Michelle Obama's boondoggle
We all know by know that Michelle Obama is interested in cutting obesity among school children -- so she likes to take small trips to the local farmer's market, using up tens of thousands of dollars in security and tying up D.C. so that she can stroll amongst the organic carrots.
We sort of laugh at the folly of these expeditions, but she is sort of right that we need to foster a different attitude towards diet, right? Sort of ... but look under any rock in Obama's D.C., and you will find a leftist cause blinking in the unwelcome sunlight.
You see, Michelle is hiding a far left (and I mean essentially commie, not merely socialist) bomb in that bouquet of natural holistic flowers: the SEIU in the form of Andy Stern. Hmmm.. Andy Stern is the ultimate representative of backroom Chicago-style politics that Obama likes so much. And Obama likes Stern, too. In fact, between inauguration and July 2009, Stern visited the Whitehouse 22 times, meeting with the President seven times. More than anybody.
Who is Andy Stern? President of the SEIU (Service Employees International Uniono), and the pocketbook that handed out $65 million to the 2004 Kerry campaign and $85 million to Democrat candidates in 2008 -- at least $60 million of which went to the Obama campaign by various means. Really. So does he get face-time at the Whitehouse? You betcha. Who else does the SEIU support? ACORN got more than $6 million since 2006 ... though the SEIU claim to have severed all ties to ACORN after the child prostitution scandal, ACORN received $250,000 in 2009. The figures are from the US Dept of Labor and the SEIU's own disclosure statements -- how much more was back-doored? The SEIU and ACORN have joint bank accounts at Wells Fargo Bank.
Andy Stern followed the classic leftist path -- student activist in the '60's, he trained at the "Midwest Academy" -- an institute formed by Students for a Democratic Society to teach leftist community organizers how to promote "social change and infiltrate the labor movement." Is this starting to sound Obama-esque? Unsurprisingly, he started as a welfare case officer at the SEIU in 1973. By 1984, he led their organizing efforts -- Stern is today a big fan of the "Employee Free Choice Act" -- better know as the card check effort -- to promote easier unionization. We know this as "vote for us or will break your knee caps." If you think that this is hyperbole, then you simply know nothing of labor organization. Stern himself boats that he advocates the "power of persuasion, and if that fails, the persuasion of power." His book, A Country That Works is a socialist manifesto, preaching taxation of the wealthy and universal healthcare. He advocates that unions be the means of social reform ... sort of Marxist-Leninist approach, isn't it? But in true Politburo style, he managed to negotiate an exemption for SEIU members from Obama's proposed Cadillac-healthcare tax. Frequent visitor to the Whitehouse, indeed.
OK, so now we understand Stern a bit. What is the gig with Michelle -- I'd like to call her the Black Widow for her venom, ambush tactics and preference for hidden places (like her agenda), but I am afraid that the use of word "Black" would brand me a racist. I can't call her a Brown Recluse, either for the same reasons. Tarantula? The Funnel Web (a really nasty aggressive spider found in Australia that actively seeks to hurt "bite first, see if it is edible later")? Anyhow, the Spider has an agenda with Stern. You see, Spider's hubby Barry-O, has to pay back his loyal bag-man. Chicago politics.
How does this fit in? Back to history ... remember the LBJ "Child Nutrition Act?" That is, school lunches? Itself an outgrowth of the plan to get rid of food surpluses after World War 2, this became an unwieldy entitlement in the '60's. The GOP tried to get rid of it during the Clinton years, but Democrats called it "starving the children." What this Federally subsidized program did was to relieve the responsibility of parents to take care of their children's nutrition. And it costs insane amounts to support -- as with all Federal programs, that meal on their cafeteria tray costs many multiples of the mere cost of the food. It take a vast supply and administrative system, and most importantly for the SEIU, workers to prepare, cook, serve and clean up after it. Anybody with a grain of sense could see that responsible parents could do this far more efficiently than the vast bureaucracy set up to achieve this. If people are too poor, let's give them get extra food stamps. And the system apparently does not work too well: 1/3 of American children are obese. Any guess where these "starving" children live? This costs $15 Billion a year in direct Federal costs -- and many multiples on the indirect costs to municipalities than must bear this burden. Say $50 billion in total?
SEIU steps in here, along with Department of Agriculture, and food service companies subcontracted to make this happen: a huge and powerful lobby dedicated to this Federal handout. What do they want? A vastly expanded system -- the "GOAL" is better diets for our children. Do you believe for one second that anyone involved in this unstoppable swindle gives one poop about their diets? Really? There are 400,000 people directly employed by this system and the SEIU wants to increase their numbers dramatically -- that's about power, about ability to promote social change -- their ultimate political goal. And the Spider, if anything, sees her job as changing America no less than her husband does.
This is not about the children -- a moron could see that there are easier and better ways to achieve better nutrition and diets than this. This is about social-progressive change. The SEIU is advocating expanding school lunches to create the "universal dietary safety net" breakfast, lunch and dinner for all school-aged children, courtesy of the State. Not only is that a communist ideal, it is a hammerlock for the SEIU, the removal of the parent from the job of child rearing, and creating an attitude of entitlement masked as concern. It will also blow apart any notion of fiscal responsibility anywhere -- and create loyal Democrat voters from indoctrinated children, largely urban "minorities." If you do not have to care for your children or take any responsibility for them, what are you teaching them? What sort of person results from this system? Just look to American slums and prisons for the answer.
