(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?
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!
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.
Anyone who wants to see what “Government Standards” do to the ability to serve healthy food should watch “Food Revolution”..
When the federal govt can say what is and what is not a healthy food (e.g. food we will pay you to serve) Potatoes get counted as vegetables (no doubt someone in a potato producing state pushed that one, I’m looking at you Idaho).
So a healthy meal *include french fries*
Watch food revolution, lobby your congress-critter to take control of the lunch room out of DC, and get engaged with your kids school about what they serve.
One cannot legislate the morality or health of another. What the Monkey woman is attempting to do is legally extort money from the taxpayer under the guise of helping children. What a sick individual.
“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 own conscience.”
I have a better idea:
(a) reduce Federal income taxes by $4.499,000 billion, leaving that money in the states, regions and localities where it came from,
(b) allow the difference - $0.001,000 billion to be spent on publishing “voluntary nutrition information guidelines” for schools and
(c) leaving 100% of the balance of the benevolent intentions to the states and localities to deal with however they chose (or chose not) to deal with.
If “we” have the money for this program, and if “we” want to give it a priority for it, there is no need to take the money for it out of the states and localities, give it to the corrupt swamp known as Washington D.C., return a portion of the money back to the states and localities as some sort of “gift” from Washington D.C. for this program, reduce local control and increase federal power; when all we need to do is make such programs ourselves in our states and localities - IF WE WANT TO. OR, spend the money on more pressing needs!!!
In my experience, the obese children I know live with obese mothers who sell their food cards for half on the dollar value and buy drugs.
This is nothing more than an attempt to extend federal control over every aspect required for survival.
These people in control of the government became the same pigs they bitched about in the 60’s and 70’s. The caveat being the reality that they shall now determine who is granted the privilege to be either a buyer or seller of everything required to survive. They control the banking system, they may have assumed control of the health care system; all that remains is control over your food.
This is nothing new.
We will likely submit to this to avoid mass mayhem.
I know these animals like I know every scar on my body. I also know that mayhem and bad actions are the only method to eradicate such varmints.
Instead of passing this expensive bill, why not collect unpaid income taxes that federal employees owe?
Just one question ... who the hell elected HER?