Caller HATES Paying For Poor Kids' School Lunches 

The guys racism was definitely coming out toward the end. He was kind of holding it in for a while, but in the end his true colors came shining through.

Not only that, but these are the same people who claim to be pro-life. They're pro-life until the child is born, then they no longer care. Who cares if the child has good nutrition or a roof over their head, or have clothes?

All lives matter is the opposite of Black Lives Matter… 🤔

@@1912RamblerFan01 “They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked” - George Carlin

@@mattsullins3818 Black Lives Matter is the opposite of black lives matter...

@SlyiLaMusic * laughs and points in Finnish *

but fine with corporationa being bailed out.

Imagine being so fucking densely bone headed that you couldn't tell the difference between a parent who doesn't want to pay for other poor parents children because those poor parents made their own fucking god dam decision to have kids when they were poor, what did they think was going to happen unless they were planning all along to ask for handouts, take your shit and get the fuck out.

@@oldkitty2134 shit happens FUCK. You pretend like being a parent means you have a full proof plan for the next 20 years. Life doesn’t work that way. Go to hell ASS

Republican moment

It's absolute necessity that we subsidize her education and lunch. If we don't, then her brain won't be able develop enough to understand that his views are idiotic!

Yes please

in 10 years she’ll probably find this comment lol

Also one of the most corrupted.

Why is it whenever I hear someone is from Arkansas I immediately know what they’re going to say - a typical backwards conservative bullshit talking points?

@@GeloKuhsang I'm from Arkansas, I am a libertarian socialist it's hard seeing people advocating for policies that hurts them all time

Well, it's also like, at what point does "solve your problems on your own" become "carry the consequences of every problem in society just because you happen to feel its impacts the strongest?" It's all well and good to say people shouldn't use bad systems as a justification for being lazy, but what is even more pathological is to blame the failures of the system on poor people just because that's where those failures are most explicitly evident.

@David Optional much appreciated, king!

Wealthy people talking points? The richest people in the history of earth are democrats! You do not know that. That said I find it moronic and heartless for anybody to be against things like SNAP or school meals for kids.

@@joeblow2069 pointing out the fact that the wealthiest few people tend to be "on the left" doesn't discount the fact that majority of wealthy people are economically conservative.

@@GeneralTaco155555a Ok but do not pretend the democrats are the party of the poor or ordinary Americans. They are the party of the elite. They are fascists who want to control all speech on the internet. They even censored an American president!

He argues against peoples being educated too so like...

This is how America became "America"

Eeyup...

Ah, but that is the beauty, there is no need. There is no need to "care" about anyone, but there is a logical argument of enlightened self-interest that could be made in many cases that I think would be more effective in the long run by REMOVING emotions from the equation.

@@shadowmancer99 So are you pretending that people don't act largely based on emotions or what is your plan for changing that as well? Otherwise what you said is untrue, as it would take a lot longer to fundamentally change the way people make decisions by removing emotion than to just continuously construct a convincing argument over time that does employ things like empathy, compassion, connectedness, etc.

@@noahthenormal No I am not pretending that people dont act on emotions. I take it as a general and given fact that MOST people in fact do just that. What I am saying is that its unnecessary. That it mostly gets in the way. That if people took out the emotion and approached a problem logically, and could frame their decisions within an ethical (and again logical) framework, than empathy wouldnt be needed or desired. The fact is, most actions driven by emotions are flawed and lead to terrible results. By divesting emotion from important decisions, you accept that there are costs and consequences and you weight them dispassionately accepting that pain and suffering might happen in the short run, but see the bigger picture. Would I kill 1 Billion to secure the climate and world peace for 100 years? Yes. Would I allow an older drinker to die to give a healthy liver to a young teenager? Yes. As to how to get people to divest themselves of their emotional knee jerk reactions, I havent figured that out other than culling 95% of the human race....which I seriously dont have that much qualms against.....we're a terrible species objectively speaking.

