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Michelle Obama to Promote Breastfeeding as IRS Gives Tax Breaks for Nursing
politicsdaily.com ^ | Feb. 14, 2011 | Lynn Sweet

Posted on 02/14/2011 6:55:34 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

First lady Michelle Obama will be speaking out to remove barriers to breastfeeding, Politics Daily has learned, throwing the spotlight on nursing as a way to reduce childhood obesity.

This comes as the Obama administration in the past year has made several moves to encourage breastfeeding -- including a push for more flexible workplace rules and an Internal Revenue Service ruling on Thursday that breast pumps and other nursing supplies qualify for tax breaks.

Mrs. Obama -- who has spoken in public about nursing her youngest daughter, Sasha -- is going to tread carefully in what might be a sensitive area for some women -- and not use her bully pulpit to directly ask more women to breast feed.

"Breastfeeding is a very personal choice for every woman," Kristina Schake, Mrs. Obama's communications chief, told Politics Daily. "We are trying to make it easier for those who choose to do it."

Last week, Mrs. Obama touched on breastfeeding strategy at a lunch with 10 print reporters who cover her to mark the first anniversary of her "Let's Move" anti-childhood obesity campaign.

Looking ahead to what she will do in the second year of "Let's Move," Mrs. Obama said: "We also want to focus on the important touch points in a child's life. And what we're learning now is that early intervention is key. Breastfeeding. Kids who are breastfed longer have a lower tendency to be obese.

"We want to get into child-care centers, day-care centers, and start talking about how -- what kind of snacks they're getting there. We want to have those conversations at an earlier level. But those are just some of the things that you'll see."

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To: Free ThinkerNY

this is a joke right?!


62 posted on 02/14/2011 10:10:37 PM PST by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: CynicalBear

lol!

The IRS backs off and the EPA shows up!


63 posted on 02/14/2011 10:24:48 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
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To: MichaelCorleone; Free ThinkerNY
"...Michelle is so blasted ugly she could throw a jet plane in reverse..."

I'll play too: "That broad is so ugly, she could kick-start a 747!" ....................... FRegards

64 posted on 02/14/2011 10:47:22 PM PST by gonzo ( Buy more ammo, dammit! You should already have the firearms .................. FRegards)
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To: GeronL
Here I thought that breastfeeding would be taxable as imputable dairy products.

Plus, the FDA needs to make inspections to insure acceptable quality levels.

65 posted on 02/14/2011 10:47:30 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Can I be the breast-feeding IRS auditor? I’d settle for TSA Agent in the women’s opt-out line.

< / ewww yuck! >


66 posted on 02/14/2011 10:48:16 PM PST by Uncle Miltie ("And did you exchange a walk on part in a War, for a lead role in a cage?")
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To: All

A wet-nurse tax credit. Any let downs will be penalized.
Government in every nook and cranny now. EPA approves it and IRS taxes it.


67 posted on 02/14/2011 11:04:28 PM PST by Razzz42
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How amazing I nursed both of my kids and the government had nothing to do with my decision to do so. As a matter of fact I dont remember the government being involved in nursing not like Mrs. Obama is. I wish she would shut up besides why would I listen to her about childhood obesity as she puts it her kids were fat so what does she know.


68 posted on 02/15/2011 12:46:10 AM PST by funfan
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To: republicangel
Tell her to hang in there :)and I am sure the decisions she makes will be great and sounds like she has a helpful grandma when she is not sure and does not need MO or any government bureaucrat to tell her how to raise her child
69 posted on 02/15/2011 12:51:56 AM PST by funfan
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I think it would be really nice if Michelle Obama would focus on raising her own children instead of shoving her job off on her momma and leave us and our kids alone.


70 posted on 02/15/2011 12:56:49 AM PST by Nickname
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To: Nowhere Man

The WIC people are easy to spot at the store, just look for the ones who get 4 gallons of milk at once. One for them, and 3 for family and friends, on our dime.


71 posted on 02/15/2011 2:24:17 AM PST by GnuHere
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To: Free ThinkerNY

1) You get free breast pumps.
2) You must pump your breasts.
3) You must pump them a certain way - safely - or your children are taken away from you.

EASY! Now the government raises all the children because you can’t pump your breasts “safely” enough.

It’s all for the children.

Yes they can!


72 posted on 02/15/2011 2:47:28 AM PST by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: republicangel

God bless you and your family. That baby was born and the Universe is changed forever. It is my hope that your daughter and the little one are immensely happy together.


73 posted on 02/15/2011 4:14:45 AM PST by OriginalChristian ('Mittens 2012' - GUARANTEES Four More Years of the Hussein Regime...)
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To: elisabeth

What do you think of these?

Fundraising letter re: partial-birth abortion/medical records

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1725788/posts

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/michelle_obamas_patientdumping_1.html

So she’s big abortion and big baby?

When does she go after Susan Komen for giving to Planned Parenthood? (Hey, more post-abortive, breast cancer women to serve)

BTW, I don’t recall her having a problem with the hubby re: putting babies on the side to die in Chicago hospitals. Like he said, the woman paid for a partial-birth abortion, she’s entitled to a dead child... born alive or not.

But as you said, let’s ‘praise’ her for the good. Meanwhile, I pay for others ‘private habits’ with public tax dollars re: abortion.

It must be me.


74 posted on 02/15/2011 4:47:24 AM PST by AliVeritas (Pray. For all the latest, check out: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/)
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To: Tigen

re: regulation of breastfeeding

To be followed by licenses to have children.


75 posted on 02/15/2011 4:58:04 AM PST by AliVeritas (Pray. For all the latest, check out: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I can hear Mark Levin’s rant now and will love it. It’s all about liberty. They want to tell us what kind of toilet, shower head, car to use, eat smaller portions, regulate bake sales at schools and now breast feed your babies. Doesn’t that discrimate under moms who can’t brestfeed or who adopt? Get your noses out of our business!!


76 posted on 02/15/2011 5:04:52 AM PST by MomwithHope (Wake up America we are at war with militant Islam and progressives - 2 fronts.)
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To: MomwithHope

Does an aborted child benefit from breast feeding?


77 posted on 02/15/2011 5:15:40 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: baddog 219

GOOD ONE!


78 posted on 02/15/2011 5:51:27 AM PST by bitt ( ..Congress - either investigate Obama ...or yourselves, for complicity)
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To: Nachum

Would it be cheaper than WIC? And would it keep illegals from collecting WIC?


79 posted on 02/15/2011 6:17:22 AM PST by GailA (2012 rally cry DEMOCRATS and RINOS are BAD for the USA!)
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To: Nachum

We will PAY you for what nature equipped you to do naturally.


80 posted on 02/15/2011 6:18:46 AM PST by GailA (2012 rally cry DEMOCRATS and RINOS are BAD for the USA!)
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