Sesame Street‘s ’Food Insecure‘ Puppet Promotes Gov’t-Funded Food Programs: ‘Free Breakfast and a Lunch’
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Madeleine Morgenstern
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The Blaze first told you about Lily, Sesame Street’s new “food insecure” puppet, back in October. Back then, she made her debut with a one-hour television special to raise awareness about American families with limited food access.
Now Lily’s back, and she‘s helping to promote Sesame Workshop’s national “Food for Thought: Eating Well on a Budget” campaign, an English-Spanish initiative to help families with young children cope with “uncertain or limited access to affordable and nutritious food.”
During an appearance Thursday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Lily extolled the virtues of government-funded food programs for schoolchildren.
“You see, well, it‘s just that sometimes we can’t always afford to buy all the food that we need,” Lily said. “I mean, but we’ve been finding lots of ways that we can get help…Yeah, for example, at school, at school I get a free breakfast and a lunch…part of the meal plan.”
According to CNS News, Lily’s “message” is being circulated through schools, hospitals and food assistance programs with materials to teach families how to access “services that can assist your family” and “referrals to social service agencies.” Food for Thought organizers say they have produced millions of kits, also available online.
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CNS:
At the National Press Club on Thursday, the Rev. Douglas Greenaway of the National WIC (Women, Infants and Children) Association lauded Sesame Street’s ‘Food For Thought’ campaign – even linking it to federal deficit-reduction.
“What ‘Food For Thought’ does is remind people that eating healthy now gives them a good health outcome in the long term. So the folks you’re looking at up here, the programs that they represent, what ‘Food For Thought’ does is really a deficit reduction strategy, and we hope policymakers will take notice of that,” Greenaway said.
Greenaway didn’t elaborate further on how this would work towards deficit reduction.
Food for Thought is a joint venture between Sesame Workshop — the nonprofit behind “Sesame Street” — UnitedHealthcare and the Merck Company Foundation.
Lily’s “comments” come days after questions were raised about the supposed anti-business “brainwashing” contained in the new Muppets movie.
In May, The Blaze told you about Sesame Street executives who admitted to slipping liberal messages into their storylines.
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smokeyridgerunner
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:48pmWhy don’t the rag dolls pay for their meals, they make more money then I do!
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:58pmWell lily could have said” My mom’s spend all our money on her hair,nails,her cell phone and drugs but thanks to the tax payers in the private sector I get a lunch”
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:05pmShouldn’t the tax payers demand the government change the program title to tax payer funded lunch program.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:17pmOh no, not another “Sesame Street is communist brain washing”.
It may come as news to many, but there are children in the United States who don’t have enough food to eat. You know, those poor people Christ taught about, not the lazy bum people you say they are.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:18pmsmithclar3nc3
Report Post »Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:58pm
Well lily could have said” My mom’s spend all our money on her hair,nails,her cell phone and drugs but thanks to the tax payers in the private sector I get a lunch”
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Nothing like the good Christians on the BLaze telling the poor let them eat cake. Takes to St. Rayguns war on the Middle and orking Class, continued by the Bushes to many Americans are barely getting by, while the 1% continue to lavish themselves with insane bonuses for cutting more American jobs. Now, Beck and the other GOP hucksters have conviced the ignorant right to worship greed and to be happy for the crumbs the 1% tosses at them, while the 1%, through their lackies like Walker rage war against the remaining working class.
knockered
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:35pmI‘m thinking why they don’t have equal time showing how the rich movie people are helping feed all those poor people who keep having children in the poor nations aren‘t using their money to feed the poor in the country that allowed them to make all that money instead of those poor people around the world who can’t seem to keep it in their pants. Wake up America and don’t let your children be influenced by these leftist idiots. Get rid of oblammer and everybody that thinks the way he does before its to late…..
