06-03-2025, 09:42 AM
(05-03-2025, 10:35 PM)C_T_Russell Wrote: These school lunches are becoming a bit of a political football.These school lunches are paid for by us taxpayers so of course they are a political issue. The problem is that the current government seems to have a strategy of transferring the costs of 'problem' items away from direct central government and onto third parties in an attempt to obscure the real expenses required.
They interviewed some students on 1news tonight who quite enjoyed them.
Now the latest issue is the disposal of all the waste containers etc.
When will it end?
They've done this with 3 Waters by transferring infrastructure costs to Councils (i.e. from tax dollars to Council rates), the interisland ferry debacle by offloading the port infrastructure investment to the ports to make the next ferry 'deal' look better (together with disassociating the break fee on the cancellation of the iRex contract), and now significant inputs to the supply of school lunches are being borne by the schools (i.e. distribution, heating, clean-up and waste disposal) while Compass is claiming $3/meal cost for a very much inferior service to the previous community supported one.
Seymour is doing his best to break the system to attain his original intent of ditching the school lunches altogether and he is oblivious and uncaring of the social harm he is causing in doing so.