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Ryan Bridge: Only hungry children should be fed by the State · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The government's looking to move on from free school lunches
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  Speaker 1: for every kid in a poor school. David Seymour told
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  Speaker 1: me this week they're looking at tightening things up, and
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  Speaker 1: I think that it's probably going to happen at present.
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  Speaker 1: If your kid's school is signed up to the school
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  Speaker 1: lunches program, your kid automatically gets a lunch, whether you
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  Speaker 1: ask for one or not. The only way to stop
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  Speaker 1: that is to actually contact the school and opt out
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  Speaker 1: on an individual basis. Now, how many parents are doing that,
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  Speaker 1: even if they're providing lunch to their kids. I reckon
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  Speaker 1: they'll change this so that parents will have to opt
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  Speaker 1: their kids in rather than the other way around. I
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  Speaker 1: think it makes much more sense to do it that way.
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  Speaker 1: If it's true that half the lunches aren't being eaten,
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  Speaker 1: then why waste the resources taxpayer resource? After all, if
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  Speaker 1: the food was good enough for the fifty percent of
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  Speaker 1: kids who did eat it, then why wasn't it good
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  Speaker 1: enough for the fifty percent who didn't. It's obvious they're
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  Speaker 1: not hungry. There is an alternative for them. If there
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  Speaker 1: really is a problem with the quality of the lunches,
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  Speaker 1: then surely producing fewer of them will lower the costs
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  Speaker 1: and perhaps allow quality to improve further. You know, do
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  Speaker 1: less with do more with less. I must say it
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  Speaker 1: seems odd that all the meals must be hot, when
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  Speaker 1: most Kiwiks pre the previous labor government were raised on
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  Speaker 1: a lunch of cold sandwiches, weren't we. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: this is something some grumpy old man. I'm like thirty eight,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but I never had a hot lunch in
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  Speaker 1: my life. Seriously, hot meals were for dinner only. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: to those frustrated by the media coverage of these stories
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  Speaker 1: this week, and there have been many of you, it
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  Speaker 1: seems like changes are coming, which should mean only those
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  Speaker 1: kids who are actually hungry will get fed by the state.
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