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Vending Machines |
| Published: | Wed, 14 Oct 2009 |
| Description: | First Lady Michelle Obama visited the headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington Tuesday. She devoted much of her talk to "the growing threat of obesity, particularly childhood obesity" in the United States, and she touted HHS's recently-announced plan to spend $373 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on plans to, among other things, improve the healthfulness of foods in vending machines. Do you want healthy snacks in vending machines? |
" One 8774694322187746943. Two to. That is the toll free number. Of the -- for our show. As you know the the lives or are very very into. Putting new taxes on foods that they consider un helpfully. And the they've tried."
" In new York and in Massachusetts to output. Taxes on sugary soft drinks. But I did not know that this was going on with these stimulus money until today this is from the Washington examiner. Which is that's a that's a new conservative newspaper it's on by -- and shoots. He's at these of them were inclusive fails -- were close of billionaire. But he's he's financing a lot of conservative publications I believe is an effort to spot the weekly standard. Now let the Rupert it's another Rupert is trying to be more PC politically correct a piece -- and shoots his -- about some of the that the cut jewels. I hope. Reports like we give up the Fox News Channel of course does that make it too much -- but -- give up the ones that are more marginal like the weekly standard magazine. Anyway. First Lady Michelle Obama visited the headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services from Washington on Tuesday. She devoted much of her talk to the quote growing threat of obesity particularly childhood obesity unquote in the United States and she touted. HHS's. Recently announced plans to spend 4373. Million dollars. A stimulus funds on plans to among other things improve the health fullness of foods in vending machines. Again I know that -- say -- too many times but let me just repeat I am not making this up. They're going to spend federal money to improve the health fullness of foods in vending machines."
" A friend of mine who. Take care and -- of public school food out and Ashland yes she bought old incident going to the state. They went and bought some old used vending machines to put their own snacks on the finale they can control --"
" I hope they're putting in tasty snacks that people want -- can they are -- an effort -- just of the they alternate like granola with Snickers bars and see how fast -- renal cells."
" I think we all know the answer to that question though weeks and actually she did put she'd she does picture doesn't pick coarse food she picked tasty stuff in essence don't go I'm pretty --"
" Here's the HHS announcement. From last month by Kathleen Sebelius for example. Communities will work to make high fat snack foods and sugar sweetened beverages less available in schools. Okay so people like. Kids like to have. Tasty foods high fat snack foods and sugar sweetened beverages. So we can buy them at the school in the school can get a cut of the profits and have that money to spend non -- don't know the key clobber of the Spanish club -- sock -- or something. Or the breathalyzer for the sophomore advance at Wellesley high school. "
" But instead. They're gonna take out. The high fat snack foods and sugar sweetened beverages. Which will just mean that the utes. Up back at going to the high schools a middle schools will just have to stop. At the local convenience stores on the way to school to buy. The -- or sweetened beverages and high fat snack foods does anyone think that this is that this plan that they gonna spend hundreds of millions of dollars on. Is going to stop anybody from eating any any food that they want to know. They were all they were all. Work to make the high fat snack foods and sugar sweetened beverages less available not only in schools but in other community sites. So in other words wherever there's a public facility. Whether it's the senior citizens sent their -- library. Or the the baseball -- with tennis courts if there is a soda if there's this machine you can bet that there won't be anything worth buying. In the vending machine so stock got to go and stop but yet your local. Convenience store or or gas stations to buy both the products that you want before."
" In addition funded communities will be encouraged to provide quality physical education in the nation's schools and enact comprehensive smoking bans all great comprehensive smoking bans. This week HHS announced that another 120 million and stimulus funds will be made available for similar purposes. Sort -- half a billion dollars now. Trying to route to make people eat more eat more eat more -- I cut -- I've asked this question before. You remember that a few years back some of the fast food restaurants that we all go to. Decided that they were gonna give the youth of America a choice in their happy meals and they're happy like meals. Of either having French Fries are sliced apples. I have asked a question rhetorically I don't think McDonald's or Burger King or anyone else's everywhere we statistics as to how many utes. Actually select sliced apples rather than French Fries. Craps if they put salt. From the sliced apples rosary -- over the over the weekend the long weekend I was away. Some some -- was asked record store Q1 they -- the newspaper races based. What makes restaurant food tastes so much better. Then home cooked food. In the shaft in it in a display of honesty that he may. Come to regret at some point set I can I can explain it one word salt. What do we just may have solved from restaurants -- I want to just assault is encouraging people to eat too much. Caroline is going had a birthday she's going to a birthday party on Saturday night in she stated that this Italian restaurant in the city of Boston. Inning and the the she did she's already heard she's never been there she heard that they have giant portions you know act of Cheesecake Factory. Why don't we outlawed giant portions of -- you know. Let's let's just go which is -- hole ha -- now. We'll just we'll just have food police but just food police much is garbage police going through your food to make sure you true -- try to recycle as much as you -- like they do in the UK. Let's just have people checking you out you know we give it. Instead of having designated drivers will have designated -- someone will eat before they go to the restaurant and then they'll tell you if you're if they think you're over order. They could stop you from. 1877469432. To -- me ask you something I'm sure were you work there's a vending machine. Would you be more inclined or less inclined. To go to the vending machine if suddenly they get away with famous Amos cookies and which she goes and kit Kat bars and Coca-Cola. And replaced them with granola bars. And a pair. And I don't know why our kind of who water -- have. Some here because of what people are now used to drinking water. 1877469432218774694322. Should the government be telling you what they eat and by the way. If -- tell people. Or pay their own money in the vending machines reported tell them what they can eat and what they can't eat. How come we can't tell people on food stamps. What they can beat. That's bats hate crime to even bring that up isn't it you're not supposed to do that because. People who were on welfare have free choices and we can't interfere with a the only way we can interfere or so -- choices is if he's at taxpayer and he's not on the -- We can tell them what to do by god. Just like you know we can't take away guns from illegal aliens but we can take away guns from law abiding citizens weakened may we can quadruple the registration fee. We can make them undergo a background check we can make them have do what. -- in front of a local police chief of they want a license or appear an illegal alien just feel free keep gone. 18774694322. Joe your next with how we cargo ahead joke."
