FLOTUS to Food Manufacturers: Cut 1 Trillion Calories Annually by 2012

I agree with Kathy, we are tired of the two busybodies at the White House telling all Americans how to live their lives. How about the real threat to America? Iran with nuclear weapons aimed at America soon.

Maybe she could talk to her husband
and match the calorie reductions to
the debt reductions. Mind your own
damn business Mrs. Obama, no one elected
you to make changes to our lives. Your
husband is doing enough damage for the
two of you !!!!!!!!!!!!

Memo to FLOTUS: Economic Depression generally is a good weight loss program.

Anyone heard of pushing back from the table?

The right wing wastes its time fighting for their freedom for them and their kids to be FAT. And badmouth the First Lady at the same time.
Listen, just be FAT if you want to be and let the rest of the country get on with getting healthy.

Dear Martitza- I so love how the first program to attack is Social Security and Medicare. It’s not an entitlement. It’s something that people have paid into “the system” their entire lives. I’m quite sure, myself included, that folks would take a cash payment for EVERYTHING they have paid into the “system” and never require a dime from our beloved government. The same with Medicare. Give us what we paid into it and we will all walk away friends. If you want to start talking about cutting “entitlements”, let’s start with the welfare and housing subsidies. That’s where the cuts should begin.

Tierra, why do you need the government’s
help to eat right????? For God’s sake
its pretty simple but you have to turn
everything into a grande cause. Thats
the trouble with you libs, no common
sense. Want to lose weight, eat less
and excercise. That did not cost me a
dime to say it or for anyone to know
thats the way you watch your weight.

Tierra- if you mean that I’m “entitled” to my own money, then fine. It’s an entitlement program. Otherwise, give me what I’ve paid into it. From my perspective, it’s MY money.

Tierra- Is Bush the POTUS? Sadly, that’s all you folks have to cling to.

Tierra- Is Bush the POTUS? Sadly, that’s all you folks have to cling to.
Posted by: kathy | May 17, 2010 7:57:24 PM
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Thank God . . . NO he isn’t – but that was his housing program, initiated when he and the Republicans had the majority in Congress. The Republican right are hypocrites.

Sorry Tierra- just re-read and saw that “that’s how communism works”. Perhaps you might be happier in China? We’re not too fond of communism here in the States.
Posted by: kathy | May 17, 2010 8:04:07 PM
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Too slow to know what quotation marks around a word implies?
Perhaps it’s the lack of intellectual rigor that’s causing America to fall further and further behind China.

Kathy: One of my hobbies is to write cook books, so I post under the name of a salad dressing. LOL. I’ve learned the hard way that “presumption” is the mother of all fallen cakes and mis-information.
But, here’s an idea. If you are worried about “tax revenues”, why not promote Federal Immigration Reform? A 2009 UCLA study showed if we had used a LEGAL worker program for the estimated 12 million illegals employed in the U.S., we would have added more than $1.5 TRILLION to our economy over the last 10 years.
See, there’s no reason American’s cannot find ways to make things better even if our politics don’t follow the same path.

They can cut everything they want out of the packaged foot. But WE don’t have to buy it. Michelle should use her time for educating ignorant Mothers on nutrition and learning to say NO to their fat kids. pfft! What a joke.

From green.goddess : “Posted by: kathy | May 17, 2010 7:54:50 PM posted “From my perspective, it’s MY money.” When put money into a bank, it is “your money”. Sorry, but the Social Security system is nothing like that – there is no “account” in the traditional sense.
The money you paid into the system is designed to be immediately paid out to the people who are currently getting Social Security checks. A retiree’s Social Security benefit is calculated using a complex formula rather than a bank account balance.
And, when the Social Security system takes in more money than it pays out, it buys U.S. Treasury bonds with the surplus. Essentially, the federal government (in the form of the Social Security Administration) loans the surplus to itself.
Clearly, some people don’t like this idea. They want to stuff the money under a mattress, or invest it with those trustworthy Wall Street boys. But for now, Tierra is correct – it is one of those “socialist” programs, originally designed to help all Americans.”
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The fact is, FDR sold Social Security to the American people as a retirement account that would be there for their retirement.
At the same time, his lawyers were in court telling the court that it was Constitutional because it was ACTUALLY just a tax that would go into the general fund.
The American people were lied to, and since the money goes into the general fund, Congress has been stealing from that ‘retirement money’ for decades for their pork give-away programs to buy votes for themselves.

I totally agree with Michelle Obama AND I think she is doing a marvelous job as First Lady…..Her husband not so much…

This calorie cut-back by the food industry is a very good thing.
I am so glad that Michelle Obama is making our obesity problem a real focus of her time as our First Lady. With a little education about food, some changes in the food industry’s ingredients and good examples of ordinary fitness in daily life, we can turn this around.
okie, I like your idea of limiting food stamps to healthier foods. Maybe a little brochure on how buying the raw ingredients saves the food budget big dollars would help, too. From a personal point of view, going vegetarian a few dinners a week can save a lot of money, as well as being healthier if you watch the fat calories.
Once problem for inner city food shoppers is the quality of produce in those stores is sub-par in many cities. This should be investigated and corrected.

Posted by: DaveMN | May 18, 2010 5:26:46 PM: “Where does the nanny state end?”
Dave: Back in the 1930′s Great Depression, kids were coming to school hungry and malnourished. Many States and cities adopted legislation, some of them including (horrors)TAXES, to enable schools to serve noonday meal to students.
But the real “Nanny State” for US kids started when President Harry S. Truman began the Federal school lunch program in 1946. Why? IT WAS A MEASURE OF NATIONAL SECURITY. He read a study that revealed many young men had been rejected from the World War II Draft because of medical conditions caused from childhood malnutrition.
So now, our nation has a new problem: fat, malnourished kids. It is NOT just a matter of “responsibility and choice” that will solve the problem. Again, this is becoming a matter of national security. Wouldn’t you rather have healthy, fit kids who can become the next generation of soldiers and taxpayers?

So Dave, in your logic, the better choice is to do nothing about this problem as a nation?
Should we just leave it up to individuals who clearly have not been successful at stopping the wave of diabetes or obesity related diseases that are crippling our health care system costs?
Kids don’t have the luxury of time. They are subjected to their parents’ lack of knowledge or food industry poisons as they grow up to develop diabetes.