FLOTUS on Deciding What Kids Eat: “We Can’t Just Leave It Up to the Parents”
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, December 13, 2010, 12:18 PM
CNS News reported:
Speaking at Monday’s signing ceremony for the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act”–a law that will subsidize and regulate what children eat before school, at lunch, after school, and during summer vacations in federally funded school-based feeding programs–First Lady Michelle Obama said of deciding what American children should eat:
“We can’t just leave it up to the parents.”
The law gives the federal government for the first time the authority to regulate the food sold at local schools, including in vending machines.
“When our kids spend so much of their time each day in school, and when many children get up to half their daily calories from school meals, it’s clear that we as a nation have a responsibility to meet as well. We can’t just leave it up to the parents. I think that parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won’t be undone each day in the school cafeteria or in the vending machine in the hallway. I think that our parents have a right to expect that their kids will be served fresh, healthy food that meets high nutritional standards.”
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tarpon commented:
Someone needs to get the pumpkins out of her butt.
ahem commented:
Yes, believe it or not, Michelle, you can leave this issue up to the parent. They love their kids like the state never can. Eff Off.
Atlanta Media Guy commented:
Now that they have passed it, can we find out what’s really in it? Besides vending machines, is McDonald’s and Burger King next? Hey Michelle have you been to Sidwell Friends School lately? I hear there are vending machines, at the school, with candy bars, cookies and those dreaded potato chips.
Chisum commented:
Yes, because FLOTUS is the arbiter of healthy eating. Just look at her.
She certainly is a role model for why one should make healthy food choices and avoid over indulging oneself.
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_DawJTCHuL3c/TQTj5OwuwJI/AAAAAAAAJdk/Ywpm4aU9b3A/article-1327192-0BEFF8AE000005DC-874_306x524_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_DawJTCHuL3c/TP41u6ZqLtI/AAAAAAAAJYg/_62hss1Ok7M/xhawaii610_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_DawJTCHuL3c/TPuND1RDAFI/AAAAAAAAJUc/u8uo2AMtZN8/the%20classic%20rearview_thumb%5B19%5D.jpg?imgmax=800
RandyChandler commented:
Michelle, you know what you can eat?
Rhonda commented:
I pity anyone who is on any kind of welfare right now.
retire05 commented:
Don’t you know that it is the socialist’s dream that they control your children? Gramsci wrote that in order to lead children into socialism, they must be taught that philosophy before the children are 12 years of age, or they will be lost.
So they will start by dictating what you childen can, and cannot eat.
Case in point: my best friend’s son is a champion gymnast. He was winning awards at age 13, and his medical care, and his physical health, were of upmost importance. At the time he was attending a public school, and one day forgot his lunch. Since both his parents were at work, she asked her brother to run to McDonald’s and get the kid lunch and deliver it to the school office for him. He did, but the school refused to give the kid the bag from Mikey D’s saying that it was unhealthy and created obesity in children. This kid has a body fat of 2%. TWO DAMN PERCENT. And because of how he worked out hours a day, his doctor recommended that he occassionally eat a high fat meal to prevent him from becoming too thin.
Now, the school just applied their blanket rule to every kid, no matter their BMI or what the parents thought was best. A week later, my friend pulled her kid out of public school, and started home schooling.
Mark1957 commented:
What is next, a ban on bringing your own lunch? This is tyranny by an out of control government.
kansas commented:
But wait, people are starving:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/12/13/food.insecurity.holidays.middle.class/index.html?hpt=C1
tommy mc donnell commented:
this sounds like that free country i was born into. people don’t have to go along with this if they don’t want to.
VaGal commented:
I guess this means they will start checking packed lunches like they do in the UK. I have already had a teacher refuse to let my son eat a mint I sent in for him to have after his snack to freshen his breath—because it was an “unhealthy piece of candy”.
Glen commented:
Did you actually listen to what she said? She’s not saying to over-ride what the parents are feeding their kids at home, but to ASSIST them by also feeding the kids healthy at school, not just stuffing them with whatever corporate-sponsored crap you can get the best deal on.
