{"id":8799,"date":"2009-06-22T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=8799"},"modified":"2024-07-15T10:24:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T15:24:01","slug":"think-progress-missouri-lawmaker-on-child-hunger-hunger-can-be-a-positive-motivator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2009\/06\/22\/think-progress-missouri-lawmaker-on-child-hunger-hunger-can-be-a-positive-motivator\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Progress \u00bb Missouri lawmaker on child hunger: &#8216;Hunger can be a positive motivator.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And we now have crowned our 21st Century Marie Antionette, State Rep. Cynthia Davis of Missouri. A Republican of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the course of working through budget cuts each state has to do, she wants to kill a program that&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/06\/21\/cynthia-davis-hunger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">feeds undernourished kids during the summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her primary problem is feeding kids 16 and older, since, you know, they can go find summer jobs at McDonalds that will also feed them lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First off, I don&#8217;t think there are enough McJobs to feed all those kids&#8230;in a good economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Secondly, Missouri has the 19th highest unemployment rate in the country at 9 percent. Even the McJobs that existed last year aren&#8217;t there for summer workers anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Third, and actually this would be first if she wasn&#8217;t a &#8220;compassionate&#8221; conservative, YOU DON&#8217;T MAKE JOKES ABOUT WANTING TO STARVE CHILDREN!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And we now have crowned our 21st Century Marie Antionette, State Rep. Cynthia Davis of Missouri. A Republican of course. In the course of working through budget cuts each state has to do, she wants to kill a program that&nbsp;feeds undernourished kids during the summer. Her primary problem is feeding kids 16 and older, since, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rethug-morons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8800,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799\/revisions\/8800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}