Posted on 10/19/2011 10:56:49 AM PDT by IbJensen
(CNSNews.com) - First Lady Michelle Obama said yesterday that the government can affect who kids “will be forever” if it can shape their "habits and preferences" during the large part of the day they are at school.
Mrs. Obama was speaking on the South Lawn of the White House at a reception to honor schools that met the goals of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s HealthierUS School Challenge (HUSSC). The USDA Web site describes HUSSC as “a voluntary initiative established in 2004 to recognize those schools participating in the National School Lunch Program that have created healthier school environments through promotion of nutrition and physical activity.” The program has since been rolled into Mrs. Obama’s “Let’s Move!” initiative.
“When many kids spend half of their waking hours and get up to half their daily calories at school, you know that with the food you serve and, more importantly, the lessons you teach that you're not just shaping their habits and preferences today, you’re affecting the choices they’re going to make for the rest of their lives,” said Mrs. Obama.
“That's why we start with kids, right?” she said. “We can affect who they will be forever.”
At the reception, Mrs. Obama praised the 1,273 schools that have doubled the number of students eating federally subsidized meals that fit the program’s criteria.
Among the schools Mrs. Obama praised was the Burlington Elementary School of North Dakota, where, she said, the teachers eat two USDA-approved meals a day with the students.
“And the teachers eat breakfast and lunch with students every single day,” said Mrs. Obama. “Now, that's a sacrifice. You know it. That's love. They even send out a monthly newsletter called, “Nutrition Notes,” to provide healthy eating tips and recipes for the families.
“You’re affecting not just how these kids feed themselves, but how they’re going to feed their own children,” she said.
“So the beauty is, is that you’re not just making this generation of kids healthier, but the next generation as well. And that is truly, truly powerful stuff,” she said.
Mrs. Obama said that the children trained in these schools may have a trickle-down effect on their families.
“They're changing the way they think about their health and they're trickling that information down to their families,” said the First Lady.
Communists ALWAYS work on children. They don't want to be Big Brother, they want to be God. They start with the children so that they won't know what's happening to them as adults. Control their food, education, income, healthcare and all their choices. That's how slaves to the Communist system must be maintained so as to harvest the fruits of their labor while they are healthy and profitable. When they are no longer healthy or profitable they can be efficiently disposed of.
I hate anything involving children being brainwashed.
Take away retirement for their parents and hope for the kids and see what happens.
KEEP YOUR BIG MAN HANDS OFF AMERICAS CHILDREN!
To get to the parents , we must get to the children first.
HMMM where have I heard this before?
Every now and then their true motives slip out...
Yep. Three words: Frank Marshall Davis.
I heard it in school when studying Marx. Circa 60s
Dependant on gubmint
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Nothing new here. Please move on. This has been happening for nearly 40 years in the gov’mint run public school system. Want to save your children, grandchildren? Home school them or send to private Christian schools. Only chance they have.
Your tagline reminds be of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, one of my favorite songs.
"Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever." -- same guy
Hitler had great success ‘affecting’ the children too..
and supposedly good intentions..
If gubamint has to tell ya when and what and how to eat,
they may as well just grab you straight out of the newborn mother’s arms and raise them.
Oh, wait.. uhhhh..
She's channeling Lenin, who said (I'm paraphrasing), "Give me your children for five years in a government school and you'll never get them back again."
‘We’ll make them all into good little watermelons - green on the outside, red on the inside.”
I thought that the deal here in America was that everybody was free/encouraged to be who they wanted to be. Isn't that what the gov's up to with all this GLBT chit that they're pushing?
This stupid bitch can't even keep that straight.
These clowns need to be run out of town on a rail.
- Vladimir I. Lenin
Yes, that’s what Chairman Mao said.
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