Posted on 02/08/2010 3:39:11 AM PST by UAConservative
I went to school in central IL in 60s, and had essentially the same experience. If there were any vending machines anywhere, I was never aware of them.
We got some vending machines (4) when I was in junior high school. After that everybody had chocolate milk, fruit pies and ice cream sandwiches.
Maybe there's something to all this vending machine stuff but the decisision-making authority ought to be at the local school level, maybe the state level. Not the feds.
Sorry Michelle. How about battling illiteracy in the inner cities? Why not try that for awhile?
Honestly -- I really don't see how it's going to make a difference, since most kids will just bring junk from home or stuff themselves with crap after school instead.
It's an easy way to supplement their budgets. Then they send home notes to parents telling them that they need to watch what their kids are eating, that obesity is a problem.
My boss carries her diet coke around with her all day. She is never without it.
I know the feeling.
I am almost 65.
My mom was in an accident a couple of years ago, another driver rear ended her car, when telling me about it she kept referring to, "the old man that hit me", mom was 87 at the time.
She's 89 now and no longer drives......as long as no one tells her she can't.
EXCELLENT.
There is no right that children have to French Fries, Twinkies or SodaPopTonic!
After all, we don’t have cigarette vending machines in schools. So why these “foods” that are hard to metabolize, fatty, contain tons of toxic ingredients should be on sale in schools is beyond me.
I hope you are right. But do you really think the entire country is fed up with the nonsense that has been going on since the ‘60s? Maybe it is because I live in the NY area, but so many people are terribly liberal. I am praying for a revival that would turn men’s hearts to the Lord.
I think a voting majority is fed up with it. That's what I should have said. A voting majority, IMO, wants the adults with some life experience and common sense to take charge again.
Now that the corruption from leftist politics to pseudo-science globull warming scams to all the politically correct nonsense has reached a peak it is time to squash it back down and relegate it to the kook fringe where it belongs.
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