I listened to the news this evening only to hear that Congress is about to pass more laws dictating what our children can and cannot eat in schools. That is absurd. Parents have that responsibility and they've already permitted those who run our schools too much leeway. At least if we don't like the way our schools are being run, we can fire the school board and vote new board members into office. We do not need the Congress meddling in such mundane matters.
This is the same Congress that has done virtually nothing since being sworn in. It has yet to pass the continuing funding required to provide what our men and women in the armed forces need to keep them safe, fed and equipped in the face of the enemy. This is the same Congress which has not yet seen fit to expel the member from Louisiana who was caught with $90,000 frozen in his freezer. This is the same Congress that thinks it was granted the right of Kings so far as 'earmarks' are concerned. This is the Congress that intends to raise our taxes since it doesn't think we pay enough.
I can recall many instances where our elected officials have not displayed the ability to manage their own affairs business, and yet they insist on telling parents how to raise their children. These people seem to have lost sight of their oath of office. It has absolutely nothing to do with telling schools and parents that no soft drinks or chips will be permitted in schools. We sent them to Washington to represent us, and not to subvert our parental rights and obligations. But, when we permit the federal government to provide funding to schools for lunch programs, they feel they've been given presumptive authority over what that lunch will contain. School lunch programs used to be paid for by parents. Only when there was a legitimate inability to pay on the part of some parents did government step in. We've permitted an incremental erosion of parental rights and now we reap the rewards.
You may've heard the term "nanny state" referring to government getting into the daily lives of us Americans. They think they know what is best for us, and, by golly, they're going to make sure we get it, and get it good! This is simply beyond the call of our elected officials, and it has to stop.
Congress certainly has many more weighty issues to decide...and it hasn't done much in that regard since it was sworn in to office. When parents permit such usurpation of their rights, they deserve the government they get. Unfortunately, their children deserve far better; the children deserve real parents who'll raise them properly, teaching them responsibility for their own actions so they can learn how to make sound decisions for themselves.
Unfortunately, Congress would be all too happy to see generation after generation of young people who believe that government knows best, and who blindly follow government's mandates.
