Posted on 01/16/2015 7:24:39 AM PST by PROCON
Students across the United States are getting a taste of progressivism. And it doesn’t seem to please their palates. The implementation of Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity lunch standards is encountering backlash from students and school administrators across the country. The program seems to have taught them a valuable lesson in the realities of progressivism -- that when American voters give up power to busy-body progressives, the result is more control over their lives and the loss of individual liberties. They responded to this newfound reality with boycotts, social media angst, and filled trash cans instead of filled bellies.
According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act has led to 1M children leaving the lunch line. Additionally, 48 out of 50 states are having a hard time complying with the new standards. Sodium limits, portion requirements, and calorie ranges for each group are leaving schools struggling to serve food that is edible and nourishing. The program faces many challenges, and despite its seemingly good intentions, the new standards are leaving a bad taste in the mouths of students, parents and school administrators.
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January 16, 2015
MS/US
Italian Bean & Kale Soup
PJ's Couscous Salad
Avocado & Pink Grapefruit Salad
Housemade Baked Salmon Cakes
Eggplant Parmesan
Marinara Sauce
Roasted Brussels Sprouts
Basmati Rice w/ Fresh Chives
Clementines
But I'm sure Michelle gets up early and makes/packs lunch for the girls.
She might do that (since she drove the White House chef out with her constant pick, pick, pick, leavened with plenty of snide remarks).
Only God can destroy progressivism. Even when it destroys itself, progressivism keeps on going.
The program faces many challenges, and despite its seemingly good intentions, the new standards are leaving a bad taste in the mouths of students, parents and school administrators.
The road to H#ll is also paved with good intentions.
These ‘progressives’ have always been the nosy neighbor who knows much better than you on how to raise your kids, spend your money and live your life. These things never seem to change and now they are running the country...
Moochelle is getting kids to lose weight by making food so unpalatable that the kids throw it away rather than eat it.
Must be something built-in that won’t won’t allow her to just mind her own business.
Reagan tried to get some control over the school lunch program and the Dems had a FIELD DAY with him.
...now the shoe’s on the other foot. And maybe Michelle will just do what Reagan only was able to dream of doing (i.e., get the government out of the food service business).
No.
IN a way, it’s amusing to watch the latest generation of selfish brats meltdown like they do. Everyone can have a presence on the Internet, which seemingly promotes selfishness, self-adoration, and materialism, three things that are inherently anathema to socialism. There may be hope yet.
“Must be something built-in that won’t won’t allow her to just mind her own business.”
I noticed in the work environment that the most unqualified people fought the hardest to be put in charge. I suspect that, having no control over their own lives, if they’re the boss they think they’ll gain that control. But it’s never the case and promoting these management illiterates creates chaos. Michelle is one such person; utterly incompetent yet in a position, apparently, where she can enforce her will on a whole sector of society. Even if they started dying as a direct result, she’d only do what she was already doing only harder.
The ONLY way to destroy progressivism is to end the Federal Reserve and return sound money
Progressivism’s foundation is the government’s ability to print money and issue debt for any social engineering scheme it deems politically important. As we see now, it manipulates interest rates for political purposes. I can inflate way debt, at the expense of workers and savers (ie. the producers) for its purposes.
With other legal tender besides the greenback, it provides an automatic check on government’s ability to spend.
Based on prior experience in Russia, the answer is....yes, it will.
In about 70 years.
No.
You may be right but between Moochies lunch program and Hussein's obamascare, the sheeple are getting hit both in the pocketbook and the stomach.
And they don’t give a damn.
They’re too busy watching football and Kim Kardashian’s ass - and now oral sex on HBO - to care.
Not by a long shot! The really stupid Grubers cannot draw a parallel between the government telling you what to eat, where to sit on a bus, or what to think! Now they're paying triple for FREE healthcare and loving it!
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