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Ryan Bridge: School lunches - David Seymour is the new Robin Hood · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Nothing is ever good enough for some people, is it nothing?
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  Speaker 1: You've got to center right government just committing hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: millions of dollars in taxpayer money to feed kids in schools,
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  Speaker 1: and they've managed to free up one hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 1: million dollars in savings in the process, and still it's
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  Speaker 1: not good enough for some. The Health Coalition altered. Oh
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  Speaker 1: that group, they're not happy. Some dietitians, they say it's
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  Speaker 1: not nutritious enough.
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  Speaker 2: Simply cutting the amount of food that they're having and
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  Speaker 2: supplying a more processed, less varied diet as a complete
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  Speaker 2: lost opportunity for our health system.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, It's more nutritious than nothing at all,
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  Speaker 1: an empty stomach. Some said the food was too processed,
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  Speaker 1: it was one size fits all. It wouldn't appeal to
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  Speaker 1: the kids. It's not meant to appeal to kids so
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  Speaker 1: much as feed them when they're hungry. I thought, at
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  Speaker 1: least I thought that was the point. And if they
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  Speaker 1: don't eat it, they're not hungry. It's simple.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: There is some bold been made by David Seymour which
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  Speaker 1: I am a little skeptical of, like the fact that
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  Speaker 1: we can do this for three dollars a meal. Sounds
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  Speaker 1: unheard of, but he gets the benefit of the doubt
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  Speaker 1: and my good luck for his cost saving crusade. Guess
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  Speaker 1: where some of the savings are going feeding ten thousand
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  Speaker 1: poor two to five year olds. David Seymour is the
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  Speaker 1: new Robin Hood. In all the flurry of releases yesterday
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  Speaker 1: about this, there was one staggering number that stood out
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  Speaker 1: to me. Seymour reckons if Labor had adopted his model
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  Speaker 1: from the get go, when they launched this program five
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  Speaker 1: years ago, we would have saved eight hundred million dollars
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred million. They could have had that bike bridge
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  Speaker 1: over the White to Matar Harbor, or they could have
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  Speaker 1: had more rat tests, or whatever the hell they wanted.
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  Speaker 1: It's true there was no such thing as a free lunch,
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  Speaker 1: but thank the Lord, is at least now a cheaper menu.
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