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" I don't know what what could be what could be more of a waste of money I mean what they what they spend the money on this spinning apparently hundreds -- at least hundreds of millions of dollars. To try to force how they do this how do you force -- school. To what to do away with the snacks that are selling and replace them with snacks are gonna sell."
" But it makes. This thought makes sense."
" I know and and you know what again it's not lightly so I mean what are we gonna have a sugar free zone around the school -- you can't have a -- you -- have a drug free zone heard gun free zone around the schools. What is what are they gonna do you can't sell you can't sell a salty. He can't sell it to read all free dose of Frito Lay snack. Within 200 yards of a school is that what it's gonna come down to --"
" They're gonna be like a vendor -- the same -- there is now like a sex offender -- like if you sell -- stuff year they can't find fewer than fifty feet of that and that school."
" That's right in the -- you know then and then of course always expands we told you a couple weeks ago that they at first they said there -- it's there we're gonna charge there only gonna -- put the the sugar attacks on the sugar drinks like coax in Pepsi's. But then they said. But if you drink a Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi give you this false courage that you're able to eat other groups sugary products. So they're gonna add the taxpayer anything any kind of sweetened products. Now what about moxie -- job moxie is -- product. -- will that be will get a rebate will let get some kind of tax. It. You know tax I don't know what she even college but."
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" I I nominate you for being the sugars are as good job you thought this thing through it faced with a call 18774694322. Liz you're next with how we cargo ahead --"
" Iowa may change this subject a little bit to go back to the health program."
" Yes. Well the -- you know. Well. -- Okay we're gonna we're gonna try to stick with the sugar thank right okay 18774694322. Mike your next with how we cargo ahead Mike."
" I know Gloria. Oh it is beer BR -- A drink like a soft drink like Hawaiian punch. It is far -- because it's vitamin content. Big hitters if Richard might eventually -- isn't much sugar as. I sold a product. But all I have budget subject -- as the daughter is not so where is the common sense again in all of this situation. They just sit there it is makes absolutely no sense when you look at what they can't what they can't offer good schools SATA."
" Now I know in the ad like it's a the other thing I'm just thinking about the high school were my kids go. I mean are out right it's like image play every high school in the country is ringed by seven elevens right. -- What I don't think -- right they're just gonna drive up the businesses added they're gonna they're gonna increase sales at sugar products and salt products. At all these at all these -- These stores the basically act this kind of -- perimeter. Around every high school in America."
" And the extent of dealing with the reality which is. Gave the American public is still -- can still. These types of -- why not just try to teach them BI thereof -- what what you should consume it what quantity. But know what we'll do is just try to make things off one. Dollar which we know doesn't work especially with young kids."
" Then there well then and there will increase and then since we've we know we can't work we really know ultimately it can't work we'll just put a big fat tax on -- hire some more of our friends to what to run these programs that don't work."
" Actual again you know somebody was gonna mention a couple called the global bishop bizarre. Don't don't -- because it's not far away. Public this current administration of us are led off."
" It spelled -- thanks for the call Mike 1877469. The affordable foods into vending machine."
" And to make it. High fat snack foods and sugar sweetened beverages less available in schools and other community sites I'm not making this up I am reading from a press release from health and human services. They're admitting harassment and stimulus money on this. Why how much you get it paid an hour to go around the high schools and say."
" That's -- Hershey bar. In there. Do you know how much -- in those cool ranch their Reno's."
" What would you rather eat. Fury at least eighty -- high school's junior. You know getting ready to take the SATs would you rather have a bag of cool -- to -- those -- granola bar. That that looks in case -- linoleum. Barber a year next with how we cargo ahead Barbara."
" I get the latest but I am a high school health teacher yeah that's I don't hang up finding. Out how. I do I do refute that there needs to be education ninety it's kind of -- their food intake but. I will tell you that high school students are growing kids and they are hungry. Every hour of the day so -- where they get their hands on Lilly and I'll tell you if there's been all of our there. The earliest they'll eat whatever they can't stop the choices with a healthy choices they're there. And they're idiots and hope that we'll develop into."
" Which are suing apple which -- saying Barbara as you wanna take away their choice. She's saying now desperate Billy exactly so you're saying if they if there's only a vending machine full of granola bars and then they're gonna have to buy a granola bar. Well it had to go and learn that don't we live a free country shouldn't she shouldn't one -- opportunity. Yet how about a I hate how about some white chocolate covered Oreo was may have."
" Well Republican dark chocolate dark chocolate actually help it it."
" That's -- that's good that's good we'll put it right next to the white chocolate covered Oreo -- and next to that we'll have some famous Amos. Chocolate chip cookies in next and that will have some double dogs in the -- have granola bar. I what do you think is gonna come in last out of that -- collection that I just mentioned."
" Well I like it yeah -- all they do they do need to learn got a moderate and they can do that outside the system but what makes -- in school. That I think the schools at all their business we have been under the."
" But they're carbon footprint if they have the drive to the nearest 7-Eleven. What about that what about the polar bears the polar bears both for the double stuff -- white chocolate covered I'm powered car."
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