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- Chicago Public Schools is serving up free lunches for kids during summer break.
Starting Monday, children 18 and under can stop by 96 locations across the city for a meal as part of the CPS LunchStop summer meal program.
Locations will be open Mondays through Fridays between 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. until Aug. 25.
Remember this when Rahm is claiming the city is broke and the CPS needs to raise their portion of the property taxes their maximum again. FOP, are you taking notes?
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posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
96 Comments:
I'll drive my three grandkids into the city from their house in DesPlaines for a tasty lunch. Thanks for the info.
what a joke these kids grow waiting for someone to them free stuff .. coats, food , school supplies, shoes ...teaching them youngsters to ask why work ? when crap there for free
Here is a novel idea.
The children's parents and guardians are responsible for feeding their spawn.
Really?,wow! How unf'n believable. No money for teachers and schools but able to find money for lunches for kids who should be fed by their parents and taken care of over summer break. What a waist. This asshole mayor has to go!
Great idea!
Now we can cut back on SNAP.
It is no longer, "For The Children!"
We are feeding them, not their deadbeat baby mama.
It is for the children, how can anyone be against this? These growing children need to eat, and with their mama's and papa's off working all day, they can't get a meal. Now they can. There is nothing more healthy than school food.
Wow, you're a heartless SOB. It isn't the kids' fault that their parents are poor.
I'm 60. But if I'm having one of those days where I feel like I'm 15, Do I qualify fo sum free lunches?
I went to a Catholic grade school. In my earlier years I ate lunch at the school which my parents paid for. Around the fourth grade I decided I wanted to go home for lunch. My mother worked days and my father worked nights. The school was six blocks from home. So when I got home my father had lunch ready and you had to eat it quickly to get back on time. In the afternoon my father would start the dinner and when my mother got home she took over so my father could get shave & shower. By the time he got out, dinner was on the table and he ate fast so he could get out the door to get to work. They both took the CTA to work. They had everything timed. I started delivering the newspaper in the fourth grade. I was never without a job. Did 38 years with CPD. Took a few years off now I work part time. I don't need to but I help someone out. I never heard my parents looking for anything for free. And most of their money was used to send their kids to the Catholic grade and high schools. And I paid my way through a Catholic college. So tired of all these leeches and government giveaways it never ends with the liberal left.
Nice to know I work 3 jobs and pay ever increasing taxes to support rhams reelection efforts.
Rahm, stupid speech at the gay parade..., u forgot to simply apologize for shuffling money to a law firm which protected that illegal immigrant/illegal alien/illegal terrestrial: who beat that little girl to death in Pilsen. That asshole should had been long deported. The parents thank you Rahm you piece of excrement
Are they f-ing kidding it's not bad enough they are given wick, link, and ssi now we have to pay for a free lunch. Stop already!
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They even have one in Mt. Greenwood!
Another social justice program geared to show that voting for demorats benefits the children, so keep voting demorat. And once a program like this is instituted, it is next to impossible to cut from a budget. Another entitlement, another Right of the people. Government from birth to grave comes through again.
I was overweight, hungry, and you fed me
I was retired, too old to work, and you
Shafted me, after a lifetime of contributions
You catered to the young who gave nothing
I gave everything, yet I was turned away
Referring back to the top post and the (ugh) huffpo article, where in the Constitution is it written that the government will feed your kids every day while you spend money the government gives you on other goodies. Great society, my ass.
Do parents who have kids eating at theses school programs have their food stamps lowered by a like amount? Or are they double dipping the taxpayer?
We need some type of government credit card that allows people who can't afford food for their children. It should be named "LINK".
