Hmm, and where would this be in the Constitution? - Granite Grok

Hmm, and where would this be in the Constitution?

school lunch- that no one is eating?And why aren’t the DC Republicans all over this?  Calling Frank Guinta!  Calling Kelly Ayotte!  As self-described conservatives, is this a proper role for the Federal Government – to feed the nation’s kids 3 squares every day for every day of the year? Emphasis mine, reformatted.  Question for both Frank and Kelly at the end:

Federal Government Looking to Feed Public School Students 3 Meals Per Day Year Round

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Tuesday that his agency is looking for “creative ways” to give public school students access to more meals, including a way to provide them breakfast, lunch and dinner year round.

Hmm, do I smell a bit of an overreach starting to build?

“We have focused on efforts to try to figure out ways in which we can expand in those time periods when youngsters may not have access to school meals,” Vilsack said in remarks at the liberal Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. That includes giving students access to meals “across the school day, across the school year and across the calendar year,” he said.  “We’ve looked for creative ways to potentially here in the D.C. area and the state of Virginia an opportunity to take a look at what would happen if all three meals were available for young people,” Vilsack said.

Well, there’s the goal – why bother those overworked, over-responsibilitied, overwrought parents with such a simply thing as, you know, caring and providing for their children?  Or is this more of what Sarah said (trust much?).  No, this is just more of the socialist manner – we own your children (or, at least, almost) that is all too happy to carry out those goals from the 1963 Communist “bucket list”.  Are you good with this?

31. Belittle all forms of American culture…

Used to be that American culture was that of “Can do!” – this says “don’t hafta”. Used to be that American culture said personal responsibility was a high virtue, that “*I* will provide for my family” and not just go “oh, FREE FOOD!”.

Used to be that American culture was that of rugged individualism – that dependency was to be avoided at all costs.  Now, with the erasure of the entire idea that “stigma”, constantly seeking out governmental programs and being dependent on them (or, at the least, gaming the system for personal gain)

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture – education, social agencies, welfare programs…

Nothing but nothing says “centralized control” like a DC program spending billions to control what people eat.  We’ve seen Moochella’s lunch program do that exact same thing – and by many accounts has been a failure with food waste gone way up, costs have gone up to the point where some schools have opted out from that “free money – but strings attached” that, and kids going hungry in a one size fits all.

How much WORSE can this Hunger Games simulacrum get? “Please sir, may I have some more” – NO! You may not – it isn’t in The Plan!

40. Discredit the family as an institution

Absolutely – the subtle message here is “you can’t rely on your parents to care for you.  You can’t even trust your parents to FEED you.  So why should you listen to them? Look at all that we do for you – we are SHOWING you that Government loves you – why else would it feed you all day, all year long?

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

See all of the above – the influence of the Government (or, at least the authority roles and staff thereof) rises as it does more with these impressionable little ones – the parents less and less.  Create that split, widen it to a crevice, blow it open to a chasm.

Parents, ask yourself: are you willing to trade a temporary surfeit of food for the respect of your children as you abandon your roles simply for FREE STUFF?

Heads up for Kelly Ayotte and Frank Guinta:

Vilsack spoke ahead of the Sept. 30 expiration date for federally funding the Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act of 2010, which pays for USDA’s school meal and child nutrition programs —including the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), the National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program, and the Child and Adult Care Food Program.  The programs are generally reauthorized for five-year periods, according to the National Conference of State Legislators.

In April, the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) announced that the number of summer meals provided to children increased by millions between 2012 and 2014. “In 2013, FNS targeted efforts in five States to improve access to summer meals and, as a result, FNS served seven million more meals than in summer 2012,” the announcement stated. “An additional six States were targeted in summer 2014 and FNS met its goal of serving an additional 10 million meals over summer 2013.”

So, Kelly and Frank, whatcha gonna do?  Are you going to vote to allow the further bulging of the Federal Government (which BOTH of you campaigned to make smaller and less expensive)?  Are you going to give tacit approval by just going along with Republican Leadership?  Or are either of you going to say publicly that this should not stand?  To make a stink that yet another of Obama’s further encroachment of YOUR privilege (not to say, responsibility) of your positions by an Obama Administration who has all but cast you onto the garbage heap outside the capital building, based on his absolute disdain for “authorizing legislation”?

WAS this in the authorizing statute when passed?  And if not, why would you vote for this? Hey, perhaps I should go the extra mile – did you two VOTE for this last go round?  Did you give tacit approval for this enlargement of Government, contra your campaign promises to the opposite?

Or are you too scared of the media to withstand their slings and arrows?  Or you frozen with future thoughts of Democrats hurling “cold-hearted”, “taking food from babies”, “starving our children and the most vulnerable amongst us”, and “they will make them starve”?  Even as we know that many will game it under the rubric “hey, I CAN pay for my own kids, but if someone else is offering…”?

Harsh words but the seem to work against elected Republicans even as those of us that would actually vote for you want you to make government smaller.

What will you do?  Will you speak up?  Will you show any kind of conservative leanings and make the hard decisions that a nation with an $18 Trillion debt must make?  Can we TRUST you to make the right decision for taxpayers?  Can you show us that you have the Courage to do the right thing?

What will you do?

And are you willing to face your base and say “I passed it – with even more money in their pot”?

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