Posted on 07/24/2016 6:11:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
And the ongoing menu for the coming school year at Sidwell Friends School is...?
Nope, but we did have some good comfort food meals that today's kids will likely never see. Spaghetti and salad and garlic bread, chopped steak on mashed potatoes, great stuff. When I got to high school, I was amazed at what they sold during our “Nutrition” break in the morning. All kinds of popcorn, chips, sodas, etc., and some apples in a machine. I pity the kids stuck with Michelle's idea of a lunch, given that her kids dined like royalty at their school.
We had 2 soda machines in Jr. High and the Student Council sold candy at lunch. We walked to a small store and got chips and a soda for lunch everyday.
In HS we ate at burger joints.
I (vaguely) remember those days when everyone drank water out of the water fountain
and at lunch, free milk (chocolate went first) washed down lunch brought from home (that no one inspected for nutritional content). There were very few weeks when baked goods of a thousand kinds weren’t being sold from a hallway table to raise funds for the student newspaper, cheerleaders, all the different sports teams, home ec club, homecoming committee, Latin club, drama club, dance committees, pep squad, PTA, animal shelter, you name it.
Better than what you and I eat.
You are correct in that the Federal Government has no Constitutional authority to dictate policy to schools.
What the Feds do have is an Uncle Scrooge sized money bin.
Here the Golden Rule applies; i.e. “he that hath the gold makes the rules”. The Feds give schools money, contingent upon them following the Federal rules. If a school does not want to follow a Federal rule, it does not have to take the federal money. Our State school systems have been more than willing to prostitute themselves to obtain all the federal dollars they can get their hands on. As a result they willingly follow the accompanying federal rules. If the citizens of a state were willing to tax themselves to pay for their school system in its entirety, they could tell the feds where to shove their money and their petty rules.
Heck we brought sack lunches, and bought a 5 cent carton of milk and ate at our desks from K-8th. Didn’t see a cafeteria until I hit HS in 1962. And we had recess and were sent outside in good weather after lunch to a playground to run off excess energy or the gym in bad weather.
Grandson has LUNCH at 10 AM. MOOCH’s food gets thrown in the trash.
In case you aren’t aware of this, a major constitutional problem with the golden rule where the feds are concerned is the following.
A previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified the following about Congress’s power to appropriate taxes. Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, basically any issue that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, the power to tax and spend for INTRAstate schools in this example not among those powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
In other words, the only reason that the post-17th Amendment ratification federal government has the gold is because Congress stole it from the states, and continues to steal it, by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its Section 8-limited powers.
The states would probably have tons more state revenues to spend for things like school lunches if they wised up and got rid the unconstitutional middleman which is the corrupt federal government.
The federal government has ways to dictate policy and to reward friends.
Chobani - the yogurt company - just got a huge contract to provide yogurt to the country’s schools.
The man who founded Chobani is a Muslim immigrant. He’s brought many refugees here to work in his yogurt company - including the ones in Idaho who raped the five year old girl.
All well and good, except the Feds still have the gold and the states sell themselves for that gold, rules and all.
This situation will continue until voters wake up and use their voting power to put a stop to it.
Chobani does make a pretty good yogurt.
I am afraid there is little likelihood of that for at least the foreseeable future. Way to many American voters nurse at the Federal nipple.
Note that billionaire Trump has been paying unconstitutional federal taxes like everybody else. So given that Trump is elected president, I’m optimistic that under his leadership that citizens will wake up and support Trump in putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes.
Don’t disagree, but the way I see it, that is the way to hope, not the way to bet.
Uh oh.. There goes everything the cafeteria serves.
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