Limbaugh: Federal Agents Inspecting Your Child's Lunch !

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I guess one could try to look at the bigger picture here with the food police. We do have a child obesity problem. That is not debatable. The children graduate and most of them could not join the military the next day if needed. Some could argue it is a national security problem and the argument would not be a stretch.

 

[chance1]

I guess one could try to look at the bigger picture here with the food police. We do have a child obesity problem. That is not debatable. The children graduate and most of them could not join the military the next day if needed. Some could argue it is a national security problem and the argument would not be a stretch.

agreed - americans eat too much

kids are exercising less - eating unhealthily

real issue - national security - healthcare - fat people need more healthcare, etc.

but food nazism is not the answer

there are problems and there are workable solutions

this is not one of them

 

[Kulindahr]

The fact is that the government inspected a child's lunch. That isn't their place and they need to be to understand that.

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/10731857/

This is absolutely disgusting behavior for the government to be engaged in.

What strikes me as odd about this story is that a turkey and cheese sandwich is probably more nutritious than chicken nuggets anyway. I bet there's more to this story. Either way, a big meh from me.

Yes. And that suggests the way the rule ought to work, if we're going to allow government to play this game.

The inspection standards should be simple: how many food groups are present? If less than three, proceed to remedy.

Remedy: supply a choice of other food groups and let the child pick until he/she has at least three. No charge. And a report TO THE PARENT OR GUARDIAN of said action. No penalties, no scolding. Definitely no taking away anything from the lunch brought from home.

I remember being very glad I had a lunch from home, in school. I doubt there was a day that went by my lunch wasn't healthier than what the school provided -- for starters, grease wasn't on my menu, and neither was cooked until nutrition half gone.

 

[Stardreamer]

From what I've been reading the way the program is supposed to work the inspector is supposed to identify what item(s) from the FDA requirements is missing from the child's meal and that item(s) are supposed to be ADDED to the child's lunch from the school's cafeteria free of charge. They are not supposed to take anything away from the child's lunch.

 

[Joshua_me]

MmmK...

I'll "man up", here...

I truly thought that this was a "manufactured" story from the 'vaults of duplicity" that IS Rush's stock and trade.

But, as it turns out it DID happen... or sort of happened....

The actual event is foggy.

As most facts will be until November.

 

[Stardreamer]

Rush generally doesn't manufacture stories, he is too good a propagandist for that. Like all the really good propagandists, he takes real stories and presents them with a slanted viewpoint to get you to see them from his viewpoint, in other words, he only tells you one side of the story.

Propagandists that simply make things up are too readily exposed by having the lies revealed and don't last very long. Deceit works far more effectively when you wrap it inside a truth. Rush's big gimmick when he first started out was hiring an agency to 'fact check' him and verify he was telling the 'truth' on everything. Of course, they were only verifying that his sources were true, not the validity of the slant he put on the information.

 

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agreed - americans eat too much

kids are exercising less - eating unhealthily

real issue - national security - healthcare - fat people need more healthcare, etc.

but food nazism is not the answer

there are problems and there are workable solutions

this is not one of them

What are these workable solutions?

Health care has nothing to do with what I stated.

 

[Kulindahr]

Deceit works far more effectively when you wrap it inside a truth. Rush's big gimmick when he first started out was hiring an agency to 'fact check' him and verify he was telling the 'truth' on everything. Of course, they were only verifying that his sources were true, not the validity of the slant he put on the information.

I'd forgotten that stunt. It was a cute "sleight of mind" trick.

 

[Joshua_me]

And another stunt...

Rush did live on air ads for General Motors for years, saying with a presumably straight face what wonderful cars Saturn's were and how important it is to buy American.

But, as soon as it became apparent that Obama's "bailout" of GM was going to be successful and a definite feather in Obama's cap, Rush suddenly went on the air and announced that he could no longer, in good conscience, continue his sponsorship of GM.

Why ?

Well, because the new Chevy Volt could only go 60 miles before switching from battery power to gasoline, and according to Rush that wasn't even enough mileage to go to the grocery store and back.



WHY don't people see through his bullshit ?

 

[Stardreamer]

And another stunt...

Rush did live on air ads for General Motors for years, saying with a presumably straight face what wonderful cars Saturn's were and how important it is to buy American.

But, as soon as it became apparent that Obama's "bailout" of GM was going to be successful and a definite feather in Obama's cap, Rush suddenly went on the air and announced that he could no longer, in good conscience, continue his sponsorship of GM.

Why ?

Well, because the new Chevy Volt could only go 60 miles before switching from battery power to gasoline, and according to Rush that wasn't even enough mileage to go to the grocery store and back.



WHY don't people see through his bullshit ?

As an irate Saturn owner, don't see the GM bailout as all that successful.

 

[Kulindahr]

WHY don't people see through his bullshit ?

Because so many don't want to do critical thinking, they just want to have their minds soothed by someone who affirms their existing notions.