Comments on: The Nanny State Invades The School Cafeteria http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:26:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: LBest http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46960 LBest Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:54:42 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46960 Doug,

I did not say they had the right, just that they do it anyhow and that is what you get with any social program–more bullshit.

]]> By: Doug Mataconis http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46875 Doug Mataconis Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:43:36 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46875 LBest,

Where in the Constitution is the Congress authorized to tell a school district what it can offer in a school cafeteria ?

]]> By: LBest http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46874 LBest Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:42:21 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46874 The way I understand it there are already laws on school lunch programs. What do you expect a school to do take requests every month and provide something differnt for each child? Thats not pratical to do. Besides if you look at the increasing amount of fat children and adults then yes they are to stupid to make good choices. Public school is by nature a form a socialism and with that you get rules against choice not only in the content of their lunch but also what they learn. My family home schools because we are committed to making these choices ourselves and not leaving it to the system.

]]> By: somebody http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46552 somebody Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:34:23 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46552 I’m as outraged as anybody else. However, it is easy to understand the logic, as a reader points out in an e-mail over at Andrew Sullivan’s: the government is partially responsible for providing health care to Americans, so making sure they eat healthy when they’re young and lessen the burden on the system as they get older can be seen as a legitimate point of action by the government. Of course, this is the logic of totalitarians.

]]> By: trumpetbob15 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46550 trumpetbob15 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:23:58 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46550 Doug,

I wonder how much longer it will be until these enlightened bozos remember all those kids who bring their lunch from home. Imagine all the high fat stuff parents could actually be packing in their child’s lunch box.

Glad I got out of high school when I did. I don’t think I could have survived if I actually had to eat the trash that the schools served. Man, am I thankful for that Coke machine and the Little Caesars Pizza days when I could buy a whole pizza for to use as a lunch and an after school snack.

]]> By: tkc http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46534 tkc Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:01:50 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46534 I’ve been told it is here:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

Not that I buy the ‘provide for the general welfare’ argument but I know a lot of people who do.

]]> By: Doug Mataconis http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46530 Doug Mataconis Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:29:41 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46530 Kip,

You are, of course, correct.

Reference fixed.

]]> By: KipEsquire http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46528 KipEsquire Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:27:04 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46528 I think you mean Article I, Section 8.

]]> By: Brad Warbiany http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46526 Brad Warbiany Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:02:19 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46526 One would think that’s what the 2nd Amendment is for, but we’ll see if it survives DC v. Heller…

]]> By: Doug Mataconis http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46525 Doug Mataconis Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:58:23 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46525 Brad,

Isn’t that what the Constitution is for ?

]]> By: Brad Warbiany http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46523 Brad Warbiany Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:46:21 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/03/the-nanny-state-invades-the-school-cafeteria/#comment-46523 When will we get to pass a law that limits our representatives’ gluttonous grabs for power?

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