Caller HATES Paying For Poor Kids' School Lunches

[@cjbarahona5770]

Nothing says "all lives matter" like "poor kids shouldn't get free lunch at school".

[@perryegolson833]

The guys racism was definitely coming out toward the end. He was kind of holding it in for a while, but in the end his true colors came shining through.

[@1912RamblerFan01]

Not only that, but these are the same people who claim to be pro-life. They're pro-life until the child is born, then they no longer care. Who cares if the child has good nutrition or a roof over their head, or have clothes?

[@mattsullins3818]

All lives matter is the opposite of Black Lives Matter… 🤔

[@mattsullins3818]

@@1912RamblerFan01 “They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked” - George Carlin

[@moezura545]

@@mattsullins3818 Black Lives Matter is the opposite of black lives matter...

[@TVBjak]

"As a tax-payer, they would have to fund something they are not utilizing?" I'm not "using" the fire department right now so I guess that means I shouldn't "pay" for them.

[@GabrielBadwolf]

It’s exhausting explaining to people they should care about other people.

[@rageracerriley9590]

Eeyup...

[@shadowmancer99]

Ah, but that is the beauty, there is no need. There is no need to "care" about anyone, but there is a logical argument of enlightened self-interest that could be made in many cases that I think would be more effective in the long run by REMOVING emotions from the equation.

[@noahthenormal]

@@shadowmancer99 So are you pretending that people don't act largely based on emotions or what is your plan for changing that as well? Otherwise what you said is untrue, as it would take a lot longer to fundamentally change the way people make decisions by removing emotion than to just continuously construct a convincing argument over time that does employ things like empathy, compassion, connectedness, etc.

[@shadowmancer99]

@@noahthenormal No I am not pretending that people dont act on emotions. I take it as a general and given fact that MOST people in fact do just that. What I am saying is that its unnecessary. That it mostly gets in the way. That if people took out the emotion and approached a problem logically, and could frame their decisions within an ethical (and again logical) framework, than empathy wouldnt be needed or desired. The fact is, most actions driven by emotions are flawed and lead to terrible results. By divesting emotion from important decisions, you accept that there are costs and consequences and you weight them dispassionately accepting that pain and suffering might happen in the short run, but see the bigger picture. Would I kill 1 Billion to secure the climate and world peace for 100 years? Yes. Would I allow an older drinker to die to give a healthy liver to a young teenager? Yes. As to how to get people to divest themselves of their emotional knee jerk reactions, I havent figured that out other than culling 95% of the human race....which I seriously dont have that much qualms against.....we're a terrible species objectively speaking.

[@noahthenormal]

@@shadowmancer99 Sure, never argued against making logical decisions. You said there is no need to care about anyone. We're trying to affect real changes to address problems like climate change, global poverty, healthcare, and, as you agreed, appealing to emotion is more effective for most people. That's why people need to care about other people. The reality for billions of people should make others emotional or sympathetic. And I'm saying, that's the more effective argument. People won't be "divesting emotion from important decisions" any time soon, so that is not an effective argument. I don't know why I'm trying to convince someone who doesn't "have much qualms with" killing 7 billion plus people, but yeah, you're not gonna make any real change with your method, at least in the times we exist. That was my point. Maybe we can do the Star Trek thing later, but we have to address a couple things first

[@generalmartok3990]

I'm cool subsidizing Blake's daughter's education with the hope that she develops stronger critical thinking skills than her father.

[@cerrytrews9141]

It's absolute necessity that we subsidize her education and lunch. If we don't, then her brain won't be able develop enough to understand that his views are idiotic!

[@PlebianGorilla]

Yes please

[@mtlewis973]

in 10 years she’ll probably find this comment lol

[@illusoryneptune]

Imagine getting this upset about children receiving a fREEEEEE lunch at school. What kind of world are these people living in?

[@yakojjy]

Arkansas is like one of the poorest states in the country. They get federal welfare. Technically blue states are paying for your poor kids.

[@chillybilly1452]

Also one of the most corrupted.

[@GeloKuhsang]

Why is it whenever I hear someone is from Arkansas I immediately know what they’re going to say - a typical backwards conservative bullshit talking points?

[@Nullsparta2]

@@GeloKuhsang I'm from Arkansas, I am a libertarian socialist it's hard seeing people advocating for policies that hurts them all time

[@bhocolatebhipbookie3967]

My dad got cancer and couldn't work, when I was in high school. He was the bread winner in our family. My Mom only could work very little because she had to take care of him. So I got free lunch that year. When you went up to the cashier to pay for your lunch they always made a big production about pulling out the free lunch list and having to check your name off because you had free lunch. Every single person behind you knew you were getting free lunch. I remember it being extremely embarrassing because very little people at my school got free lunch. So most times I just wouldn't even eat. Then the rest of the day I feel distracted and hungry. And my learning would suffer. When you're a teenager or older kid your social status is everything at school. I stopped eating lunch because I'd rather be hungry then be bullied or socially shunned. It literally was one of the most embarrassing things to have to deal with when going to school. So if my tax dollars have to go to school-age children so that everybody has free lunch to make sure that they first of all, don't go hungry, which unfortunately is something many school kids deal with, and secondly do not have to feel ashamed then sign me up.

[@1MarkKeller]

@joaohumbg In America, "shunning/shaming the poor" is the gift/curse of the rich to the middle class. Fear of the perceived lesser. Economically, socially/culturally, educationally, and ethnically ... The rich have played us against each other for so long that most don't really think about it at all, they just instinctively do it.

