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Borderline Failing High Schoolers Understand Job Creation Better Than DC Bureaucrats
If you want to see in stark contrast why “top down” Government programs cannot fix the US economy take a look at the recent developments regarding school lunches.
In case you missed it, in 2012 the US public school system implemented a series of reforms to mandate what students should eat based on a healthier diet.
The program was spearheaded by First Lady Michelle Obama, who, despite not being a nutritionist or having any sort of medical degree, has decided she knows what’s best for children in terms of their diets.
As a result of the reforms, the cost of school lunches has risen and the quality has gone down. And students don’t like it. In fact, many of them have begun protesting the reforms saying that they’re hungry and the food portions are not enough.
However, the far more interesting development concerns students who have begun a black market of selling condiments to other students.
Children are creating their own black markets to trade and sell salt due to First Lady Michelle Obama’s school lunch rules.
During a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R., Ind.), a school administrator told Congress of the “unintended consequences” of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.
“Perhaps the most colorful example in my district is that students have been caught bringing–and even selling–salt, pepper, and sugar in school to add taste to perceived bland and tasteless cafeteria food,” said John S. Payne, the president of Blackford County School Board of Trustees in Hartford City, Indiana.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/kids-create-salt-black-markets-in-cafeteria...
Bear in mind, SAT verbal scores just hit their lowest levels since 1972. And this is after the test was dumbed down several times.
What’s my point with all of this?
That high school students, even those who are borderline-failing their SATs, have a better understanding of economics and job growth than Washington bureaucrats.
Welcome to the USA.
The reason the US rose to power was due to Democratic Capitalism of innovation and entrepreneurialism, NOT the Government running things. In the recent case of school lunches, the Government has gotten involved, prices have gone up, and students are unhappy. As a result, other students have stepped in, creating a sub-economy for lunches in the schools.
This has also been the case with Government run insurance, and Government run everything. Amtrak has never turned a profit and has been called a massive “failure” by its founder. In DC, they just spent over $200 MILLION to build a 2.2 mile trolley track… that’s a cost of $17,217 per FOOT of track.
And on and on.
Want to fix the economy? Get the Government out of the way and start pushing for people to start their own businesses. Not apps or social media gadgets but actual businesses. Fix this chart, and you fix the economy.
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Sincerely
Phoenix Capital Research
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Feeding healthy food to kids is damn tough. Kids are fully immersed in the fast food and microwave food mentality.
Besides, cooking healthy food is damn tough to start with and far beyond the skills of the people who work in school cafeterias.
I'm just glad my kids are grown and I don't have to deal with this crap any longer.
She was a hospital admin bureaucrat who helped push profits for sick services, doesn't that count?
--“Perhaps the most colorful example in my district is that students have been caught bringing–and even selling–salt, pepper, and sugar in school to add taste to perceived bland and tasteless cafeteria food,” said John S. Payne, the president of Blackford County School Board of Trustees in Hartford City, Indiana.--
Gun and badge thugs to be running treasonous SWAT raids and accompanying murder in the search for "illicit condiments" at schools in 3..2..
"Well, he would not drop the salt packet, so we had to taze him. Then one of our officers feared for his life from what he thought was a gun, but what, unfortunately, turned out to be a ketchup packet. If they would just leave the illicit condiments at home, we wouldn't have to resort to such measures."
Always about money, power, and division. Mrs. "Beard" Obama is just the puppet for the real culprits and racketeers involved.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
Axiom of Government #4: Being nothing but a criminal syndicate, government always accomplishes the opposite of the stated goal, as the stated goal is always cover for additional thefts, and is a lie.
Oh for gosh sakes, U really think D.C. government people care about job creation outside of government???
The high schoolers know nothing about d.c. job creation, so it's a wash.
If those kids are adding sugar to cornbread, they should be expelled immediately.
To serve W00ki3
If you look at Washington as a get rich scheme, Washington makes sense.
Every big power structure, no matter how well-intentioned at the beginning, evolves into a get rich scheme.
Indeed it does... if you were a would-be entrepreneur and you could:
1. get some crony to pass enabling legislation setting up a government enterprise that you can take over,
2. create demand (hapless citizens forced to participate) for some "service" with the stroke a regulatory pen,
3. have someone (the taxpayer) there to bail you out if you screw up and provide a crappy service that no one wants, and
4. the only limitation on the size of your enterprise (and your base pay as department head) were the number of poor bastards (ahem, citizens - ya know - you and me) forced by law to use your service...
Well, what's not like about that?! In practice, the service provider is usually a crony-connected private business that operates as a de facto governent enterprise, but it works the same way... that's probably how this school lunch thing works. I wonder if Tyson Foods is involved.
If you had a choice, would YOU go into a real private enterprise with all the attendant risks of failure? These days, most would not.
Sounds a lot like the Federal Reserve.
10 million apples are thrown out every day in school lunches. Think of the compost you could make.
Compost! Think of the hard cider you could make :)
The government creates growth like cancer creates cells. It depletes valuable resources from critical life-sustaining functions to further its own gain. You may quote me on that.
This guy is smarter that 100% of politicians in DC...
http://www.infowars.com/this-redneck-nails-it-on-the-contrived-race-war/
Bill Bunting for President of the World!
A problem is that "weak" people who are in over their heads and riding the gravy train will do pretty much anything, including selling out their fellow man, to maintain their underserved gravy train.
When the corrupted and incompetents are in charge you are going to get a particular style of government.
They are in the real world instead of the bureaucratic haze the 'smart people' live in. Things are getting worse but that's part of the plan.....
I wouldn't necessarily call Pewblik Skewl "the real world," but it's certainly closer than DC, or Sacramento.