Mixed up priorities
THIS is what I was talking about in my post “Priorities”. With the St. Anthony Bridge collapse still fresh in our minds and another bridge closed because a support pier settled, we have Charles Gibson on ABC News talking about taking federal highway dollars to “fight the obesity epidemic”!
"With bridges falling down, it makes sense to spend federal funds on infrastructure projects, but what doesn’t make sense is suggesting the government spend highway money on the obesity “epidemic.”
But that’s what ABC “World News with Charles Gibson” did on August 27 by promoting a report from "health advocates" at Trust for America’s Health.
“The report calls for a national strategy to reverse this epidemic” including the use of federal highway money said ABC correspondent John McKenzie.
“Require that localities build bike paths and sidewalks so it’s possible for people in communities to exercise more,” said Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) executive director Jeff Levi."
Safe bridges and roads??? Nah – we don’t need’em. What we NEED is bike paths to keep the kiddies from getting fatter!
"McKenzie explained that TFAH wants the government to require 60 minutes of physical activity for kids, “impose higher school nutrition standards” and modify Medicaid and other health programs to include “critical obesity and nutrition counseling.”
Let’s also not get into the fact that this group now wants government to mandate how much exercise our children get.
"World News” failed to estimate the costs to taxpayers cost of these mandates and changes to federal and state programs—not to mention the cost of taking highway money away from bridges and roads. No opposition to the plan was mentioned in the segment."
No opposition mentioned? I wonder why?
Is there no part of our private lives that they DON’T want the government to take over? No…don’t answer that….I already know the answer…
"With bridges falling down, it makes sense to spend federal funds on infrastructure projects, but what doesn’t make sense is suggesting the government spend highway money on the obesity “epidemic.”
But that’s what ABC “World News with Charles Gibson” did on August 27 by promoting a report from "health advocates" at Trust for America’s Health.
“The report calls for a national strategy to reverse this epidemic” including the use of federal highway money said ABC correspondent John McKenzie.
“Require that localities build bike paths and sidewalks so it’s possible for people in communities to exercise more,” said Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) executive director Jeff Levi."
Safe bridges and roads??? Nah – we don’t need’em. What we NEED is bike paths to keep the kiddies from getting fatter!
"McKenzie explained that TFAH wants the government to require 60 minutes of physical activity for kids, “impose higher school nutrition standards” and modify Medicaid and other health programs to include “critical obesity and nutrition counseling.”
Let’s also not get into the fact that this group now wants government to mandate how much exercise our children get.
"World News” failed to estimate the costs to taxpayers cost of these mandates and changes to federal and state programs—not to mention the cost of taking highway money away from bridges and roads. No opposition to the plan was mentioned in the segment."
No opposition mentioned? I wonder why?
Is there no part of our private lives that they DON’T want the government to take over? No…don’t answer that….I already know the answer…
Labels: 35W Bridge collapse, Highway Spending
posted by The Lady Logician at
5:29 PM
1 Comments:
It would really be nice if they pulled there nose out of recess at school they have outlawed about every running game and fun stuff we kids used to do at school, they are now also limiting the time kids get to even play outside anymore
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