Posted on 11/16/2010 10:21:17 AM PST by Brookhaven
More than 1,100 groups signed a letter distributed Thursday on Capitol Hill that asks House members to immediately pass a childhood nutrition bill when they return next week.
Signers include food, beverage and supermarket companies; public health, education, anti-hunger, faith-based, children's, women's, minority groups; and unions. They want the House to pass a $4.5 billion bill that cleared the Senate by unanimous consent just before the August recess.
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(1) Give the 1st lady a signiture legislative acheivement.
(2) Funnel money to Democratic special-interest groups (primarily teachers unions and advocacy groups that owe their entire existance to leaching off the government).
$4.5 billions dollars. Chump change by Washington standards. It is more than the total budgest of numerous states, including Delaware, Wyoming, Vermont, and South Dakota.
What part of "quit wasting money" does Washington not understand? There are many things that would be "nice to do" (and creating programs to fight weight problems might be one of them), but we're broke. We don't have the money for "nice to do" things.
Instead of celebrating this (left I'm talking to you), or just letting it slide by without comment (Republicans, I'm talking to you) we should be holding this up as an example of the type of fiscal waste that must be stopped.
Who’s going to loan the government this $4.5 Billion? We sure as hell don’t have it. Yep.....we really need to spend this kind of money on such a dumb project right now.
And what is so vitally important that only the Federal government and some faceless hack can fix it? Why aren’t parents good enough. Just push away from the damned table!
Every dollar in new spending should come at a cost of 4 dollars in cuts to existing programs.
what about the existing school lunch programs before school programs and the after school programs that have nutritional assistance already being funded. this is a scam on thepart of Odumbo to pay more cronies for pay for play
And it will make no difference...
http://www.aolhealth.com/2010/11/08/overweight-kids-eat-healthier-than-normal-weight-peers/
Is this the nutrition bill that allows a daily ice cream cone like Michelle has?
Well, they’re going to push it through in the lame duck session.
Has anyone heard a single Republican even mention this (much less oppose it)? I haven’t. The GOP is just going to let it slide through, because (just like in the past) they don’t want to get in a fight and be accussed by the MSM of wanting to hurt children.
C’mon GOP. This thread is really directed at you. Do something.
What an insidious outrage! That fat cow wants to dictate what we eat???
Oh, wait...I know! They are waiting in line with their hands our, looking for Federal money!
and this...
Does anyone ever look at families? They look alike. Slender folks have slender kids. Chunky folks have chunky kids. Why on earth, when there are variations in everything elsea bout our bodies, do people think they can make everyone the same weight or make everyone “healthy”, whatever that is exactly?
“The purposes of passing this bill are: “
To establish a precedent and foundation, or framework, for further “progressive” advances into our lives.
For the children.
NO!
Nope, not what we eat. This will establish food distribution centers in “food deserts”, places where the residen’t past behaviour stifles investments by traditional supermarkets.
This is aimed at people already trapped in the Democrat Plantation, and it will grow that plantation to cement the bond forever, and we will pay for it. Some of us will even slide into that Plantation.
Once they reliably have 51% who must vote (D) to eat, or have housing, voting will be as irrelevant here as it is in Venezuela or the old Iraq.
This is a continuation of the National School Lunch Program with changes intended to make the school lunches healthier. As a professional in the industry, I agree with some of the bill, have issues with some parts.
This is one area of the budget where the benefit ratio is very high. Low administrative costs as most of the funds in the NSLP are spent on food, not bloated federal salaries. All food dollars must be spent on US products.
One place to save...
Stop all school based food programs.
We provide food stamps to families. They can feed their own.
I took a lunch to school every day. Somehow I survived. The lunch was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich each day. I loved it.
You can’t tell me that people who want to support their kids can’t find a way to come up with the few dollars needed to feed them.
Oatmeal isn’t that expensive. Cream of wheat isn’t that expensive. A few eggs per week, aren’t that expensive.
Bread isn’t that expensive. Generic brands of peanut butter aren’t that expensive.
And if families don’t want to feed their kids, then put the kids in a kid friendly place where they can be fed an taught some good values. It sure beats the gang infested areas we have today.
My heart has bled enough. It’s time to clean up our act. And this school breakfast program is worthless.
This is a continuation of the National School Lunch Program with changes intended to make the school lunches healthier. As a professional in the industry, I agree with some of the bill, have issues with some parts.
This is one area of the budget where the benefit ratio is very high. Low administrative costs as most of the funds in the NSLP are spent on food, not bloated federal salaries. All food dollars must be spent on US products.
The Soros model?
That’s nonsense.
How much does it cost do buy a few loves of bread and some peanut butter? How much does it cost to buy a couple of dozen eggs? How much does it cost to put some vegetables on the table and some cheap beef? How much does it cost to put some fresh fruit on the table?
The real problem is that parents are not tending to their own children. Lets face it. Lets deal with it.
It doesn’t cost thousands of dollars per month to feed your family. Those of us who spent part of our lives having to scrape buy, somehow found ways to make sure our kids ate well. And somehow we did it without government programs.
You talk about bang for the buck. It’s my buck asshole.
If parents refuse to take care of their children, put the children in a safe environment where they can thrive.
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