In a story from North Carolina, we get another glimpse of the kind of "transformation" that Obama and the Obamacrats want to impose on the USA. Now the government wants the Department of Agriculture to determine whether or not the lunches brought to school by pre-K students provide adequate nutrition under government guidelines. In Hoke County North Carolina, a pre-schooler brought a lunch which consisted of a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, apple juice and potato chips. The USDA agent decided that this was inadequate and took it away from the child. Instead the child was given a cafeteria lunch in which chicken nuggets were the main item. the child only ate three chicken nuggets from the tray.
This story is outrageous in so many ways that it is hard to count them. Here are just a few:
1) Chicken nuggets are deep fat fried. Their nutritional value is much less than a turkey and cheese sandwich. So the government stepped in and, not surprisingly, made the situation worse.
2) The decision as to what a child should eat is one which has always been made by the parent. True, the child might buy a platter in the cafeteria and eat food selected by the district, but that has never been compulsory. Many children, especially at age 4, are particular about what they will and will not eat. Obviously, the child in North Carolina chose not to eat much of what she was given when the USDA food authorities stepped in. A parent is the one who would know best what his or her child will eat.
3) Many children have food allergies which limit or direct the meals that they eat. Some pushy government bureaucrat will have no idea about these allergies. It is truly dangerous for some children to have the food police (as Drudge calls them) step in.
4) The child in question had her own lunch. She was not receiving a lunch under government assistance. Her parents paid for the lunch, not the government. In other words, there was no reason for the government to step in. Nevertheless, what we have here is the logical extension of the Obamacare mandate. The government is now directing what food parents must buy for the lunches of their children. Simply put, this is unconstitutional; the federal government cannot do what it did here.
The list goes on, but this is enough. First we had the insurance mandate in Obamacare. Next we had the interference with the free exercise of religion in the form of Obama's regulations requiring church organizations to furnish birth control, sterilization and abortion pills. Now we have the USDA telling parents how they must feed their children. If Obama makes it another four years, there is no telling what the feds will try next. We won't be America anymore, that is for sure.
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