The real weapons of mass destruction

Unfortunately, the best place to start with this are the
youngest members of society through the school lunch program.

In this era of government bailouts and concern over wasteful
spending, an opportunity presents itself to take a hard look at the National
School Lunch Program. When it was started in 1946 as a public safety measure it
certainly turned out to be a disaster.

Under the program, the USDA gives public schools cash for
every meal they serve – $2.57 for a free lunch, $2.17 for a reduced-price lunch
and 24 cents for a paid lunch.

In 2007, the program cost around $9 billion, a figure
acknowledged as inadequate to …read more