Nearly forty percent of all elementary and high school students in the US already receive government funded lunches, but school administrators say that’s not enough! They want to remove the stigma in getting free meals, swelling the ranks of federally fed students above today’s 31 million, and increasing annual costs beyond the $8.3 billion we spend today. Bureaucrats across the country told the New York Times they want to destroy the natural – and appropriate – embarrassment many kids feel about getting taxpayer funded meals while their friends buy their own food. Officials in New York say “more eligible students would eat if all school cafeterias offered free meals to everyone, regardless of economic status.” If government feeds all kids for free, then why should any mom take the time and trouble to pack lunch for her offspring? The inexorable growth of “Nanny State” big government increasingly usurps the role of parents and inevitably weakens the importance of families.