Kids Flee the Lunch Line

lol Imagine what fun kids could have if they received heaters along with their MRE's.

otisptoadwater wrote: A certain service member who will remain nameless (me) was known for collecting the unused heaters and crafting all manner of IEDs. It's funny to watch a kid who just ate and is dozing off react to the sound a plastic Gatorade bottle makes when the contents of an MRE heater and some water get capped off and are allowed to expand! lol

There were a few other alleged incidents involving a tent pole and some improvised projectiles but I'm not authorized to discuss that.

Besides, imagine how much better the nation's children would be able to learn in our public skulze with bellies full of MREs! Let's do it for the children! There might have to be some "flatulence authorized" zones set up for the kids but wouldn't it be worth it?

PrintSmith wrote:

LadyJazzer wrote: Did anyone notice that Mrs. Obama's SUGGESTIONS are NOT rules or mandates, and that no one is required to follow them?

Gee, I guess that would be a PROBLEM for the teabaggers...They wouldn't have anything to be outraged about if none of it was mandatory, or required....

Unless, of course, you have a SOURCE that proves that her suggestions carry any kind of rule-of-law.

Outrage is kind of like foreplay for you guys, ain't it?

Of course we do. Her "suggestions" were adopted by the person Obama chose to oversee the department (don't want to get on the man's "enemy" list by ignoring his wife, do you?) and codified into rules and regulations which govern and oversee how the program is operated. Her "suggestions" are now official policy of the department and there are consequences for ignoring them. Those consequences include withholding of federal funds for failure to comply, just like the federal government "suggests" the several States adopt their maximum speed limit on the interstate highway system, or "suggests" that they drop the BAC level for driving under the influence to 0.08, or "suggest" that the several States pass a primary seat belt law. Of course, the withdrawl of funds for not following the "suggestions" doesn't also include relief from the laws which require that low income students be provided a "free" lunch, it just withdraws the funds to pay for the mandated program.

Really Printsmith, you just make stuff up rather than use the actual facts. You do know that the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act was legislation, not an executive order, don't you? Clue: "Act" implies legislation. And instead of "threatening withdrawal" of existing funds for noncompliance, it provided an additional $4.5 billion in NEW funding.

Of course if you actually used the facts, it would be difficult for you to go off on your sovereign states rights rants.

And yet after 9 pages, nobody has actually addressed the OP topic how this ill conceived law has been a major failure, not even a surprise really after reading the comments on the proposed regulations I posted a link to earlier. It was all predictable and ignored by the bureaucrats. Ho Hum, rinse spin repeat.

"The National School Lunch Program saw a sharp decline in participation once the healthy standards went into effect during the 2012-2013 school year. A total of 1,086,000 students stopped buying school lunch, after participation had increased steadily for nearly a decade.

The report found that 321 districts left the National School Lunch Program altogether, many of which cited the new standards as a factor."..."

So, that's your outrage-of-the-day?... The school lunch program?

Now that the ACA is up and running and they have over 9 million new buyers; and after it's become obvious that all the TV ads by the Koch Brothers are lies; and after it's become obvious that the TeaBaggerPublicans don't have a replacement solution, and they know they can't repeal it.... The outrage has moved to: school lunches and the effort fight childhood obesity....? Really?

I was right...Outrage is like foreplay to teabaggers....

:LMAO: :rofllol

LadyJazzer wrote: So, that's your outrage-of-the-day?... The school lunch program?

Now that the ACA is up and running and they have over 9 million new buyers; and after it's become obvious that all the TV ads by the Koch Brothers are lies; and after it's become obvious that the TeaBaggerPublicans don't have a replacement solution, and they know they can't repeal it.... The outrage has moved to: school lunches and the effort fight childhood obesity....? Really?

I was right...Outrage is like foreplay to teabaggers....

:LMAO: :rofllol

NPR tells us that kids who are hungry have a tougher time learning so if kids are skipping meals because the choices are so unappetizing, will America fall further behind other nations?
America: starving kids not learning because their lunches are icky.