{"id":141196,"date":"2023-05-13T13:50:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T17:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=141196"},"modified":"2023-05-13T14:54:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T18:54:01","slug":"dems-aoc-funds-hand-gluers-omar-co-want-all-free-meals-for-students-but-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=141196","title":{"rendered":"Dems: AOC funds hand-gluers, Omar & Co. want all free meals for students – but wait!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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AOC, aka Occasional Cortex, is in the news again. Seems her campaign PAC is funneling thousands of dollars to what most would describe as questionable ends:<\/p>\n

Courage to Change, the New York Democrat’s PAC, directed a $9,000 donation to the Los Angeles-based Climate Emergency Fund (CEF) in the fall of 2021, according to federal filings.<\/p>\n

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“We’re in this kind of surreal situation in which scientists are telling us this is the point of no return,” Margaret Klein Salamon, CEF’s executive director, previously said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

“So these activists intervene and they say, ‘Things are not normal. They’re so bad that I’m gonna do this crazy thing and glue myself to a painting or a frame,'” Salamon continued. “It only makes sense because of how absolutely terrible the climate emergency is.” Fox News via Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wouldn’t it be nice if someone would quit wasting glue on their hands and aimed at her jaws instead…<\/p>\n

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Not to be outdone, dozens of Democrats are proposing free meals at school – ALL of them, breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner – to all kids in school.<\/p>\n

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Dozens of Democrats in the House and Senate proposed legislation this week that would give all students from pre-school through high school three free meals a day plus a snack regardless of income, a move they said is needed to cope with the “record numbers” of American kids who are struggling with hunger.<\/p>\n

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The bill makes no mention of how the program would be funded or what it would cost. Many bills include language saying that Congress will appropriate whatever money is needed to fund a new program, or that funding will come from spending offsets or higher taxes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“It is an international embarrassment that today, in the richest country in the history of the world, we are seeing record numbers of children and youth struggling with hunger on a daily basis,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT., the sponsor of the Senate legislation.<\/p>\n

“Universal school meals is not just commonsense policy; it is also extremely popular,” said Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., the lead sponsor of the bill in the House.\u00a0 Fox News via Yahoo II<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I’m sure it is popular…more free stuff!\u00a0 ‘Cuz, you know\u00a0 food is free, and volunteers are thronging to work at school cafeterias. Must be for the prestige of it.<\/p>\n

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And just because we can’t ever seem to get a three-fer break, here we have Democratic Representative Abigail Spanberger talking common sense. I HATE it when they do that! Ruins the consistency of idiocy I expect…<\/p>\n

“If the American people and the American economy are suffering as a result of congressional inaction, then members of Congress should not be rewarded with their pay,” Spanberger, 43, wrote in a letter to Congress’s chief administrative officer. Reuters via Yahoo<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Based\u00a0 on their performance, I’d think we should agree on the top 10 issues they keep kicking down the road, and pay them incrementally when they do get an issue addressed – 10% for the deficit,\u00a0 10% for the border crisis, etc. until they get them all sorted. Or until they quit – I’m good with either.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah – said deficit is going up faster than my blood pressure.<\/p>\n

The latest release<\/a> from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office puts it in stark terms. In just the first seven months of fiscal 2023, the federal budget deficit reached almost $1 trillion \u2014 a 63% increase from the $568 billion deficit recorded in the first seven months of fiscal 2022. And if not for a few timing quirks that pushed payments for this fiscal year back into the last, the deficit increase would have actually reached 74% from fiscal 2022 to 2023.\u00a0 Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Think of that…almost\u00a0 trillion a year. Remember when everyone screamed when the deficit hit one trillion total?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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