This comment speaks for multitudes of Chicagoans. Thank you for posting:
I went to a Catholic grade school. In my earlier years I ate lunch at the school which my parents paid for. Around the fourth grade I decided I wanted to go home for lunch. My mother worked days and my father worked nights. The school was six blocks from home. So when I got home my father had lunch ready and you had to eat it quickly to get back on time. In the afternoon my father would start the dinner and when my mother got home she took over so my father could get shave & shower. By the time he got out, dinner was on the table and he ate fast so he could get out the door to get to work. They both took the CTA to work. They had everything timed. I started delivering the newspaper in the fourth grade. I was never without a job. Did 38 years with CPD. Took a few years off now I work part time. I don't need to but I help someone out. I never heard my parents looking for anything for free. And most of their money was used to send their kids to the Catholic grade and high schools. And I paid my way through a Catholic college. So tired of all these leeches and government giveaways it never ends with the liberal left.
Ok here's what I wanna know, if the Police can't receive Social Security along with a Pension because it's considered "Double Dipping" why is it that children who's parents are already receiving food stamps/part of the SNAP program are eligible for Free Lunches at School through CPS???? Isn't that also "Double Dipping???????
Wait until someone cries about the "kids" aged 19 & 20 that are missing out on nutritional sustenance. (That's why they can't turn their lives around.)
Do we even have an FOP anymore? All I've heard since the election is crickets. Looks like we're going to have to vote another worthless president out in exchange for another worthless president in a few years.
And HOW much of this food is Thrown out and at what cost....This so Phuqed up on soooooo many levels...
Those private vendors must kick up a huge amount of cash to the twerp murder mayor's campaign fund, criminal I say criminal...
How else are these poor urban warriors going to sustain energy if they ain't got nothing in their bellies, you can't be shot and killed in Chicago on an empty stomach, it's for the kids...
Most of those lunches will end up half eaten and tossed in the trash. If it ain't chips, it ain't good.
Read the Tribune article on the Cook County sugar tax in Sunday's paper. If you get SNAP, you do not pay the sugar tax. REALLY!!!
Truly a heartless bunch here....
Wow, you're a heartless SOB. It isn't the kids' fault that their parents are poor.
6/26/2017 12:57:00 AM
Whatever happened to "If you can't feed 'em, don't breed 'em.".
The cost of the lunch should be deducted from the parents welfare check.
At least we know there won't be many taking advantage of this program. It's hard enough getting them to go to school during the school year, let alone in the summer.
Who am I kidding? Free!!!??? There will be lines around the block. And you can bet your ass they won't need to prove they're actually CPS students, or even Chicago or Illinois residents. All the "cousins" from out of town can line up for free food courtesy of the taxpaying citizens who get nothing. 18 isn't a child. 18 year olds can get a fucking job in the summer if they're hungry. Just more handouts for the undeserving to keep them from having to actually earn a single thing.
I love America where the poor people have a obesity problem.
I've been working since I was 14 yrs. old. Since I am retired CPD I only get half my social security even though I have all my quarters. My taxes are going up another 10% this year, but I can't seem to get rodent abatement in our alleys, the sewers are clogged and overflowing when it rains and the potholes from winter are still not filled.
This is just another example of slapping the working class in the face so the entitlement crowd can get ANOTHER hand-out. Get food for their children through SSI, wick, link and the hand outs from the food pantry, which I already subsidize.
its a miracle!!!
remember mr doomsday forest claypool???
he said the schools could not continue on unless cps was given 200 million dollars.
then it ballooned to 600 million.
schools closed out with no money given and now still have revenue for free lunches.
somebody call the fucking pope.
there is some really crazy shit going on and the media does not ask why
Whoa slow down all these connected food processing companies out of Bridgeport have to make money some how. I'd like to see a reporter investigate who is providing these lunches and at what cost. What's the mark up from who actually makes the food then who delivers the food and prepares it on site. Oh yeah and let's not forget how much of the food goes to waste and is thrown out, which ultimately raises the per lunch meal. How about it media let's get out from behind that desk and ask some questions instead of just printing what Rahm releases. Does the "milkman" from Bridgeport supply the $2 pint of milk?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Wow, you're a heartless SOB. It isn't the kids' fault that their parents are poor.
6/26/2017 12:57:00 AM
Not at all, most likely their parents are getting government assistance which is suppose to be used to feed their children. it's getting really old, very fast all the free hand outs and yet momma can get her nails done and drive nice cars while not having to pay much in rent so they can afford luxuries that the working class can not.
