The plan U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Indianapolis, has devised to cut back free and subsidized meals for poor school children reminds me of an old and cruel joke.
The joke goes like this.
A scientist who wanted to prove a point startedexperimenting with a frog. The scientist cut off one of the frog’s legs and yelled, “Jump!”
The frog jumped.
The scientist made a note.
The scientist lopped off another leg and yelled again. Once more, the frog jumped.
The scientist made another note.
Another leg came off. Somehow the frog jumped. Another note.
The scientist took off the last leg and yelled, “Jump!” The frog just sat there.
The scientist wrote down his conclusion:
“The frog no longer can hear.”
Rokita’s plan to cut back on meals for poor kids springs from two impulses.
The first is a desire to attack the federal government’s debt. Rokita says his approach could produce $300 million in savings.
[For more of this story, written by John Krull, go to http://www.jconline.com/story/...om-monitor/84658018/]
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