Posted on 08/03/2014 9:34:08 AM PDT by Innovative
Absolutely correct. Eat our way or be fined thousands of dollars and
if you do not pay we'll come after you with SWAT and kill your Dog!
Add to that every single alphabet soup agency under control of the executive branch, and you get the idea.
And is that not the crux of the matter, that school districts cannot survive without Federal Funds because that entire sector has been FEDERALIZED! Ever since Eisenhower established the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) in 1953, the government has been usurping the formerly sovereign community and state controls and funding of education. Now, with the Education Department that was separated from HEW by Jimmy Carter, the country is entirely a top-down federal control and money operation save only for 'Private' schools who have fewer regulations to follow and less Federal money!
Of course the fact that the professional educator unions championed this movement has meant that the liberal and statist mindset has permeated the entire process. Thus one bake sale too many will give power to a federal oversight bureaucrat to force the offender to bend-the-knee and touch their forelock at their feudal master's bidding! That is right, we no longer have Federalism but a burgeoning return to Feudalism! Wonderful!
Ok, so write on the ziplock baggie that the 3” square brownie inside serves 4.
More specifically, regardless what FDR's activist justices wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress's Commerce Clause powers when the Supreme Court wrongly decided Wickard v. Filburn in Congress's favor in 1942, a previous generation of Constitution-respecting justices had clarified that the states have never delegated to Congress, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate commerce, campus bake sales an example of intrastate commerce.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
As a side note concerning the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, please consider the following. The states would sure be a dull, boring place to grow up and live in if parents were to make sure that their children were taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood. /sarc
Thomas Jefferson had put it this way:
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
In fact, forget about traditional salesman / sucker cliches like "buying the Brooklyn Bridge." Voters now have to deal with the problem that they have foolishly traded their votes for constitutionally nonexistent rights, federal spending programs and restrictive federal regulations likewise based on constitutionally nonexistant federal government powers.
Cutting funding is a penalty. Any sort of promised action that is negative in nature is a penalty
That said, it's the reason the statists have worked so hard for the feds to "give" or "grant" monies to the states for various projects. It's a very effective end around the 10th amendment. Once the states are addicted to feeding on the federal teat, they become willing to take all sorts of orders to keep the "free" money coming.
You summed up the whole point very succinctly.
It is time (indeed, past time) that the states tell the fed’s to stuff it!
Obamacare will be the vehicle by which every American’s food purchases will be monitored and regulated.
The excuse will be that obesity raises the cost of Obamacare and so your diet will be monitored by tracking and taxing the foods you buy.
I have no doubt this will occur.
Obamacare will be the vehicle by which every American’s food purchases will be monitored and regulated.
The excuse will be that obesity raises the cost of Obamacare and so your diet will be monitored by tracking and taxing the foods you buy.
I have no doubt this will occur.
People should go to their School Board meeting and ask the members why they are sacrificing all autonomy for 20%.
Wrong. The schools can and will be forced to comply
Here is a fine for you...
http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/11422-feds-fine-school-$15000-for-selling-soda
All EBR schools are giving free lunches this year. 100%.
The Feds effect on the students menu. http://foodservice.ebrschools.org/eduWEB1/1000003/docs/sfs_school__meals__are__healthy__meals-12712.pdf
I am always amazed the federal government comes up with names that ALWAYS winds up meaning the exact opposite...
Milk with every meal, but it is skim or 1%. ICK
Offering choices of milk daily at each meal: 1 % low fat white milk, skim white milk,
skim chocolate milk, and skim strawberry milk.
The law. From 2010. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/s3307/text
Only low fat mayo... ICK
Using only low fat mayonnaise to make ranch dressing for salads and for all food
preparation.
OK, what if the states don't give a darn about complying with Mochelle Obama dictates and don't fine the schools.....
Is Eric Holder going to sue the states... ?
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