All cops should stop by for a free lunch.
Tell em, Rahm and crew treat y'all like little kids anyways, so pony up the free lunches.
So is an "Eater ID Card" required? or do they have to feed everyone? I'm imagining the consequences.
CPS has both free breakfast and free lunch.
breakfast:
http://cps.edu/About_CPS/Departments/Documents/Nutrition/K_12GNGBreakfastJune.pdf
lunch:
http://cps.edu/About_CPS/Departments/Documents/Nutrition/9_12LunchJune.pdf
Does one have to show an ID to eat? That doesn't look too bad, especially for free.
First of all, this food is complete garbage. Second the mob has this money (Aramak), the food contract covers the entire year. Look it up. It is 250 MILLION. The time to bitch about it was prior to it being submitted and paid for. As we sit here, moan and groan about some kid throwing away a free meal, Sears is walking away with half a billion in real welfare, United Airlines got money to move downtown, never did. DePaul has a stadium that will go unused. But again let's fight the war against those who cannot battle for themselves. Retail stores are closing down, so where are the jobs?
Rights? Entitlements? Call it what it is, government handouts, welfare. Mom and dad had to go on welfare once back in the late 50', or early 60's when we first moved to Salt Lake City, Utah.
Mom told me years later how dad felt so ashamed and couldn't find a job fast enough and get off welfare. They're in their 80's now and never needed welfare again, it's disgraceful.
J.J.
I went to a Catholic grade school. In my earlier years I ate lunch at the school which my parents paid for. Around the fourth grade I decided I wanted to go home for lunch. My mother worked days and my father worked nights. The school was six blocks from home. So when I got home my father had lunch ready and you had to eat it quickly to get back on time. In the afternoon my father would start the dinner and when my mother got home she took over so my father could get shave & shower. By the time he got out, dinner was on the table and he ate fast so he could get out the door to get to work. They both took the CTA to work. They had everything timed. I started delivering the newspaper in the fourth grade. I was never without a job. Did 38 years with CPD. Took a few years off now I work part time. I don't need to but I help someone out. I never heard my parents looking for anything for free. And most of their money was used to send their kids to the Catholic grade and high schools. And I paid my way through a Catholic college. So tired of all these leeches and government giveaways it never ends with the liberal left.
I delivered papers also but a job like that is too dangerous for youth these days. I cannot even name a job that is not dangerous for any teen. Period
Anonymous said...
Are they f-ing kidding it's not bad enough they are given wick, link, and ssi now we have to pay for a free lunch. Stop already!
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6/26/2017 01:30:00 AM
there are free dinners served every night of the week all over Chicagoland and food banks where people can register and get free bags of canned goods, fresh produce, frozen meat and dry goods, all without showing need. Nothing new here. Catholic Charities and Chicago Food Depository are some of the ones doing this along with scattered other groups. There is a real need in this town for food and shelter. The working poor along with those with addictions and mental illness are in trouble.
Margaret Thacher was right when she said "Socialism is great until you run out of other people's money".
But them parents got money for that "Crack" and feeders.
nonymous said...
Really?,wow! How unf'n believable. No money for teachers and schools but able to find money for lunches for kids who should be fed by their parents and taken care of over summer break. What a waist. This asshole mayor has to go!
6/26/2017 12:24:00 AM
No money for teachers? Are you kidding me? Every time the teachers go on strike for more money their cry is always, " It is for the kids". Chicago teachers are pretty well compensated for such a short work week and year. When the financial crises hit in 2008 and many people lost their jobs or had pay and benefits frozen, the teachers still got their raises and increased benefits.
I was suprised to learn (ad on back of bus) that the government pays for child/day care.
Let's see. At 8 kids each, by unfittin' parents, er mothers...
https://www.benefits.gov/benefits/benefit-details/615
The whole thing about feeding the kids was if they aren't hungry, they will be able to study and do well in school. If school is out for the summer, are the schools now being used as soup kitchens?? The Dem's love shit like this, they are going to say, see, we are helping the children, so vote Democrat. This is just more and more of the Dem's and their bullshit.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Wow, you're a heartless SOB. It isn't the kids' fault that their parents are poor.