@@shadowmancer99 Sure, never argued against making logical decisions. You said there is no need to care about anyone. We're trying to affect real changes to address problems like climate change, global poverty, healthcare, and, as you agreed, appealing to emotion is more effective for most people. That's why people need to care about other people. The reality for billions of people should make others emotional or sympathetic. And I'm saying, that's the more effective argument. People won't be "divesting emotion from important decisions" any time soon, so that is not an effective argument. I don't know why I'm trying to convince someone who doesn't "have much qualms with" killing 7 billion plus people, but yeah, you're not gonna make any real change with your method, at least in the times we exist. That was my point. Maybe we can do the Star Trek thing later, but we have to address a couple things first

He's a typical conservative. Unless something directly impacts/benefits them they don't care, oh why should 'MY' taxes go towards a $5 school meal when *I* can afford it for MY child (and poor people aren't making enough sacrifices)? Oh I can't afford private education so other people's taxes should go on 'MY' child's education (even though I'm not prepared to make sacrifices and having a budget/second hand car).

It’s amazing how consistently they don’t understand parallels. Every time without fail it’s “we were talking about x, what does y have to do with it?”

@joaohumbg In America, "shunning/shaming the poor" is the gift/curse of the rich to the middle class. Fear of the perceived lesser. Economically, socially/culturally, educationally, and ethnically ... The rich have played us against each other for so long that most don't really think about it at all, they just instinctively do it.

​@joaohumbg It's made intentionally embarrassing, that's the point.

Amen sis

I went to a school without any free lunch and I remember how I was embarrassed at times because I could purchase only the cheapest food items in cafeteria with the money I had from my parents. In addition, I often felt hunger due to that. When I grew up I realized there’s a straightforward solution to this problem (already implemented in some countries btw) - free full lunch for all.

spishcadet Yeah and all just to prove a point! As if he’s actually able to do the job of several professional teachers. Fortunately, I’m about 90% sure he’s just flapping his gums about most of what he’s saying.

Yes sadly he don’t give a shit especially if you are a person of color

The alternate universe is colliding with ours kinda hard. In what world, excluding N. Korea, is it A problem kids getting a free meal. Pisses me off...

In the sunny little conservative fairytale reality that Blake lives in, unforseen hardships such as the one you experienced as a child simply don't really exist, or at the very least aren't a huge problem. Because he has never experienced such a situation, and because a couple of dollars a day for a kid's lunch seems like an easily affordable amount of money _to him,_ the only conclusion he is able to draw is that whenever someone doesn't provide lunch for their child to take to school, it must be down to some moral failing on their part. As far as Blake is concerned, they are either too lazy or too entitled to take up their parental responsibilities, and would rather the state did it for them. In other words, Blake, like many of his fellow conservatives, isn't very good at doing empathy.

Bet Blake would have thought your mom should have "worked harder and had a better job". He's the type of person who puts blame and shame on less fortunate people, and doesn't have an ounce of empathy.

To answer truthfully? He would rather they starved. He almost said as much to me about my kids.

@BrunDog63 Or he doesn't want to double dip on educational expenses by funding both a private or home schooling option and a public school he doesn't utilize. Take into account someone living in a shitty public school district that can't afford to move. They would want nothing more than to send their kids to a private school elsewhere but they are already being taxed to send their kids to a subpar public school so can't afford to dish out those expenses twice. The government should get out of the education business entirely and allow the private sector to step in.

@@derekmeilinger1519 Bullshit. You just outed yourself as a libertarian. If you live in a shitty public school district, then it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to find out why it's shitty, and then vote the people whose policies made it that way out of office, and vote in people whose policies will improve school funding. There ARE things that the govt. does better than 'the private sector', whose only priority is to make a profit. Whatever happened to your personal responsibility for who's elected to office?

"Free stuff" is theft. I earned the money, and government takes from me to redistribute to someone who did nothing to earn it. That is thievery.

this is what you get with 40 yrs of ME ME ME

Right, he kept saying$1a day, as if it's inconceivable that ppl truly can't afford that. Silly man

He's from Central Arkansas. I'm from the same area. Even the poor hate the poor here. It's absolutely pathological.

They aren’t as pro life as they think

Or maybe who can’t afford to buy their own children lunch shouldn’t breed. or maybe he worked his ass off to pay for his own kids food

@@krogge10 time for more abortions

YES!

