Free school lunch program expansion done to 'reduce school paperwork'

The Obami are expanding the free school lunch program to million of kids who are not poor and can afford to pay for their lunches.  The reason?  It will encourage kids to eat lunch and reduce paperwork requirement at schools.  It will also teach kids the government is where the gravy comes from and that they are entitled to free stuff.  Of  course the kid getting the new free lunches will also get the debt laden tab.  The Obami's cynicism knows no bounds.  From Reason here.

Problems with the USDA's revised school lunch program are as widely known as they are widespread. I've written about them here, for example. And a new GAO report found that last year's disastrous rollout of the updated National School Lunch Program (which Mrs. Obama also championed) helped drive 1.6 million paying students from the lunch rolls.

Rather than moving to scrap the program for all but the neediest (or, better, encouragingparents to reclaim control of their kids' lunches), the administration is doubling down on a new plan that would result in a dramatic expansion of the number of students who are eligible for free lunches and breakfast—even though they are perfectly able to pay for their meals.

The change "will provide free breakfast and lunch to all students in schools where at least 40 percent of the children are low-income," notes the Washington Post in the last sentence of an 850-word report on the school food announcements this week. "The move is designed to increase participation in the free meals program and to relieve the paperwork burden on schools and is expected to affect 22,000 schools nationwide."

Another horrible lesson that will end up hurting them.