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:40pmENCINOM… HAHHAHAHHAHA You are so ridiculous. Way to SPIN. You are so MEAN AND HATEFUL and you always bring the GOOD CHRISTIAN thing into the convo UNLESS it’s a discussion obout Athiests, then you say don’t bring religion into it. Make up your mind. BTW you managed to get the Blaze, BUSH, BECK , the 1%, the GOP, ignorant right and Walker ALL in one nasty attack post! Great job. Van Jones is so proud of you, little lemming! :) Nothing is FREE. SOMEONE works to EARN it. CHARITY is what we are going for here, and we contribute PLENTY. How about you? Liberals are all do as I say, NOT as I do. PUT YOUR OWN CONCERNS TO WORK FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED!
Report Post »encinom
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:51pmEqualjustice, you are such a good poodle repeating the greed, selfish teachings of the Tea Party. Here you are yapping in defense of your masters, you can’t let them pay their fair share of taxes.
Report Post »Ryan Welch
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 3:12pm@smithclar said, “Shouldn’t the tax payers demand the government change the program title to tax payer funded lunch program?”
I agree! Or how about the enslaving-our-children-to-future-debt-lunch program. Or how about the socialism-is-unconstitutional-and-so-is-this-lunch program, or the lets-become-a-slave-to-the-state-lunch program, or the welfare-state-has-already-destroyed-the-black-population-lets-see-how-many-more-peopele-we-can-destroy-lunch program, or the fifteen-trillion-is-not-nearly-enough-debt-to-destroy-America-so-lets-pile-on lunch program, or the whoever-controls-the-food-controls-the-people-lunch-program, or the lets-give-our-politicians-more-power-by-controling-our-food-program? I would welcome any other names ya’ll can think of.
Report Post »Shotgun_Melee
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 3:26pmEncinom:
“Takes to St. Rayguns war on the Middle and orking Class…”
Was that English?
If you’re not a Christian standing for God, then what do you stand for? And if God’s not there, then who decides whether the way you’re choosing to live is right? For that matter, how can you decide that anyone else is wrong?
Report Post »ranchmom1
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 3:26pmWhile there are legitimately hungry people – those who work hard, have cut back to the basics and still aren’t making it, there are also many many who cannot or will not differentiate between a “want” and a “need”. I work at a church and I see it all – the woman who came in asking for help paying for her utilities…because she didn’t have enough left over after paying her cable bill…the man who said he was hungry and wanted a grocery store voucher but wouldn’t take the food we had on hand at the church because, “I’m a picky eater”, the woman who wanted money to pay for gas to take her child to the doctor because she didn’t have enough left over after buying cigaretttes and pop. All actual events that I have personally dealt with. People who legitimately need help – they come here too and I wilingly and freely help them whatever way I can.
Report Post »Deuteronomy22
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 3:41pmThis thread pretty much sums up the attitude of the pro-lifer conservatives. Protect the fetus only until birth then let the poor children go hungry or die from lack of healthcare. So much for the all life is sacred BS. Jesus must be proud of you.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 4:06pmJZS,
Report Post »I have no problem with a tax payer fund lunch program for those who actually need it. I do have a problem with those who use it unnecssarily because they would rather spend money on creature comforts(plasma t/v,blackberrys,rims,drugs) and make the tax payers pay for their selfishness.
I was poor growing up still am by the average standards my dad got a second job to keep me from using a free lunch program and us off welfare. I did my part at 10 years old mind you by keeping the house clean,grass mowed, OUT OF TROUBLE and animals fed.
I’ve seen people abusing the system and burdening society more times than I care to count. And changing the programs name would let more of those leeching the system know whose paying for thier indulgence.
encinom
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 4:42pmShotgun_Melee
Report Post »If you’re not a Christian standing for God, then what do you stand for? And if God’s not there, then who decides whether the way you’re choosing to live is right? For that matter, how can you decide that anyone else is wrong?
