At a time when state budgets are in crisis, First Lady Michelle Obama is prodding the nation’s governors to spend more money to keep kids from packing on the pounds. She doesn’t care if they avoid economic Armageddon, but she cares deeply that they avoid a Big Mac and fries.
Hey, wait just a darn second. Isn’t telling kids they’re fat supposed to be what causes eating disorders?
Fox News gives us the skinny:
“There’s no place for politics when it comes to fighting childhood obesity,” she told governors at their winter meeting.
The National Governor’s Association assembles in Washington every year to discuss issues that affect all of their states. This year’s main theme is health care — a topic at the heart of the first lady’s new campaign on obesity.
“If we think our health care costs are high now, just wait until 10 years from now,” she said. “Think about the many billions we’re going to be spending then. Think about how high those premiums are going to be when our kids are old enough to have families of their own and businesses of their own.”
Obama wanted to remind the state officials that childhood obesity was not a problem brought on by lazy children.“Our kids didn’t do this to themselves,” she said. “Our kids didn’t decide whether there’s time for recess or gym class, or our kids don’t decide what’s served to them in the school cafeteria.”
Let us sum this up for you:
Spend money you don’t have to solve a problem that just causes another problem.
Liberalism in action.
Source: Fox News