“It is easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to get into heaven”

@@mattsullins3818 So why do you vote democrat? Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are not republicans.

@@joeblow2069 did I say I vote Democrat? Did I say I like Jeff bezos or bill gates?

@@joeblow2069 Assuming this is correct which it probably isn't, do those two nullify every other billionaire who is a republican?

The problem isn't "millionaires AND billionaires" - it's really just the billionaires and the fact they have convinced everyone that the "wealthy" are all the same. So focusing on making the "wealthy" pay "their fair share" has been turned into a negative because so many either view themselves as well off enough they fear they might be expected to pay more than they already do. And this concept gets buy-in from the "millionaires" or aspiring millionaires, and fosters their pushing back on what the billionaires characterize as punitive taxation. But that isn't an honest way to look at this. A "millionaire" in 1980, adjusted for inflation, would need roughly 4.5 million dollars today. And MOST millionaires DON'T have 4.5 million dollars, and the bulk of their wealth is either equity in their homes and/or the value of their retirement savings (401k, 403b, IRA, etc.). A "millionaire" today, on average, is an upper middle class white collar worker paying a higher percentage of their income in taxes than a billionaire. Of course that millionaire objects to being told they need to pay more, they already pay near the most that can be paid! Let's focus on the billionaires and not get distracted by the "millionaires and billionaires" nonsense...

I don't think the schools in Arkansas are that great

@@MAGA2024GODBLESSTRUMP I was born and raised in Arkansas, our schools arent great but it would be better than him homeschooling

Manu Ginobilis Bald Spot on

Exactly. I had this conversation before it did not end well they never see it or just don't want to

Oops, my bad, lunches in my district are only $2.40 per child per day.

They don't care. A common mindset these days is "Fuck you, I've got mine". No compassion. No humanity.

You’re so right. This guy saying essentially ‘food is cheap’ just makes me sad

But we can afford the endless wars that nobody asked for so there must be cash somewhere.

Heard the likes of Shapiro argue that the state should intervene and take them away. It’s insanity. It could be so easy just to feed the damn kids.

Not only lunch. It ought to include breakfast too. This will give the kids a great reason to come to school on time, I.E. on time for breakfast. Also, it ought to be for anyone who shows up for breakfast & lunch: not just the students, but the community in general.

And the second he can afford to do that, he wants to slam the door behind him so nobody else coming up like him could possibly get their kids educated

Then why do you have to force other people to?

It's an investment.

@@177SCmaro You're saying the person who doesn't mind is making that policy and forcing you? Getting all the perks and protections of being a citizen of a country goes both ways. Your country also expects some things from you in return. There are civic duties you must perform and that includes paying taxes. You have limited power in how they are spent.

@@177SCmaro Because if you want to be part of society, there's a membership fee, and it's called taxes.

@@keithpanton7486 That's not how a "member's fee" works. Members fees are voluntary. I go to some group's club and join them and am free to leave at any time. You are implying that "society" owns the entire arbitrary plot of land they call a "country" and can force everyone to pay to live on it. Thar would be like if a club came to your house, declared it part of their club, and then demanded, at the point of a gun, members fees. You are describing extortion, not a subscription or member fee with regards to taxes.

That can be arranged.

Yes those are the best parents. People have been brain washed to accept greed as a virtue and oddly many who believe this claim to be Christian's

So sorry for your loss :( I too lost family a year ago. TWO people, six days apart. If there were better social programs and home healthcare, one would NOT have died b/c she would have been helped.

A great man indeed .

If more people had your dad's parental standards, we wouldn't have morons like Blake reproducing at will and shitting all over the world.

@ With Walmart microwave dinners no doubt

sucks that it has to be the technocratic argument to win people over but yeah agreed

Uuuu scary socialism! Venezuela! Venezuela! Boot straps! Personal responsibility! Build the wall! =)))

@@chiciu Shhh...."Denmark is a 'homogeneously ethnic' state and thats why it's working".....- Ben "my wife is a doctor" shapiro. The funny thing is the only way "ethnic homogeneity" exists is through....wait for it.....INBREEDING.

