Everyone likes to pile on Michelle. I understand. We don't want to be told what to eat, and certainly not forced into choices made by government officials. (Except healthcare - we love that kind of force. We'll put up with any low level quality as long as it's "free!".)
You place healthy food next to junk, the kids are going to select the junk. Even the kids who have health-freak parents. why? kids love junk food. It's universal. Nice try Michelle. I don't disagree completely with her intensions and I personally am more comfortable with a first lady who cares about the health of our kids via nutrition than say a first lady who acts like a co-president and pushes HillaryCare. but that's just me.
OK - I am sick and tired of the word "conservative" and the word "conservatism". Can we find another way to describe a political philosophy based on personal freedom, responsibility, smaller accountable representative government? Rush and Hannity will not shut up using those words. The GOP needs to shed it's old image and find young new talent, and better words. I am sick of Rove and Malkin pushing the old stand-bys, cliché bromides, and watching while we keep losing. I want real hope and change, dang it all. -end rant. Sorry. Carry on.
Well, ricpic, I think it's counter-productive to call her that. I think she's a lovely woman. And she doesn't hog the spotlight. Sure, in the past she has stated some things that are nuts and I disagree with her ideology and I know it's the same radical left as her husband. But the Obama's seem like a nice family if you take them outside of politics and I think it's fair to offer them that much.
The left demand pure submission to climate change "science" and if you do not admit it's a fact, with a healthy salute, then you are a dancer denier dancer.
The left's language surrounding climate change would make history's totalitarians proud.
Of course the Obama's are going to live off the government teat for the rest of their lives. But they are not special in doing so. Look at the Clintons. They are vastly more wealthy that the Obamas. The Clintons have taken graft to record setting levels. Sure, the Obama's will more than likely catch up.
I guess I don't understand what about them could ever be or has ever been considered "nice". She hates this country. That alone should disqualify her from every getting another dime from us.
How nuts, that one woman in Washington, DC would decide what every child in the country should eat. It's ridiculous on it's face. Then when you see why this woman gets to decide this, it's downright banana republic. You sleep with the right guy and you get to decide what goes in everyone else's mouth? It's like something you would see in a Hugo Chavez dictatorship. Of course, I realize these are not good points in the face of "It's for the children!"
The intention of this was good. However, we all know w/ what the road to hell is paved. In liberal Madison they had a truck w/ fresh fruit and vegetables @ SUBSIDIZED PRICES, drive around the 'hood. Nobody used it. Back in the 70's, when I worked in the 'hoods of KC, black folk all had gardens. No more. Many immigrants have gardens, but not black folk.
Why not teach our kids about basic nutrition? Teach kids to read labels and understand basic concepts like the difference between carbs, fat and protein. What do various vitamins do? Perhaps this would aid in our obesity epidemic - also perhaps the kids who go down the anorexia path.
In the government run schools, all we get are cuts backs. Cut backs on the arts, cut backs on physical ed, cut backs on everything. Principals making hundreds of thousands even millions/year. Top heavy public school Administrators hogging up all the money. Then of course the unfunded pension liabilities that top the priority list to all the early retirees. Instead of spending our tax dollars on classes and courses and good teachers, most of the money is poured into the pension money hole and large salaries for higher ups.
I understand that there may be some children who do not have either the parents or the means to be able to pack a lunch from home. Those should be really very few.
When I was in school we packed our own lunches and there was not (that I can recall) a program to feed ALL the students. There was a cafeteria in the K-8 grade school and it was optional to buy a lunch. The days that we had spaghetti, were very popular. Otherwise, we brought lunch from home. Typical lunch would be a tuna fish sandwich, chips of some type, an apple or other fruit and a dessert like a couple of cookies or a brownie. Other times, baloney and cheese or PB&J. A thermos with some juice. No milk for me..lactose intolerant. We didn't know what that was at the time, buy we knew that milk made me ill.
In high school, we didn't even have a cafeteria. You either brought a lunch or used the vending machines. With permission, you could go off campus and buy a lunch at the convenience store or a few fast food places nearby or even go home for lunch if you lived close enough.