Don't think anyone is being heartless. All they are saying is it's not the responsibility of the CPS and our tax dollars for CPS to pay for the kids meals when school is out
So let's see if I've got this right....
People are so irresponsible that they have kids they can't afford to feed....
And are too lazy to work whatever it takes to support those kids....
But apparently they've got the responsibility and energy to get to the polling place and vote Democrat.
Is that about it?
1) Kids get a free bus ride to school
2) Free Breakfast
3) Free Lunch
4) Free bus ride home
5) Single mom sitting at home collecting a check and Link card and she still can't make breakfast or lunch for the kid.
That's why we're broke.
I come from an upper middle class Chicago family.
My mom packed a lunch box of a sandwich and a piece of fruit.
I think the school tried a hot lunch cafeteria for a bit - the food was terrible, we students hated it.
Why do Chicago public schools attempt to do everything to change society except teach students basic reading and math skills and basic standards of decent conduct?
And it seems you don't have to be a CPS student in order to take advantage of these free meals! Anyone under 18, rich or poor...student or dropout...can eat the free food. So very glad I no longer live in the city. Where is the money for this coming from? Watching CPS and the city in general implode is sad.
I seen asshole Rahm on the news yesterday at the Pride parade touting "Chicago Values" again.
What a double talking, two faced hipocrytical jagoff.
Fuck you Rahm.
Fund our pension.
This my friend is the nanny state. Government will take over the duties and responsibilities of being a parent. Post 017 spoke on how his parents took care of him and how he took care of himself. I want to add something to his post. His parents showed him how to be a responsible parent. This is another example of liberal government taking over the job of parenting. The problem with this approach is that we have a society where some segments of the minorities community does not learn of concept of parenting. Look what is happening today. If people can't be shown and/or taught how to take care of not only themselves but also their families how can they pass that down to their children. The more programs that are giving to people the more the people rely on them. The more they rely on them the harder it is for the program to be taken back. Look at Obama care. No matter how hard the Republicans try, it is here to stay. Prediction: In the very near future WE WILL HAVE A SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. Obama made this comment at Grant Park the night he won the presidency. "Come join me in changing this country"! What people didn't know was that he did in fact change this country. When government initiates a program it will never be taken away. The liberal nanny state. The next thing will be dinner for the family.
Anonymous said...
Wow, you're a heartless SOB. It isn't the kids' fault that their parents are poor.
6/26/2017 12:57:00 AM
F/U you nanny-statist liberal, working-man/society hating
SJW progtard/catered-to constituent perpetually grinding
the axe of racial grievance in lieu of getting off your
ass and legally activating your ss#...
It's always about keeping your hand in the taxpayer's
pocket while contributing dick-all to the common good.
Did we say F/U?
Well F/U and yours too.
Maybe if these kids parents did something other
than nursing their outsized grudge against the
rest of everybody else for having "stuff and things
and made a decision to get off their asses/break the
cycle/learn some self discipline/exercise delaying
some instant gratification for long term goals,
we the tax-payers wouldn't hear the sound of goodly
portions of our tax dollars being sucked into the
perpetual grievance/life-long taxpayer subsidized
entitlement sinkholes on Chicago's west and south sides.
F/U yet again.
Get the fuck out of our pockets.
Anonymous said...
I'm 60. But if I'm having one of those days where I feel like I'm 15, Do I qualify fo sum free lunches?
6/26/2017 01:07:00 AM
If you 'identify' as 15, then who is the government to tell you that you aren't?
Go for it!
Not a Rahm fan but just saying--this free breakfast/lunch program is federally funded. CPS actually makes money off this deal because the cost per meal is less than what the federal government is paying per meal. Regardless--it's sheer waste.
How much is actually eaten versus thrown away? More waste while the pension is underfunded and some retirees lost healthcare.
Retired .38 spl +P
"6/26/2017 01:17:00 AM
I went to a Catholic grade school. In my earlier years I ate lunch at the school which my parents paid for. Around the fourth grade I decided I wanted to go home for lunch...Did 38 years on the CPD ..."
