Posted on 02/15/2010 2:54:07 PM PST by AJKauf
Last week, President Obama signed an executive order aimed at childhood obesity and placed his wife, Michelle, in charge of the effort. Apparently bored with giving first lady-type speeches, and digging up turnips and spinach in the White House garden, Mrs. Obama will head up a national campaign tabbed “Let’s Move.”
To be clear, fat kids are nothing to be celebrated. Obesity among children is connected to all sorts of aliments, including heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, asthma, and diabetes. There is little disagreement about this.
But beyond encouraging healthy behavior, what is the government’s role in decisions that rightly belong to families? I argue there is none.
In announcing the White House initiative, the first lady described how she dealt with her own children’s supposed weight issues, which included making sure her daughters ate more vegetables, drank more water and milk, and viewed less television. So, by her own admission, the solution for her family’s issues was more parental responsibility for her children’s food choices. What her approach didn’t include was the involvement of the government.
But that’s exactly what Mrs. Obama is suggesting for the rest of us, since she seems to think the unwashed masses are unable to do what she did — step up, accept parental responsibility, and make the right decisions for our families.
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“Let’s Move”? I wish they would. Right back to Chicago.
If it's BACK TO CHICAGO, I am totally on board with her "Let's Move" campaign. Make sure you take BO and BO with you.
She is probably right in many cases, but that still does not mean the gubmit has any right to interfere in the lives of the American family.
Is that fat Czar or Fat Czar?
You can bet it involves our money.
The Fat Czar, at least that distinuishes her from all of the Marxist ones.
Ha! Her butt is so big when she backs up she beeps!
A leaner, meaner Czarina!
A lotta Big Fat Mommas gonna be real happy bout this cause they gonna be able to eat that leftover food they ain feedin to the lil chilrun!
She’s also the Ugly Czar.
“Let’s Move.”
From one end of the couch to the other?
She should start with her own fat ass.
FLOTUS Motorcade has two of them outrunner escort pickups with the lights and signs ——CAUTION ! Wide Load Ahead!
Now that he has charged his wife with rooting out all the fat people, maybe he could just designate himself for the job of rooting out all the Bolsheviks.
Another day, another lecture from someone who wants to tell everyone what to do.
It is a big caboose!
What does the government plan on doing through “Let’s Move”? How will they interfere exactly?
Ohhh, way too easy.
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