[@polishpunk911]

​@joaohumbg It's made intentionally embarrassing, that's the point.

[@Dr0Qui3T]

Amen sis

[@GeloKuhsang]

I went to a school without any free lunch and I remember how I was embarrassed at times because I could purchase only the cheapest food items in cafeteria with the money I had from my parents. In addition, I often felt hunger due to that. When I grew up I realized there’s a straightforward solution to this problem (already implemented in some countries btw) - free full lunch for all.

[@JeffreyHeesch]

Blake, if you’ve somehow ended up in a KZbin comment section, if your daughter was starving, I’d be happy to give her something to eat, because telling her that she’d have to starve in order to teach her a lesson in personal responsibility would be sociopathic and cruel beyond words.

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

"Whatever I don't need is what people should be personally responsible for..." conservatism in a nutshell

[@erikamustermann6783]

Manu Ginobilis Bald Spot on

[@joyjo2031]

Exactly. I had this conversation before it did not end well they never see it or just don't want to

[@tripleparakeetshoes4613]

My father committed suicide when I was 8, and my mom couldn't afford to pay for both my and my brother's school lunches on her sole income, and we got free lunch through high school. The idea of it being the parent's responsibility to feed the child doesn't take into account things like this. Does Blake think that my brother and I should have starved because of an unforseen hardship?

[@matthewheywood8532]

Yes sadly he don’t give a shit especially if you are a person of color

[@tbirdboy]

The alternate universe is colliding with ours kinda hard. In what world, excluding N. Korea, is it A problem kids getting a free meal. Pisses me off...

[@ScoopMeisterGeneral]

In the sunny little conservative fairytale reality that Blake lives in, unforseen hardships such as the one you experienced as a child simply don't really exist, or at the very least aren't a huge problem. Because he has never experienced such a situation, and because a couple of dollars a day for a kid's lunch seems like an easily affordable amount of money _to him,_ the only conclusion he is able to draw is that whenever someone doesn't provide lunch for their child to take to school, it must be down to some moral failing on their part. As far as Blake is concerned, they are either too lazy or too entitled to take up their parental responsibilities, and would rather the state did it for them. In other words, Blake, like many of his fellow conservatives, isn't very good at doing empathy.

[@Shetasen]

Bet Blake would have thought your mom should have "worked harder and had a better job". He's the type of person who puts blame and shame on less fortunate people, and doesn't have an ounce of empathy.

[@dragonladyfink4685]

To answer truthfully? He would rather they starved. He almost said as much to me about my kids.

[@geesehoffa2144]

This is what happens when poor people listen to wealthy peoples talking points that are designed for dodging societal responsibility. I’m all for “individualism” when it means taking charge of your life, solving your problems and feeding your self and family. But to extrapolate this kind of thinking to all areas of life literally breaks down society. It’s a “slick” con of a talking point (again) when you are filthy rich and need to dodge taxes, but obviously asinine on its face.

[@sebastianholzl4668]

Well, it's also like, at what point does "solve your problems on your own" become "carry the consequences of every problem in society just because you happen to feel its impacts the strongest?" It's all well and good to say people shouldn't use bad systems as a justification for being lazy, but what is even more pathological is to blame the failures of the system on poor people just because that's where those failures are most explicitly evident.

[@sebastianholzl4668]

@David Optional much appreciated, king!

[@joeblow2069]

Wealthy people talking points? The richest people in the history of earth are democrats! You do not know that. That said I find it moronic and heartless for anybody to be against things like SNAP or school meals for kids.

[@GeneralTaco155555a]

@@joeblow2069 pointing out the fact that the wealthiest few people tend to be "on the left" doesn't discount the fact that majority of wealthy people are economically conservative.

[@joeblow2069]

@@GeneralTaco155555a Ok but do not pretend the democrats are the party of the poor or ordinary Americans. They are the party of the elite. They are fascists who want to control all speech on the internet. They even censored an American president!

[@johnholland9371]

Imagine arguing AGAINST giving children food. Crap man, imagine arguing against giving ANYONE food. 😑

[@jwomackandcheese73]

He argues against peoples being educated too so like...

[@banonKING]

This is how America became "America"

[@kaIIie]

I'm just intrigued that this person cannot imagine a world where someone couldn't afford a lunch. They must live a very privileged life to be able to turn their nose up to a free lunch.

[@tyronesiasmall8418]

Right, he kept saying$1a day, as if it's inconceivable that ppl truly can't afford that. Silly man

[@jamieshows1564]

He's from Central Arkansas. I'm from the same area. Even the poor hate the poor here. It's absolutely pathological.

[@lolaface8732]

They aren’t as pro life as they think

[@krogge10]

Or maybe who can’t afford to buy their own children lunch shouldn’t breed. or maybe he worked his ass off to pay for his own kids food

[@lolaface8732]

@@krogge10 time for more abortions

[@malikanthony1149]

This is what happens when people don't understand taxes. Taxes are not made with your personal accommodations in mind. In fact, that's the opposite of what taxes are for. Taxes are for funding social necessities, regardless of me using those services.

[@derekmeilinger1519]

@BrunDog63 Or he doesn't want to double dip on educational expenses by funding both a private or home schooling option and a public school he doesn't utilize. Take into account someone living in a shitty public school district that can't afford to move. They would want nothing more than to send their kids to a private school elsewhere but they are already being taxed to send their kids to a subpar public school so can't afford to dish out those expenses twice. The government should get out of the education business entirely and allow the private sector to step in.

