Republicans restrict children's food aid to rural areas only
And in a surprising twist, the bill language specifies that only rural areas are to benefit in the future from funding requested by the administration this year to continue a modest summer demonstration program to help children from low-income households — both urban and rural — during those months when school meals are not available.
Since 2010, the program has operated from an initial appropriation of $85 million, and the goal has been to test alternative approaches to distribute aid when schools are not in session. The White House asked for an additional $30 million to continue the effort, but the House bill provides $27 million for what’s described as an entirely new pilot program focused on rural areas only.
Democrats were surprised to see urban children were excluded. And the GOP had some trouble explaining the history itself. But a spokeswoman confirmed that the intent of the bill is a pilot project in “rural areas” only.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/wtf--15
Because rural areas vote Republican? Because you can't have aid going to 'urban' (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) people?
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it's a little lower down the digestion track.
I bet the summer program was/is much more costly in rural areas due difficult distribution challenges. This might be their way of killing off the program. Dumping the relatively inexpensive school district programs in favor of the costly ones, and establishing a waiver process. Jerks. 
And in a surprising twist, the bill language specifies that only rural areas are to benefit in the future from funding requested by the administration this year to continue a modest summer demonstration program to help children from low-income households — both urban and rural — during those months when school meals are not available.
Since 2010, the program has operated from an initial appropriation of $85 million, and the goal has been to test alternative approaches to distribute aid when schools are not in session. The White House asked for an additional $30 million to continue the effort, but the House bill provides $27 million for what’s described as an entirely new pilot program focused on rural areas only.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/house-gop-agriculture-budget-white-house-106831.html#ixzz32MFLZihS
So less kids will sign up, because mom or dad can't afford to drive them every day for the lunch during the summer.
Instead, the kids will do like my step-father in law did when he was a dirt-poor tar-paper shack kid in the 30's - walk around town in the afternoon looking for bird's nests, fruit trees and front lawn victory gardens that had ripe fruit, then come back later that night to steal produce and the occasional chicken, eggs, or squab for the next day's meal.
They can then say "Look, our pilot program shows us there aren't that many children who are hungry enough to make a daily effort to get these subsidized meals that are ten miles away. We can just drop the entire free school lunch program, because taxpayer-funded school lunches are being wasted on lazy-assed free rider families that are teaching their kids not to work and depend on Uncle Sugar their entire lives..."
Dignity of hard work and all that. My step-father in law had eight siblings in the 1930's/40's; only four survived to adulthood. Let's go back to the good old days, when citizens sacrificed to prove how patriotic they were...
"Those lazy moochers who think they are poor need to reset their thinking; they obviously don't have it as bad as those Real Americans (tm) who made it through the depression and proved how uniquely American they really were." 
Sadistic. Just waive that food out of reach, and then tell the starving children's parents "you aren't trying hard enough to feed your kids, so you must not really be that bad off..."
Haele
Evil fucks, every one.
are more likely to contain more Republican voters; urban areas tend to have more Democrats. Correlation? Yes. Coincidence? I think not. 
