Posted on 04/01/2012 2:24:56 PM PDT by raybbr
Gotta love the RINO’s.
The individual mandate allows the government to force you to buy what the leftists want. It could be anything at all.
Orange leafy vegetables?
Ugh
Re-education camp, I would imagine.
"Make your choice, kid: the carrot -- or the stick."
hammerheads
When the federal government can micromanage your kid's lunch and tell you what he can and can't eat, there is not much else that is not within it's gargantuan, grasping maw!
In 1776 the Americans had enough of King George. When are we current Americans going to have enough of King Gorge?
hammerheads
I am so glad we made it through school before the pinkos took over. Now all we have to worry about is family members being murdered by Obamacare.
take your veggies and shove em.
I want my Pizza
Not in our district. There are fresh fruit and veggies every day. There is one kind of canned fruit offered—usually applesauce—and at least two kinds of fresh fruits, BESIDES apples, oranges and bananas. There are fresh or steamed veggies or fresh salad (no iceberg allowed) as accompaniment. Right now the students are merely “offered” these and they don’t HAVE to take them. Next year, they will. Besides the government forcing more fruits and veggies, they are only “allowing” one kind of starch to be served per week. So, if there is spaghetti one day, there cannot be a dish with rice or potatoes until the following week. The students are already griping about all the rice and pasta being whole grain.
And, yes, the kids throw it out now anyhow. Is there going to be a lunchroom monitor who stands by the garbage cans to make sure they eat their vegetables? Good grief.
I am in the school quite a bit and am good friends with the food services manager. Even as libby as she is, she is shaking her head at this one. She thinks it is going to be the most wasteful program ever—and the proof will be in the trash cans.
And the taxpayers get to pay for it all. Yippeee!
Elana Kagan just got her answer for why “boatloads of money” from the federal government ain’t “FREE”.
In my state, PA, you need a high school diploma to homeschool. You also need to submit a curriculum plan to the school, a notarized affidavit too. Then you are required to keep a running log documenting 900 hours from August to May; at the end of the 900 hours you must take it to the school and have it examined and approved (or rejected, in which case you had better put the child in school at once or else they can contact CPS and bring charges against you for truancy). You also have to report to the school nurse about regular physical and dental exams. Vision exams in some grades. Vaccinations. Oh, and in some grades you have to have the child take state tests. This goes on until they're 17, the age at which compulsory attendance ends. Even after that, they can't get employment without the permission of the Superintendent of Schools, until they are 18.
I think that's all so far...but considering all that, I don't think having to report approved meals is too much of a stretch.
I guess the feds didn’t hear about the lunch revolt in Los Angeles schools this year when they started forcing them to take “healthy” crap.
It was usually meatballs, chicken or fish, plus a small mixed salad, plus mixed vegetables ~ usually soy beans plus parsnips plus carrots ~ all chopped up neatly. There's a juice drink, or milk, and a bun if you want.
If you were confined to a Swedish hospital that's what you'd get, and if you were in school, or many factories, that was it. You'd sit at communal tables.
More recently they've lightened up and allow more variety, but substitutions must be of equal or better nutritional value.
So, that's Sweden. Still, not everybody eats that diet ~ nor can they. But, it could be worse and that's where "the standard meal" came from.
Here in America it's not "worse" ~ in fact, it's better ~ too good ~ and something like "the standard meal' could be pushed off on the kids in school only with brute force.
This is just another reason to abolish the public school system.
Already happening. They're banned in Chicago and inspected in North Carolina.
This is satire, right?
Between not eating or Ding Dong or an apple...wild rice or pizza...orange juice or low fat chocolate milk...all tough choices. (Invest in black market food suppliers)
Wonder if they force feed kids with an IV when they can’t afford to pay the fine.
Just wait. Once the govnannys see the produce in the waste cans, they will hire their own produce police to make sure the kids actually eat. Remember hallway monitors? You think they pissed you off? Just wait for the lunch lunkheads.
I'm so looking forward to Revolution II nowadays. Yes, I'm willing to give all and get dead. I want our f**cking country back.
Wait till there is no food, period.
Methinks a bunch (tons?) of fruits and veggies are going to wind up in the trash next year.
They may force the kids to take it. But they can’t (at least for now) force them to eat it.
Another of the zillion laws we’ll need to repeal next year.
Not on my watch, brother. I'm liquidating this week and getting ready. I've had enough and going Galt.
Federal idiots. Where to begin?
First of all, the fedgov should not be requiring kids to buy fruit. True, they say fruit OR vegetable, but fruit has a high sugar content. This sugar triggers the production of insulin, the fat-storage hormone, in the body to eliminate high blood sugar and store fat. Fruit, therefore, actually can CONTRIBUTE to obesity.
