old out in a 314 00:16:28.840 --> 00:16:31.080 field pick and berries. I wouldn't give her a job 315 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:33.600 recommendation until she can learn to clean her room. That's 316 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:37.679 a different story altogether. But you know the thing is, though, 317 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:40.200 I don't want my kids to be in danger. You know, 318 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:45.679 my daughter just started working, and I was very involved 319 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:48.360 in helping her find something that would be a good 320 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:51.399 first job. You know, I didn't just throw her out 321 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:55.399 and make her spend her money on school lunch, which 322 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:58.039 we're already paying for To Helen's point, you know, when 323 00:16:58.039 --> 00:17:00.759 it comes to spending money, though, I mean, we've got 324 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:03.960 this guy saying that we should not be and to 325 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:06.480 AJ's statistics, because Aja, I'm going to ask you to 326 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:09.000 speak on your statistics in a moment. But for the 327 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:12.519 three dollar lunch, which is mind boggling to me. When 328 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:14.200 I was younger, it was not three. 329 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:14.640 Dollars, it was it. 330 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:17.160 I think maybe if the most I saw was like 331 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:21.000 a dollar fifteen cents, but you know that was twenty 332 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:24.640 five years ago. Now it's what three dollars? Okay, So 333 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:27.640 this guy doesn't want to give three dollars lunches to children, 334 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:30.799 but he's okay with I mean, let's face it, we've 335 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:33.400 had some remarks come out of the Executive Branch about 336 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:38.519 the United States owning gaza and rebuilding gaza, sending immigrants 337 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:42.559 on eight hundred thousand dollars military flights out of the country. 338 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:45.799 I mean, is this the kind of money that's okay 339 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:48.319 being spent and then the taking care of the kids 340 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:50.720 is not okay? That would be my question to him, 341 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:55.039 how do you juggle those two priorities? And AJ, you've 342 00:17:55.079 --> 00:17:58.440 got some statistics that you wanted to share, and so 343 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:00.000 on that note, please feel free. 344 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:03.559 I mean, you have to remember that these programs also 345 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:07.039 include things like lunch during the summer, and a lot 346 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:10.200 of these kids actually do need that, and if they 347 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:12.680 don't get that summer lunch, they're probably not going to 348 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:15.920 get lunch. Like there are about twenty million kids that 349 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:19.599 are in these reduced lunch or free lunch programs. That's 350 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:23.599 over half of the all public school students. And like 351 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:26.440 you said, you know, the average cost to make the 352 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:28.440 lunch is three dollars, So I don't know how much 353 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:30.640 they charge exactly, but that's the cost. 354 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:30.920 To make it. 355 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:34.000 And this guy's just claiming that he wants to save 356 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:37.000 money for you know, like the whole thing that Elon 357 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:39.880 Musk is doing, so that that's the main goal, save 358 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:42.720 the government money. The problem with us is that there 359 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:45.359 is so much other ways that we can look at. 360 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:50.319 Each agency gets a different budget. Let's say the military 361 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:53.960 gets billions billions in budget. If by the end of 362 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:56.680 the year they don't spend all of that budget, whatever 363 00:18:56.839 --> 00:19:00.000 isn't spent goes back to the federal government. It doesn't 364 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:03.240 stay with the military. It's not like a rollover amount 365 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:05.960 so if the next year they see, oh, hey, you 366 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:09.559 know you didn't spend twenty billion of your budget last year, 367 00:19:09.799 --> 00:19:12.640 then this year we're going to give you twenty billion less. 368 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:14.440 So what do they do at the end of the 369 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:17.240 year when they see they have quite a few billions left, 370 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:20.480 They spend that quickly. And so some of the statistics 371 00:19:20.559 --> 00:19:22.759 that I found say that in September twenty twenty four, 372 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:27.359 the military went on one of these spending sprees which 373 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:30.880 did not cover their regular spending throughout the year. Right, 374 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:33.400 Like they had already spent everything they needed to spend 375 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:34.160 throughout the year. 376 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:34.680 Right. 377 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:40.480 They spent one hundred and three million dollars on different 378 00:19:40.519 --> 00:19:44.519 types of meat, including sixteen million on Reby' steak, six 379 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:48.720 million in lobster tails, one hundred thousand on blueberries and 380 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:52.200 ice cream and donuts, five millions on apple products, two 381 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:55.599 hundred and eleven million on new furniture. This was in 382 00:19:55.759 --> 00:19:58.480 one month. I'm not talking of throughout the year. 383 00:19:58.720 --> 00:19:59.240 One month. 384 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:02.680 Thirty six thousand on car foot rests. 385 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:06.000 So tell me again how a three dollars meal a 386 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:09.680 day for an underprivileged kid is a waste like we 387 00:20:09.839 --> 00:20:13.279 can afford to field to feed our military and appreciate 388 00:20:13.319 --> 00:20:14.279 them throughout the year. 389 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:15.279 That's that's great. 390 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:17.839 I love that because they need that moral boost. 391 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:18.680 Let's do that. 392 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:21.480 But if you have all the all those billions left 393 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:23.480 at the end of the year, don't go waste them 394 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:26.000 on love s terancetaks that are probably going to get 395 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:27.559 thrown in in the shrush eventually. 396 00:20:27.720 --> 00:20:29.640 Like, let's put that to our fitting the kids. 397 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:33.240 Yeah, I see your point. You know, there is UH, 398 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:36.319 there's there's certainly cuts that can be made across the board. 399 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:40.480 But I don't think that somebody who supports successive spending 400 00:20:40.519 --> 00:20:44.240 in other areas should be taking spending away in the 401 00:20:44.279 --> 00:20:46.559