But..but.. something something about them having a smaller population

@@jdw1114 Meanwhile we get to have a Copulation Prices to avoid offending the Church.

Because they care about the welfare of their citizens

I’d argue a person who feels that was is a deranged psychopath.

@Rufus Lloyd you do know in some of the poorest countries such as India, China, Brazil, Nicaragua etc.... Kids get free breakfast and lunch in school.

@@emmittthompson9376 😆 it's not free. The sweatshop labor pays for it.

@Rufus Lloyd Do you have an study or article that proves that every poor person is lying?

@@springerworks002 the sweatshop labor is the only labor that doesn’t pay for it, since it is set up illegally and doesn’t pay taxes.

@Rufus Lloyd you are spreading nonsense.

so much better than knowing they're going to blowing up kids in the middle east

Ah, but those children should pull themselves up by their bootstraps and work a full-time job.

Blake doesn't need roads. He has a $14,000 Chevy Silverado (single-cab). Weren't you listening?

Progressive forward thinking ideal driving situation: “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads” - Dr. Emmett Brown, Back to the Future Conservative backwards thinking ideal driving situation: “Roads? I wouldn’t mind driving in the dirt instead” - Blake, Arkansas

Herr Weltraummann oopsie wrong comment

He gets mad about children being fed in schools with tax money yet I’m sure he cheers when his daddy trump cheats on his taxes. That’s true Personal Responsibility®

Same argument they bring against healthcare "I don't wanna pay for others."

@@arun3000ad Everybody has to (should, in my opinion) pay into and supporting a healthy society. In one form or another, and not necessarily monetarily. I'll bet you my house that Blake has never volunteered in his daughter's public school, or his local hospital, or coached sports, or his public library...but yet complains about lunch for little kids that ARE a PART OF HIS COMMUNITY. The unawareness is appalling. .

arun kumar even though that's the very concept of what insurance is 😂😂😂😂

@@beezusHrist yes. But private insurers have no motive to provide services. They try as much as possible to deny coverage for prifits

Trump voters in a nutshell

Great point. These people don't realize that anybody can get into deep troubles pretty quickly, and sometimes, like in your case, it's not even their fault. Hope you are better now, Michelle. Best wishes from Central Europe! :*

Ryan Williams Maybe Blake is on his way to anarchism lol

Finally a comment with common sense

Exactly. As long as capitalism exist social safety nets are always going to be necessary hence why taxes are a thing.

America would have money for it's own kids if it stopped accepting every other countries kids before its own.

@@williamtoccijr9579 Well, I do agree that our military is large (the largest there is, actually), but there's a reason for that. The United States actually assists and protects other countries vastly more than other militaries. The U.S has mutual defense treaties with the majority of Europe, South Korea, Japan, ext . . . The United States military needs to be large. We're more like welfare military for countries that can't defend themselves.

Tango Bango, really? So you have done the math on what those 2 things cost?

TheShowThatSUX No! I don’t have to do the math to know that $20 BILLION will pay for a whole hell of a lot of healthy school lunches! Or, how about using that WALL money to help deserving students pay for a college education. That would be a much better investment in America’s future!

@@tangobango9653 , Ok lets DO THE MATH and check your logic. There are about 62,220,000 school aged kids in the USA +/-. $20 BILLION / 62,220,000 = $321.44 per kid. So how many "healthy school lunches" do you think $321.44 buys? I mean for some of those kids that $321.44 would be for 12 years of school so that is really as little as $26.79 per year for some of them on your $20 BILLION budget. How many "healthy school lunches" do you think $26.79 per year buys? FYI there are 22,120,000 college aged people ion the USA +/-. So can you be bothered to do the math about how many of them $20 BILLION could even address at all?

Willfully obtuse. The white conservative since this country's political splintering.

Makes me sad to be a white woman. These ppl don’t represent all of us and I’m pissed off I have to say it at all. Some of the dumbest folk I know are angry white ppl that are upset that life ain’t fair. It’s not just entitlement, it’s pure ignorance of how the world operates. It’s tragic in all ways at this moment in time.

Because conservatives are psychopaths... Generally.

