Every school-age child in America is getting a serious dose of what it means to be governed by arrogance. Our school-age children are getting a taste of what an Administration, weaned on hateful communist dicta of Ayers and Alinsky, can ignorantly impose on the population when it has been given the power to do so.
Michelle Obama’s personal crusade to find her entry into the history books besides being First Lady, has been to force schools to feed only certain foods to our children through the implementation of meal standards with the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.”
This imposition of statist and bureaucratic regulations even dictates that birthday parties can only be celebrated with non-food treats and favours — NO FOOD. NO CUPCAKES. And you know those fundraisers we’ve all been supporting since all of us were kids? NO SWEETS. No sweets even if the fundraiser is held by an outside group. You won’t be buying a candy bar from those kids knocking on your door, fund-raising for their schools. Perhaps the Obamas want them to sell you erasers.
And just in case anyone of these young children might enjoy the sweet taste of a pretty cake for a celebration, Michelle Obama has dictatorially decreed that, Birthday parties in classrooms may be celebrated with non-food treats and favors for students. No food is allowed as part of a birthday celebration.
The progressive radicals are attempting to wean children on being indoctrinated. Their nutrition has nothing to do with this authoritarian program. The children have figured it out, and intuitively, they know what their Administration doesn’t. They’re not buying it. Unlike the parents who reverently re-elected this Administration, the children are reacting to being dictated-to.
“More than 1 million fewer students eat lunch at school each day since the first round of standards went into effect in 2012, following decades of steadily increasing participation, said Diane Pratt-Heavner, a spokeswoman for The School Nutrition Association.” Already stressed school districts are losing money on the Obama lunches because kids won’t eat them. They’re being asked to pay more for less food. In fact, many of the lunches are getting thrown away. We shouldn’t be surprised to learn that the waste is monumental, costs are overwhelming and compliance by school districts is difficult.
We note that Michelle Obama cannot condescend to meeting with this association’s request to meet, so her Chef Sam Kass will sit in for her.
Let’s look at the blind arrogance at the root of this program, “I thought to myself, if a Princeton- and Harvard-educated professional woman doesn’t know how to adequately feed her kids, then what are other parents going through who don’t have access to the information I have?” This is actually Michelle Obama speaking — you know, that educated, but unelected First Lady who has insinuated herself into the laws of the Nation and the lives of children with this ignorant program. Yah, her. The extent of the lack of intuition in this pompous mind is staggering — all you mothers out there aren’t as educated as I am and you have no clue how to adequately feed your kids.
The fact that the kids don’t want to be dictated-to seems to not land on her. THEY WILL OBEY! Freedom? Not here. Not in the Obama America. We will impose NON-FATNESS.
The Obama Administration is incapable of improving the broken educational system, and is certainly incapable of managing the “education” of children or their parents on healthy nutrition, so it defaults to the only thing it knows — impose, dictate and threaten.
The children don’t care to be imperiously dictated-to by a bully pulpit. Their nature is to enjoy Freedom. SURPRISE. Listen and learn.
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