A Little right of center

A Little Right of Center: Hey! Barack, keep your hands off my Twinkies!

Written by Kevin Brodeur

Thursday, 15 March 2012 04:53

I hate to say “I told you so.” Well, actually who am I kidding? Let’s be honest. I really have no problem at all saying I told you so. I warned you that this was coming. In fact, I’ve been predicting this for months and now it’s happened. As we all know one of the hallmarks of the true far left liberal weenie is an unshakable belief in your superiority. Liberals believe that they are so far above the average person intellectually that it is their duty to take care of those whom they consider to be less gifted; that would people like you and me. Recently we saw the case in North Carolina where the mom dutifully packed a lunch for her preschooler, said lunch consisted of a turkey sandwich, a banana, chips and apple juice. Before lunch, the school was visited by an official from the U.S.DA. (United States Department of Agriculture) whose job, and I am not kidding here, is to inspect all of the lunches served at the school including those brought from home to make sure that they meet government standards. Now I ask you: when did things in this country go off the rails to the point that our taxpayer dollars are now being used to pay for inspectors in the schools whose job is to monitor what our kids are having for lunch? In this case the inspector looked at the little girl’s lunch and decided that it didn’t pass nutritional muster and opted to replace part of the home packed meal – not with fresh vegetables or fresh fruit as you might expect – but with chicken nuggets. You know: those little bits of processed chicken parts that are breaded and then fried; they go really well with some sweet and sour sauce and side order of fries. Now don’t get me wrong here, I have nothing whatsoever against chicken nuggets. In fact, you could even go so far as to say that I am a fan. But chicken nuggets and nutrition go together about as well as Barack Obama and socialism; um, let me rephrase that: chicken nuggets and nutrition go together about as well as Barack Obama and fiscal responsibility (that works better). To my mind, the issue here is less about what they replaced her lunch with and more about the fact that a federal official felt that they had the right to supersede the choices made by a parent for her child. This school district should consider themselves fortunate that I am not a parent of a child enrolled there because I would go out of my way to challenge this policy every day of the week. I would send my kid to school with bacon double cheese burgers and Oreos for desert and I would dare any school official or U.S.D.A. inspector to tell me that I couldn’t do it. This is really all about an overgrown bloated federal bureaucracy that wants to tell you how they think you should live your life. They went after the smokers first and now they want to regulate what we eat and drink, and they will try to justify it using Obama care. If you let the government pay for your health insurance, then you give them a voice in the daily decisions that you make in your life. Anyone who knows me knows that I am a big guy. I like to eat. I will be the first to admit that sometimes I probably don’t make the best dietary choices, I’ll own it. At the end of the day, though, I am a grown up, those decisions are mine to make and mine to ultimately take responsibility for. To put it in the simplest terms: Hey Barack, keep your hands off my Twinkies!