Republican Cynthia Davis: Child “Hunger can be a positive motivator”
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Missouri State Rep. Cynthia Davis is against free summer lunches for kids. "Can’t they get a job during the summer?" asksthe politician / Bible book store owner.
The editorial board of the St. Louis Dispatch reports:
State Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O’Fallon, is staking out a strong position on child hunger: She’s for it. “Hunger can be a positive motivator,” she notes in the latest edition of her newsletter. More precisely, Ms. Davis is against summer feeding programs for poor kids. They are an excuse “to create an expansion of a government program,” she says. Ms. Davis chairs the House Special Standing Committee on Children and Families. In that position, she might be expected to have insight into child hunger in our state. She might know, for instance, that about one in five Missouri children lives with hunger. That ties us with Louisiana for the nation’s seventh-highest rate, according to a report released last month by the hunger-relief charity Feeding America. Or that the recession has pushed the number of poor Missouri kids who qualify for free or reduced-price school lunches by 8.3 percent this year, well above the national average.
Apparently not.
The ignorance is shocking enough for a politican but it is even more tragic coming from someone who calls themself a Christian.
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