No wonder you have such a messed up country. Everyone is yelling at each other and no-one seems to be listening to what anyone else is saying.
squeaky commented:
well, i guess these folks won’t be too pleased. and i don’t believe higher income eaters go there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHNt9rXSsTM
BigKahuna commented:
Seabiscuit needs put out to pasture to graze or arugala ! Freaking bastages
Andrew commented:
A repeal perhaps in Jan 2013? Can we say homeschooling?
Paul_In_Houston commented:
Basically, the attitude of these arrogant snots can be summed up as,
“We can’t really leave anything up to you;
you’re just too damned stupid!“.
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Patman commented:
Glen,
“assist” my a$$. You gotta look at the big picture.
If Obama had his way, the only word you’ll see on the next voting ballot is “succumb”.
dwd commented:
If Democrats believe the Obamacare health insurance mandate is ok, then why don’t they implement food mandates? For every junk food item you purchase you must purchase a corresponding amount of vegetables. Or just put huge “taxes” (aka fines) on those who choose not to buy vegetables… tax that junk food. Or just ban all junk food, like Four Loko was arbitrarily banned, and put companies out of business. After all, everyone who is born HAS TO EAT and WILL BUY FOOD at some point in life… that’s the argument they used for health care services mandating insurance, so why doesn’t it apply to food? Of course the select chosen few will get food waivers and be allowed to buy junk food… you know Michelle likes her burgers.
All of this is going through their heads, it’s just finding a way to make it happen that’s the roadblock… fundamentally changing America, indeed.
Militant Conservative commented:
Socialism pure and simple. Revolution up, tyranny down.
Powder is dry
Madkangaroo commented:
Gosh Miz O, since bad habits start at home, why not dictate what we eat there as well? And remove everything from the grocery stores and replace it with granola, tofu and, of course, arugula. And please make us take our vitamins. And drink 8 glasses of water everyday.
Scratch a “liberal” and you’ll find a tyrant every time.
But seriously, has anybody else noticed that the demographic with the most health and weight problems is also the demographic that relies most on the government for support?
Seamus Me Boy commented:
I hate to agree with FLOTUS, but erring on the side of feeding the kids healthy stuff is how it has to go. (However, the control of vending machines and fundraisers etc, is over the top). I could see a kid in 25 years suing the government because they were fed unhealthy food that contributed to their clogged arteries etc. That unfortunately is the way os the U.S .
tommy mc donnell commented:
glen take a hike. no one that wants to live in a free country can think that politicans should have the power to tell the citizens what to eat. the purpose of government is to serve the citizens not to rule them.
Redwine commented:
Sounds like Moooochelle Antoinette is making a statement about he own lack of parenting skills. Hey, Moooo, we parents have the freedom to make the right decisions for our own kids! FO
squeaky commented:
“We can’t just leave it up to the parents.” much like john kerry http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/john_kerry_tax_relief_isnt_good_because_people_just_spend_their_money_howev/
it really does boil down to people who view themselves as our betters trying to convince us that they are.
http://www.xomba.com/effete_snobs_can_be_funny_until_they_make_public_policy
Rob Crawford commented:
“stuffing them with whatever corporate-sponsored crap you can get the best deal on”
WTF are you talking about?
School cafeterias serve GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED crap, typically the stuff the USDA couldn’t give away.
squeaky commented:
“I could see a kid in 25 years suing the government because they were fed unhealthy food that..” and deprive the trial lawyers?
Ladue Pundit commented:
Glen commented:
Did you actually listen to what she said?
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Glen, I listened to the First Lazy, and I think the jobs of PTO, School Board, and individual parents trump her “guidance.” Advice is not signed into a federal bill. That is a mandate.
archer52 commented:
The comment from Glen shows he doesn’t get it. Not his fault, many won’t.
