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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

Your Tax (and Print) Dollars At Work: Welfare Peddlers

Originally published October 4, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated October 13, 2012. Leave a Comment

Your Tax (and Print) Dollars At Work: Welfare Peddlers

It’s not exactly news to anyone paying attention: the US government has a mounting pile of unsustainable debt. A quick look at how we spend our money reveals that welfare (“entitlement”) programs comprise over 50% of the budget. As the amount of social security paid out now exceeds the amount taken in, as the stated […]

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NE Think Tank Has a Lot In Common With Pelosi

Originally published September 2, 2010, By Shellinda. Updated April 29, 2018. Leave a Comment

NE Think Tank Has a Lot In Common With Pelosi

In early July, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi explained to reporters that unemployment benefits would, yet again, be extended because, of course, those benefits are actually a job creator and among the best forms of economic stimulus available… This assault on common sense and reasoning is not well received when coming from a Democrat, but most […]

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