[SheLion]

A group of dedicated health BIG BROTHERS

[SheLion]

See? Governor King can't find money for the budget, so who is funding this hog wash??!!!

It's a wonder any of us made it this far with all the Big Brothers in Maine telling us we: aren't eating right: we drink too much: coffee is bad smoking is bad...........give me a break. These "health specialist’s have nothing better to do with their time???

[Maceman]

When I was a boy in school, the big issue in every student election was a promise to get soda machines into the school. It never happened, even though candidates for student government would inevitably promise it in their campaign speeches.

From 1st grade through high school, 1955-1968, no public school in my town (Scarsdale, NY) ever saw a soda machine.

I'm surprised to hear that they have since become so ubiquitous that the health nazis are trying to get them removed.

[ResistorSister]

I stopped drinking pop/diet pop about three weeks ago and I have dropped six pounds.

Also, for years, I've been plagued with Migraine Headaches...since I've stopped drinking pop...I have not had a single Migraine (of course...I will have to give it a few months before I make a REAL claim that the debilitating headaches were connected with soda pop.)

If BIG BROTHERS help kids take off extra weight - then it is a good thing.

[Biblebelter]

There is a dirty little secret here. Someone is making big money with these vending machines. Often it is a fund under the principal's control. Not that the money is going into his pocket, but it is under his control and gives him power to spend the money pretty much at his whim. I am not against vending machines on a high school campus, but there should be some common sense involved in how many and what products they sell. In some schools the vending machines are exploitive of a captive audience, in order for some bureaucrat to accumulate a slush fund which gives him petty political power in a system in which what best serves the student is usually the last priority.

[The Great RJ]

First cigarettes and tobacco and now "unhealthy" food... not to mention banning guns and SUV's. This is a perfect example of liberalism. We the great unwashed are just too stupid to make the basic decisions of our daily lives and the educated few must pass laws to protect us from ourselves.

[lds23]

While the rest of the country spends millions to buy water from Maine?

[luckystarmom]

Actually, I think there shouldn't be soda machines in schools.

I think the schools should promote healthy foods.

I think that parents have a right to figure out if a child has soda or not, but the parents can't monitor what goes on at a school.

[JimVT]

Well...we've got do-gooders on both coasts, ain't we?

See the article on "Berkeley bans PC coffee" elsewhere on FR

[Rebelbase]

Schools should be allowed to have student vending machines that sell condoms, coffee, sodas, twinkies, cigarettes and OTC meds. After all thats the Libertarian way.

[GailA]

Another reason to BROWN BAG it.

[Old philosopher]

On July 3 in the Lincoln County News there was an article about SAD 40 adopting this kind of program. All sodas and drinks containing sugar are to be removed from the vending machines in this District! Big Brother is now telling children what they may or may not eat or drink.

If ever there was a Marxist Socialistic School Administration this one fills the bill. Of course tha SAD 40 has a long history of Marxist Socialist policies, I will not even attempt to enumerate them, but one of the latest actions was, that after the voters voted down the astronomical budget two weeks ago, rather than offering a lower budget figure to the taxpayers, the SAD board actually introduced and rammed through at a "District Meeting" ( attended primarily by SAD employees ) an increase in the budget. How is that for an IN YOUR FACE attitude on the part of the Board of the SAD?

This sort of action by the board has been typical of the board over the last twenty years. Anyone who speaks out against them is castigated and all but run out of town. I was on the receiving end of that a few years back. Get on the wrong side of these Commissars and they will attempt to destroy you. It's "for the children" you know. If you dare to speak out they will accuse you of trying to deny "the children" an education

By the way this is a school district where a considerable number of children graduate from High School, unable to do simple arithmetic, and functionally illiterate.

[KevinDavis]

I'm getting sick and tired of people telling me that I can't drink soda, I can't eat meat, I can't drive a suv, or I can't enjoy life at all!

[lodwick]

Happy Birthday President Bush!

Don't miss this one.

[Paulus Invictus]

Do you mean I should sell my Pepsi stock? Will Maine doctors and dentists sue for lost business? (actually my dentist said that he loves the candy store next to the local school--keeps him filling teeth). My osteopathic, bone-setter specialist also said he truly loves roller blades, skateboards and dirt bikes. He claims that fully one half of his business comes from accidents involving people using this "fun" sports equipment.