First, we allowed the government to start feeding our kids, sometimes for good reasons because some parents do not care for their children. But instead of focusing on THAT problem we just let the government take over. Soon people got used to getting free food (both in school and at home). People are basically lazy and not too inquisitive so getting something for “free” is a good idea for most.
Now that the hook has been set, the line is tightening. The government will feed you, but only what it thinks you should eat. Complain and it will cut you off! What to do?? If you refuse to comply how long to you think it will be before penalties will be enacted to force you along?
Government control of anything should be met with skepticism and involuntary resistance. It is always the safer path to take.
squeaky commented:
when the fallible believe they’re infallible Definition of INFALLIBLE
1: incapable of error : unerring
2: not liable to mislead, deceive, or disappoint
they’re more interested in controlling the rubes.
IronDioPriest commented:
To be fair, it seems as if she is saying (clumsily) that because kids spend so much time in school, the efforts of parents to feed healthy meals to their own kids must not be undermined by the schools. A better way for her to have said what I think she meant would be “Parents can’t succeed with good nutrition if the schools pump their kids fulla crap.”
Nevertheless, the totalitarian bent exudes from her visage, and either she doesn’t realize how her words sound, or she does, and doesn’t care. Screw context and nuance. She believes that government is better positioned than parents to see to the health and nutrition of their own children. We don’t need this slip of the tongue to demonstrate that.
Oldsailor commented:
IronDioPriest, All first names of bands I enjoy. To be fair, it is not the Gov. responsibility to feed these children. It is the parents. Your first line states that somehow when a child goes to school it is the Gov. responsibility to care for them totally. It is not. It should be a place of learning, period. 30 years of incrementalism have trick us into abdicating our parental responsibilities. Reverse this practice or enjoy the nazi lifestyle.
Rayman commented:
There’s another facet to this program. It will be a great way to solicit campaign donations.
Give enough to the 2012 campaign (and some are guessing that “the one” will spend over a billion in his bid to be re-elected, in addition to zillions from other rentseekers) and suddenly whatever your product is will be mysteriously deemed “healthy” GE is particularly good at this when seeking more money for it’s make believe “green” programs. I’m sure Frito-Lay, Conagra and others will figure this out, though I suspect they have already. Certainly mandating salad bars will create a nice revenue boost for the manufacturers of pre-pack salads, such as Fresh Express. And after the sale, who cares if the kids eat it?
Oldsailor commented:
Rayman, good point.
IronDioPriest commented:
Oldsailor, I agree totally. In fact, initially I included in my comment how I found it offensive that they don’t even consider whether government should be feeding anyone at all, let alone what to feed them. But I thought my point was muddled, so I deleted that portion.
But you’re spot-on. We have to start looking at the constitutionality of every penny the government spends. The argument shouldn’t be over whether the government expands its role and control of feeding school kids, but rather, whether government has any role at all in feeding school kids.
Hell, we should question whether government should have any role in educating our kids in the first place. They’ve shown zero aptitude, and mediocre results.
bg commented:
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“We can’t just leave it up to the parents.”
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DINORight commented:
This is un-Constitutional. It needs to be taken on by the states, just like the ObamaCare mandate. The Federal government has no Constitutional authority to dictate what a state’s public schools feed the children, whether they accept Federal dollars or not. It is an over-reach of the Federal on the sovereignty of the states.
There is a huge cost impact to many states who can’t afford the financial hit right now to upgrade and purchase what would be necessary to comply with this dictatorial law.
Sue them. Stop this law. Parents and states need to unite against this attack on liberty!
KR commented:
Since the tax payers are usually footing the bill for the Obama’s par-tays and all, we should be able to dictate what the are allowed to consume. I’m sure these party nites are full of unhealthy foods.
jomojava the infidel commented:
The contents of what schools are putting into the stomachs of our children is one thing.
That, though, pales in comparison to the destructive power of what the government schools are force-feeding to the heart, soul and mind of our kids.