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I know this is scary for Christians, but once you remove God, you have to stand on your own two feet and make decisions about morals for yourself. To many “Christian” on the Blaze choose to let other decide what the book of fairy tales mean.
jzs
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:08pmsmithclar3nc3, like your post. Yes, there are people that abuse the system, including rich people who dodge taxes, self products they know are unsafe etc.
But when a person (not you) knows someone, or has heard of a person abusing the system, and then claims that proves everybody is lazy and abusing the system, that is just bias. And to them I suggest they learn the phrase, “There but for the Grace of God go I.”
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:30pmI bet her head comes off.
Report Post »ohnomrbill
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:38pmreally your going to allow little children, who this may only be there only meals everyday to starve weather you like it or not there are children in America who are not eating meals because the parents are indeed poor go to the south in the communities where parents work and its the choice of food or shelter. very disturbing that you are so jaded that you can’t leave the children out of your political battle
Report Post »Jeff777
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:12pmChrist actually meant those in need, and to do it personally, not through gov programs. People getting aid around the country are also eating out, texting on their cell phones, fbook’ing on their computers, playing their xboxes and the list goes on and on and on…most people don’t know what “in need” means.
Report Post »KeystoneState
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:00pmOMFG! Are you serious, a Government Cheese Muppet! Is this PBS, or SNL? Does “Locash Lily’s” eating on a budget include 32oz Slurpies and BBQ chips? LMFAO! She should have starred in the new Muppet Movie, it could have used some humor, oops wait, they don’t accept Access cards, well not yet any way. They should make an Obama Muppet to welcome all the little children to the new depression, and not to hate your Mommy and Daddy, or Daddy and Daddy, or Mommy and Mommy, or well you know, don’t hate them for growing up in better times and leaving you squat, or uh at least don‘t hate them so much that they shouldn’t at least get pain medication in there final years. UGH! Welcome to Obamanation 2011!
Report Post »Cosmos102
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:31pmNothing like atheist idiots judging Christians for their un-Christian-like behavior. Don’t you just love it?!!! Self Discipline and common sense are categorized as abuse by those seeking to destroy goodness and morality in society. Trying to bring us down to their own (pitiful)l level, as it were… And as it seems to me as a Christian, capable of discerning truth from fallacy, that Sesame Street has now become another Leftist tool used to brain wash our children with Leftist propaganda. It’s what they do. You have to get ‘em while their young… The ideal Government of the Left would be the ultimate nanny state, even going so far as to raise our children. Remember the songs Commie teachers made up when obama was elected? M-M-Mmm Barrack Hussein Obama! Yes sir-ee! Communists wishing to take over America, saw the best opportunity ever presented to them, when B.O. got elected.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:44amThis is why my kids never watched this socialist indoctrination garbage.
The “entertainment” theme of this program disappeared early on after Jim Henson died. It was taken over by socialist ideologues and has been used as a (one more) tool for indoctrination ever since.
Report Post »allensmithee789
Posted on December 10, 2011 at 4:45pmWe don’t have a God-given right to food, for if we did then, one could walk into a restaurant and demand the owner feed your empty stomach or demand another patron buy the food to feed your empty stomach. This is patently ridiculous. Now, please explain to me the “justice” of food stamps or any government program that taxes the fruit of another individual’s hard work to satisfy the needs of another individual. This misplaced philanthropy is not good for society — it destroys it. Here’s how:
I, not Uncle Sam, am my brother’s keeper. When my property is stolen by confiscatory taxation and redistributed against my desires. I start to resent my brother and stop working as hard since the law of diminishing returns due to progressive (i.e. regressive) taxation makes it so. This lowers societal growth and development. As for my entitled brother, he grows to expect my property — the fruit of my hard work as his. My brother, instead of using his God-given talents to take care of himself, finds it more profitable to become a village parasite dependent upon others for his daily bread. No man is a lamprey. Socialism is a system of enslavement and animosity. Charity, like responsibility is personal. The giver is enriched and shows appreciation to God for his talents when he helps someone in need. The receiver is enriched for his need is addressed and later will show compassion for when it is his turn to be the giver. I, not Uncle Sam, am my brother’s keeper.
