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Originally posted by links234
It's in the preamble.
You should read more Hamilton and less Jefferson.
Originally posted by Whereweheaded
It is not the position of the Federal Government to feed children. That's the parents job, to sustain sustenance, and to provide finances whether it be pay for school lunches or take one with.
What part of that common sense don't you people get? Where in the Constitution does it say that the USG is empowered to provide meals for ANY group of children? There is none. This bill should be voted down..PERIOD!
Originally posted by Whereweheaded
reply to post by rusethorcain
Thats ok, to save face, feel free to walk away...nice try though child~
Originally posted by The_Gypsy
See this is one of the down sides to a move to less government control. We will spy on you and put up regulations for every little thing, but we won't feed hungry american children! What a joke. As a libertarian this is not something I would be opposed to.
Originally posted by chiponbothshoulders
I have always said.."If the adults are looked after,the adults will take care of their chillins"....
So what does one do with a society which cannot even look after itself.
"Itself ",being the supposedly "Adult" ,element of it??????////????????.
Originally posted by NWOnoworldorder
they seem to be passing a hell of a lot of bills this year huh?....do they know something we dont? seems the obama administration wants a lot of things put in place just in case he doesnt get an extended term.....
something fishy is goin on...thats all im saying....something fishy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Don't touch my brownies! A child nutrition bill on its way to President Barack Obama — and championed by the first lady — gives the government power to limit school bake sales and other fundraisers that health advocates say sometimes replace wholesome meals in the lunchroom. . . .
Public health groups pushed for the language on fundraisers, which encourages the secretary of Agriculture to allow them only if they are infrequent. The language is broad enough that a president's administration could even ban bake sales
Margo Wootan of the Center for Science in the Public Interest says the bill is aimed at curbing daily or weekly bake sales or pizza fundraisers that become a regular part of kids' lunchtime routines. She says selling junk food can easily be substituted with nonfood fundraisers
This is really about supporting parental choice. Most parents don't want their kids to use their lunch money to buy junk food. They expect they'll use their lunch money to buy a balanced school meal."
Several school districts and state education departments already have policies suggesting or enforcing limits on bake sales, both for nutritional reasons and to keep the events from competing for dollars against school cafeterias.
Wootan says she hopes the rules will prompt schools to try different options for fundraising.
While...the power to tax is not unlimited, its confines are set in the clause which confers it, and not in those of Sec. 8 which bestow and define the legislative powers of the Congress. It results that the power of Congress to authorize expenditure of public moneys for public purposes is not limited by the direct grants of legislative power found in the Constitution.
Originally posted by links234
You should read more in general and not limit yourself or your scope of understanding.
If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but
an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions." - James Madison
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined . . . to be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce." - James Madison,
"This specification of particulars [the 18 enumerated powers of Article I, Section 8] evidently excludes all pretension to a general legislative authority, because an affirmative grant of special powers would be absurd as well as useless if a general authority was intended." - Alexander Hamilton
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." - James Madison