[@katepanthera7265]

@@derekmeilinger1519 Bullshit. You just outed yourself as a libertarian. If you live in a shitty public school district, then it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to find out why it's shitty, and then vote the people whose policies made it that way out of office, and vote in people whose policies will improve school funding. There ARE things that the govt. does better than 'the private sector', whose only priority is to make a profit. Whatever happened to your personal responsibility for who's elected to office?

[@vincesmith2499]

"Free stuff" is theft. I earned the money, and government takes from me to redistribute to someone who did nothing to earn it. That is thievery.

[@viktor_vaughn]

There is so many similarities amongst all this conservatives that call you. None of them seem to understand parallels and analogies, and then they call you a libertard.

[@Red1Green2Blue3]

He's a typical conservative. Unless something directly impacts/benefits them they don't care, oh why should 'MY' taxes go towards a $5 school meal when *I* can afford it for MY child (and poor people aren't making enough sacrifices)? Oh I can't afford private education so other people's taxes should go on 'MY' child's education (even though I'm not prepared to make sacrifices and having a budget/second hand car).

[@lilacrain3283]

It’s amazing how consistently they don’t understand parallels. Every time without fail it’s “we were talking about x, what does y have to do with it?”

[@venustas99]

Caller: "I shouldn't have to pay for a poor kid's lunch" Sam: "I shouldn't have to pay for your kid's school" Caller: "That's not the same thing!" ?????

[@binodshrestha1553]

this caller actually represents the largely hidden problem of US which is the mentality - For things I can afford, I don't want to help anybody in need; but for things I cannot afford, its ok for me to ask help from everybody else.

[@airot1987]

Let's all pray he NEVER homeschools his kid...

[@MAGA2024GODBLESSTRUMP]

I don't think the schools in Arkansas are that great

[@Nullsparta2]

@@MAGA2024GODBLESSTRUMP I was born and raised in Arkansas, our schools arent great but it would be better than him homeschooling

[@jaguarrose7022]

I already feel sorry for Blake's daughter...

[@CharlieApples]

This just in: taxes aren’t just for you and your kids. They are, in fact, for everyone’s benefit. _Not just you._

[@Scriptorsilentum]

this is what you get with 40 yrs of ME ME ME

[@YY4Me133]

I don't have kids, or even nieces or nephews, yet my taxes pay for public schools, never mind lunches. I'd rather that children be educated and fed, than uneducated and hungry. I don't have kids, but I remember what it was like to be one. I don't know how anyone can not care about children.

[@sarge505050]

YES!

[@spishcadet]

Please someone stop this man from homeschooling his daughter. She didn’t ask for this. I feel so bad for that kid.

[@pano3607]

spishcadet Yeah and all just to prove a point! As if he’s actually able to do the job of several professional teachers. Fortunately, I’m about 90% sure he’s just flapping his gums about most of what he’s saying.

[@StuntpilootStef]

This caller is an expert in undermining his own argument without even realising it.

[@Seattle-2017]

13:47: With a slight chuckle: "Education doesn't really cost anything." That's a conservative quote for the ages.

[@ValliW]

If you left your kid with a babysitter for 7 hours and when you picked them up the sitter told you they didn't feed your kid because you didn't pay them extra, you would never take your kid there again. Difference is, you're not obligated by law to send your kid to a babysitter. School lunchs should be built into to budget for everyone.

[@eratoisyourmuse659]

My dad was an educated man who had an awesome job and made a great wage. My mother also worked. We weren't wealthy, but its safe to say my siblings and I grew up in comfortable home, never lacking what we needed, never hungry, good Christmas' and birthdays. I consider myself very fortunate. During tax time, as a teen, I was looking over my dads T4 (we're in Canada) and I was shocked at how much income tax he paid. I became outraged on his behalf. He just laughed and shrugged it off. When I asked him why he wasn't more pissed off. He pointed out that he would rather live in a country where healthcare was for everyone and every child had the opportunity to be educated and fed than make more money and be surrounded by uneducated, sick, deprived people. When I pointes out that people sometimes people abused the system, he agreed but pointed out that if at least a portion of his taxes were feeding and educating a child in need, it didnt matter to him. This insight cultivated my thoughts and ideologies in the years to come. My father was a compassionate, sharp, well read man. He taught my siblings and I to comport ourselves with dignity and honour and to always try to be empathetic to our fellow human beings. Unfortunately he passed away in 2016. I miss him everyday, but am grateful for the lessons he taught me.

[@randallbong8297]

Yes those are the best parents. People have been brain washed to accept greed as a virtue and oddly many who believe this claim to be Christian's

[@jaelynn7575]

So sorry for your loss :( I too lost family a year ago. TWO people, six days apart. If there were better social programs and home healthcare, one would NOT have died b/c she would have been helped.

[@sherylbeasley4938]

A great man indeed .

[@DrZaius]

If more people had your dad's parental standards, we wouldn't have morons like Blake reproducing at will and shitting all over the world.

[@DrZaius]

@ With Walmart microwave dinners no doubt

[@Finalbossman0]

Pray for the little girl who has to be taught by this man.

[@emmittthompson9376]

@Rufus Lloyd you do know in some of the poorest countries such as India, China, Brazil, Nicaragua etc.... Kids get free breakfast and lunch in school.

[@springerworks002]

@@emmittthompson9376 😆 it's not free. The sweatshop labor pays for it.

[@brandonmorris3746]

@Rufus Lloyd Do you have an study or article that proves that every poor person is lying?

[@seaniwu]

@@springerworks002 the sweatshop labor is the only labor that doesn’t pay for it, since it is set up illegally and doesn’t pay taxes.

