There is no such thing as a free lunch. However, many of the students I teach think there is. For example, out of the 18 students my wife teaches, 16 of her students get "free lunches" from the cafeteria because their parents do not make a significant amount of money. Did I mention that many of the schools also provide free breakfast as well? I may have also forgotten that nutrition is also highly subsidized.

We are creating a class of people that from the age of five are learning to depend on the government for their most basic of needs-food. This whole situation would not bother me as much if I did not see the students eat and the tremendous amount of waste that is produced. Many of the students eat just the dessert and literally throw away the portions of the meal that they do not want. Tax dollars at work.