Barbara Cubin: “it is a personal disappointment and affront to me that Members of the minority party persist in their attack on our plan…”

“it is a personal disappointment and affront to me that Members of the minority party persist in their attack on our plan to provide nutritious meals to the Nation's schoolchildren. They claim that by block granting the nutrition programs thousands of children will starve. In plain English, that claim is a life and they know it. Funding for the School Lunch Program will increase by 4 percent per year, that rate is above inflation but below what liberal Democrats think it should be so they label it a cut. Using accounting methods like this that has us headed for a debtor's prison without a get-out-of-jail-free card. The only thing we will cut is a layer of Federal bureaucracy in the nutrition programs which will save money and allow the States to do what they do so well, take care of their citizens. The basic difference in philosophies is all too clear on this issue, after 40 years, Democrats cannot bear the thought of independent States, I myself have all the faith in the world in the ability of our State and local officials.”