Report: Half of schools cut cafeteria staff as kids abandon Obama menus

Michelle Obama's School Lunch Program Has Resulted In a 56 Percent Increase In Food Waste http://t.co/mVLUSC52MQ

— IJReview (@ijreview) September 1, 2015

Report: Half of schools cut cafeteria staff as kids abandon Obama menus http://t.co/DQK43sA8ln pic.twitter.com/R7Ob3oXhlA

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) September 3, 2015

A new survey from the School Nutrition Association reported that 70 percent of the nation's lunch programs have been financially "harmed" by the new low-salt, low-sugar menus and that a stunning 93 percent report fewer students buying the chow.

"Meeting these mandates has harmed the financial health of nearly 70 percent of school meal programs surveyed, with fewer than 3 percent reporting a financial benefit," said the survey. Some 49 percent of the responding schools said they were forced to cut cafeteria staff as a result.

The financial threat to school food programs has become so grave that the association is calling on Congress to provide more money. The association said that schools are being ordered by the Agriculture Department to absorb another $1.2 billion in added costs resulting from having to buy more expensive — and less attractive — foods to meet the federal regulations.

Rural Children Less Likely Than Urban Peers to Participate in Lunch Program: Only 63 percent of eligible stude... http://t.co/1nx5xqaHCo

— Mr Cormack (@MrCormack) September 3, 2015

HYPOCRITE Michelle: DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO: Sidwell Friends rated the #1 School Lunch program in America http://t.co/Yq5gQQHz1G

— slone (@slone) August 31, 2015

Michelle O school lunch program serves up unemployment for cafeteria worker.. http://t.co/9WQvUaDXAX

— John Meng (@OutdoorPatriot) August 25, 2015

Obama using food-stamp cash to fund Michelle’s ‘Let’s Move’

◼ link - Andrea Peyser/New York Post

On Nov. 1, sizable cuts were gouged into the federal food-stamp program (or, as it’s now called, SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), which feeds 47.6 million people, or nearly one in six Americans. In the city, 1.9 million folks get the bulk of their Jell-O and Campbell’s Soup from stamps.

But news has spread among the poor, like leafy green vegetables, that it wasn’t heartless Republicans who triggered the cuts.

Rather, some of the food-stamp cash was snatched to pay for Michelle Obama’s pet project, Let’s Move.

What?

It’s come to this. Some 76 million meals a year will vanish from this city — poof! — partly because the president diverted money from SNAP to the first lady’s signature program, part of her Let’s Move anti-obesity initiative — the bean-sprout-heavy, $4.5 billion Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act....

The great food grab began in 2010, when President Obama, with Michelle and US Department of Agriculture honchos at his side, signed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. At the time, he admitted taking cash from one pocket to feed the other.

“Some of the funding [for the lunch program] comes from rolling back temporary increases in food-stamp benefits,” he said, starting in the fall of 2013.

“I’m committed to working with [Congress] to restore these funds in the future.”

It proved to be magical thinking.

Part of the problem is that the food-stamp program has grown like wildfire under Obama — to $80 billion last year, with a more than 70 percent increase in recipients just since 2008.

◼ RECORD: OVER 47 MILLION ON FOOD STAMPS FOR ENTIRE YEAR - Wynton Hall/Breitbart