[@totalcontrol4205]

@Rufus Lloyd you are spreading nonsense.

[@trekkienzl2862]

*Republicans:* Why are we helping refugees and Ukraine when we should be helping the homeless and poor people in America. *Also Republicans:* I don't want my taxpayer dollars being wasted on the poor and homelss... but yeah, let's give our taxpayer dollars to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, why not.

[@rolandking4123]

Lunch for kids should be free for all students. Period. Regardless of the family income. Excellent idea

[@Paraselene_Tao]

Not only lunch. It ought to include breakfast too. This will give the kids a great reason to come to school on time, I.E. on time for breakfast. Also, it ought to be for anyone who shows up for breakfast & lunch: not just the students, but the community in general.

[@williamwall9550]

Blake has been fooled by the millionaires into blaming the poor and powerless for all the problems. I betcha Blake will tell ya how great a Christian he is too.

[@mattsullins3818]

“It is easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to get into heaven”

[@joeblow2069]

@@mattsullins3818 So why do you vote democrat? Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are not republicans.

[@mattsullins3818]

@@joeblow2069 did I say I vote Democrat? Did I say I like Jeff bezos or bill gates?

[@romo2barber]

@@joeblow2069 Assuming this is correct which it probably isn't, do those two nullify every other billionaire who is a republican?

[@a24396]

The problem isn't "millionaires AND billionaires" - it's really just the billionaires and the fact they have convinced everyone that the "wealthy" are all the same. So focusing on making the "wealthy" pay "their fair share" has been turned into a negative because so many either view themselves as well off enough they fear they might be expected to pay more than they already do. And this concept gets buy-in from the "millionaires" or aspiring millionaires, and fosters their pushing back on what the billionaires characterize as punitive taxation. But that isn't an honest way to look at this. A "millionaire" in 1980, adjusted for inflation, would need roughly 4.5 million dollars today. And MOST millionaires DON'T have 4.5 million dollars, and the bulk of their wealth is either equity in their homes and/or the value of their retirement savings (401k, 403b, IRA, etc.). A "millionaire" today, on average, is an upper middle class white collar worker paying a higher percentage of their income in taxes than a billionaire. Of course that millionaire objects to being told they need to pay more, they already pay near the most that can be paid! Let's focus on the billionaires and not get distracted by the "millionaires and billionaires" nonsense...

[@thaitichi]

I love how much joy Sam gets from this conversation. This was all so entertaining. This caller was so ridiculous!!!

[@highwind1369]

"If you can't afford school lunch, you probably can't feed them at home". Yeah, so feed them at fucking school dude...

[@AgitpropPsyop]

Heard the likes of Shapiro argue that the state should intervene and take them away. It’s insanity. It could be so easy just to feed the damn kids.

[@leroture7750]

A child being able to eat free food lets them pay attention in school better, because of more nutrition, which lets them become a more productive member of our labor force, effectively growing the economy -all for the price of $900 a year per child. I think paying for a kid’s lunch is overall a net gain for both economic and moral reasons.

[@theelectricant98]

sucks that it has to be the technocratic argument to win people over but yeah agreed

[@issaosama4937]

Taxes paid for his roads, electricity generation, education.... etc but lunches for kids NAAAH!! 🤦‍♂️ if it wasn’t for society working together we wouldn’t have this many educated people or we wouldn’t have this many healthy people in return business would slow down because there aren’t enough healthy educated working people. The fact is that socialised safety net has majorly benefited not just the economy but society as whole by keeping the poor and lower middle classes healthy and educated. This man wants each one of us on their own and believe it or not he will be the first to suffer because without society’s contribution towards his life he would be living in poverty.

[@olena9274]

In my opinion this all comes down to a lack of compassion. If you can’t stand the thought of paying for the lunch of children who can’t afford it, you lack compassion.

[@jackstratif6937]

I’d argue a person who feels that was is a deranged psychopath.

[@mikamo]

“People don’t HAVE to have kids” thanks SCrOTUS, now they do!

[@seezzay9010]

$2.50 per day per child before any extras or snacks. That is almost $40.00 per week for 3 kids or $160.00 per month. If a family runs into hard times, like, oh, I don't know, a family that works for the Gov during a shut down, then I guess their kids don't get to eat :)

[@seezzay9010]

Oops, my bad, lunches in my district are only $2.40 per child per day.

[@HEARTS-OF-SPACE]

They don't care. A common mindset these days is "Fuck you, I've got mine". No compassion. No humanity.

[@protectedlands2869]

You’re so right. This guy saying essentially ‘food is cheap’ just makes me sad

[@craigbrowning9448]

Denmark calls themselves a "Welfare State" (and private schools are prohibited) and it has been reported to be the Happiest Nation in the world.

[@chiciu]

Uuuu scary socialism! Venezuela! Venezuela! Boot straps! Personal responsibility! Build the wall! =)))

[@anotherrandomer]

@@chiciu Shhh...."Denmark is a 'homogeneously ethnic' state and thats why it's working".....- Ben "my wife is a doctor" shapiro. The funny thing is the only way "ethnic homogeneity" exists is through....wait for it.....INBREEDING.

[@jdw1114]

But..but.. something something about them having a smaller population

[@craigbrowning9448]

@@jdw1114 Meanwhile we get to have a Copulation Prices to avoid offending the Church.