Props to your Pops & Mom. See the thing is, theirs were & yours is, based on western civilization values. Multiculturalism works to tear down that way of life, American life.
To me now, multiculturalism is like that monster in the Aliens movie - We should have kept it at bay but it's gotten inside. Our elected reps failed us - sold us out. It's up to the citizens now ...
How many Northside schools are giving out lunches? On the news today, they reported ages 1-18 are eligible for free lunch. The free hand out list goes on and on and on in Chicago. If your on welfare, parents pay half of the costs for day camp. Forget about finding a camp that has early or late hours to accommodate people who work for a living, but the west and south side have extended camp for all the kids. Penalize the working stiff, the Shitcago way.
1. Who has the contract?
2. How much did they donate to the Demorat party?
another scam to take citizens money.
thought their job was to educate.
Sort of off topic BUT there is a message to be learned here:
MIchael Browns Family just got almost 2 million bucks from that city
PHilando Castiles Family just got 3 million bucks from that city
SAm DuBoses Family just got 5.3 million AND a guarantee of free 4-year tuition to EACH of his 12 (that's TWELVE) children from the U of Cinncinatti
Wow....just wow!
At what point is it reasonable to ask that parents take responsibility for feeding their own children?
This is fucking bullshit - along with all that food insecurity nonsense. Want food? Get a fucking job. Do SOMETHING to earn something to feed yourself. Don't have kids if you can't feed them.
If you could feed them, had them, and fell on hard times - we get that - we'll give you a leg up, but get your fucking shit together FAST and get off the welfare. Welfare ought to shunned, not celebrated.
We need to go back to Food Stamps - away from Link cards. We went away from food stamps because we didn't want people to be embarrassed about using food stamps - I'd argue that they SHOULD be embarrassed about it. Might get them off it quicker...
Federal program. Not a penny from Illinois or Chicago goes to support this.
Have you ever eaten one those so call school lunches recently? We are not doing the children any favors with this option but some children have dead beat parents.
Not even required to present your LinksCard or Skoo-ID...just show up ?
This is ought to have every truant, dropout or otherwise feral young thug predator scoring a Mac (3x aday) and possibly fattened up for their last meal.
Wonder if any corner stow soon be tapping into some of that instant food-no stamp action ?
Even during the regular school year they've been throwing out tons of food everyday across the city and nobody in CPS give a shit.
Entitlements - get some.
Unccountable and unappreciated waste provided by Dimwit Democrats.
No jobs just free shit.
And we taxpaying suckers are paying for Them.
How/Where do we protest??? Call 311 (City Hall). Tell them this Baloney MUST STOP. There are plenty of folks that OPPOSE this extra tax. How do we get to speak??....we don't parade or stand out-side to protest. Calling Alderman does not help!!! We are through paying for
Screwballs. IF a person had sex with their hubby to make a baby or sex with an aquatint for fun and made a baby....All need to care and feed that child. Is there no respect and pride in CPS families??? The Payers are extremely tired of taking care and giving free necessities, on our dimes--not from Rahm or whats her name-head of Union-to hapless parents or mothers of CPS Students?? Get with it. Take care of your own kids...Thank Goodness you are not responsible for my children. They'd be a mess.
Worked park detail when our city started the summer lunch crap years ago. Hated the days when fresh (hard) fruit was available (oranges & apples) - Assault calls sky rocketed.
Remember, in most parts of the city, CPS is just a daycare center. A place to dump their kids so they can play, sleep, get high, etc...
I have a friends who are both professionals and whose child is in one of the trendy public grade schools on the north side. They said the lunches are open to all students regardless of income. You just have to let the school know in the morning that you are not sending the child with a lunch so then the child gets a free lunch courtesy of the taxpayers. Do they take advantage? Yes they do!
Sounds like S&P is waiting for the Illinois budget impasse to enter a 3rd fiscal year on 7/1. Then downgrade to junk. Latest report says Illinois has run up $800M in interest payments on the bills it hasn't paid ($15B...yes B). As they say....that's the same as setting $800M on fire just for not doing anything.
