This is for real? Not an April Fool’s joke?
Michelle:
“...the solution to this problem isn’t going to come from Washington. I have had the pleasure of talking to a number of experts around this issue, and not a single one of them has said that the answer to this problem is for the federal government to tell people what to do. This is going to take all of us getting involved...
It’s going to require a non-partisan effort because there’s nothing partisan about this issue...
...we all have to play a role in making this happen. Families can’t do this alone, which is why we’re bringing together governors, and mayors, and parents, and educators, and doctors, and businesses, community groups, all of us. And I’ve spoken to almost all of these groups over the last month asking them to come together to tackle this challenge once and for all...
And that’s why a new foundation that we’ve created along with this movement — the Partnership for Healthy America — is going to be so critical to these efforts. And I’m very proud of the work that’s been done to pull this foundation together...
The Foundation is going to serve as an independent, non-partisan player that’ll mobilize the private sector, foundations, government officials, the media and others...
I have agreed to serve as the honorary chair of this Foundation...
I also want to end by thanking the extraordinary organizations that have come together to organize the fund, and fund this new Foundation. We would not be here if it weren’t for these organizations, and they include the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the California Endowment, Kaiser Permanente, Nemours, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Brookings Institute, and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.”
And new board member Dr. Gavin adds:
” PHA does not seek to compete with (inaudible) or grant-making foundations who are doing important work of their own around these issues, but rather will serve to facilitate partnerships with meaningful and scalable programs at the community, state and national levels and lift up and help scale and replicate their success. It will do so by convening private, public and non-profit sector members to facilitate meaningful and substantial commitments and hold them accountable by measuring their impact.
Now, as you heard from the First Lady, we have given ourselves an aggressive mandate and we expect to meet it. Over the next year, and throughout the lifetime of the foundation, you can expect us to negotiate directly with those organizations and individuals most equipped to bring measurable impact to the First Lady’s target, even some CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, national bank leaders, and the leading non-profits.”
So the First Lady leans on foundations to fund a “nonpartisan nonprofit” that will be tasked to lean on corporations, local governments, and other nonprofits—because all the experts keep telling her that the answers can’t come from the federal government?
So all of these people have to stop their lives and concern themselves for michelle Obama's pet project. This is a woman who is obcessed with her own narcisistic Utopian world. She wants the powers of the world to focus like a lazer beam on that poor kid who just wants to be left alone to guzzel a nice cold Coke.
I say, let the kids eat all the junk food they want--outdoors. It will give them a boost in energy to get started playing. Kids are made to play outdoors. Too boring? Kids are very inventive and will create their own diversions. This is when they learn creativity. Bill Gates and his pal Paul Allen used some of their creative talents after school on a GE computer. It was much different than what kids do today playing computer games. It was creating their own games (tic-tac-toe). Too dangerous? That's what governors, mayors, police chiefs, prosecutors, and parents are for. Also forbid apartment managers to evict parents who let their kids play around the apartment complex.