Obama signs child nutrition bill

[sabra]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama signed a sweeping overhaul of child nutrition standards Monday, enacting a law meant to encourage better eating habits in part by giving the federal government more authority to set standards for food sold in vending machines and elsewhere on school grounds.

Among other things, the $4.5 billion measure provides more money to poor areas to subsidize free meals and requires schools to abide by health guidelines drafted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. To help offset the higher cost of including more fruits and vegetables, the bill increases the reimbursement rate for school lunches.

Among other things, the $4.5 billion measure provides more money to poor areas to subsidize free meals and requires schools to abide by health guidelines drafted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. To help offset the higher cost of including more fruits and vegetables, the bill increases the reimbursement rate for school lunches.

The bill is about "giving our kids the healthy futures they deserve," the president said during a bill signing ceremony at a Washington elementary school. "Right now across the country too many kids don't have access to school meals."

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/13/obama-signs-child-nutrition-bill/

[elias49]

1. Damned conservative traitor!

:sarcasm:

[Still a Democrat]

24. Pelosi: "President Obama joins the House, Senate, and the First Lady in shining a bright light "

"The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act honors our commitment to our children: to give them a healthy start and a fair shot, and to ensure that no student is held back by hunger from reaching their full potential.

"This landmark legislation brings common sense back to our school cafeterias and snack machines, and empowers parents to fight the growing epidemic of childhood obesity. It improves the quality of school breakfasts and lunches and provides our neediest families with the security of knowing that their children will have access to a healthy meal. And it's fully paid for, not adding a dime to the deficit.

"Addressing childhood nutrition is a moral issue and a competitiveness issue. It is a national security issue, strengthening our military readiness. And in signing this bill into law, President Obama joins the House, Senate, and the First Lady in shining a bright light on the need to get our students moving and make America's children healthier."


http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pelosi-statement-on-president-obama-signing-healthy-hunger-free-kids-act-111796094.html

[callous taoboy]

2. This is just feel-good legislation.

That is what another poster said about it in another thread. He / She was basing all school lunches on the food served at his / her child's school. Anything that will help curb the nation's childhood obesity / diabetes rates is good legislation.

[frazzled]

10. Not if you're a poor kid who eats breakfast and lunch at school every day

It pours more money into the free school lunch program, qualifies more kids for it, and raises the nutritional quality.

It sure as hell beats ketchup as a vegetable that we got from Reagan.

[roody]

31. The USDA breakfast and lunch served at my school is

not very nutritious.

[EFerrari]

13. "funded in part by stripping $2.2 billion from the federal food stamp program"

Yes, it is.

[Autumn]

3. My favorite part:

Some Democrats objected to the bill because it is funded in part by stripping $2.2 billion from the federal food stamp program. Congress also voted over the summer to take money from the program to fund legislation sending money to cash-strapped states to avoid teacher layoffs.

The cuts largely negate a spending increase provided to the food stamp program by the 2009 economic stimulus plan. Administration officials reportedly have promised anxious liberals that they will work to find ways to restore the higher funding level.


Yay team

[MNBrewer]

7. but, but... but.....

why do you hate children! :sarcasm:

[Autumn]

9. You know I always have hated

children. I think it comes from having them.:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :thumbsup:

[KittyWampus]

27. actually, the food stamp program funding nearly doubled. So you are WRONG or lying.

which is it?

Maybe you missed the threads in the GD explaining the truth.

[Autumn]

34. Is it fucking paid for? Or are more cuts coming?

With the republicans in the majority you can bet your ass more cuts are coming. Not to mention more people will be on the food stamp rolls as soon as UI benefits start running out. Spin it any fucking way you want, it's a cut. So what if it was doubled in the stimulus, you don't think there are a lot more people on food stamps? Jobs have not magically come back, there is no funding for the 99ers, what they hell are they living on?

[bluerum]

4. $2.2 billion removed from food stamp program to help fund this

[frazzled]

11. Did you complain about even more food stamp funds being removed to ...

fund teachers' salaries?

These cuts to food stamps don't go into effect for several years. Please don't let your hatred and egoism in trying to prove Democrats wrong prevent you from helping truly poor kids, who depend on school lunch for a significant portion of their daily food intake.

[izzybeans]

23. So Obama raised food stamp program by a net of 28 billion.

Good for him.

[KittyWampus]

28. the food stamp funding was nearly DOUBLED. So it's still been expanded greatly.

[bowens43]

5. you forgot to mention that this is paid for

by by stripping $2.2 billion from the federal food stamp program.

take from some, give to others. No gain.

[Psephos]

17. "take from some, give to others"

That's the best six-word definition of politics that I know.

[Mark D.]

20. Not To Worry

2.2 Billion isn't much. It won't be allowed to be much. One of the 'real owners' of America, as George Carlin put it, JP Morgan Chase, according to Forbes, the largest corporation in the world, is the main administrator of Food Stamps. The more that are on them, the more they profit. Hence why they had such a large hand in the economic collapse (even larger than their protege Goldman Sachs). Even if the GOP took control of everything, that's one area they won't totally or heavily defund. Remember, they work for the 'real owners'. There are only certain cuts that they will allow.

[KittyWampus]

29. you forgot to mention that the funding had been nearly doubled so it's still far ahead

of where it was.

[54anickel]

6. I'd like to see the health guidelines drafted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture before

deciding if this was worth the $2.2 billion trade-off in the food stamp program.

Remember when, back in the days of Raygun, ketchup was deemed a vegetable????

[roody]

32. Our USDA school meals suck.

[indimuse]

8. KNR! n/t

[Scurrilous]

12. K & R

:thumbsup:

[robinlynne]

14. Don't forget the bill also cuts food stamps by several billion dollars.

[KittyWampus]

30. while food stamp program is still ahead tens of billions. Don't forget that...

[robinlynne]

33. true. I read that afterwards.

[Tumbulu]

15. I am thrilled about this legislation

and hope that all the people who worked hard to get it passed know that their efforts are appreciated.

[DontTreadOnMe]

16. Rob the poor, to feed the poor...

it's the best deal we could get get.

[femrap]

18. starve the

old to feed the kids.

I wouldn't bring a kid into this hellish mess of today.

[sirthomas66]

19. That is EXACTLY what it is. Additionally, it is an attempt to defer

the anger over the Tax Holiday. It is point-blank disgusting.

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[thereismore]

21. So the food program had to be paid for? Why do I find it laughable? nt

[Tx4obama]

22. This is GREAT NEWS.

There are some parents that receive food stamps that don't use them for healthy foods or they sell them at a discount for money.
At least now kids will have at least one or two healthy meals per day at school.

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