[@JimHop-f5h]

Because they care about the welfare of their citizens

[@valerielhw]

This caller is petty, as well as incredibly selfish and hypocritical. I quit driving a few years ago, so according to the caller's "logic", I should no longer have to pay any part of my taxes towards roads, or any of the environmental damage that cars and trucks do. This type of twisted "me me me" thinking is why I have such distain for Libertarian philosophy.

[@hcs4life21]

It’s ONE dollar, dude. One measly dollar. Why would you want to deprive kids who are poor of a nutritious meal?

[@mihribanmarangoz1547]

@@silentrock599 That doesn't mean poor people deserve to die. There shouldn't be a mortgage on life.

[@theyellingmadman9662]

Perfection. His argument is also his counter argument lol

[@mchlive6930]

We can't afford free lunch for school children? But there is a go fund me page for the wall. Ridiculous

[@StuntpilootStef]

But we can afford the endless wars that nobody asked for so there must be cash somewhere.

[@dougdiamond5774]

I really hope this guy does not choose to educate his daughter. He isn’t the brightest of dudes.

[@frndofbear]

I have NO children, and never will, but I don't mind paying for public schools because it makes America a much better place to live.

[@177SCmaro]

Then why do you have to force other people to?

[@AaaaNinja]

It's an investment.

[@AaaaNinja]

@@177SCmaro You're saying the person who doesn't mind is making that policy and forcing you? Getting all the perks and protections of being a citizen of a country goes both ways. Your country also expects some things from you in return. There are civic duties you must perform and that includes paying taxes. You have limited power in how they are spent.

[@keithpanton7486]

@@177SCmaro Because if you want to be part of society, there's a membership fee, and it's called taxes.

[@177SCmaro]

@@keithpanton7486 That's not how a "member's fee" works. Members fees are voluntary. I go to some group's club and join them and am free to leave at any time. You are implying that "society" owns the entire arbitrary plot of land they call a "country" and can force everyone to pay to live on it. Thar would be like if a club came to your house, declared it part of their club, and then demanded, at the point of a gun, members fees. You are describing extortion, not a subscription or member fee with regards to taxes.

[@duffyr352]

"Education doesn't really cost anything." This is such a blisteringly stupid comment that it hurt me physically.

[@Seattle-2017]

One of those classic libertarian comments. He follows that up with implying it's a bigger responsibility to provide lunch your kid than to educate them, and how easy it would be to work and educate/home school his child at the same time.

[@MichelleHell]

My father died when I was 2. My mom was a single mother with 4 kids aged 2-12. We survived on food stamps and free/reduced lunch at school. But no, my 10 year old ass was being a lazy freeloader and my mom who worked a full time job and still needed help should have gotten a second job!

[@Jan-vv1zk]

Great point. These people don't realize that anybody can get into deep troubles pretty quickly, and sometimes, like in your case, it's not even their fault. Hope you are better now, Michelle. Best wishes from Central Europe! :*

[@honestatheist2328]

Most people out there are not smart enough to even understand the point that Sam is trying to make. Blake certainly doesn’t understand the point. He has a problem paying a dollar a day in Texas or a poor child to eat, but has no problem collecting $10,000 a year in government money so the taxpayers can put his kids through school. He doesn’t seem to have the capacity to understand the comparison That the host is trying to get him to see. That’s the main problem with our society

[@RichO1701e]

Exactly. It's really straightforward. I'm a single man with no kids, but my taxes go towards the government funding education for other people's kids. I have no problem with that social contract and obligation.

[@Cuzinits]

Rich O Lets say you did have a problem with it, what then?

[@RichO1701e]

@@Cuzinits, I'm not a moron, so I don't have a problem with it so... I have a problem with my taxes supporting corporate welfare for multi billion dollar corporations. I have a problem with my taxes supporting the industrial military complex that bribes politicians to start illegal wars in foreign countries. Making sure kids in our own country get a meal a day at school? Do you grasp the idea yet or is that beyond your mental ability?

[@Cuzinits]

Rich O apparently it’s beyond yours to answer a simple question

[@mariam19554]

Cuzinits That's because no person with a gram of empathy and a basic education would have a problem with their money funding children's education.

[@ryanw8509]

Paying taxes for services you don't personally use is the cost of living in a society. I don't drive a car, but I don't go around and complain about how my tax dollars are used for building infrastructure for cars. It's the social contract needed for living in a society.

[@dwightschrute8726]

Ryan Williams Maybe Blake is on his way to anarchism lol

[@Qdelilah]

Finally a comment with common sense

[@BRobMint]

Exactly. As long as capitalism exist social safety nets are always going to be necessary hence why taxes are a thing.

[@camilacosta8873]

I will entertain his thoughts for a second. Let's imagine a child whose parents do not take responsibility for their child because, let's say, they are abusive and don't care if their kid eats at school. How does that make it ok for that child to go hungry? I wonder how Blake's daughter is.

[@paulmaxwell8669]

I would be absolutely honored to know my taxes were helping pay for kid's lunches! 🤠

[@jordanb6025]

so much better than knowing they're going to blowing up kids in the middle east

[@GEOMETRICINK]

Oh Blake. You haven’t figured this out yet, this thing called a civilized society. We all pay in for the greater good so we can all enjoy the collective benefits like good schooling, police and fire stations, post offices, roads. If Blake doesn’t like this agreement he can not pay taxes, he can live off the land by growing his own food from his own found seeds, live in a cave somewhere, drinking from a stream and staying off all roads. He can educate his own brats while he tries to work the land. No more truck Blake, you can’t use our roads. People like Blake love the conveniences of civilized societies, of metropolitan cities, they appreciate and rely on police, having a safe neighborhood, fire departments, acceptable roads and bridges, they love getting that mail on time and every day yet they REFUSE to educate themselves on how taxes make all that happen. People like Blake refuse to understand how taxes, us all paying in for the common good, fuels the most prosperous nations on the planet. Giving kids lunches at school just makes sense. It’s a good service to spend our taxes on. It’s time we spend our tax dollars on things that actually help the working class. Oh, and Blake needs to brush up on his tax skills.

