Do I want the government in my life? Absolutely not. At the same time, I feel that some FReepers are too hard on Michelle Obama. She’s trying to give blanket advice to make people healthier. I think she has the respect of many Americans and messages coming from her might get through (eat healthier, breastfeed, exercise, etc.).
I hate funding people’s unhealthy habits. My insurance costs are through the roof and I am sure taxes going to Medicaid are too. I don’t care how people live their lives, unless I’m helping to fund it. Until that stops, a little encouragement for people to be healthier is a good thing.
I think you and I deserve breastfeeding tax breaks, don’t you? Yours will be much bigger, of course, I’ve got about 10 years’ worth of compensation coming.
Heehee
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.