“Because I don’t like paying for programs that don’t directly benefit ME!”

because....brown ppl are scary to these people

tfw we live in a society is a genuinely profound statement when talking to conservatives

Heirachical systems give people meaning even if they forget they are paying for the people at the top. Lunch money is such chump change compared to bank bailouts and Pentagon bloat. Imagine losing trillions in lunch money. Conservatives are just cowards about corruption going after the meaningless pennies spent by serfs. All their hardline responsibility a twisted joke. Heirachical meaning is a short cut to laziness and pettiness but mostly extreme cowardice. The rage they should feel about bailouts should lead them to homicide if school lunches make them so mad. It doesn't because all these so called "libertarians" are just pork loving conservatives. Don't forget Trumps' golf too... Somebody calculate that alone into trucks.

And he wants to continue his ignorance by thinking he's qualified to homeschool a child! How scary! My Lord!

john doe, Hear Hear!!!!!!

Lucky for you the military is non excludable!

Then leave the country.

@@kennethayers5624 He said he doesn't need the military, not the whole country. If you don't want free lunches for kids, you may aswell leave the country but you'll find that pretty much anywhere in the world such thing would be questioned as it is in America.

Exactly. It's really straightforward. I'm a single man with no kids, but my taxes go towards the government funding education for other people's kids. I have no problem with that social contract and obligation.

Rich O Lets say you did have a problem with it, what then?

@@Cuzinits, I'm not a moron, so I don't have a problem with it so... I have a problem with my taxes supporting corporate welfare for multi billion dollar corporations. I have a problem with my taxes supporting the industrial military complex that bribes politicians to start illegal wars in foreign countries. Making sure kids in our own country get a meal a day at school? Do you grasp the idea yet or is that beyond your mental ability?

Rich O apparently it’s beyond yours to answer a simple question

Cuzinits That's because no person with a gram of empathy and a basic education would have a problem with their money funding children's education.

They are all about feudalism. Even if they don't recognize it. Social Darwinism will cut them out and yet they stubbornly will make 0000 to grasp

Or the fact that he thinks like this is because they are 42 out of 50. I went to public school in a state ranked lower than that, and when the services the government provides are so poor, it's easy to lose faith like this. I personally disagree with every point he makes, but when there's no public transport, the roads are terrible, the schools don't prepare you for college, and the state politicians are more corrupt than the national ones, cynicism about money going to those services does start to creep in. It was incredibly frustrating to me going into college for my physics degree and being so far behind in math than all the other students from out of state or that came from private schools. I think if money could be more efficiently spent and there were actually palpable improvements, there would be less thinking like this.

@@Alexander_Grant One of the main reasons the GOP wants to gut public funding for education is so people remain ignorant. They need them ignorant not only of the basic rights of people but also of the impact a bit of money can have if invested in the welfare of the people rather than in corporate welfare.

One of those classic libertarian comments. He follows that up with implying it's a bigger responsibility to provide lunch your kid than to educate them, and how easy it would be to work and educate/home school his child at the same time.

A dollar a day made me laugh so hard.

I wonder if Blake will apply for reduced or free lunches for his daughter when she goes to school.

Jon Jon Lol he totally will.

@@silentrock599 That doesn't mean poor people deserve to die. There shouldn't be a mortgage on life.

Perfection. His argument is also his counter argument lol

There is no way that guy is smart enough to teach anyone chemistry...

Haley Stewart I’m considering moving there since the USA is being over run by idiots

I'd much rather my taxes go to feeding people and housing people than bombing kids in Palestine.

Yes! I don't have kids either, but I'm fine with part of my taxes going to schools because they are an _investment in the future_ of the country. Kids can't learn when they're hungry so school lunches are part of that investment. How does this guy not see that?! Smh.

I'm glad that there are people like you who actually used their brains and see that it is important to care for those who need the help

how about neither? people can pay for their own kids schools and lunches, not anyones responsibility to pay for people to have 6 children that they cant afford.

@@iriemeditation6041 - Because public schools are, as I said, an _investment in the future_ of the country. They are for the benefit of all -- like fire and police departments, roads and bridges, hospitals, libraries, drug and medical research, the military. If you want to pay for all of those things yourself, go right ahead. Find an island and put yourself on it!