Report Post »Tyler520
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:47pmReason 9,999 to sever all federally subsidized funding for “public broadcasting”
Report Post »shirleyandpearl
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:37pmThis is just more socialist propaganda presented by PBS catering to the left…’.including the smoozing to leftist, Sotomajor and viewers who embrace the concept of a vacillating constitution . They are obviously preaching to their democrat choir! PBS broadcasting is not and never has been exactly “America’s most trusted news source”. Like to see some of the execs of c.p.b. share some of their substantial salaries. Cherry picking journalistic content to promote expansion of an inefficient and broke gov’t with no mention of private enterprise- that’s what they do best. Wonder what this “Lilly” p.r. is running dollar wise? Let’s hope that a new congress can, and will, finally scrap c.p.b. P.B.S. can privatize and plug green products and Priuses, just as the “unenlightened” networks, such as FOX, have to rely on the free market.
Report Post »jdog777
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:43pmFood for Thought is about indoctrination. If this program wanted to address the issue with thinking adults… that would be their target audience. This effort targets children, so that we have another generation of OWS types looking for free stuff. You can not achieve CHARITY through the coercive and violent force of a Government.
Report Post »netmail
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:09pmSeveral generations already are professional Charity Receivers. From Head Start on, everything is expected, nothing respected. My heart is heavy for ALL children raised in today’s culture.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:42pmI remember 40 years ago or more, mashing up and mixing all the crap on my school lunch plate into a dull grey/green “paste” for fun and then throwing the whole mess in the garbage because it was so nasty. Peas and pizza anyone?
Report Post »I hope for the “poe” kids the quality today is better!
smithclar3nc3
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:11pmGrowing up in a single parent household my dad took a 2cd job just to make sure I didn’t go on a free lunch program. People today don’t have that kind of sacrafice and pride,today they’re shameless and self indulgent. As social moarilty reduces to the lowest common dominator things will only continue to deteriorate.
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 3:20pmOh Encinom, such abject compassion from one who claims so often to be a Christian. Your version of compassion has produced nothing but the human wreckage that infests the Rust Belt, my homeland. Real compassion does not even begin to qualify in this idiocy, all it has produced is uncaring parents who spawn uncaring children who spawn more uncaring children. I’ve been poor, my family has been poor, but we have never been like them because we refused to do so.
Government mandated compassion, a bad joke that still hasn’t reached its punchline.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 4:14pmencinom,
Report Post »No I’ll be fine…I practice common sense,self reliance,and I am willing to sacrafice the things I don’t need to secure the things I do.
I’ve been poor,lived in car(76 buick regal) for 6 weeks one time,and I’m quite aware of what DOWN is. I am also quite aware of what I need and don’t need and I live my life like I might be unemployed tommorow.
I’m the ant not the grass hopper my concern is there are too many grasshoppers living off the ant. When it’s not necessary.
smithclar3nc3
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 4:26pmby the way encinom,
Report Post »Why don’t you enlighten everyone on what W did to the economy….Give us all the legislation that W spearheaded to do this to the economy. Put up or shut up.
I personally did alot better in the W years than I’m doing in the age of O. Everyone I know did better in the W years than they are doing now. Was W responsible for it no Clinton was responsible for the growth under W. Clinton’s amendment to the Grahm,Leach,Bailey act of 1999 push the housing market into turbo. Unfortunately by requiring banks,and mortgage firm to make 15% of their total growth in CRA loans COUPLED WITH FANNIE AND FREDDIE under cutting interest rate it created the perfect economic storm.
Do some research .
