New York's Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake school district has become the latest casualty in first lady Michelle Obama’s preferred lunch plan, dropping the menu after too many students complained of hunger.“[Food service manager Nicky] Boehm and her staff worked hard to implement the new regulations, but there were just too many problems and too many foods that students did not like and would not purchase,” said Assistant Superintendent Chris Abdoo about the National School Lunch Program in a statement reported by EAGNews.org. “Students complained of being hungry with these lunches and the district lost money.”
The school system decided to instead create its own lunch menu for next year.
The district lost about $100,000 trying out the federal menu, which offered such meals as “part” of a chicken patty on a minicroissant, EAGNews.org reported.
Students felt they weren’t getting good value for their money,” Ms. Boehm said in EAGNews.org. “The high schoolers especially complained the portion sizes were too small and many more students brought in lunch from home.”
This isn’t the first school to drop the federal lunch menu plan. Catlin, Ill., schools did the same, calling the guidelines too “restrictive,” EAGNews.org reported.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is in charge of managing the lunch program and estimates Mrs. Obama’s new wish list for student meals would cost about $3.2 billion to bring to fruition around the nation.
Note the hallmarks of Nanny State tyranny from this Washington Times story. 1) Mandates are forced upon citizens from an out-of-touch, ideologically zealous government. 2) Mandates prove to be highly problematic, expensive, and unpopular. 3) Mandates eventually prove to be unworkable.
And yes, as alarming and tragic as it is, the rest of Barack Obama's and the Democrats' "fundamental transformation" of America will go the very same way..
Of course, after the sad collapse of the American economy, the infrastructure, the military capabilities for national defense, and the rule of Constitutional law, the Republic isn't going to get the easy do-over that this school cafeteria managed to get.
Get ready to go hungry, baby.