I see no reason that the Federal Government should be dictating first of all....that we feed all the students and second dictate what they can and cannot eat. But it appears we are stuck (for now) with this cradle to grave interference in our lives and in the schools.
I say: Butt out and let the local schools decide the menu and keep your paws off of the home made lunches. If I want my kid to eat something those food nazis don't like....screw you. It is my choice.
DBQ, I like your personal experience comments. Like yourself, we packed our own lunches. My parents were factory workers and almost always worked different shifts. We 4 kids become self disciplined and independent. We always had supper w/ at least one parent. and Sunday dinner was sacred, just like the Sopranos.
I would have loved a Coca Cola pop machine in high school. As it was I had to depend on my parents to provide 6 1/2 ounce bottles of Coke for me and they couldn't always be counted on.
Our high school cafeteria had a 60 year build up of rancid oil smell. UGH! I never ate one lunch in 4 years.
I don't know when vending machines were installed in schools but none of the schools I attended ever had one in the 60's.
Personally when I see all the food that's wasted in schools I would like to see the lunch programs administered by someone like Joan Crawford. What that kid doesn't eat is what he is served the next day and the next and so on.
Promoting states rights is the pathway back. If enough Americans start to see the waste and incompetence and the futility of dictating rules and regulations that involve federal over-reaches into every nook and cranny of our lives, we can turn the clock back.
But to do that, we must point out and mock these abject failures like the school lunch diktats ever chance we get.
We must reach a point where the majority question why the feds are involved in issues wit which they have no right to be involved.
My senior gets to go off campus at lunch this year so most lunch is either McDonalds or an iced coffee (frappicino?) at the Hard Back Cafe in the Hastings that is next to the school.
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Everyone likes to pile on Michelle. I understand. We don't want to be told what to eat, and certainly not forced into choices made by government officials. (Except healthcare - we love that kind of force. We'll put up with any low level quality as long as it's "free!".)
You place healthy food next to junk, the kids are going to select the junk. Even the kids who have health-freak parents. why? kids love junk food. It's universal.
Nice try Michelle. I don't disagree completely with her intensions and I personally am more comfortable with a first lady who cares about the health of our kids via nutrition than say a first lady who acts like a co-president and pushes HillaryCare.
but that's just me.
I feel a Rand Paul rant coming on.
OK - I am sick and tired of the word "conservative" and the word "conservatism". Can we find another way to describe a political philosophy based on personal freedom, responsibility, smaller accountable representative government?
Rush and Hannity will not shut up using those words. The GOP needs to shed it's old image and find young new talent, and better words.
I am sick of Rove and Malkin pushing the old stand-bys, cliché bromides, and watching while we keep losing. I want real hope and change, dang it all.
-end rant. Sorry. Carry on.
Well, ricpic, I think it's counter-productive to call her that.
I think she's a lovely woman. And she doesn't hog the spotlight. Sure, in the past she has stated some things that are nuts and I disagree with her ideology and I know it's the same radical left as her husband. But the Obama's seem like a nice family if you take them outside of politics and I think it's fair to offer them that much.
I'd also suggest, as the empty vending machine demonstrates, that kids wound sooner starve than eat health food.
I'm not so sure I go for the scolding tone of voice, but maybe it's virtuous as a public service to force to prominence the weaseling of Bobby Jindal.
For the children.
The left demand pure submission to climate change "science" and if you do not admit it's a fact, with a healthy salute, then you are a dancer denier dancer.
The left's language surrounding climate change would make history's totalitarians proud.
Scientists, like Al Gore, all believe 100% that CO2 is a pollutant.
Of course the Obama's are going to live off the government teat for the rest of their lives. But they are not special in doing so.
Look at the Clintons. They are vastly more wealthy that the Obamas. The Clintons have taken graft to record setting levels.
Sure, the Obama's will more than likely catch up.
I guess I don't understand what about them could ever be or has ever been considered "nice". She hates this country. That alone should disqualify her from every getting another dime from us.
