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      <![CDATA[@Smoochy:  Read again the last two sentences of my last comment and then look at the picture for this blog. Do those kids look malnourished?
        
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      <![CDATA[Yes, gast. I'm just another poor hippie on the dole, getting fat off your table.
        
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      <![CDATA[Smoochy:  I doubt very much that you paid any federal income tax last year. You should see the pictures of me and my siblings when we were kids; talk about skinny.
        
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      <![CDATA[Oh, so there are no hungry children if gast never sees them. Well that's a load off my mind and news to food banks everywhere.
        
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      <![CDATA[@Smoochy:  Small pox infected blankets are a French fur trader thing. With all the hungry children why do I never see skinny children?
        
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      <![CDATA[Just cut to the chase gast, hand out some small pox laced blankets.
        
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      <![CDATA[@Donna:  Way to go. With most minority children now being born out of wedlock we are certainly headed as a nation to financial oblivion.
        
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      <![CDATA[The public schools have taken on the responsibility of raising many of our children. Many kids now eat all of their daily meals at school or take supper and weekend meals home in a sack after having breakfast, lunch, and snack at school, where the kids may be cared for in afterschool programs.
        
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      <![CDATA[Three-fourths of Metro Nashville Public Schools students qualify for free and reduced lunches, well above Tennessee's 58.3 percent.
        
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      <![CDATA[Mark, the percentages of self-reported welfare use I quoted above have been increasing yearly for both immigrant and native households, according to the Current Population Surveys. But immigrant-headed households remain heavier users of the programs and have been heavy users of the free/reduced school lunch program over the years.<br>
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So, it is not a stretch to conclude that as our foreign-born population has increased, this particular welfare use is increasing, even as more natives access the program.
        
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      <![CDATA[Donna, correlation is not cause. You can't connect the dots you should probably not try to solve the puzzle.
        
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      <![CDATA[And as I mentioned, Bubba, the income bar for several welfare programs has been raised. Naturally, this means more people, including people in the middle class, are using them.
        
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      <![CDATA[Bubba, I'm talking legal immigrants and illegal aliens here. The United States continues to get unprecedented numbers of both.
        
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      <![CDATA[Unfortunately for your little theory, Donna, the number of illegals in the US has shrunk considerably since the recession began. You need to look elsewhere to explain the rise in people qualifying for lunch subsidies.
        
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      <![CDATA[Should be "not compatible," not "incompatible," in my comment above.
        
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      <![CDATA[Immigrant-household use of food-assistance welfare programs, including the free/reduced school lunch program, is higher than use by native households (headed by U.S.-born) -- according to the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (self-reporting by the surveyed) using 2010 data. Illegal aliens are allowed access to the free/reduced school lunch program.<br>
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Fifty-seven percent of U.S. households headed by an immigrant, legal and illegal, if there's a child present, used at least one major welfare program, compared to 39 percent of native-headed households with children.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Perry Aubric]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I guess Glen Casada will say they just need to go to work. And since Newt Gingrich tells us that child labor laws are "stupid," it may not be long before they'll be able to.
        
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      <![CDATA["We need to put their parents back to work as soon as possible."<br>
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Brilliant! Why didn't someone think of this before?
        
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      <![CDATA[In the "fattest" state in the land of the free, be sure and eat your vegetables! (PIZZA)
        
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