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Obama wants school vending machines banned
ms DNC ^ | 2/8/10 | ap

Posted on 02/08/2010 1:06:43 PM PST by Nachum

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration will ask Congress to improve childhood nutrition by ridding school vending machines of sugary snacks and drinks and giving school lunch and breakfast to more kids.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the administration will seek changes when Congress overhauls the Childhood Nutrition Act.

"Our children deserve better nutrition, and our country's better and brighter future depends on it," Vilsack said. "And with the reauthorization of the Childhood Nutrition Act scheduled this year, there won't be a better time than now to act boldly."

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; foodpolice; machines; nakedemperor; nannystate; obama; obamalegacy; obamawants; obesity; parentalrights; school; vending
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To: Nachum

They should ban school lunches. You might as well be feeding your children from the dumpster.


41 posted on 02/08/2010 1:18:51 PM PST by StandUpChuck
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To: Nachum
HUSSEIN, IT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS WHETHER A SCHOOL WANTS TO HAVE A VENDING MACHINE. SHOVE IT UP YOUR HIND END, MEDDLER!
42 posted on 02/08/2010 1:19:22 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Nachum
Leave the machines. Ban the teacher's unions.

Seriously: local school boards ought to make these decisions, not the friggin' White House, which, if I'm not entirely mistaken, might have some more pressing business to attend to at the moment...

43 posted on 02/08/2010 1:19:28 PM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: hsmomx3

Vending machines are when there is NOTHING else available.....I used to eat an APPLE out of a vending machine (it’s all there was!) after gymnastics when I was starving and waiting for a ride home....they DO serve their purposes


44 posted on 02/08/2010 1:19:50 PM PST by goodnesswins (VOTE Democrat........DESTROY America)
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To: a fool in paradise

Yes, I think it is like 60% in our area in the major school district. And not only the free and subsidized lunches, but they have recently started giving free breakfast to all students. That would be, using our money. Or money that we thought was being used for textbooks, technology, etc.

Anyway, it is no business of the federal government to regulate vending machines on a local level, with one possible exception being inside of federal buildings.


45 posted on 02/08/2010 1:19:52 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: Nachum
"Obama wants school vending machines banned,"

OBAMA WANTS...

Anybody besides me tired of hearing that?
46 posted on 02/08/2010 1:20:43 PM PST by FrankR (The ones of us who love AMERICA far outnumber those who love obama - your choice.)
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To: Nachum
giving school lunch and breakfast to more kids.

At my kid's school, breakfast costs $1 and lunch is $1.75. That's for rich folks. If you're 'disadvantaged', it's somewhere between 50 cents and free.

They don't have vending machines, but if they did, the snacks would likely be in the $1 to $2 range.

If the cost of food was an issue at all, then nobody would put any money into a vending machine, because a bag of chips would run more than a 3-course meal with drink.
47 posted on 02/08/2010 1:20:58 PM PST by Question Liberal Authority ("My...health care plan is a Bolshevik plot... which will destroy America." - Barack Obama)
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To: bgill

In middle school I used to do exactly that, except it was mainly gum. Some teachers in our middle school would allow the chewing of gum in class, but many parents wouldn’t let their kids have it. So I used to buy 5-packs of gum for a dollar a piece and then sell each pack for 75 cents to a dollar. Then we got to high school where they had vending machines and I was out of business.

In the absence of a legal market there will be a black market.


48 posted on 02/08/2010 1:21:04 PM PST by Echo4C (We have it in our power to begin the world over again. --Thomas Paine)
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To: Nachum

Gay sex indoctrination is good... sweets are bad.

Teaching American history is bad..... Muslim tolerance is good.

Patriotism and prayers are bad.... teachers banging their students is good.

Gotcha....


49 posted on 02/08/2010 1:21:33 PM PST by Gator113 (Obama is America's First FAILED "light skinned African American [Pres-dent] with no Negro dialect..")
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50 posted on 02/08/2010 1:21:48 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" Obama 2/4/2010)
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To: throwback
Wow! Will there be a segment he hasn't p_ssed off by the end of his term? He is historic.

Don't kid yourself. Obama's devotees will worship him even as he puts them out on the street and puts a bullet in their grandma's head right in front of them. As for the vending machines, most leftists will agree with Obama, and even a lot of the dumb high school kids will rationalize this even if it annoys them.
51 posted on 02/08/2010 1:21:53 PM PST by fr_freak
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To: Nachum
Where in the Constitution does it give the federal government power to [fill in the blank]?
52 posted on 02/08/2010 1:21:54 PM PST by McGruff (Don't whine. Explain to me who I should support other than Sarah Palin.)
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To: bboop

He just thinks he is.


53 posted on 02/08/2010 1:22:22 PM PST by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: a fool in paradise

That’s very true, check out his “Race to the top” mandates. The creep literally wants to take over the entire school system and indoctrinate the kids with trash science like global warming.


54 posted on 02/08/2010 1:25:07 PM PST by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: Nachum
Now would that ban include Condom dispensers?
55 posted on 02/08/2010 1:25:53 PM PST by CAP811 (One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place)
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To: Reaganwuzthebest

He’s changed NASA’s charter intent to no longer look at OUTER space, but rather pimp the Global Climate Change message.

We use tax money to fund the lobbying agencies (that are corrupt and push a scientific lie) that we have to privately finance opposition against.


56 posted on 02/08/2010 1:30:27 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" Obama 2/4/2010)
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To: keep your powder dry

Yeah, they ban many school recess and PE activities; dodgeball, tag, chase, tackle-the-man-with-the-ball, etc., then they want to take out the vending machines because the kids are too fat. Typical liberal logic....TOTALLY ILLOGICAL!


57 posted on 02/08/2010 1:30:53 PM PST by Ranger Drew
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To: fr_freak

The kids will just go to costco and buy their M&Ms in bulk, keeping them in their locker all semester and eating even MORE than if they had to buy each pack individually.


58 posted on 02/08/2010 1:31:45 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" Obama 2/4/2010)
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To: Nachum

Sounds like a union demand to me.


59 posted on 02/08/2010 1:31:57 PM PST by Mobties
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To: CAP811
Now would that ban include Condom dispensers?

Yes, teachers will staple a condom to all coursework handed out so no student will feel "embarassed" about having to procure a condom or discuss sexuality. < /sarc >

60 posted on 02/08/2010 1:33:24 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" Obama 2/4/2010)
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