[@BaronSaturday66]

Blake doesn't need roads. He has a $14,000 Chevy Silverado (single-cab). Weren't you listening?

[@herrstiglitz9727]

Progressive forward thinking ideal driving situation: “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads” - Dr. Emmett Brown, Back to the Future Conservative backwards thinking ideal driving situation: “Roads? I wouldn’t mind driving in the dirt instead” - Blake, Arkansas

[@CPSPD]

Herr Weltraummann oopsie wrong comment

[@GeloKuhsang]

He gets mad about children being fed in schools with tax money yet I’m sure he cheers when his daddy trump cheats on his taxes. That’s true Personal Responsibility®

[@plantbased5673]

"He only drives on private roads that he built." 😂

[@MrAnwazi007]

I don't want my tax money going to religious schools, yet here we are giving money to religious schools who don't pitch in. PRIVATE RELIGIOUS school. Blake.

[@johnbrattan9341]

There are millions of people like Blake out there. In the US. These people have ABSOLUTELY no concept of 'community.' They were brought up that way and gawd be damned they'll ever think differently. Arkansas, the home state of Blake, ranks among the lowest in education of all 50 states, 5th actually. This is not because of the teacher's ability to teach, it's because Arkansas state legislature funds elsewhere. Starting salary for an AR teacher, about $32,000. Blake has ABSOLUTELY no idea that the kid he would allow to go hungry at school may be the same adult that supplies his daughter with drugs later on. The kid that got tired of always being hungry and left an otherwise safe environment at school to make money selling drugs. All without an education. And because of an environment a child has no control over coming from a poor family. A $1 dollar lunch is simply to high a price to pay. This Blake guy pisses me off....and there are millions of these assholes all over the states.

[@arun3000ad]

Same argument they bring against healthcare "I don't wanna pay for others."

[@johnbrattan9341]

@@arun3000ad Everybody has to (should, in my opinion) pay into and supporting a healthy society. In one form or another, and not necessarily monetarily. I'll bet you my house that Blake has never volunteered in his daughter's public school, or his local hospital, or coached sports, or his public library...but yet complains about lunch for little kids that ARE a PART OF HIS COMMUNITY. The unawareness is appalling. .

[@beezusHrist]

arun kumar even though that's the very concept of what insurance is 😂😂😂😂

[@arun3000ad]

@@beezusHrist yes. But private insurers have no motive to provide services. They try as much as possible to deny coverage for prifits

[@1MarkKeller]

Trump voters in a nutshell

[@chillybilly1452]

$426 mortgage payment!? Must be a red state dude. This guy will not admit to the fact that his whole fucking life as a red state libertarian is subsidized by the federal government. GTFO

[@ryanmitchell7347]

this was the same guy, Blake from Arkansas, that defended concentration camps for kids at the southern border

[@phanders6236]

I mean seriously out of all things this caller can be upset about he picks free school lunches??? They should be free in all countries in the world.

[@theamazinghaole2384]

Caller: There should be no public education. Also Caller: I can’t afford time or money to educate my daughter myself. Me:😐 what

[@override367]

And the second he can afford to do that, he wants to slam the door behind him so nobody else coming up like him could possibly get their kids educated

[@curmudgeon1933]

Here you have the primary reason why Trump is the President of the US.

[@cortes0505]

Blake's small minded fixation on resentment over a small issue prevents him from understanding the larger concept of how society works.

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

Willfully obtuse. The white conservative since this country's political splintering.

[@ivoted-5489]

Makes me sad to be a white woman. These ppl don’t represent all of us and I’m pissed off I have to say it at all. Some of the dumbest folk I know are angry white ppl that are upset that life ain’t fair. It’s not just entitlement, it’s pure ignorance of how the world operates. It’s tragic in all ways at this moment in time.

[@RomanEmpireStudios]

As someone who worked from home for the last year and had a home schooled kid, this caller has no idea how nearly impossible this is to accomplish haha.

[@macristinamanzano6968]

The hypocrisy and selfishness of this caller is appalling.

[@robertrichards9565]

It’s funny how conservatives try to win arguments by falling back to absurd positions when challenged. Sure buddy, work at home and teach your kid chemistry.

[@nairatmya4804]

There is no way that guy is smart enough to teach anyone chemistry...

[@tangobango9653]

If America can afford a silly Border Wall...America can afford a FREE LUNCH for all kids.

[@ヽノ-s2i]

America would have money for it's own kids if it stopped accepting every other countries kids before its own.

[@ヽノ-s2i]

@@williamtoccijr9579 Well, I do agree that our military is large (the largest there is, actually), but there's a reason for that. The United States actually assists and protects other countries vastly more than other militaries. The U.S has mutual defense treaties with the majority of Europe, South Korea, Japan, ext . . . The United States military needs to be large. We're more like welfare military for countries that can't defend themselves.

[@TheShowThatSUX]

Tango Bango, really? So you have done the math on what those 2 things cost?

[@tangobango9653]

TheShowThatSUX No! I don’t have to do the math to know that $20 BILLION will pay for a whole hell of a lot of healthy school lunches! Or, how about using that WALL money to help deserving students pay for a college education. That would be a much better investment in America’s future!

