Thursday, April 30, 2009

U.S. Senators want to expel Junk Food from School

Here it comes. This is what you get from a wildly out of control Federal Government. This is how we lose our liberty. We did not elect these people to tell us what to eat at lunch. They will invite themselves into every detail of our lives as long as we continue to allow government to expand. There may be wisdom in making better choices at lunch but that is not an appropriate function of the Federal Government. In my own experience, you could not buy a candy bar from a vending machine even in high school. You could get a crisp apple which were big sellers. I have no idea when school policies changed but student nutrition is a matter best left between parents and their respective school districts. What is most serious is that it is not a stretch to get from from federal dictates on menu items at lunch to federal dictates on healthcare choices and procedures and ultimately who will be able to have those procedures. If we stay on this path, no one will like the destination.