The Rude Pundit’s gotta admit: when he read Dennis Prager’s most recent “column” (if by “column,” you mean, “another degrading crawl through a mind of broken glass”), “No More Free Breakfasts,” he tried really hard to see it as satire. In words that render The Onion useless, Prager actually thinks he’s laying out some rational, culture-warrior reason to stop free school breakfasts. See, making sure that school kids learn without hunger pains is a liberal plot to make Americans dependent on the state. No, that’s not an exaggeration of what Prager says. Here’s his words: “the free breakfast profoundly weakens young people’s character. When you grow up learning to depend on the state, you will almost inevitably — even understandably — assume that the state will take care of you.”
Prager posits that it’s impossible that people are so poor that they can’t afford food for their kids for breakfast, an ignorance so deep, abiding, elitist, and disturbing that it’s impossible to take anything else he says seriously. He writes, “[A]ny home that cannot provide its child with breakfast demands a visit from child protective services.” Which leads the Rude Pundit to this question: What the fuck are you gonna do with all the kids you take out of the poor people’s homes? Who the fuck is gonna take care of them, you sanctimonious white-haired idiot with the face of ass (not the donkey)? The state is gonna pay for it. Who’s gonna pay for the hundreds of thousands of extra visits by child protective services? The state.
Seriously, conservatives, you gotta leave some things alone. You gotta be willing at some point to walk the fuck away from your most ludicrous, reductive attempts to justify your government-hating, hypocritical ideology. Do you understand how ridiculous you sound when you say shit like “the Left has damaged children and families through free school breakfasts”? Who are you talking to? Which cruel yahoos are you appealing to? Has Glenn Beck even gone here yet?
And what’s next? Crossing guards teach kids to be dependent on the state making decisions for their safety? School buses ignore the self-reliance of hitching a ride with strangers?
Thanks to medical malpractice attorney Thomas Soldan.
If by “the state” Prager means all of us then he’s correct. “We the people” ARE the government. It is us as a community. All of us. And if we collectively decide that feeding our childern is an appropriate way to spend our tax dollars then that is what we will do. Let’s put it to a national vote. Yes or no, should we feed hungry children or not? While we’re at it let’s also vote on whether or not we want to allow Prager and those of his ilk to continue to be able to live amongst us right here in the USA? “Love it or leave it Prager!”