Fat Lot of Good That’ll Do

I am not morally responsible for the obesity of my neighbor’s children or any other expenses or problems said obesity may cause. 

The parents — and the parents alone — made the decision to bring the child into this world. The parents — and the parents alone — must bear responsibility for the consequences of their actions. Justice demands nothing less.

I had no part in the parent’s decision to have the child — I was not consulted about it — and I had no power to prevent it. To make ME pay for the consequences of the parent’s actions is the very definition of injustice. 

Yet this injustice is precisely what people like Christian Duque advocate when they blithely suggest that government assume responsibility for “solving” some problem. It means ultimately the solving of one man’s (or couple’s) “problems” by forcing some other individuals to pay for it.

But my life belongs to me, Mr. Duque, not to you, not to society, not to my neighbors and not to Looter-​in-​Chief Obama and his revolting band of fellow power-​lusters in Congress. So I say to hell with you and your schemes for practicing charity with my money. Spend your own money and leave me alone.

What — another co-​president? We have enough!

First lady Michelle Obama’s campaign to end childhood hunger and fight childhood obesity, proceeds with her pet bill being approved by Congress. $4.5 billion in taxpayer dollars to fund healthier school meals and hire the enforcers to make sure that it is done. Cutting down on greasy foods and extra calories and providing government mandated “healthier” meals. Is Michelle the new Hildebeast? The Martinet-​in-​waiting? The new string-​puller for a weak guy that would never have gotten far on his own?

I recall in grade school that we had a health conscious food-​planner at the elementary school I attended. She was bound and determined that we were going to have healthy meals. All kinds of salmon cakes, broccoli, cauliflower, other vegetables, carefully spooned onto trays and presented to the hungry children, who dutifully carried the trays out to their tables, had a rauchous lunch, and then dutifully carried it up to the clearing lines where it was dumped in the trash and then hauled out to the landfill. And the hungry children then went back to class and dreamed of PB&J sandwiches.

But maybe children are different now.

“Apparently, they can’t stand the fact that, on special occasions, mothers and fathers bake up sugary treats to sell” 

Well that’s the problem isn’t it? The fact that mothers and fathers bake sugary treats at all is proof positive that they are not qualified to be parents. The government needs to intervene in what is probably already being labeled Domestic Violence in some circles.

The first poster simply Makes The Case For Conservatives: There is absolutely nothing that these greedy little totalitarians don’t want to control.

This is but a symptom of the disease. By abdicating our children to public education, we allow the government to make up the rules. Michelle Obama is simply creating one more rule, one which many supporters like Christian Duque will applaud. Perhaps someday government will create a rule which Mr. Duque will find intolerable; but then again, he seems content to accept whatever any government official wants to shove down his throat.

I don’t know which one is goofier – Michelle or the big O. The kids don’t eat the items purchased at the bake sales in place of lunch. The sales are held at different times and the parents are doing the buying, not the kids. But Michelle probably never attended a school bake sale and she probably has no idea how much every school needs he few dollars they raise by selling goods that parents take the time to prepare and sell. It’s a shame neither she or or her husband have not even the smallest clue of what happens in the real world outside of their world.