[@TheShowThatSUX]

@@tangobango9653 , Ok lets DO THE MATH and check your logic. There are about 62,220,000 school aged kids in the USA +/-. $20 BILLION / 62,220,000 = $321.44 per kid. So how many "healthy school lunches" do you think $321.44 buys? I mean for some of those kids that $321.44 would be for 12 years of school so that is really as little as $26.79 per year for some of them on your $20 BILLION budget. How many "healthy school lunches" do you think $26.79 per year buys? FYI there are 22,120,000 college aged people ion the USA +/-. So can you be bothered to do the math about how many of them $20 BILLION could even address at all?

[@beckyjogilbert5712]

Caller obviously doesn't understand that some school children come from very low income homes, single moms, homelessness...

[@justinb864]

Ah, but those children should pull themselves up by their bootstraps and work a full-time job.

[@samanthaherring]

School lunch for the kids in my relatively poor district is $3.25. Even for “wealthy families”, this can be a burden!! Lunch should be free for ALL students.

[@EdertheJust]

Wait. Did this guy say he wants to home school his child? I feel sorry for that child's future.

[@haleystewart6640]

Thank God I live in Europe where taxation isn't a dirty word. It pays for shit like roads, hospitals, schools. This 'I'm alright Jack' attitude in America is a disgrace.

[@thebalticbull]

Haley Stewart I’m considering moving there since the USA is being over run by idiots

[@craigrawlinson4310]

I am a public school teacher in an urban school. Kids need lunch or food to learn. It is hard to learn when you are hungry.

[@ryleighs9575]

I appreciate you so much, and I'll advocate and vote as much as possible to help you help our kids!

[@WorldHistory42]

Why is it my problem if other parents spread stupidly?

[@PhilipOsredkar]

I don't have kids and I plan to never have kids, that being said I think it is important that my tax dollars go to help feed school kids of all ages. My personal philosophy is that kids deserve a free quality education that includes meals.

[@fowlae4414]

I'd much rather my taxes go to feeding people and housing people than bombing kids in Palestine.

[@adfury]

Why is society such a hard idea to understand.

[@beezusHrist]

Because conservatives are psychopaths... Generally.

[@robomop9711]

“Because I don’t like paying for programs that don’t directly benefit ME!”

[@geekaleek]

because....brown ppl are scary to these people

[@PristianoPenaldoSUIIII]

tfw we live in a society is a genuinely profound statement when talking to conservatives

[@thorkrynu4551]

Heirachical systems give people meaning even if they forget they are paying for the people at the top. Lunch money is such chump change compared to bank bailouts and Pentagon bloat. Imagine losing trillions in lunch money. Conservatives are just cowards about corruption going after the meaningless pennies spent by serfs. All their hardline responsibility a twisted joke. Heirachical meaning is a short cut to laziness and pettiness but mostly extreme cowardice. The rage they should feel about bailouts should lead them to homicide if school lunches make them so mad. It doesn't because all these so called "libertarians" are just pork loving conservatives. Don't forget Trumps' golf too... Somebody calculate that alone into trucks.

[@toddr2265]

I don't want to pay for the military anymore...I don't need them

[@careydouble22]

Lucky for you the military is non excludable!

[@kennethayers5624]

Then leave the country.

[@clorox1676]

@@kennethayers5624 He said he doesn't need the military, not the whole country. If you don't want free lunches for kids, you may aswell leave the country but you'll find that pretty much anywhere in the world such thing would be questioned as it is in America.

[@mr.nobody9697]

Watching this and listening to Sams sound reasoning i now realize why Crowder wants no parts of Sam in a debate.

[@justinb864]

Crowder would just interrupt and yell over top of Sam and consider that "winning".

[@mr.nobody9697]

@@justinb864 kind of like he did during the H3 fiasco before he ran away? lol

[@brickwitheyes1710]

Exactly, I'm 37 and have no children, i could use that same argument about why should i pay for something I'm not using. But I'm not a fucking moron and see the value in public education.

[@gunbladeuser19]

This is why I LOVE SAM. He grabs their broken logic and throws it right it back at their face.

[@springerworks002]

Uh, what?

[@PR--un4ub]

@@springerworks002 ?

[@bengoose2031]

I've noticed a basic lack of empathy and self-awareness in Conservatives/Libertarians.

[@StraightPunkEdge93]

If it doesn't affect them or anyone in their lives they don't care. I can't imagine being upset about paying for poor kids to have a fucking lunch.

[@truthspeaks3147]

they need a personal first hand experience to change their mind, even then they will try to justify it weirdly.

[@chestypants78]

Too many on the right see kindness and giving as a weakness. Maybe it sounds too much like Communism or Socialism to them. Fools.

[@lexj432hz6]

The “Tough guy” mentality

[@animated-space-waffle]

Every time Sam corners Blake, he just lies about his preferences to neutralize the point. “I actually like dirt roads, Sam.”

[@megpaul8076]

To sum this call up in five words: *"It's different because it's me!"* The _AUDACITY_ for Blake to have kids before he could afford private school. I'm sure whomever employs him (and his *work truck* ) will be totally OK with him _working from home._

[@Piner5074]

Some people just don’t see the irony of their own opinions even when you try and walk them through it 🤣🤣🤣

[@jama3335]

this guy: free school meals is theft!!!! you can just hear the confederate flag in his voice.

[@mattmahler9756]

He keeps saying "It's just a dollar," then why is he so worried about it?

