Can not give away fre food to needy kids-Nanny state rules!!!!!

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

^^^^< what? A bite so soon, my line has barely gotten wet!
Must be a good day for fishing , eh?---Tyr

[fj1200]

what?

What? More worthless talk from someone who is essentially scared of opposition?

[DragonStryk72]

Try to point out that the Nanny state philosophy has spread all the way down to local politics and the idgit naysayers cry out" but , but its local politics"! As if that negates it being a product of the Nanny state mentality!
What the hell do these people think total control government Nanny state policies do anyways if they do not extend down to local government and influence how it acts!!?? Geeesh , talk about dense! Limiting individual freedoms by government decrees is Nanny state no matter what level it occurs at. Freaking goofy ass geniuses..-Tyr

Well, truthfully, the Nanny State is less about the Food Stamps end of things. I swear to you, the entire reason they're stopping this woman is a kneejerk "But what about the children?" mentality, not any broader political view. Basically, it boils down to worst-first thinking. Everyone tries to think of the "worst-case scenaio", and plan around that. The problem is this: The true worst-case scenario is that all your planning, and everything that you do to try and stop things from going wrong drives you deeper into the hole.

Now, imagining the worst-case scenario is great in places like the military, where we need to drill through how to deal with true crisis conditions. However, in parenting, all it does is create greater and greater paranoia. Doesn't matter that we're actually safe, we treat our children like any moment that we aren't standing right there watching them, they're in a constant struggle with roving armies of bush pedos waiting for the moment our backs are turned. Nevermind that research clearly shows us that the main perpetrators of these sorts of crimes against kids are people already known and trusted by the family.

What parents don't understand is that this attitude is horribly crippling their children later on down the road. If you're constantly there, trying to be on hand for every little bump and scratch, they never learn how to pick themselves back up. Parenthood is the practice of making yourself obsolete over the course of 16~18 years, and somehow we got away from that somewhere along the road