Posted on 11/28/2014 11:04:37 AM PST by Incorrigible
Hope your kids don't get sick of eating leftover cranberry sauce this weekend. They'll be eating a lot more at school!
More of Moochelle’s much derided healthy lunches for kids.
No sauce — just 5 little berries on the plate - unsweetened. Yummers!
Should check Ocean Spray’s political donation record.
This is patently Un-Constitutional and the entire program, along with every other USDA “price support” scheme should be abolished immediately.
With the exception of the federal entities indicated in the Constitution’s Clauses 16 & 17 of Section 8 of Article I as examples, entities under the exclusive legislative control of Congress, the states have never delegated to feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to appropriate funds to stock intrastate food pantries or buy food for intrastate schools.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
/johnny
When I was in Junior High there was a great Cranberry glut. The USDA did the same thing, and we got to eat Cranberry every thing for months!
So the taxpayers are buying these cranberries THREE times? Once from the growers, then for school lunch programs to sell to our kids, and another time for the food banks to give them away?
More corporate bail-outs. Even though Wall Street and finance get most of the bail-out money, its nice of government to let smaller operators occasionally feed at the public trough also.
Politics and taxpayer dollars and lunch
This presents a problem. Can you imagine kids eating cranberries that haven’t been prepared with massive amounts of sugar or some other sweetener? Raw cranberries won’t be real popular (except as ammo) for the healthy snack program.
all government involvement in schools should end
” I don’t know why people want to keep this Roosevelt era crap around. “
Follow the money, my friend. But you knew that. Ain’t no flies on you.
Hope you’re having a wonderful Thanskgiving weekend.
Best,
L
Government subsidized food production, with the government buying up surpluses, has been a fact of life at least since the 1950's.
“Government subsidized food production, with the government buying up surpluses, has been a fact of life at least since the 1950’s.”
It’s a “fact” that needs to end.
I’m still surprised all school buses are not mandated to run on corn and solar panels.
Another $55 million wasted.
I tried some Ocean Spray `Craisins’ (dried cranberries) a while back.
Couldn’t finish the bag, absolutely terrible taste.
Might be OK in muffins, in moderation, but absolute crap as a snack.
Crony capitalism...follow the money.
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