Quote Originally Posted by jimnyc View Post
I hope I'm not repeating old news. But here is what I think Abbey and others were getting at. When you let the government into the lunch business at school, how far do you let them go? How about if you DO send your kid off to school with lunch, but the school makes your child eat something else as they don't feel your meal is nutritious enough? Where does it end? How long will it be before parents are fined because the government doesn't "approve" of the kids lunch? The government shouldn't be telling us what we can and cannot eat. They shouldn't be telling us how to raise our children and feed them.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...es_631809.html
Yup. And I tried twice to show the slippery slope from lunch to the other craziness. The total lack of personal responsibility engendered, and required siphoning off the taxpayers to do so.
But apparently some can't or won't see it.

Next on the agenda is probably free student dinners, or at least a free take-home snack. After all, who can do imagined homework on an empty stomach, and those poor stressed parents can't make dinner either. Right?