Posted on 12/04/2010 2:05:18 AM PST by Scanian
As Paul Bedard of US News warns of an imminent stock market crash if Congress fails to extend the Bush tax cuts by December 15, our lame duck Congress continues to focus its efforts on other priorities.
The House yesterday passed and sent on to Obama for his signature a $4.5 billion "child nutrition bill" that would ban greasy foods and sugary drinks from schools. This legislation is being hailed as "groundbreaking" and will help our benevolent First Lady in her effort to establish 6,000 salad bars in schools across the nation. Michelle believes you can both lead a horse to water and make him drink.
As 2 million Americans face the loss of their jobless benefits just in time for Christmas, our elected representatives in the House were busy approving a $4.6 billion payout to black farmers and American Indians. Apparently they were discriminated against and these billions of our tax dollars are now necessary to soothe their hurt feelings.
As the latest jobless report showed claims continuing to increase, the Obama administration was congratulating itself on their brave decision to extend the ban on offshore drilling in Florida. The 6,000 jobs sacrificed by this ban were necessary, Obama claims, because of "safety concerns."
This ban followed on the heels of another Obama decision to set aside a "critical habitat" for polar bears in Alaska. This legislation was deemed necessary, despite the fact that it could add restrictions to future offshore drilling for oil and gas. Compassion for polar bears trumps higher gas prices. I kid you not.
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Let me clarify that. The public schools are destroying the childrens’ minds and their futures.
I’m waiting for the Obamanistas to start waging an all-out attack on home schooling.
And they’ll do it “for the children,” of course.
This shameful congress ought to be spending more time studying its collective navel. We would be better off.
This Congress is a shameful collection of lawbreakers, phonies, and moral and intellectual dwarves. They should put them selves out of their own misery by adjourning before doing any more damage. EVERYTHING can wait for the new congress to convene.
Those school salad bars aren’t going to be the salads Mom made in the wooden bowl, that’s for sure.
It’s cold and flu season out there. Salad bars in a school cafeteria? The germs will love them!
They go for homeschoolers too early in the dictatorship they get problems. People care about their children enough to act where they won’t otherwise.
It’s cold and flu season out there. Salad bars in a school cafeteria? The germs will love them!
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Yuck. YUCK!
I expect they’ll do that on a state level....and there might be enough lefty ones for some to go along with it. I’m rather surprised that none have made it illegal yet.
Come to think of it, didn’t I hear Democrat Senator Michael Bennet admit that “the fix is in” on lame-duck legislation the other day?
Or maybe it was a “rigged game.”
Either way, it spells “c-o-r-r-u-p-t.”
I'm in California. I certainly 'get' that.
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