Cynthia finally responds: Still McClueless, Still McCrazy

Cynthia Davis has responded. She's not sorry, and has not reconsidered her offensive views and suggestions that hungry kids should just get jobs at McDonald's.

Apparently, we've all been taking Cynthia's words out of context by quoting them at length.

My weekly Capitol Report is a way for me to have two-way communications with my constituents and not a national manifesto for you to mock, distort, and to be quoted out of context.

It's everyone else who's misinformed, not Cynthia.

You see, we said that Davis thinks a summer meal program is a horrible idea, when in fact, Davis thinks a summer meal program is a horrible idea. In her mind, it "treats families like they do not exist" and treats the needy children "like they are incapacitated."

Look into your own heart and ask, “What made a difference in my life as a child?” Was it standing in a line for a cafeteria style meal at school or was it sitting around the kitchen table with others in your family?

All the children being fed in this program have parents or guardians who are already functioning in a nurturing roll. They have not been judged to be neglectful or abusive in any way. Government should not take the care of their children from them. The right way to help is to treat the root cause, not the symptom. We must support the parents in providing for their children, not circumvent them.

I think this means that we should end all school lunch programs, across the board, but I'm not sure. After all, a cafeteria meal never helped anybody!

Davis is still struggling to grasp the reality that some families actually are poor, and some children actually have a hard time finding a healthy meal. She asks, incredulously:

If you truly believe there are parents who "wouldn't" feed their children breakfast or lunch during the summer, why aren’t you concerned that they aren’t getting dinner, may not have clean clothes, or a proper bed to sleep in? Don’t you care about children? Isn’t the next step under your scenario to take children away from their poor parents?

The full press release is here. Please don't mock, distort or take it out of context, people.