^ever
How nuts, that one woman in Washington, DC would decide what every child in the country should eat. It's ridiculous on it's face. Then when you see why this woman gets to decide this, it's downright banana republic. You sleep with the right guy and you get to decide what goes in everyone else's mouth? It's like something you would see in a Hugo Chavez dictatorship. Of course, I realize these are not good points in the face of "It's for the children!"
Fried banana republics in the morning with a little cinnamon and butter. yum.
Her programs are being rejected in the very public schools the left own. It's kinda funny, actually.
The intention of this was good. However, we all know w/ what the road to hell is paved. In liberal Madison they had a truck w/ fresh fruit and vegetables @ SUBSIDIZED PRICES, drive around the 'hood. Nobody used it. Back in the 70's, when I worked in the 'hoods of KC, black folk all had gardens. No more. Many immigrants have gardens, but not black folk.
RACIST!!!
I guess she isn't as cool as the Messiah.
Why not teach our kids about basic nutrition? Teach kids to read labels and understand basic concepts like the difference between carbs, fat and protein. What do various vitamins do? Perhaps this would aid in our obesity epidemic - also perhaps the kids who go down the anorexia path.
In the government run schools, all we get are cuts backs. Cut backs on the arts, cut backs on physical ed, cut backs on everything. Principals making hundreds of thousands even millions/year. Top heavy public school Administrators hogging up all the money. Then of course the unfunded pension liabilities that top the priority list to all the early retirees.
Instead of spending our tax dollars on classes and courses and good teachers, most of the money is poured into the pension money hole and large salaries for higher ups.
I thought the left cared about our kids?
Not so much.
I understand that there may be some children who do not have either the parents or the means to be able to pack a lunch from home. Those should be really very few.
When I was in school we packed our own lunches and there was not (that I can recall) a program to feed ALL the students. There was a cafeteria in the K-8 grade school and it was optional to buy a lunch. The days that we had spaghetti, were very popular. Otherwise, we brought lunch from home. Typical lunch would be a tuna fish sandwich, chips of some type, an apple or other fruit and a dessert like a couple of cookies or a brownie. Other times, baloney and cheese or PB&J. A thermos with some juice. No milk for me..lactose intolerant. We didn't know what that was at the time, buy we knew that milk made me ill.
In high school, we didn't even have a cafeteria. You either brought a lunch or used the vending machines. With permission, you could go off campus and buy a lunch at the convenience store or a few fast food places nearby or even go home for lunch if you lived close enough.
I see no reason that the Federal Government should be dictating first of all....that we feed all the students and second dictate what they can and cannot eat. But it appears we are stuck (for now) with this cradle to grave interference in our lives and in the schools.
I say: Butt out and let the local schools decide the menu and keep your paws off of the home made lunches. If I want my kid to eat something those food nazis don't like....screw you. It is my choice.
DBQ, I like your personal experience comments. Like yourself, we packed our own lunches. My parents were factory workers and almost always worked different shifts. We 4 kids become self disciplined and independent. We always had supper w/ at least one parent. and Sunday dinner was sacred, just like the Sopranos.
I would have loved a Coca Cola pop machine in high school. As it was I had to depend on my parents to provide 6 1/2 ounce bottles of Coke for me and they couldn't always be counted on.
Our high school cafeteria had a 60 year build up of rancid oil smell. UGH! I never ate one lunch in 4 years.
I don't know when vending machines were installed in schools but none of the schools I attended ever had one in the 60's.
Personally when I see all the food that's wasted in schools I would like to see the lunch programs administered by someone like Joan Crawford. What that kid doesn't eat is what he is served the next day and the next and so on.
Promoting states rights is the pathway back. If enough Americans start to see the waste and incompetence and the futility of dictating rules and regulations that involve federal over-reaches into every nook and cranny of our lives, we can turn the clock back.
But to do that, we must point out and mock these abject failures like the school lunch diktats ever chance we get.
We must reach a point where the majority question why the feds are involved in issues wit which they have no right to be involved.
My senior gets to go off campus at lunch this year so most lunch is either McDonalds or an iced coffee (frappicino?) at the Hard Back Cafe in the Hastings that is next to the school.
It's going to be an expensive year.
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