Betsy Ross commented:
Let me guess…no more fund-raising bake sales…they will have fund-raising vegetable stands…
yum-yum pass the broccoli…
USMC Thomas commented:
Is this program meant to “save the children” from having a big ASS like moochelle?
bg commented:
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Glen #12
ok, forget both sides, the middle, and even the parents for that matter, is it
Constitutional for the Government to legislate what kids can or cannot eat??
should that not be left up to the individual
states, ergo, the voters of said states??
btw, why were they allowed to restrict play which only results in enhancing
kids tendency to “fatten up” so to speak?? my bet is so they could institute
this legislation, and carry on with their Nazification (for lack of a better term
for “cradle to grave control”) of children agenda from there..
and how many kids do these faux elites
shrinks have all drugged up on Ritalin??
look, i applaud their ‘concern’ for kids eating healthy foods (creating healthy
jobs for their parents would be time & money better spent imho), but where
is their ‘concern’ for turning kids into Zombies?? talk about the war on drugs
& pushers, hell=O??
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Aunt Cranky commented:
What is healthy for one person is not necessarily healthy for another. Due to genetics my children could not eat a lot of starch or sugar and subsisted mostly on meat, cheese, eggs, and select low starch vegetables with the occasional treat. I made my own bread products with a high fat ratio. This kept them healthy. They hated the school lunches. And isn’t the government already dictating what those on the school lunch program already eat?
Bruce commented:
As I read this, marching down the city street outside my office in residential Dallas area was one of the ‘mobile vendors’ walking with a stick about 6ft high with cotton candy packages ringing his kiddy call bell. I am used the ice cream guys but this was a new one. Will Michelle target these guy next? Also, I bet that kids will be hitting the local 7 Eleven before, during and after school to get those ‘banned’ treats. Time to up the stock in Southland Corp.
Bob commented:
I think everyone here agrees that in the majority of places school lunches need improving. Does anyone know what individual states have done/are doing regarding improving school lunches? I don’t like having the federal government be a band-aid for every one of our nation’s woes, but I just wonder what have the states done?
It seems like with everything most states just renovate parks and wait for the federal government to fix most of the “big” problems. Most School food is pretty terrible (anyone going to disagree?). We do have childhood obesity problems (fact). Seems like this should’ve been addressed years ago.
retire05 commented:
Let’s see; an overweight woman, with thunder thighs, Michelle Obama wants to control what every school serves for lunch. Why bother to elect school boards? Why not just let the federal government [control] run our schools?
Oh, wait, maybe that overweight, thunder thighed woman would like to start with eliminating the purchase of junk food with Food Stamps. No more cereal where the first ingredient is sugar. No more Kool-aid, or Doritos. Nothing but healthy food.
Perhaps she could also tell us why children whose parents receive welfare, are the fattest children in the U.S.?
greenfairie commented:
Worry about your own fat butt before worrying about someone else’s.
Jim commented:
FLOTUS = Fat Lady Of The United States. It’s all behind her -
Reaganite Republican commented:
National security threat…?
Yeah, if you drop them out of airplanes onto population centers and/or infrastructure, I guess lol
Someone needs to tell this shameless hypocrite to shut her pie-hole
Her own rear end resembles the back of a bus
Daniel commented:
For the first time in my life, I am no longer proud there is a “first” lady in the White House.
Marisa commented:
This sounds like another liberal bubble about to burst. Kids get 2-square or 3-square meals a day at school, leaving all those food stamp allotments to pay for fun things like Cheetos and ice cream. Why do I thing child obesity is going to increase?
Yankee Running Dog commented:
Dear FLOTUS, POTUS, and CongrUS . . .
Mind ur own business & get the #$!! out of my life.
Sincerely,
YRD
bg commented:
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re: #42 & Aunt Cranky #43
re: [And isn’t the government already dictating what
those on the school lunch program already eat?]
evidently not if the following is true..
