live-tucker-reaction heartbreaking

https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-guest-complains-schools-give-children-free-healthcare-free-food-and

REBECCA FRIEDRICHS (GUEST): We should look to the past. So, let's just take the free lunch program that we have in our schools. It started out being pushed by the unions and their friends for poor children. Well, 28 years ago, I had two students in my class on free lunch. Today almost every single child is on free breakfast and free lunch. So what the unions are trying to do, they've pushing something called community schools. And in these community schools, we're giving children free health care, we're are giving them free food, free emotional support, and by the way free political indoctrination for their parents. And so, if these unions and their friends, their politicians, get their way, they would like our schools to be open 24/7. They want to replace the family and families raising their children with our own virtues, they want to replace that with the state. With union-controlled government-run schools. That's dangerous. That's communism when you think about it.

  • Oomfart [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Never hear Brits say "things were better when we sent kids to the workhouses!" (look this up. it really happened in Victorian England)

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      the workhouses were so messed up that local governments would sell the disabled children that went in as "apprentices" (which means they didn't need to be paid wages) to local factories which worked out that feeding them enough food to not starve to death cost more than replacing them.

      that was a deeply fucked up system

      • Oomfart [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        And we continued with this sort of approach until the 1970s with religious organisations. Eg The Magdalenas