Lunch money

Imagine an office, in the huge empty area of the Agriculture Department, that used to house the school lunch program. One office, one division chief, one secretary; the whole federal school lunch department.

Congress votes a block amount of money, the division chief divides the total number of students in the country into the dollar amount. This is how much money each state would get for each student in their state. The division chief sends a check to each state education department for their share of the school lunch money. Each state is responsible for using the money for school lunches, as they seem necessary, in their state. If they want to augment it with state funds and provide every student with a free lunch,so be it! If they want to provide all fast food, so be it! The voters in the state will hold the state education department in their own state accountable, after all, the state is much closer to the voters than Washington D.C., and their state representatives are very near. Surely, the people on the local and state level have brains and can be trusted? We don’t need the federal government to monitor every move and bury us under endless paper!

Just think; scores of federal paper shufflers not needed, thousands of pages of federal regulations trashed, thousands of state and local man hours saved by not filling out thousands of pages of trivia concerning federal regulations.

Just think; more money for better school lunches, or at least, lunches that people in the state have control over. Wayne Harper Presque Isle