Can someone tell me what the deal is with the ads that state that many American children will go hungry unless the school feeds them (for free) during the summer?

WTH? What kid is going to go hungry here? The poorer a family is, I guarantee you the more they have to eat, via food stamps. (Remember the recent brouhaha about the receipt found in the grocery store parking lot, where the person had paid for steaks and crap legs with food stamps? That didn’t surprise me in the least.)

And if a kid DOES show up at the school because they only get one meal a day, and that lunch at school is it, then it’s time to call Child Protective Services on the parents, don’t you think?

No reason for an American kid to go hungry, other than utter neglect, in which case it’s time to do something more serious than hand them a peanut butter sandwich.

I would rather spend my tax money feeding children who are truly starving in 3rd world countries.