I appreciate you so much, and I'll advocate and vote as much as possible to help you help our kids!

Why is it my problem if other parents spread stupidly?

Exactly what I was thinking. The guy is such a moron.

If it doesn't affect them or anyone in their lives they don't care. I can't imagine being upset about paying for poor kids to have a fucking lunch.

they need a personal first hand experience to change their mind, even then they will try to justify it weirdly.

Too many on the right see kindness and giving as a weakness. Maybe it sounds too much like Communism or Socialism to them. Fools.

The “Tough guy” mentality

If you can’t afford to feed your kid lunch maybe you shouldn’t be having kids and being a leech on the system

@@alfredonichlosa1796 it's not a kids fault if they don't have food to eat. We all should help each other as Americans. I'm sure we have people in this world who are homeschooling yet their tax money goes to fund our school system.

@Hyperion 666 who said I’m a libertarian? Amazing how you small minded liberals immediately jump to conclusions based on nothing. Maybes that’s why this cesspool of a channel hasnt grown and is in fact dying

Zack Sherman that’s why we have to stay vocal and explain to people our struggles and make people realize it’s not normal for kids to go hungry and we can all step up

Exactly 💯

I am sick of paying for public roads , so out of county people can use them for free ... lets not build roads at all , that benefits all .

i think this guy's real idea of home schooling is that there's a small community out in the country where he lives and one of the womenfolk is going to teach all the kids.

Because 'Murica is a weird, weird place.

Because caring for other people is communism.

Indoctrination to "White" Culture will be the Entire Curriculum.

I bought a USED Toyota hatchback for that price.

@@celiashen5490 Exactly! TBF, I'm a BEYOND satisfied owner of a 07 Camry & a 15 Avalon. I. LOVE. MY. TOYOTA'S. I'm willing to bet you will get your money back in dependability. 💯

@@JayJay-xf2jf For real, for real.

Well, yeah. And he is going to want his Social Security and MediCare, too. I have relatives like this.

You just described every single person on the right.

If it's something they use, it's not welfare, but if it's something they don't use, it is welfare. There are interviews of Trump supporters saying they hate socialism and then admit they're on social security or some other form of welfare

Very likely.

wow, you're pretty racists there, dude.

The people I know that argue against social programs, including ones for children, have inherited a lot of money or stand to inherit a lot of money. They have never had to go without in life and attribute that to their worthiness. They cannot relate to another’s needs, no sense of reality.

@@amills9261 Setting aside the fact that annedotes don't mean much, if anything, many people who argue for social programs are also people who have and/or stand to inherit a lot of money so much so that they are made fun of "champagne socialists/liberals" they are sometimes called. Hypocrites. Worse, people who advocate for social programs who don't, nor have any intention of, paying for them with their own money (and ignoring or are oblivious to the fact that it will be government stealing that money from someone else) but want to appear oh, so generous and virtuous to society while getting off on having something over those "nasty, selfish rich people". So who is worse, really? The rich snob who doesn't want his money taken off him by force by the government so that some of it, maybe, might help some kids somewhere, or the (often rich) snobs who want everyone to think of them as good people for helping kids/the poor while not actually doing or paying for anything themselves? And, btw, I see you are at least wealthy enough to afford a computer or probably a smart phone of some kind, which suggests you are probably AT LEAST part of the top 20% or so of wage earners worldwide. If you earn $30,000 or more per year you are actually in the top 1% of earners worldwide. So I wonder what you have personally sacrificed for the poor? I also remind you that "need" does not constitute "owed". That some are "in need" does not give anyone the moral right to take from anyone else and give to them. To that end, government is about the worse way to help anyone given all government income is based on theft, government has an incentive FOR there to be poor people (to justify it' existence), and government is incredibly blunt and inefficient when it comes to allocating money to help poor people (with little/ineffective vetting, etc). Government has literally taken trillions of dollars over the course of a century and utterly failed to solve poverty and has, in fact, made it worse. That is a complete failure by any objective measure.

@@177SCmaro you are a perfect example of my reference to no sense of reality