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Joe Scarborough: That is right. It is very interesting, you were talking about the school lunch program, and we saw and actually I talked…

On the recordMarch 13, 1996
That is right. It is very interesting, you were talking about the school lunch program, and we saw and actually I talked about how we had been attacked as being extremist and Nazis and all these other things. Just absolutely ridiculous attacks on our character, and it showed just how desperate they were. They even paraded little children around here in a shameless display. Everybody was wearing their ties with children on them, and all they talked, children, children, children, that is all they talked about. I have got two children. I do not need anybody to tell me that I am more or less compassionate than they are simply because they have more faith in the Federal bureaucracy than in local communities. I think what we need to do is, while the school lunch programs went up, I think we need to reexamine if this is something that the Federal Government should in the end, in the perfect world, even be involved in.
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Joe Scarborough
Florida

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Discussing the school lunch program and criticisms of federal involvement.

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