The law gives the federal government for the first time the authority to
regulate the food sold at local schools, including in vending machines.
re: genetics
Population Control: The Eugenics Connection
Eugenics and Bioethics
Taking Eugenics Seriously: Three generations of ??? are enough?
Euthenics
“If the upper class is able to give it’s children, grandchildren more and more
genetic advantages, they will move away form the people who are naturally
born..” ~ Lee Silver
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Granny commented:
I don’t think that it is any of government’s business to decide what citizens and their children do or do not put into their mouths.
That said, we flatly refused to allow my granddaughter to eat school “lunch” because it was worse than McDonald’s – and I’m not kidding. The local school system farmed it out to some third party. Every single meal they served had potatoes – often french fries or tater tots. Huge amounts of fat, little or no fresh vegetable – or even vegetable. The teachers complained, over half the parents refused to purchase lunch for their kids and nevertheless, year after year. . . .
Mad Hatter commented:
I hope you’re all book marking these stories to email others in 2012 to remind people the control freaks these people are.
bg commented:
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Bruce #44
my kids, some of whom have kids with kids of their own now, always hung
at 7-11 before during & after while in high school.. also wiling to bet there
are probably more 7-11′s abutting school properties throughout the nation
than pedophiles..
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Shawnet commented:
So entertaining to hear FLOTUS tell us we are unable to feed our children healthy food. I cook from scratch (thank you Mom and Grandma ;o) and enjoy it. I also realize savings on my food bill because I do this.
Based on what FLOTUS said, since she is also a parent (at least some of the time based on her travel and social schedule), we cannot leave this up to her because she & BO are parents too. What a conundrum eh?!
Finally, you have to laugh listening to this idiot – there were 6, yes I typed 6, different pies for their ‘family’ Thanksgiving meal. Our family of four had 1and it was delicious the next day too.
Merry Christmas to all ;o)
squeaky commented:
how much of this originated in the wonderful woolly world of entitlements. poor/dismal parenting skills. referring families to the social service unit for their food choices was usually screened out. usually a dismissive point that just because you don’t consider their choice of food to be the best – everyone lives their life differently. decades of someone saying that you can’t dictate how people live their lives have brought us to where we are today.
bg commented:
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squeaky #25
John Kerry: Tax Relief Isn’t Good Because People
Just Spend Their Money However They Want
OMG!! and aside from his traitorous lying past,
he ran for Prez in 04.. thanks again GWB!!
seriously, what does it say about US when men the likes of John F ‘n’ Kerry,
Tubba Kennedy, Mealy Mouth Murtha, or KKK Bryd, etc, are allowed to hang
around until they literally drop, not to mention the O in the Oval Office..
TERMLIMITSPLEASE&THANKYOUVERYMUCH!!
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Militant Conservative commented:
New meaning to mad cow disease.
bg commented:
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squeaky #58
imho all of it & none of it via the mind set of
Utopianists aka: the control freak elites!!
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invisibledude commented:
Excuse me hipalicious, just because YOUR constichenzy is too DUMB to feed THEIR kids, don’t mean the rest of us are…………
bg commented:
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correction re: #58
stated that wrong, all of what is going on stems from one source..
liberalism, whch tended to be more of a good thing many moons ago.. irony is, in trying so hard to be righteous, liberalism has not only reversed course, but has literally morphed into the oppressive monster it was (more or less) founded to defeat..
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Landry commented:
Kids are sitting around all day on puters and doing video game stuff. Not too many kids are playing outside or anything like that anymore. Sure some might have gym in elementary school or middle school, but that’s usually only for a hour-ish. After school programs that encourage exercise should be addressed.
bigL commented:
maybe the problem is offering food at school. Times have changed. There are
more things available now and more info. I can’t remember my mother fixing
breakfast for me. I recall my sister making me lunches. I think I made my own breakfast
starting at about 7th grade.
So this is the monster that has been created. Might have sounded good at one time 40 yrs ago
Buffalobob commented:
Each time a school child eats a Twinkie, Mooshell’s butt widens by 1 dress size.
