Hacker News Reader

Comment by paxys | Hacker News Reader

Ridiculous that they are framing it as ending because of Ukraine. The richest country in the world can afford $10B to feed children on top of everything else. Maybe they should send a team to India to figure out how they manage to provide free hot lunch to 130+ million schoolchildren every day.

View on HN

Neoconservatism is a political orientation that can only exist in developed countries. “Fuck the poor [kids]” goes over like a lead balloon in developing countries.

> Neoconservatism is a political orientation that can only exist in developed countries. “Fuck the poor [kids]” goes over like a lead balloon in developing countries.

Isn't that Neoliberalism? Isn't Neoconservatism a foreign policy thing?

Yes, you’re correct, neoliberal is the proper term.

Political science has the same deal going on as topology with open and closed sets not being antonyms.

Most of the kids at my school hated the school provided lunches and instead chose to bring things from home. Those were paid for by parents, and in our school you made that choice: pay for crappy food or pay for good food you like that was made by mom and dad.

The school provided lunches that I heard about from someone who graduated recently sounded pretty marginal. I think people in this thread might be overestimating what's being lost.

> The richest country in the world can afford $10B to feed children on top of everything else.

This article makes it really unclear what's actually changing, but it sounds like they may be going back to means-testing the "free and reduced price" lunch program.

Looking at some other articles on the topic, this also means that the government will no longer grant "flexibility with nutrition standards," which sounds like it was something that permitted less nutritious meals to be served.

The richest country on earth AND the richest country in human history. And yet we have children without enough food.

Nice that you speak of India! Don't they want to help a bit with Ukraine, that would end faster and we could go back to providing free lunches !

Reply on news.ycombinator.com