Are you losing weight? Oh, nevermind, you're just losing freedoms. To who? To people who make money from doing so.

Chocolate milk messes you up. If it didn't, then why else would certain critics be lobbying for it to be taken off of school lunch menus across the U.S.? Could it be they really only want to take more of your freedoms away and impose new legislation on you, and your family? Yes, your family's freedoms are increasingly being taken away. Shouldn't you choose if your child is allowed chocolate milk? Shouldn't you choose if it is safe for a neighbor to watch your kids if you go out on the town? What am I talking about? Freedoms! This country should be ringing the freedom bell across its beautiful lands. But, instead, the warning bell is being rang and not many people are hearing it. About the neighbor thing above, this sums it up [State to mom: Stop baby-sitting neighbors' kids, or else]. And now the milk issue. Oh wait, before that these groups said vending machines should be taken out of schools and sodas should be banned. I can't keep up with all of these freedom-killers' actions, which is why we all need to, collectively, and what our forefathers intended for us to do.

I mean, is it so hard to let people raise their kids the way they feel is right? Can't we all agree that parents have a more vested interest in their childrens' lives than the government does? Children are, after all, the best retirement plan -- you grow old and they take care of you! In the government's view: you grow old and the government has to take care of you, minimally. Less than minimally, actually. Their formulas for calculating how much you deserve in retirement cannot match your childrens' love for you and how much they will do for you. Children move their retired parents into their own homes all of the time, but you will never see our government move your parents into the White House.

I'm not hating on our lovely country and I'm not saying children are only good for mooching off of later in life. So, with this said, who do you think cares more about your kids: you or the government. It is you that should be making these decisions, exercising your liberties. Let schools introduce a 'card program' that forces students to swipe a card which has presets of what their parents say is OK and not OK to purchase. This would gain so much more praise and be passed legislatively faster than the wasted time of fighting our dairy farmers who are against this banned chocolate milk program. If I can remember straight, the government artificially raises the price of milk by subsidizing dairy producers. I can only imagine how messy and lengthy this battle will become. Introduce the cards, solve the problem, keep some liberties...feel better about being an American and worry about the real issues of the day.

Write to your Representative and let them know your thoughts!

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