Via Think Progress.
Who’s buying dinner? Who is getting paid to serve the meal? Churches and other non-profits can do this at no cost to the taxpayer if it is warranted. [...] Bigger governmental programs take away our connectedness to the human family, our brotherhood and our need for one another. [...] Anyone under 18 can be eligible? Can’t they get a job during the summer by the time they are 16? Hunger can be a positive motivator. What is wrong with the idea of getting a job so you can get better meals? Tip: If you work for McDonald’s, they will feed you for free during your break. [...] It really is all about increasing government spending, which means an increase in taxes for us to buy more free lunches and breakfasts.
Ah, the spectre of "government spending".
So as long as some church can do it and she doesn't have to be associated with helping hungery children, then that's just fantastic. Typical.
According to Missouri Child Labor Laws, a 16-year-old can be employed, but there's far more variables to the equation than Davis seems to be willing to admit.
Granted it's an old data-set, but the 2000 US Census states that there were just over 12.6 million children under the age of 16 in the state at that time. The number could be slightly more or less 9 years later.
The point is that Davis is willing to tell the children under 16 of Missouri that she can't be bothered with helping make sure you don't starve to death. She might as well have said "let them eat cake".
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