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This is a little misleading. It's my understanding that the original decline in US school lunches owes its start to farm subsidies. It's one of the reasons they over use corn-- including syrup-- since the government heavily subsidies it by buying surplus and processing it. Then it goes to the school (I think accurately to say sells to the schools but I'm not sure?)
Anyway, it's partially true in that we've got only marginal improvements in school lunches since the feds and most state governments don't give a shit about education or long term health. It's easy to ignore since political office is short enough that you won't ever get credit for significant gains you cause. Dems are the only ones who try since it's more of an image thing, and only if enough people care (and they've got easier targets for that, unfortunately).
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
These are misappropriated funds of the people, that could be going towards improving their lives yet go towards defending the state from its people.
Where I'm from, guns feed and protect far more people than they hurt.
Unless you're from the deep inner workings of Lockheed Martin's corporate town, that's probably not true. Even in the remote bear infested towns, if people have guns, they shoot each other and themselves at a rate comparable to the rate of using it against said bears