they’re not blowing their money on Starbucks and fancy clothes. No, they’re just trying their best to help their families make ends meet because hardly anyone is paid a living wage anymore. And no matter how hard these kids work and contribute to their families, they are still barely surviving. - ThreadSky

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spectreman.bsky.social • 25 days ago

they’re not blowing their money on Starbucks and fancy clothes. No, they’re just trying their best to help their families make ends meet because hardly anyone is paid a living wage anymore. And no matter how hard these kids work and contribute to their families, they are still barely surviving.

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spectreman.bsky.social•25 days ago

The food provided through free lunch programs are sometimes the only meals these kids get because they sometimes choose to go without, and they choose to do that just so their siblings won’t have to. And before you ask where the parents are, I can easily answer that by saying, “Oh, well they’re out

spectreman.bsky.social•25 days ago

working 1 of their 2 to 3 jobs.” How dare you call these kids and their families “lazy.” What a disgusting judgment to make.

spectreman.bsky.social•25 days ago

These kids are faced with hardships most politicians have never had to encounter. So yeah, politicians, let’s stop feeding these kids just because you lucked out in your childhood situation. But I must ask those that support this: How is this a Christian thing to do? Doing this to these kids and

spectreman.bsky.social•25 days ago

their families is completely antithetical to the teachings of Christ that I was taught in church and Sunday school when I was young. It’s even completely antithetical to how my own parents raised me. The sense of right vs wrong seems very diminished or has outright vanished with certain people and

spectreman.bsky.social•25 days ago

groups these days. Pure greed is what drives these kinds of government cuts, and it needs to stop. This is not a political issue — or shouldn’t be — because this is a basic human rights issue. Our country is better than this, or, we used to be.

spookyladyyy.bsky.social•24 days ago

Aren't schools supported by the state as well? I honestly don't know much about public school funding except via property taxes.

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