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Government’s Getting Us Where it Wants Us — Eating Out of Its Hand

Originally published January 31, 2013, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Government’s Getting Us Where it Wants Us — Eating Out of Its Hand

Filed Under: Bar Room Banter, Budget, Budget, Charity vs Welfare, Civil Society, Education, Featured, Federal, Founding Principles, Government Spending, In the News, Lincoln Public Schools, Local, Nebraska, Personal Responsibility, Progressivism, Regulation, Taxes, Welfare Tagged With: 16 ounce soda limit, banning unhealthy food, bill avery, brown bag lunch, brown bagging, C. S. Lewis, C. S. Lewis on tyranny, childhood obesity, clancy brothers and tommy makem, connemara, diet, dr. bob rauner, eating at school, fast food kids' meals, food ban, food police, food stamps, free lunch, free or reduced price lunch, free school lunch, God in the Dock, government, government regulation, government spending, healthy food, Hispanic Federation, home cooking, homefeeding, homeschooling, is soda a food, keep the smoke from risin' barney, kids' meals, lb447, limit food stamp use to healthy food, limited government, mayor bloomberg, meals at school, michael bloomberg, Michelle Obama, mike douglas show, moonshine, mountain tay, NAACP, ne, nebr, nebraska, nebraska budget, nebraska legislature, nebraska medical association, nebraska medical association public health committee, nebraska unicameral, new york city, nutrition, obesity, obesity among children, one size fits all, one size fits all government program, parental rights, platte institute snap program, politicians, politics, progressivism, public health committee, public kitchens, public schools, reduced price school lunch, revenuers, sales tax exemption on food, sales tax on food, salt ban, school inspector confiscates kid's lunch, school lunch program, school lunches, silver tongued devil, snap, snap program, soda ban, soda tax bill, state senator bill avery, state senators, summer school lunch program, supplemental food and nutrition program, taking lunch to school, tax subsidies, taxing unhealthy food, the hand is quicker than the eye, toys in kids' meals, trans-fat ban, tyranny, Unicameral, USDA, USDA regulations

Comment on GiN Site Reveals Troubling Attitudes of Too Many

Originally published February 10, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated February 10, 2011. 1 Comment

Comment on GiN Site Reveals Troubling Attitudes of Too Many

“Unions exist to protect workers and ensure that our children receive a quality education and that those who work for the state and educate your children live healthy, decent lives. I am opposed to CIR reform. The CIR is not the source of the problem. CEO salaries are the source of the problem.” The above […]

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