Friday, February 25, 2011 12:19:10 AM
Letter: Obama should eat her advice
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
First lady Michelle Obama is still using her bully pulpit to tell parents what their children can eat. Congress passed a $4.5 million bill that will effectively provide three meals a day to eligible children in public schools. Now Obama wants private restaurants to serve smaller portions to children. Will she next want to control portion sizes for adults? The restaurants may be happy because they can charge the same for less food. Patrons will be unhappy and may stop going thus hurting the restaurant business as well as food producers and on down the line.
When will this government intrusion into our private lives stop? What was Obama thinking when she invited guests for their Super Bowl celebration with a menu including bratwurst, kielbasa, cheeseburgers, deep dish pizza, salad, buffalo wings, various beers, ice-cream, twice baked potatoes, various chips and dips and German potato salad that calls for rendered bacon fat and a half cup of sugar? If Obama walks the walk, and talks the talk — she was able to eat — the salad.
Knowing this menu would be made public, she missed a perfect opportunity to set a good example for stupid Americans, who know nothing of good nutrition, and serve healthy food instead of a menu that was a walking heart attack.
http://www.reflector.com/opinion/letters/letter-first-lady-should-eat-her-own-advice-329386
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
First lady Michelle Obama is still using her bully pulpit to tell parents what their children can eat. Congress passed a $4.5 million bill that will effectively provide three meals a day to eligible children in public schools. Now Obama wants private restaurants to serve smaller portions to children. Will she next want to control portion sizes for adults? The restaurants may be happy because they can charge the same for less food. Patrons will be unhappy and may stop going thus hurting the restaurant business as well as food producers and on down the line.
When will this government intrusion into our private lives stop? What was Obama thinking when she invited guests for their Super Bowl celebration with a menu including bratwurst, kielbasa, cheeseburgers, deep dish pizza, salad, buffalo wings, various beers, ice-cream, twice baked potatoes, various chips and dips and German potato salad that calls for rendered bacon fat and a half cup of sugar? If Obama walks the walk, and talks the talk — she was able to eat — the salad.
Knowing this menu would be made public, she missed a perfect opportunity to set a good example for stupid Americans, who know nothing of good nutrition, and serve healthy food instead of a menu that was a walking heart attack.
http://www.reflector.com/opinion/letters/letter-first-lady-should-eat-her-own-advice-329386
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