Watch out people! These are real killers!
Checked out any College course catalogs lately?
He always had a (vitamin enriched) beverage, a sandwich usually of meat, cheese and lettuce [sometimes tomato], another item such as yogurt, jello w/fruit or just some fruit or cheese crackers and a "dessert" [ah, the sugar]. Something to look forward to at lunch. No, no, not good [realizing some children shouldn't have sweets, all children had to suffer].
Mommy-state, save us from ourselves please!
Everytime cigarette taxes are raised, I want a corresponding increase in the taxes levied on ice cream.
And after that, I want a study done on the dangerous chemicals in hair dye.
Anything to keep the kid from seeing his parents as his providers... and to convince him or her the state shall provide.
If Australia does this it will eventually grow to be the same monstrosity it is here.
My lunches were in a small cooler and I wouldn't have traded it for anthying in the world. My folks usually put an egg, peanut butter (*dreaded right-wing killer peanuts, now banned), or ham sandwich (*Islamic terrorist deterrent) , or even shrimp we'd bring back from the Gulf; fruit, salads, a thermos of soup and I'd buy milk or bring tea. Once in a while mom would make strawberry pie and throw that in. Beats the heck out of the filthy substandard crap the cafeteria was serving.
I thought this story was about some stupid, ignorant Aussies pissed off at Kevin Smith.
Lenin learned early on that if you have the ability to ration a commodity your social control is limited only by the necessity of that commodity to human life. Medicine is certainly high on the list, exceeded only by food and on a par with shelter and warmth. It is no accident that collectivists seek ultimately to control the distribution of these very commodities, that control is better than chains.
Here we have no less than a demand to control both food and medicine. Where participation is voluntary these guidelines are only that, where participation is mandatory those seeking to make it so are after something quite other than diet and hygiene, they're after power. Hence Hillary-care.
There is nothing illegitimate about the claim that if society has to pay for something collectively it has a right to control its distribution. What is illegitimate is the idea that the collective is the only permissible source of such payment, and hence the only permissible means of distribution.
This is why socialism always leads to statism - it is inherently a less efficient mechanism of distribution and must therefore be mandatory or it fails. Although more efficient, the free market involves inequities of distribution, and is therefore "unfair" according to collectivists. "Fair" in this sense means equal poverty, "unfair" means unequal wealth. What is at issue here is a very great deal more than school lunches.
Watch out people! These are real killers!