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Does Eating a Free School Lunch Give Kids “an Empty Soul?” | gadflyonthewallblog

Does Eating a Free School Lunch Give Kids “an Empty Soul?” | gadflyonthewallblog:

Does Eating a Free School Lunch Give Kids “an Empty Soul?”
Just about everyone admits the importance of eating lunch – especially for growing kids in school.
But if you get that lunch for free, does it leave you with “a full stomach and an empty soul”?
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Paul Ryan thinks so.
“Take Obamacare—not literally, but figuratively here OK? We now know that this law will discourage millions of people from working. The Left thinks this is a good thing. They say, ‘hey, this is a new freedom—the freedom not to work.’ But I don’t think the problem is too many people are working — I think the problem is not enough people can find work. And if people leave the workforce, our economy will shrink—there will be less opportunity, not more. So the Left is making a big mistake here. What they’re offering people is a full stomach—and an empty soul. The American people want more than that.”
So, for Ryan, having affordable healthcare somehow has discouraged people from Does Eating a Free School Lunch Give Kids “an Empty Soul?” | gadflyonthewallblog:
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