[@CervantesVI]

"Free lunches for school kids" sounds like the easiest slam dunk policy of all time, and yet some people still find ways to be unimaginably petty.

[@alfredonichlosa1796]

If you can’t afford to feed your kid lunch maybe you shouldn’t be having kids and being a leech on the system

[@outlawthagod]

@@alfredonichlosa1796 it's not a kids fault if they don't have food to eat. We all should help each other as Americans. I'm sure we have people in this world who are homeschooling yet their tax money goes to fund our school system.

[@alfredonichlosa1796]

@Hyperion 666 who said I’m a libertarian? Amazing how you small minded liberals immediately jump to conclusions based on nothing. Maybes that’s why this cesspool of a channel hasnt grown and is in fact dying

[@aflower53]

I went to school with kids who sometimes only ate that day because of school lunch. Thankfully my school district had free lunch for all. The fact there’s people who really see a problem with paying so children can be guaranteed a school lunch really leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

[@z.s.7992]

My mom worked two jobs and we were dirt poor. I had to get free lunch. Sometimes it made me feel a lot of shame. It is so sad that right wingers look at wealth as morality. There are plenty of people going hungry and going without necessary things just so rich folks can be just a little richer.

[@MrFirextinguisher]

Zack Sherman that’s why we have to stay vocal and explain to people our struggles and make people realize it’s not normal for kids to go hungry and we can all step up

[@jopa1328]

The fact he doesnt see the irony in getting a government rebate for the truck 🤣

[@LadyPenumbra]

This caller is a guy with no empathy who has never suffered in his life. Or if he has, he's learned nothing from it. Here is a guy who has never tried to raise a child in a single income, single parent home. He has never had to look at his paycheck after paying for rent, bills, and the car, on minimum wage and wondered how he was going to feed his daughter. He's never had a sick child and known that he could feed her this week or take her to the doctor, but not both. He is ignorant of the way people can suffer when they are poor. Seeing as finding out this information is a matter of seconds with the internet, that makes him just plain ignorant. By choice. Grow a soul, caller, educate yourself, get some learning. Please try, for your daughter's sake. Or send her to public school, where the educators are educated.

[@Beachdudeca]

No student should be paying for a basic Breakfast or Lunch

[@coriolisse]

His poor daughter though. Hopefully she'll find Molyneux's chatroom in Blake's bookmarks, click on it and DEFOO as soon as she can grab the car keys to the single cab 15 year old Silverado.

[@BeyondDrawings]

"its the responsibility of the parent to give their kid a lunch, that's not asking a lot." Okay and what if they can't???? What's the kid supposed to do???? Eat air???

[@01man01truck]

School lunch is not a dollar a day. When I was in school it was about $2.50. That 21 times a month is fucking expensive ($54) and if you have more than one kid, God help you.

[@frankhernandez6524]

A dollar a day made me laugh so hard.

[@JonJon-sd1fp]

I wonder if Blake will apply for reduced or free lunches for his daughter when she goes to school.

[@edienandy]

Jon Jon Lol he totally will.

[@ConsciusVeritasVids]

What's a dollar, dollar fifty a day? As someone who grew up impoverished I'll tell you what that is: A lot of money over the course of a month for a family that has to go without heat during the winter because there's no money in the budget for luxuries like warmth and you're trying to get housing assistance. Does this caller even know what it's like having to eat government cheese sandwiches every day to survive?

[@pooshoveler]

I feel sorry for his kid if she eats lunch for $1 a day, must not be much of a lunch. Sounds like he needs the free lunch program.

[@jonstrickland4848]

Arguing against kids well being. Sounds about right for Arkansas.

[@SnottyKitty]

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith

[@nicholea5526]

The caller is from Arkansas, 42 out of 50 according to public education standards. Most of the bottom states in education are red states, not surprisingly. They're all about corporate welfare and mammoth military spending but pinch every penny when it comes to education, health care or anything that would actually improve the lives of the population.

[@jhonfamo8412]

They are all about feudalism. Even if they don't recognize it. Social Darwinism will cut them out and yet they stubbornly will make 0000 to grasp

[@Alexander_Grant]

Or the fact that he thinks like this is because they are 42 out of 50. I went to public school in a state ranked lower than that, and when the services the government provides are so poor, it's easy to lose faith like this. I personally disagree with every point he makes, but when there's no public transport, the roads are terrible, the schools don't prepare you for college, and the state politicians are more corrupt than the national ones, cynicism about money going to those services does start to creep in. It was incredibly frustrating to me going into college for my physics degree and being so far behind in math than all the other students from out of state or that came from private schools. I think if money could be more efficiently spent and there were actually palpable improvements, there would be less thinking like this.

[@nicholea5526]

@@Alexander_Grant One of the main reasons the GOP wants to gut public funding for education is so people remain ignorant. They need them ignorant not only of the basic rights of people but also of the impact a bit of money can have if invested in the welfare of the people rather than in corporate welfare.

[@ShaithMaster]

He's too much of a simple hillbilly to come up with his own ideas, I've heard these exact talking point phrases VERBATIM on other shows.

[@philswaim392]

"If it doesnt benefit me directly i dont see why i should care." Such narrow and short sightedness from people who claim to take responsibility for their families

[@artificialavocado9652]

I love how Seder deconstructs and completely destroys these guys.

[@mike990]

This poor guy's kid is fucked if he home schools her. Poor girl.

[@mad1701]

Exactly what I was thinking. The guy is such a moron.

[@jrpone]

Another Great example of a Christian, such moral and loving people.

[@MrBigtime1986]

14k for a brand new truck is a flat out lie