Bunni commented:
This psycho bimbo should keep her meddling out of our business. Parents have been doing a great job with their children (unless they are deluded liberals) for centuries. This is the beginning of controlling us more and more. She needs to follow her own advice and go on a diet.
I cannot stand this embarrassment of a “lst lady”. She’s no lady, and she’s not first in anyones book, unless it’s first on the list of being supremely annoying. Gaaaaaaa, make mooshell go away, please dear Lord.
rbosque commented:
“We can’t just leave it up to the parents.”
Who the hell do you think you are? I raised my kids the way I wanted, to be responsible citizens and to always think of others.
PISS on you and your Kenyan husband!
joe commented:
Are our children’s diets considered interstate commerce too? Isn’t the regulation of school lunches a power left up to the school district? or the state government at the least… Or is the regulation being tied to the money? Regardless, as much as this will try to be spun as trying to prevent school’s from undermining parent’s dietary efforts, the real effect here is another massive expansion of federal power and entitlements. If parents have issues with the food’s being offered to students, they can take it up with their local school board. The federal government doesn’t need to get involved.
bg commented:
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mean time, it’s been signed into law..
guess we can go back to sleep until they sign the next anti-freedom
legislation, well, that we’ll hopefully know about at any rate.. *sigh*
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tj commented:
Where is the constitutional authority for the Federal government to do such a thing?
Time to call Virginia’s Attorney General (again)!
VeryConcerned commented:
The one term president is looking very smug with his nose up in the air like the elitist wannabe he truly is. Two pathetic marxist hypocrites!
Taxpayer1234 commented:
Michelle, NO ONE gets between MY child and her ICE CREAM! Bugger off!
PJ commented:
They don’t care about health — they want to take over and raise your kids to be good little leftists.
wanumba commented:
The government is pushing hard for longer school hours and year-round classes, no summer vacation. The Left is manuvering to institutionalize the upcoming generations. They are already conditioned to accept survelliance cameras, police searches, and prison terminology like “lock-down” and “community service.” The school’s reach into the total control of students includes HOURS of after-school homework requirements. Students are being exhausted by demands on theri time without declining progress to show for it. European students spend less time in school, have more subjects, less homework and are a year to two years ahead of American kids.
We have an epic fail of individual responsibility due to the seduction of “free services” like busing, after school care and meals. The costs of “academics” are a fraction of the total costs of “education” today. Busing, cafeterias, payrolls larded with “experts” like school psychologists and administrators take the lion’s share of the school budgets and add nothing to academic achievement.
In this day and age when everyone has a car, usually two or three, parents are perfectly capable of dropping their kids off at school themselves and making sure they have their meals IN HAND. It’s a national disgrace this generation of parents is conditioned to expect schools to do this job for them.
The Left is positioning to take FULL advantage of this abdication of parental duty.
It’s a fact of institutional life that it looks good on paper, and may start all fine, but the reality of budgetary restraints and GRAFT as a % of money meant for food is pocketed will be what cafeteria’s are infamous for: disgusting and poor quality cheap food. The ONLY solution to the inevidability is decentralizing meals responsibility back to the parents, where it should have been all along.
truth teller commented:
Anyone find it hypocritical that a fat woman is trying to tell the rest of us how to eat???
S. Wolf commented:
Republicans to slaves: You are free Americans dependent on no master, and you are responsible for yourselves and your children.
Democrats to Americans: You are slaves dependent on the Master in Washington, D.C., and you are not responsible for yourselves and your children.
Rancid commented:
Fascist, and the left for 8 years claimed Bush was a Nazi!
bg commented:
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wanumba #76
just a hint of the ever expanding steps since Obama enlisted the youth..
“this is what i wear”
[In 2005, City Year launched its first international site, City Year South Africa. Located in Johannesburg, 200 corps members serve in 18 primary schools through after-school programs in literacy, life skills and tutoring, as well as service projects to reclaim and brighten school spaces. In addition to serving the Johannesburg community through high-quality service-based community projects and after-school programs, City Year South Africa has also helped its City Year corps members realize a brighter future through excellent placement rates in professional employment, apprenticeships, and universities.]
