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  • All of you free-lunch Conservatives have to realize that things have to be paid for.

    Arizona senators call for stronger security on border with Mexico 2010

  • For example, in one year, the form might show: the number of recalls to prevent food borne illness, the miles of bridges refurbished or built with funds from the National Highway Trust Fund, the number of free-lunch meals provided to American school children, the amount of disaster relief funds provided as grants and loans to Americans, and the number of illegal immigrants deported.

    Terry Newell: Let's Cut the Budget Sensibly --- A Simple Idea Terry Newell 2011

  • It is hardly a secret that the core of the economic woes of Southern Europe is that social entitlement costs have outrun productivity, a form of free-lunch economics.

    Southern Europe's Problem Is Lack of Responsibility 2011

  • SEOUL—A municipal referendum sought by Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon in hopes that voters would reduce the scope of a school free-lunch program failed on Wednesday because not enough people voted.

    Seoul Vote Fails to Curb Budget of Social Program Evan Ramstad 2011

  • A municipal referendum sought by Seoul's mayor in hopes that voters would reduce the scope of a school free-lunch program failed because not enough people voted.

    What's News— 2011

  • In sum, Mr. Goolsbee advocates that the cure for a free-lunch program is another free-lunch program.

    Southern Europe's Problem Is Lack of Responsibility 2011

  • Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon, a member of the conservative Grand National Party that controls the Parliament and presidency, pushed for the referendum as a challenge to the city council's decision to expand a free-lunch program.

    Seoul School Lunch Vote to Test Sentiment on Welfare Evan Ramstad 2011

  • When you an 'me mushed into the Yukon in the good ole days, it didn't rain soup and they wa'n't no free-lunch joints.

    Chapter III 2010

  • Mr. Goolsbee claims that Southern Europe is pinned down by the value of the euro which allows its countries no latitude for currency devaluation and "exporting its way forward," but currency devaluation for exporting goods ignores the obvious trade-off that goods purchased become more expensive, so currency devaluation is simply another form of free-lunch economics.

    Southern Europe's Problem Is Lack of Responsibility 2011

  • The mayor argued the free-lunch program cost too much at about $378 million annually.

    Seoul Vote Fails to Curb Budget of Social Program Evan Ramstad 2011

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