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You know, then i realized this has happened, there are 30.3 million students in this country on reduced and free lunch programs. that's a lot of kids. it's a lot of lunches. and i've had responses from people around the country who say they grew up on free lunch programs and were stigmatized by it. that shouldn't happen. this is our future generation. these are the people that are going to run our country. >> yes. those children need fuel for their bodies. it doesn't matter how much that costs. it should be a no brainer for children in the country to be fed. >> exactly. >> i want to take a mom...

Grade will receive standard lunch at school regardless of their account balance. diane, what do you think of the school's response now? >> well, i was very happy that they responded in a positive manner. and the assistant superintendent came out to speak to me. and she asked me if i was happy with the situation. and which i was. but you know, then i realized that there is 30.3 million students in this country on reduced and free lunch programs. that is a lot of kids. so it is a lot of lunches. and i've had responses from people around the country who say that they grew up on free lunch program...

After the death of my father. that included different programs including lunch programs and food stamps. >> reporter: so when he heard a pennsylvania school district was struggling to collect lunch money, he offered to pay off $22,000 in debt. to his surprise during a phone call, the school district said no thanks. >> ultimately the person on the other end of the line hung up on us. there was really no room to negotiate. >> reporter: last week the wyoming valley west school district sparked outrage sending letters threatening parents who owed lunch money that their kids could be put in foster ...

Off lunch programs. >> laura: he wanted grandma to eat alpo. remember that guys? >> ketchup was a vegetable, too. this is a pattern that plays itself out many times. when eisenhower was president, liberals said he couldn't reed if his lips were chapped, barry gold water was attacked and denounced as crazy now he's held up by liberals as a para gone of virtue. the left hated richard nixon. i saw a lefty favor richard nixon to donald trump, gerald ford, both bushes were hated by the left until they were no longer in office, then they become convenient tools to bash the current occupant of the wh...

Advised this campaign said at this point you have to take a look at entitlements. a lot of people who look at budgets say eventually you have to talk about entitlements. the president doesn't want to do that, he doesn't want to touch medicare, social security, and medicaid. the federal budget is $3.9 trillion in spending. so it's big. the top quarter of it, that's medicare and medicaid, those health programs. then social security. the president says all of that, those first two categories, he will not touch. that leaves the rest. military, he has promised one of the greatest military buildups ...