AIDANMAN
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:37pmbut those systems still need new buses, more administration, iPads, and donations to politions, unions, union management. fuel to bus people out of their area to make it more racially balanced…. and so on…
? when will SS(sesame street) come out with the overweight BLOGGER, who lives at home in his moms basement. they could have some OSS( occupy seseme street) protesters on who that guy own his own shop and isn’t spreadting the weath to the other puppets.
Report Post »000degrees
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:40pmLet the fuzzy sock with eyes feed them……
Report Post »YoungConservativesRule
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:22pmYes the SS of the western world.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:37pmWhats next, just remove the kids from the home , who needs parents when we have the govt.?
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:22pmMy last public school teaching job was in a school where a large number of students were “food insecure”. The school was grateful to be able to feed them because the breakfast and lunch they received at school were often the only meals they ate all day. Some students shifted between relatives to sleep in a home, not a shelter. Other students had parents who made decisions about which utilites were more important this month: heat and light or water. About 25% of children live in poverty. Others live in families that are all two paychecks away from being homeless. Lots of people live in areas that are not served by grocery stores, the only access to food they have is at convenience stores and dollar menus at fast food places. We know this is unhealthy, but they can’t get to the grocery store, it’s miles or hours away, or if they can, they can’t afford the cost of fresh fruits and vegetables and quality meat for their families. Some of them don’t know how to prepare food from scratch. They don‘t know how to eat a banana or they’ve never had steak. They’re children, don’t they deserve some respect? This is the United States, shouldn’t we be doing something for them? You guys all hate the “Nanny State” but if these kids grow up sickly and unprepared for life, how will they support themselves? How will they earn a living? How will they ever be able to work? Where do they go? Who will help them?
Report Post »CONSERVAKILLA
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:24pmthank you @desertrose, from dropping some reason, and sanity in this thread. you are absolutely right!
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:31pmThe only reason that any kid in this nation would only eat meals at school, is their parents are irresponsible drugged out ****** that waste the food stamps and welfare they get on other things than their kids. The solution is taking the kids putting them up for adoption, and putting the parents to work in work camps if necessary, not feeding them at school while the parents stay home and produce more future delinquents.
Report Post »EWWGPDN
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:38pmDesertrose1960 – Yes we should do something, love thy neighbor. However, take some time and ask yourself a few questions. Where are the Mom & Dads? Why have the grocery stores move out of the neighborhood? Where has the United States been heading over the last, lets say, 10 years?
Support your neighbors and your local Churches (if Atheist, you can still support their charitable actions).
Evil wins when good people do nothing.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:44pmMost of those same people you libs bleed for are totally responsible for their own problems & receive welfare,food stamps & a plethora of other government (tax payer) assistance.Hey I have a few novel ideas stop having children you can’t afford (its called self discipline, try it) or go to friggen work, work 2 or 3 jobs if you have to. I did it when I was“poor”.(that’s called getting off your lazy a$$e$)
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:47pmDon’t put last ten years in this, poverty was going down under Bush the poor and middle class standard of living was going up, poverty skyrocketed and the standard of living plummeted from 2007 onwards since the democrats took back over.
Report Post »Theophilus
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:06pm@DesertRose1960 Yes. Did you know what we‘re aware of everything you’ve mentioned? Many people, liberals and conservatives alike, are very concerned about and would help these food insecure youngsters. If you, personally, are concerned about them, then I have three words for you. GO HELP THEM………………………… Start a movement, start a charity, unite like minded people on this issue and HELP THEM in your hometown!…. but DON‘T just default to sit back and let the government go dig in your neighbor’s pocket for cash…
Report Post »YoungConservativesRule
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:32pmI admire your capacity for compassion. However, It should be the choice of the people to help their neighbors out when they get into economic trouble. Forcing the government to spend taxpayer money feeding them doesn’t carry the same meaning as a donation from a charitable friend. Also, the free government food is extremely reliable. It will always be there. Ergo, there is no incentive for people to look for a means to support themselves, because they can just breastfeed off the government for the rest of their lives. I’m not trying to be mean, but it‘s just not the government’s job to take care of the people. If this system remains in place the government can literally control the people by the food it distributes.