Second of all, whole grains doesn’t cut it. For example, the glycemic index of whole wheat bread is only a little lower than the high glycemic index of white bread. Those “healthy whole grains,” especially wheat, can cause blood sugars to skyrocket, causing, you guessed it, insulin-driven fat storage and obesity. Since most whole grain stuff is wheat, the kids are still screwed.
Orange and green vegetable, and the trans-fat ban, are OK, but how many kids are going to pick the vegetable over the sweet, tasty fruit?
End result: the kids will still be fat. Thanks a lot Moochelle.
A real school lunch would emphasize meat, cheese, veggies and maybe even eggs, and it would lose most or all of the whole grains.
Of course we could just LOSE the school lunch program and let parents pack the kids’ lunches, the way it was meant to be in America.
Nanny State PING!
No, the bill info is in the first post.
bump
FYI
I never bought the school lunches - always brought my own or went to McDonalds or Burger King. Are the kids allowed to bring their own lunches? Are they going to monitor those as well?
They have no idea what people are talking about. They don't see any out-of-control federal government intruding into the most remote corners of our lives.
They think any complaints on that issue are nothing but right wing paranoia, or worse.
Am I correct in assuming that students won’t be allowed to pack lunches with them?
ping to 71 and the OP
“Next year, students can buy only nonfat flavored milk or 1 percent white milk. Half of the grains must be “whole” next year. In 2013-14, all products must be whole grain.”
One of the SC justices main arguments against obamacare is that it would give the govt. the power to make people buy broccoli. Looks like the govt. already has that power. So that argument goes out the window.
Equal split 3 ways
GOP now works for Obama, I see.
What is sick is when you see supposedly republicans smiling while they pass this imposition saying “now we will finally see our kids eat healthy” as if we should somehow be thankful for the dictates they are shoving down our throats.
Gee Thanks masters I would never have figured out how to live healthy if you didn’t FORCE me to do it... *rolls eyes*
All you can do is take names, primary them, and if their bad enough let the traitor fall before the democrats in the general.
” Gee Thanks masters I would never have figured out how to live healthy if you didn’t FORCE me to do it... *rolls eyes*
Yeah, the really believe that they are our masters.
” Gee Thanks masters I would never have figured out how to live healthy if you didn’t FORCE me to do it... *rolls eyes*
Yeah, the really believe that they are our masters.
Thanks Obama, now all that discarded fruit will be used as projectiles.
“When we will stop these cretins?”
They better be stopped on the first Tuesday of November 2012, or there might not be another chance....
Time for all the kids to brown bag it.
I was in the supermaket the other day and a young lady asked my help with finding some tortillas. She had a list in her hand and pointed out that she had to buy ‘whole wheat’ tortillas.
At first I thought it was just a handwritten shopping list and maybe she was picking up some things for a neighbor, but then I got a better look at the list. I was a printed list, from the gubment, that told her she couldn't buy corn tortillas or (white) flour tortillas, she had to buy whole-wheat. Milk had to be a specific kind. Bread had to be whole-wheat. This juice but not that juice. And on and on and on.
I suddenly felt sorry for her, that even a small choice - what type tortilla she bought, or even what kind of cottage cheese, had already been made for her by some bureaucrat
We managed to find a bag of whole-wheat tortillas after a minute or so of rummaging thru all the corn and white tortillas. I wished her well.
This was one of the last acts of a session where the Democrats had overwhelming majorities in the House and in the Senate, and the Kenyan Clown occupied the Oval Office.
It was also one of the worst acts by one of the worst sessions in history — it came during the lame duck session after the massive shellacking the Democrats took in the November 2010 election.
It's hard to believe, though, that not one Republican Senator bothered to vote against this disgusting legislation.
Yeah, too bad Mickey’s is union made or it would be a lot more popular these days.
We've already seen this example.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2846603/posts
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
http://www.thenaturalrecoveryplan.com/articles/What-Happened-to-Wheat.html
Many stories seem to link “Modern” wheat as a cause of today’s obesity and other medical problems. It is also hard to avoid the wheat which is added into many products.
Thanks for the link.
I have to admit that my wife was right. She insisted on sending our kids to Catholic school. I went to pubik skools and they learned me goodly.
I grew up on the mean streets of outer whitelandia and the schools were ok.
But I love the fact that there is a vending machine in the lunchroom. Genetics. My son is trying to gain weight but he is hopelessly skinny.
I used to drink weight gainer shakes.
Bless your wife. :)
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