Every time I think they can't go any lower, they surprise me

Every time I think these Randroid Neanderthals can't possibly go any lower, they surprise me...

State Republicans Vote Against Subsidized Lunch Programs

Mock pointed out that many students can't make it to school in time for the breakfast program as rural school districts are consolidated. Some students have to travel 100 miles to get to school in the morning, he said.

Under North Dakota House rules, the bill will receive a floor vote with a negative recommendation from the committee. Schatz is predicting defeat when the full House votes on the bill.

"Everyday, 6,000 Kindergarten to third-graders are going without milk or juice during the class milk break," Mock said.

Under the terms of the Vermont bill, students who qualify for a reduced lunch would have the entire cost of their lunch covered when the state steps in to pay the remaining difference after federal subsidies. The total cost of the program is $350,000 a year, Donovan said.

"It was a very disappointing vote to me," Donovan said. "It was one I was blindsided by. We have worked cooperatively in the committee. It was kind of a sad day."

The proposal would cost the state $500,000 over the course of two years...

"We are talking about two million cartons of milk or juice over two years -- that was unacceptable to the committee," North Dakota House Assistant Minority Leader Corey Mock (D-Grand Forks), an Education Committee member, told The Huffington Post. "In another committee room, we were talking about giving tax breaks equivalent to 100 million cartons of milk over five years." (to oil companies)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/0 ... f=politics