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:31pm@swampy, you’re entitled to your own opinions, but you’re not entitled to your own facts. You just told a massive lie about the economy and you didn’t even blink. Here is an article from the Christian Science Monitor on the Congressional Budget Office’s recent report that sets your lying pants on fire:
Report Post »http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Latest-News-Wires/2011/1028/Top-1-percent-has-nearly-quadrupled-income-since-1979
@Youngconservative, Quit watching “A Christmas Carol” and get back to work. You‘ve let too much of Scrooge’s old attitude slip into your mind. If government programs created poverty, why were their poor people in Dicken’s day? Why were there poor people in Jesus’ time? There were no Government programs then, so why were people lazy then? Since the Middle Class in the U.S. is in steep decline, we may all find out what things were like in Dicken’s day without a time machine.
KeystoneState
Posted on December 10, 2011 at 8:03am“Hours” to the nearest grocery store? I guess they must crawling on their hands and knees since no one has shown them how to walk? Then after all that, they can’t even figure out how to eat a banana? What a horrible country we live in.
Report Post »KeystoneState
Posted on December 10, 2011 at 8:10amActually, come to think of Desertrose, you being a public school teacher makes you partially to blame for these poor children knowing how to eat bananas. I’m sure that after your lessons, the children only understand that bananas are what condoms go on.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:19pmPBS needs a welfare muppet, because that is the only way they stay in business. I haven’t watched PBS in years. Cable is burying them, and without the government’s aid, and uber-leftwing contributors it would have done so years ago.
Report Post »SheriS
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:12pmAs a teacher who had to teach with the PBS TV system, I was a big proponent of their programs once they dumped the stupid actual teaching and came out with the great kids education. What they have become is nothing more then an arm for the political left and specially the nutcase First Lady! Now I only support PBS because of the “special gift” I choose to receive which happens to be a DVD for amazing group of acapella singers! Other then that, PBS is a total waste of money!
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:16pmGo out and buy the DVD and dump PBS. At least that way a real business will get your money.
Report Post »GUNNSUP
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:55pmYou’re right SHERIS, that disgusting “worst lady” is a definate nutjob. She/it is worthless, useless as boobs on a boar hog…A real embarrasment to America. She has been seen as doing work with Sesame Street in the past and is probably behind this indocdrination of kids to depend on govt….:-(
Report Post »David, the Constitutional Libertarian
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:12pmWhat is the purpose behind all these things? Think about it, why destroy families? Why create all of these systems?
Government wants to be the parents, government wants to be God, government wants good little workers in their communist utopia.
Remember Obama’s speech where he stated that “his” children would always be able to excel even if no one else’s would. Think about that in this context folks.
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:32pm“Remember Obama’s speech where he stated that “his” children would always be able to excel even if no one else’s would”
He was saying that his children came from a well-off background and they had parents who were successes and who cared. They will never be hungry, they go to good schools, they have excellent medical care, and they have a safe home. Lots of other children live in marginal families, without a support network and no access to good schools or medical care or good nutrition or even a safe neighborhood.
