Posted on 10/23/2012 9:06:24 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Annika Eriksson, a long-time Swedish chef revered for her school lunches, has been squelched.
Has she made errors? Are her meals contaminated? Has the quality of her ingredients slipped? No, none of the above.
The trouble stems purely from the fact that her meals are too good. Yes, you read that right.
She’s exceeding expectations. She bakes fresh bread every day. She offers 15 different vegetables at lunchtime. She knows it pleases the students to have choices.
This is her crime because, you see, other schools don’t have the same benefits in the Falun district in Sweden. (This is called collectivist logic, something to avoid like the plague.)
Ericksson maintains her meals don’t go beyond budget allocations. She’s just doing a good thing. She obviously likes doing it; and, of course, the kids love her meals.
Now, there will be no more of her fresh baked bread. That will be replaced by store-bought bread.
And the array of 15 vegetables? Gone, too. She is allowed to offer only half as many.
Ericksson’s students and their parents are in an uproar. How can the authorities take away the wonderful lunches? Apparently, it’s more important to preserve one-size-fits-all collectivism than to serve healthy and innovative meals.
Why doesn’t the district send other school chefs to Eriksson, so they can learn how she makes her brand of magic?
When someone exceeds the standard in a positive direction, why not pull everyone else upward? Why push the brilliant person down?
The answer is obvious. The most important thing is the collectivist system. The individual who enters the system is expected to tailor his or her actions to the norm. That’s the game.
(Excerpt) Read more at personalliberty.com ...
I do not like you or your brother,
I do not like the life I live,
But I am me, I am Aldonza.
And what I give, I choose to give.
One pair of arms is like another
It’s all the same, it’s all the same!
And y’all thought ol’ 16-oz. Bloomberg was bad!
Oversease Nanny State PING!
This is Bloomberg in reverse. Bloomberg is a health nazi but he is not a socialist. These people are more interested in redistributionism than anything.
***** “She bakes fresh bread every day” ******
Back off Laz ... this one is mine!
TT
They’re still telling this woman what she can cook. Technically, that’s nanny statism.
The socialists want to control everything until everything is equal. If some have it better than others then they will be brought down and the failures will be brought up.
A nanny stater, like Bloomberg, wants to regulate here and there because he thinks he is smarter than everyone else.
Lutefisk, polsa, and Flygande Jakob for all, and you WILL eat all of it, or no blodpudding for dessert!
Lowest Common Denominator
Imagine living in a country where you aren’t allowed to be better, do better or have better than anyone else despite your ability
This sort of retard stuff has brought down one Swedish leftist generation of gevernment already. The retareds do not learn.
Look up “Pomperipossa”.
Thanks for the link to the story... I use it in my freshmen English class, and it’s nice to have a place online where I can access it. It’s just another attempt undermine and out-Gramscii the Gramsciites by taking a long march through THEIR institutions. :)
Brilliant! Liberalism, socialism, communism, collectivism in a nutshell.
I may have to use that, it is just too good to not pass along.
More stupidity via artificially imposed “fairness” - the socialist mindset see nothing wrong with this.
socialism is so forkin’ great, ain’t it. Crush the overachievers down. effing socialists.
That sounds awful! I can't imagine living in a nation like that...oh, wait...
bump
Yes, I'll have to.
It’s quite an amazing thing, since Vonnegut was a serious socialist. Then again, so was Orwell.
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