| | Seriously, Ed Hudgins, there are too many things you left out. Facts, after all, are more important than outrage....
The District of Columbia is the US Federal District, which the US Constitution puts under the direct control of our federal government. Its elected politicians can do nothing without federal government approval. The school-lunch program is run by the Agriculture Department of the same federal government.
And here is the kicker: for the last five years, all three branches of this federal government have been under the control of the Republican Party, America's Conservative party and, not coincidentally, also America's Party of God.
The American welfare state was built by the Left as an instrument of redistribution - of transfering the earned wealth of productive Americans to the poor, whether or not the latter's poverty was or was not their own fault. Government lunches for the non-poor would have been outside the redistributionist agenda.
But now our government is in the hands of people who literally believe in "Tu Solus Creator" - that God is the true creator of all wealth, and those who earn wealth here on Earth are merely its temporary trustees; and therefore that the state, as long as it is guided by people who believe themselves to be Men of God, is entitled to distribute all (God-created, remember) wealth as God pleases. Our government is now run by people who instead of having reasoned things out, even wrongly, pray for divine guidance. They thank God when He inspires them to pass handouts to all, because in what has now taken the place of their minds, the wealth they seize to pay for universal handouts was God's all along. Its former temporary possessors, who only by the Grace of God came to own it in the first place, have no reason to complain when it is taken away for God's work of feeding all of God's children.
Ideas have consequences, Ed. Not a good thing for an "Objectivist" to forget.
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