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IrishBubbaLiberal

(2,418 posts)
Fri Jun 27, 2025, 02:55 PM Friday

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has vetoed federal funding to support a summer lunch program for low-income kids.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has vetoed federal funding to support a summer lunch program for low-income kids.

Because no one sticks it to needy children like the GOP.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has vetoed federal funding to support a summer lunch program for low-income kids.

Because no one sticks it to needy children like the GOP.

www.texastribune.org/2025/06/23/t...

Nick Walden Poublon (@nwpinpdx.bsky.social) 2025-06-24T21:30:34.116Z
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has vetoed federal funding to support a summer lunch program for low-income kids. (Original Post) IrishBubbaLiberal Friday OP
he's a "pro-life Christian", dontcha know Skittles Friday #1
Forced birth and then standing by watching children go hungry Attilatheblond Friday #2
WTF? Is it like "We don't want the money because we might not get the money"? . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Friday #3
Right? CrispyQ Friday #5
I wish mgardener Friday #4
I wish other things for him. sellitman Friday #6
Starve the kids so they will self-deport? Ping Tung Friday #7
The kids who knew horrible hunger and insecurity grow up into angry people Attilatheblond Friday #8

Attilatheblond

(6,507 posts)
8. The kids who knew horrible hunger and insecurity grow up into angry people
Fri Jun 27, 2025, 09:56 PM
Friday

and that is how terrorist organizations find their foot soldiers. We just aren't learning the lesson. Keep making the same hateful mistakes then are surprise at what happens when the mistreated children grow up and turn on the society that wasn't there when they needed us.

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