Joe Cunningham: “No, I am trying to do it on a conservative basis. Then if you look at an average in California, it takes a kindergartner…”

“No, I am trying to do it on a conservative basis. Then if you look at an average in California, it takes a kindergartner through high school, 12th grade, $5,000 a year to educate that child. That is $2 billion a year. Yet we are decrying that we do not have enough money for nutrition. We have added money for nutrition. We have cut the bureaucracies. But what we also did is said, our priority in this country with limited resources, with the national debt getting out of shape, with the national deficit, and the President's budget increasing the national deficit by $300 billion, our priorities are American children, and we want to feed those children. We want to make sure that no child under any circumstances goes hungry. Should a high-income parent be subsidized by the Federal Government? Absolutely not. But the chairman has provided for those children 185 percent below the poverty level that we are going to make sure that they are fed. Again, the priority of disestablishing big government and who should receive the support are the kids that most need it.”