Report Post »MSMOM
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:20pmThe destruction of family, traditions and culture has always been the goal of government…Government programs promote single parenting, working just enough to keep the checks coming and no respect for the property in which you live…Government housing is an eye sore in most places because the people who live there don’t respect their home enough to take care of it, as long as you “appear” to be trying you can get a check, and it’s more profitable to have children out of wedlock than get married…I’m so sick of the victim crap, yes my heart goes out to the children who suffer for their parents laziness and unwillingness to work for better, but my husband and I both work 2 jobs to provide for our 2 children so why should my willingness to work be penalized for those whom are unwilling…Make drug testing mandatory for all entitlements, make community service mandatory for all entitlements and make food stamps a staples only card…Potato chips, coca cola and little debbies have no nutritional value
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:32pm@MSMom, Who pays for the mandatory drug tests? The taxpayer or the recipient? I‘m sure you’d say the recipient, of course. Look your lifestyle is marginal, since it takes four jobs to support the four of you. You are probably just a couple of paychecks from poverty yourself. A bad accident or an unexpected illness could put you all onto the streets or into the shelters, too. Rather than looking down on the poor, why aren’t you asking why the top 1% have seen their income go up by 275% while yours has only gone up 18%? Their control of the GDP went up from 10% to 20%, during the same time period. If, in the next 30 years, their share of the GDP doubles, what will your children do to support themselves? How many jobs will they have to work? Corporate cleptocrats have pitted you against the poor because it benefits them to divide and conquer. You’re stuck with a booby prize of genteel, but fragile respectability.
Report Post »David, the Constitutional Libertarian
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:10pmHow does that saying go? There is no such thing as a free lunch. Every time I see free especially free lunch, I know for a fact it comes with a side order of communism.
Report Post »Barackalypse Now
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:16pmside order of communism. I lol’d!
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:28pmFree lunches were the offerings of saloons, they got working men to come in for the food and leave without their paycheck having spent it all on beer or whiskey.
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:07pmStuff a sock in it!
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:04pmWho came up with the title“free lunch”? It doesn’t feel so free to me. Oh, thats right, I’m one of those that gets to pay for crap like this but will never participate. Kinda like social security. I friggin hate socialists.
Report Post »CONSERVAKILLA
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:16pmwhat a shame that they are using Sesame Street for this type of messaging! Would be so much better, if they created a Conservative Muppet that went around Sesame Street exploiting the other Muppets out of their money, and racial profiling all of the other Muppets and pepper spraying them.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:19pmThe entitlement society, brought to you by the American left, creating one little parasite at a time.Get them hooked while their young & they think we owe them the rest of their unproductive lives.Like the naacp says “a mind is a beautiful thing to turn to mush”, naturally I made that up but that should be their motto.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:33pm@conservakilla
Report Post »If you haven’t heard this before hear it now. Supposedly democrats are for the poor & republicans are for the rich. So it stands to reason for the republicans to be successful they need more“rich”people by contrast the democrats need to create more poor people to gain & maintain power. I have to admit that democrats have been very successful over the decades of creating more & more poor people & keeping them that way, ie….every inner city run by democrats for decades are a great example. Keep them poor & point the finger at your political rival.
jimay
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:03pmIsn’t it a little creepy to you that in the fantasy world of O-ba-ma-ville, puppets deliver the government’s messages?
Report Post »Blazer123
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:20pmThe best way to get people out of poverty is to teach them that it’s awesome.
-Ben Franklin
Hmmm, that doesn’t look quite right… Perhaps if people were uncomfortable in their poverty they’d be motivated to work hard and buy their own damn lunch.
Report Post »I SPY
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:00pmIt’s time for Sesame Street to take a stage left. What kind of adult nut job mental patient plays with puppets for a living anyway?
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:57pmLily kind of looks like a hippie.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:01pmSomeone tell sesame street NOTHING IS FREE. Someone pays for everything and eventually that someone is YOU
Report Post »andyingle08
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:53pmWhat’s next Beastiality Barbie? With Foodstamp Ken?
Report Post »ValiantDefender
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:01pmI assume you’re joking…mostly…but its actually not a joke at all. In all my arguments (discussions) with my liberal friends on punditkitchen (a section of icanhazcheeseburger) regarding homosexual marriage, they always claim that the LGBT movement is the end of that line of thought.
I argued that when LGBT is normalized and accepted, the next thing will be things like pedophilia and beastiality. Its starting to look like I was right. Out of morbid curiosity, I went and looked to see if there were support groups, and what their rationale was. It turns out that there ARE groups out there who want to legalize pedophilia and beastiality. Turns out that they have all sorts of rationale of why it should be legal. How animals are sexual beings to, and as long as no one gets hurt, the animals can benefit from sexual actibity in an environment where they would have otherwise not had any! *shudder*. The pedophiles have theirs too but I’ve blocked them from my memory.
