Posted on 05/24/2014 4:21:19 PM PDT by kingattax
Michelle Obamas new dietary restrictions is so bad that they cant even GIVE the food away. A million kids have turned away from Obamas school lunch and schools are feeling the huge hit.
Via The Hill:
More than a million kids confronted by healthier school lunches are turning up their noses, leaving the cafeteria and heading out to get a burger instead.
The difficulty in getting students to eat lower-fat, lower-sodium meals is at the center of a food fight between House Republicans and first lady Michelle Obama that erupted this week.
(Excerpt) Read more at rightwingnews.com ...
Or do it themselves and keep all ******* government involvement permanently out of a profoundly personal necessity of life.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences. -- C. S. Lewis
Instead of fining or otherwise punishing the beached whales, or allowing them to die prematurely, everbody's got to pay with another small piece of their individual liberty.
But thank you for playing. Thank you for your suggestion.
Win/win!
The Obamugabe regime will have then defeated the "War on Obesity!"
SCOTUS underwent a pretty sharp change since US v. Butler in 1936. See Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942) which opens the door to abuse the Commerce clause power. SCOTUS has since doubled down on that Commerce clause power, using it to uphold marijuana prohibition (Raich), and laws against guns that were NEVER in ANY commerce, let alone interstate commerce (Stewart).
One million racist American kids.....who knew?
The beauty of FR is the variety of expertise available to contribute to any discussion; even legal ones.
Of the hundreds of thousands of laws still on the books, I am sure someone will find one that nullifies that Supreme Court decision. No sense bothering the Supreme Court with details...
At this point, what difference does it make?
Cboldt, given the remote possibility that you haven't seen the following excerpt concerning historical Supreme Court clarification of the limits of Congress's Commerce Clause powers, limits wrongly ignored by FDR's activist justices, you might find it interesting.
State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added] Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
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