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Your spinning away again. Read my previous post. The Obama's feel it's their duty to tell school's and parents what to feed our children, who BTW live in STATES, but not a squeak about foodstamps going for fast food meals. I'm wondering why that is? THAT IS WHAT I'M SAYING. Interpret away.
They do not feel 'it's their duty'.
All first ladies get involved with something, and Michelle happened to choose nutrition for children.
Big woop..wtf?
Typical right-winger...wants to eat the cake and have it too.
no hope for you, buddy.
If you are taking my tax dollars to feed people garbage that will make them sick, and then your next step is to take more of my tax money so you can provide health care for the people that you made sick with my tax dollars, you better believe that I think it's my concern what others eat.
Why shouldn't fast food want to get on the food stamp gravy train ?
Food stamp usage hits a new high every month..that's millions in revenue for these places.
Don't worry though..taxpayers will pick up the tab.
If you are taking my tax dollars to feed people garbage that will make them sick, and then your next step is to take more of my tax money so you can provide health care for the people that you made sick with my tax dollars, you better believe that I think it's my concern what others eat.
Which I take to mean that you approve of the First lady encouraging children to eat more healthy food and less junk?
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Originally Posted by ChristineVA
I don't see Michelle Obama's quest to educate people about healthy eating any worse than when, I believe it was President Kennedy, instituted the Presential Fitness Program that forced all public school kids to pass these certain physical fitness standards so as to become more active and healthy. I was too young (not born) at the time that started so I'm not privy to the raging and gnashing of teeth that was going on over forcing us to adhere to a physical standard. But it certainly seems to be an accepted practice now.
Actually it was Eisenhower who started it, Kenndy carried it out. And I was there. No one was forced to do anything. We had gym glass (I think that's forbidden in schools now) and there were several things you had to do, like run a 100 yd dash, climb a rope, maybe do chin-ups or situps can't remember the others. Depending on how fast, how many or how far you did, you got one of three possible patches, the ordinary one the good one and the really good one, kind of like bronze, silver and gold. Probably the schools wouldn't be allowed to do it nowadays because everyone is a winner and the kids aren't supposed to have their feelings hurt by other kids being better at something than they are.
I have no issue with the elderly and disabled being able to get ready-to-eat meals. Many do not have the physical ability to properly prepare themselves a full meal. Far different than people who "have to buy" ready-to-eat or fast food meals because of laziness, "lack of time", or "convenience".
I guess you will have to provide some data of all these old timers dying from starvation because they can't prepare meals and how only now this will save them all. If they can't prepare a meal how the hell can they drive to the fast food place? I guess that doesn't matter.
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