One of the largest dangers to our children and the growing legalization of pedophilia movement, is Islam. I’ve read the verses in the Qran. Marrage of an adult man with a pre-menstrual girl is ok, and consumation is ok as long as she can bear your weight. /run screaming There are even rules in there on how to divorce your pre-menstrual girl you’ve had sex with – have to make sure shes not preggo first, then you’re ok to dump her.
Report Post »Lotus503
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:53pmDon’t you realize that there is no such thing as a free lunch, Lilly? That free lunch costs you your freedom and liberty…concepts that your creators don’t seem to be aware of.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:49pmReally shouldn’t Lily say thanks to all the tax payers in the private sector I can have lunch.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:52pmOnce again we see the PBS corruption program of the Progressives going forth.
Report Post »Uncurable wound
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:01pmOh PBS,you mean -Progressive Bull *hit!!!
Report Post »encinom
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 3:06pmOnce again the Beckerheads are provng how little they have between their ears.
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 3:23pmI gave up forever on Sesame Street after they took the Cookie Monsters cookies away. The AIDS muppet was a close second, but the loss of the cookies was an unforgivable affront to my childhood. Big Bird can catch the bird flu for all I care.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on December 10, 2011 at 3:22amThank-you Snowleopard for making it simple and 100% correct. For those of you that insisted that the muppets carry no political agenda, WRONG!
Report Post »CONSERVAKILLA
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:51pmoh noes free breakfast! the world is over! HAHAHAHAHAHA
Report Post »ENTITLEMENTSBLOW
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:49pmSad what they have done to Sesame Street. They should just go ahead and call it Entitlement Street or Handout Street!
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:46pmTheir workshop is located at the corner of Sesame Street and Progressive Way.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:45pmTwenty five years ago , Ronald Reagan said , free school lunches were fostering dependency on government, he was correct, and now those kids are the occupiers !!!
Report Post »momrules
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:43pmWhat the hell happened to Sesame Street. I watched hundreds of shows in the early 80s with my daughter and it was a great little show teaching arithmetic and reading.
Now Sesame Street is just another arm of Socialism.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:04pmIt was always heading that way…difference is 20 years ago Americans valued freedom and liberty. Today the moral compass as swung hard to the left and they willing trade freedom and liberty for the supposed security and safety of servitude.
Report Post »blaaaaackwoman
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:41pmIf they had a muppet who drove around throwing poor children in the woodchipper that would send a better message for the poor kids to quit screwing around and study hard. In fact have a nerdy Japanese muppet wearing thick glasses drive the woodchipper around. See kids, who is the driver and who is the mulch, now go and study.
Report Post »Dosrios
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:01pmblaaaaackwoman
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:41pm
If they had a muppet who drove around throwing poor children in the woodchipper that would send a better message for the poor kids to quit screwing around and study hard.
Excellent example ! We have taken Darwin out of the natural order of life and are promulgating the weak and unfit of this country. And the vote, and will soon outnumber productive citizens.
You know, those people who work their butts off, pay taxes, own many firearms, and are already spring-loaded to the pissedoff position.
Report Post »Tired-of-fools
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:19pmWhy does it have to be an asian with thick glasses? You always have to put in a racist comment. So obviously you have a problem with asians as well. Is there a group besides your own that you don’t have a problem with? Face it, you’re a racist.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 1:54pmNo racist woman,
Report Post »They should have had the puppet say” thanks to all the tax payers in the private sector I have lunch,because my moms a dead beat who spends more money on her hair nails and her boyfriend’s drug habit than she does on me.” At least that would be closer to the truth than saying the SCHOOL GIVES ME FREE LUNCH.