Rahm and the city coulnsel lowered the rate on scalper ticket fees that they pay. But not a word about reductions from CPS or anyone else downtown for us taxpayers.
Rahm can't fund our pensions but he can provide "the community" kids with free breakfast and lunch year round?
Rahm and Chicago do not have a money problem. They've got a priority problem.
Rahm's priorities are out of whack and ass backwards.
It's in the burbs too. My kid is in a summer program at school. They open and close a half hour early and late for optional free breakfast and lunch. We didn't know why or who was funding it. Come to find out anyone under 18 can go to several sites in town. Oh well.
"Federal program. Not a penny from Illinois or Chicago goes to support this."
Ok genius, care to take a guess as to who PAYS federal taxes????
Am I missing something here, the link checks still come in summer right?
Things are tough all over. Hell, I can barely afford to use my personal chef more than twice a week . . . Chef Boy-ar-dee, that is.
Does anyone remember the inflated price the Board of Ed paid to a Daley-clouted company that was given a contract to provide milk for the schools? The contract was not given to the lowest bidder.
Most if not all these kids come from families that are run by single parents who work most if not all work two and three jobs.
They make a shit wage, live in shit neighborhoods and the schools suck. The assistance they receive if any, is minimal and has been since welfare reform was implemented in 1995.
But keep on bitching about some kid getting a free meal during the summer if that makes you feel morally superior.
"I'm 60. But if I'm having one of those days where I feel like I'm 15, Do I qualify fo sum free lunches?
6/26/2017 01:07:00 AM"
Go to one of those school and find out. Perhaps you'll also find out you still qualify to be a 60yo imbecile.
"Another social justice program geared to show that voting for demorats benefits the children, so keep voting demorat. And once a program like this is instituted, it is next to impossible to cut from a budget. Another entitlement, another Right of the people. Government from birth to grave comes through again."
Just like Social Security and Medicare, school vaccinations, Democrat instituted programs that your Grandparents relied on. Your Grandparents owe their very existence to Government Cradle to Grave programs and if it wasn't for those programs you wouldn't be here either dumbass.
Let them starve to the point that they don't have the strength to pull the trigger or mug someone. Let them starve I do not give a F. I fed my kids and paid for everything that comes with having kids. If the choice was work or starve how many would get off there ass and work? 50+ years of Johnson's Great Society has done nothing but create useless pieces of crap that won't take care of themselves. F em let em starve they contribute nothing....
Also, has anyone noticed the true green trucks maintaining the grass areas on the public school grounds? Seems there's money for all cps properties to be taken care but when it comes down to bottom line, they cry there's no money. Don't be fooled, most companies cut back , first to go is property maintenance, so this should be an indication that there is plenty of money in the school system!!
And when 1 of these honor students chokes on a sandwich or gets a peanut allergic reaction, the useless parent will be suing CPS for not properly supervising my babies!
Guess nobody wants to go to an open CPS school for puzzles, math instruction, story time, reading skills, etiquette skills. All we wants is free food...
Make sure to let all the illegal child and their cousins know that free lunches await them in this glorious Santucary city of are.
Reported ages of 1-18 are eligible for free lunches?
Most kids don't start at a CPS pre-school until age 5. So now we have to feed future graduates from ages 1-4?
If cities are feeding the poor urchins year round why do their families get food stamps?
So now you're against free lunches for kids, Scrooge?
If there wasn't free breakfast and lunch the kids would never come to school.
No Moron,
We're against the government raising children in place of parents. Where does parental responsibility even begin these days?
Now go wait in line for your government cheese, Asshat.
No More Taxpayer paid for free food or drinks for CPS. Taxation without representation. Feed your own damn kids, Not My Job..... Go Trump, MAGA !
Anonymous said...
If there wasn't free breakfast and lunch the kids would never come to school.
6/28/2017 04:13:00 AM
Who cares? If they want to stay stupid, so be it. Many go to school at
CPS and are still stupid anyway.
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