First Lady Michelle Obama Promotes $400 Million Initiative to Increase Access to Healthy, Affordable Food Nationwide

This is total BS. Spend money,Spend money, Spend money$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$Borrow more money, borrow more money.WOW When will it stop?

Michelle only gets $400m?
Her husband handed out $1.5B today.
They loved spending our money.

I can see it coming.
MO will hand out money incentives to families that lose weight.
It will be another entitlement program
that enslaves the poor.

It seems that the government should be able to buy and distribute a lot of vegetable seeds for $400M. There is nothing more “natural” than homegrown vegetables! They could probably build a few hot houses as well.

Posted by: tillyerkt | Feb 19, 2010 6:14:48 PM “It seems that the government should be able to buy and distribute a lot of vegetable seeds for $400M.”
Great idea to grow your own vegetables. You may recall our First Lady also has been encouraging people to plant gardens.
Unfortunately, not all the people who live in poor urban areas have space to grow their food, and without a grocery store nearby that provides fresh fruit and vegetables, the nearest options are a constant diet of fat killer fast food.

Democrats, quit spending taxpayer money!!!!!!! Quit expanding the debt!!!!!! Did Obama not just yesterday create a commission to investigate how the government can reduce the unsustainable debt? Well here’s a clue. Here’s a first step. Quit spending millions of dollars of citizens’ money.

Bravo to our First Lady….rural and urban areas has been lacking even grocery stores that sells fresh fruits and veggies for Decades without any attention being paid to this national dilemna. Obesity brings around diseases that are “profit based” for insurance companies and their cronies. Children in America needs the opportunity and has a right to afford “good healthy foods”. Look around these areas and all you see is Fast Food joints….to kill off rural and urban citizens. This is America, and it’s about time this change. Or is America a Third world country that only the rich and affluent survives?

It was sweet of Barry to give his wife some of our money to spend.

Want accessibility to food at a store.
Have a job and go to the grocery store.

larry | Feb 19, 2010 7:55:23 PM posted “Food stamps won’t buy a lot of healthy food.” Larry, that statement perpetuates a TOTAL MYTH.
FOOD stamp cards can buy foods, seeds and food plants. People cannot use the cards for alcohol, tobacco, pet food, supplements, paper goods, or hot prepared foods.

If Mrs. Obama is serious about healthy foods, instead of just for photo-ops, she should ask Mr. Obama to close all the McDonalds, Burger Kings, Wendys, Jack in the Box, Taco Bells, tax every corner convenience store that carried sodas, chips, sweets, charge every company a fee for having parking space within 5 minute walk radius.

Fran, maybe you can help me with a question. Why are conservatives so elitist? You know, apparently not caring whether the poorest among us actually have access to fresh food.
Posted by: CenterOne | Feb 19, 2010 8:10:38 PM
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The Republican right understands you’re just supposed to POSE as if you aren’t elitist, but really you can be as elitist as you want. Let them eat cake.

Michelle’s Let’s Move program has a $10B budget, so $400M is a drop in the bucket to the Democrats.
The MSM is hard at work promoting this.
But it probably won’t work until Obama declares it a crisis that must be addressed immediately or people will die!
Kind of like Obamacare.
So dire that it doesn’t start until 2014.
Sadly people believe this snakeoil nonsense.

If there’s a choice between fresh produce and junk food, the junk food will win out. Good luck trying to change the mindset in poor neighborhoods. You’d better try teaching them to cook rather than eat processed foods while you’re at it.

Let’s see, growing up I lived about 20 miles from the nearest grocery store. Now almost 60 years later, I am still 20 miles from the nearest grocery store. There are many Amish in my area and thus to get groceries they must make arrangements with those that drive. See how this works? Do you think the Amish are wealthy, and if so how did they get that way? Yup, they saved what money they earned and cobbled it together to build houses, barns, and to survive.
There is an old saying out here in the farm which is. “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink”. Actually it is a very true statement.
I applaud Michelle’s attempt to trim the bulge, but wishing and hoping that the children of overweight adults will choose fresh veggies, is hoping on a star.
As long as there is dinner in a box, lunch in a bag, and breakfast in the frozen section of the grocery store, coupled with a very lazy society, the waistline will continue to expand.

Lets stop beating around the bush and tell it like it is: Grocery stores invest in areas where there are paying customers. They don’t invest in places where the cost of doing business will exceed the money brought in. There are reasons nobody wants to discuss as to why businessmen will not invest in low income areas. But again we have a socialist thinking President and his like minded wife “steering the ship”. Another waste of hard earned tax money. And so it goes.

Lets stop beating around the bush and tell it like it is: Grocery stores invest in areas where there are paying customers. They don’t invest in places where the cost of doing business will exceed the money brought in.
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Yes.
I wish this post went into more detail about how these investments work. Do the stores operate at a loss? Do they remain subsidized to stay in business? Or do they become profitable once they are in business?

I wish this post went into more detail about how these investments work. Do the stores operate at a loss? Do they remain subsidized to stay in business? Or do they become profitable once they are in business?
Posted by: MayBee | Feb 20, 2010 10:13:19 AM
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I agree – not much detail in this piece.
There is more information at Article Ant in a release dated the 19th.
From the article . . . “With the first year of funding, the Administration’s initiative will leverage enough investments to begin expanding healthy foods options into as many as one-fifth of the nation’s food deserts and create thousands of jobs in urban and rural communities across the nation.”

I`ll have to celebrate with a beer and pizza…

I am attempting to secure a grant to form a business in my community and this is something that interest me in a big way. How do I get information on how to secure funds through a program related to this. Thank You, Jasmine Wheeler