Subject: Re: Fox News Freaking Out

That is the "traditional family values" model the GOP has been pushing, since the 80s, as a way to defund assistance programs, and give the "JCs" another tax cut

Yah, the GOP is co opting the normal default way, and it doesn't work well in the fishing villages along the coast, and in other areas in the PI. You can see kids with wasting, stunting, etc. in those villages along with TB, and you can see it in the barrios in the cities. The barrio kids sniff cheap solvent to stop the hunger pangs and it just gets worse. Malnutrition is common, but wasting is terrible. The body never really recovers, so you don't want a kid undernourished for a year. You can see the body, but the IQ has been dialed down too. We want to give kids a good chance, and that starts early, so we need to help that pregnant woman, see that she gets good prenatal care, and care after the child is born. SNAP and WIC are designed to do that. Then giving them a good meal at school means they get one good meal a day at least.