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It’s back-to-school season, and Chris has a message that’s going to tick some people off: pack your kids’ lunch.
In this fiery Watchdog on Wall Street episode, we call out the lazy parenting and government nonsense behind “free lunch for all.”
Inside:
  • Why sending your kid to eat government food is setting them up for failure
  • Kathy Hochul’s “free breakfast & lunch for all” plan—and why it’s a taxpayer scam
  • Why subsidized school meals are junk food disguised as charity
  • The real cost of “universal free lunch” (hint: your wallet)
  • Why parenting means effort—and why packing a lunch matters
Tough love time: stop outsourcing your kids’ health to bureaucrats.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it we'll have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
It's Monday. Pack your kids on. You know what I
think it's gonna be. I'm gonna piss everybody off day?
Why not not everybody? Yeah, pack your kids lunch? Seriously,
back to school time. You have children, You have children,
You're sending them to school to eat government food? Are

(00:41):
you serious? Really? You can't?

Speaker 3 (00:44):
You're that I got a business schedule. I gotta make it.
I gotta make it to yoga class and plates. I
don't have time to make my kids on you.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Are you out of your mind? You know, when you
decided to have children, there's you know, a bit of
an effort involved, there's a bit of time involved.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Oh my god, that's so offensive.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
How can Markowski say? I don't give it? Damn mothers, fathers,
Are you out of your mind? You're sending your kid
off to eat school food. Is it really that hard?
Really that hard to take a little time out and
pack your kid a lunch? I saw this, and we

(01:28):
brought this up today as the Governor of the Strait
of New York, Kathy Holkle starting this school year, free breakfast,
free lunch, no questions asked. That's how we set our
kids up for success. That's how you set kids up
for success. Giving them free shit food at schools. That

(01:52):
that that's're gonna do it, not to mention the fact,
why is it? Why is it the taxpayers respondibility to
feed kids? Okay, you have kids, I get it. I
mean there's gonna be circumstances out there where you've got
families where the you know, obviously it's a disaster. I

(02:15):
get that. I get that, and you gotta find some
way to feed those kids on the down low. So
it's you know, not exposed them. But let's be honest here, Okay,
you can get rid of you can just find out
who those kids are and you can order something from
the freaking deli. Okay, that's gonna be better. It's gonna
be a lot more cost effective than the actual dog

(02:36):
crap that you're gonna be feeding them through the damn schools.
You know it, and I know it. They're your kids.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Men.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Are you that damnly, you're that self centered that you
can't pack your kids a lunch. Now, I'm never gonna
listen to Markowski again. I don't care. Okay, you're not
gonna listen to me, Okay, because you're pissed off, because
because you know I'm right. Watchdog on Wall Street dot

(03:04):
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