And somebody will have to pay for this. And that is you ... and me.
We sort of laugh at the folly of these expeditions, but she is sort of right that we need to foster a different attitude towards diet, right? Sort of ... but look under any rock in Obama's D.C., and you will find a leftist cause blinking in the unwelcome sunlight.
You see, Michelle is hiding a far left (and I mean essentially commie, not merely socialist) bomb in that bouquet of natural holistic flowers: the SEIU in the form of Andy Stern. Hmmm.. Andy Stern is the ultimate representative of backroom Chicago-style politics that Obama likes so much. And Obama likes Stern, too. In fact, between inauguration and July 2009, Stern visited the Whitehouse 22 times, meeting with the President seven times. More than anybody.
Who is Andy Stern? President of the SEIU (Service Employees International Uniono), and the pocketbook that handed out $65 million to the 2004 Kerry campaign and $85 million to Democrat candidates in 2008 -- at least $60 million of which went to the Obama campaign by various means. Really. So does he get face-time at the Whitehouse? You betcha. Who else does the SEIU support? ACORN got more than $6 million since 2006 ... though the SEIU claim to have severed all ties to ACORN after the child prostitution scandal, ACORN received $250,000 in 2009. The figures are from the US Dept of Labor and the SEIU's own disclosure statements -- how much more was back-doored? The SEIU and ACORN have joint bank accounts at Wells Fargo Bank.
Andy Stern followed the classic leftist path -- student activist in the '60's, he trained at the "Midwest Academy" -- an institute formed by Students for a Democratic Society to teach leftist community organizers how to promote "social change and infiltrate the labor movement." Is this starting to sound Obama-esque? Unsurprisingly, he started as a welfare case officer at the SEIU in 1973. By 1984, he led their organizing efforts -- Stern is today a big fan of the "Employee Free Choice Act" -- better know as the card check effort -- to promote easier unionization. We know this as "vote for us or will break your knee caps." If you think that this is hyperbole, then you simply know nothing of labor organization. Stern himself boats that he advocates the "power of persuasion, and if that fails, the persuasion of power." His book, A Country That Works is a socialist manifesto, preaching taxation of the wealthy and universal healthcare. He advocates that unions be the means of social reform ... sort of Marxist-Leninist approach, isn't it? But in true Politburo style, he managed to negotiate an exemption for SEIU members from Obama's proposed Cadillac-healthcare tax. Frequent visitor to the Whitehouse, indeed.
OK, so now we understand Stern a bit. What is the gig with Michelle -- I'd like to call her the Black Widow for her venom, ambush tactics and preference for hidden places (like her agenda), but I am afraid that the use of word "Black" would brand me a racist. I can't call her a Brown Recluse, either for the same reasons. Tarantula? The Funnel Web (a really nasty aggressive spider found in Australia that actively seeks to hurt "bite first, see if it is edible later")? Anyhow, the Spider has an agenda with Stern. You see, Spider's hubby Barry-O, has to pay back his loyal bag-man. Chicago politics.
How does this fit in? Back to history ... remember the LBJ "Child Nutrition Act?" That is, school lunches? Itself an outgrowth of the plan to get rid of food surpluses after World War 2, this became an unwieldy entitlement in the '60's. The GOP tried to get rid of it during the Clinton years, but Democrats called it "starving the children." What this Federally subsidized program did was to relieve the responsibility of parents to take care of their children's nutrition. And it costs insane amounts to support -- as with all Federal programs, that meal on their cafeteria tray costs many multiples of the mere cost of the food. It take a vast supply and administrative system, and most importantly for the SEIU, workers to prepare, cook, serve and clean up after it. Anybody with a grain of sense could see that responsible parents could do this far more efficiently than the vast bureaucracy set up to achieve this. If people are too poor, let's give them get extra food stamps. And the system apparently does not work too well: 1/3 of American children are obese. Any guess where these "starving" children live? This costs $15 Billion a year in direct Federal costs -- and many multiples on the indirect costs to municipalities than must bear this burden. Say $50 billion in total?
SEIU steps in here, along with Department of Agriculture, and food service companies subcontracted to make this happen: a huge and powerful lobby dedicated to this Federal handout. What do they want? A vastly expanded system -- the "GOAL" is better diets for our children. Do you believe for one second that anyone involved in this unstoppable swindle gives one poop about their diets? Really? There are 400,000 people directly employed by this system and the SEIU wants to increase their numbers dramatically -- that's about power, about ability to promote social change -- their ultimate political goal. And the Spider, if anything, sees her job as changing America no less than her husband does.
This is not about the children -- a moron could see that there are easier and better ways to achieve better nutrition and diets than this. This is about social-progressive change. The SEIU is advocating expanding school lunches to create the "universal dietary safety net" breakfast, lunch and dinner for all school-aged children, courtesy of the State. Not only is that a communist ideal, it is a hammerlock for the SEIU, the removal of the parent from the job of child rearing, and creating an attitude of entitlement masked as concern. It will also blow apart any notion of fiscal responsibility anywhere -- and create loyal Democrat voters from indoctrinated children, largely urban "minorities." If you do not have to care for your children or take any responsibility for them, what are you teaching them? What sort of person results from this system? Just look to American slums and prisons for the answer.
And somebody will have to pay for this. And that is you ... and me.
posted by Zaphod at Thursday, February 04, 2010
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