“mandatory service”
“i am change”
actually, it’s not as bad i think it will be, oh wait..
fact is, it will only get worse when the Islamists take over..
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Mary commented:
The problem with “Liberals” is that they think that change works from the outside- in, the food, the vitamins, the arugula, the re-distribution of wealth, the external fixes, instead of working from the inside-out and humbly shining the light on themselves as they really are, what the thought processes really are. (A great philospher once said that, “As a man thinketh, so is he.”)
It didn’t look good for America when waffles were more important to the president than answering questions asked on behalf of the American people.
Andreas K. commented:
Glen, because the government knows better, right?
Like in some EU countries where certain fats are not allowed to be used anymore because they might cause cancer. Lovely logic. Fact is, we would all get cancer at one point. That’s a fact. Every human would eventually die of cancer. Just most of us die before it hits us.
Or like the EU decided that everybody must use “energy-saving” light bulbs, which are crap compared to the old style ones, but since the “save energy”, the EU said everybody must use them.
The list is endless.
The government in the EU is already infringing on people’s rights left and right. Now the jackasses in DC are copying exactly this. And Michelle Zero is one of those trying to sell it as a good idea.
Guess what. It’s a LOUSY idea.
Yes, you leave such things up to the parents. It’s their job. If I was in the US, I would take my kid out of school right now. Home schooling. Period.
Sadly, this is outlawed over here.
ogee commented:
That’s right. When the kids are eating in the public school cafeteria you better not be feeding them junk food. No twinkies and ding dongs for desert either. No soda that rots your liver.
Don’t feed my kids this junk on school premises while under your control. Carrot sticks and celery and mineral water is good enough for a snack.
And heavens sake charge something for it to show the kid nothing is for free. 10-50 cents will do. Long as it’s something. Give them a sense of pride. Come on.
ogee commented:
Oh and she’s not fat. She just has woman’s curves. get real. we do not like them but get real.
they are regulating what the workers can feed my kids while on the public premises. Don’t feed my kid crap that makes them bounce off walls from too much sugar and gives them ADD.
Well that’s a bill that is not that bad. The parents can’t be running to school and checking to see if their kids are getting fed junk food. I don’t want my kids eating junk food so pass a regulation for school dieticians to follow. No fake food commonly called junk food. It has no nutritional value and causes disease. Cafeteria food is some of the worst shet in the world. Yeah I can go for this new menu for sure. Eyes wide open. exit center
Chisum commented:
Because developing a sense of entitlement is part of the leftist plan and needs to be developed early.
Britain’s Left Are Panicking
London’s descent into anarchy over a rise in university tuition fees shows just how deeply the entire leftist enterprise relies on its takeover of the university system.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/12/britains_left_are_panicking.html
Chisum commented:
“Women curves”
aka
“Does this princess make my butt look big?”
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=32003
Militant Conservative commented:
Ogee your either sarcastic or a dunce.
Anonynonna commented:
Parents can’t pack a lunch for their kids? It never occurs to Michelle that that is the solution. Important busy people such as herself apparently must hand their kids money and trust a school to feed them.
Admit it, Michelle Antoinette, you are trying to circumvent the problem of parents who are too stupid, too ignorant, too lazy, or too busy partying to pack a bag lunch for their children.
Why are kids now getting breakfast, lunch, and sometimes even dinner at schools? And aren’t the parents of most of these kids getting Food Stamps? What are these Food Stamps being spent on?
And there’s no way to guarantee that kids won’t toss those healthy lunches in the trash.
Let’s open some well run orphanages and put these children in them. Get them away from their feckless parents who can’t produce a healthy bag lunch. Such people are not capable of raising children — why are kids being forced to spend every evening and weekend with such worthless adults?