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Bake Sales Illegal in Massachusetts

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The Departments of Public Health and Education in Massachusetts has banned bake sales in the interest of protecting kids from themselves!! The government has stepped in to make sure kids eat more nutritiously:

Source: Parents: Rule’s half-baked - BostonHerald.com

So here is the question for you... is this good government at work, or a small step closer towards a too-powerful government (in this case, state govt.) who has its hands in places it has no business?

If you eat poundcakes and cookies, you will be punished!!
 
Government operates the schools, government writes the rules :shrug: so the whole "too-powerful government who has its hands in places it has no business" is bull****.

If you were talking about banning ALL bake sales in the state, then yes, that I would have a problem with.
 
We must be protected from the Cookie Monster.
 
hank god im not in that state where wouldi sell my cookies or magic brownies otherwise:roll:
 
StillBallin75 said:
Not sure what you mean, Grim.
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You said "Government operates the schools, government writes the rules." So if Obamacare isn't struck down then just remember, "Government operates the health care system, government writes the rules."
 
StillBallin75 said:
Government operates the schools, government writes the rules :shrug: so the whole "too-powerful government who has its hands in places it has no business" is bull****.

If you were talking about banning ALL bake sales in the state, then yes, that I would have a problem with.
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Doesn't make it a good rule just because the government created it. Like, we can't really do much about it. Like, overreaching B.S.
 
Grim17 said:
You said "Government operates the schools, government writes the rules." So if Obamacare isn't struck down then just remember, "Government operates the health care system, government writes the rules."
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Except Obamacare doesn't make the government operate the health care system any more than Federal aviation regulations means that government operates the airline industry.
 
While it is a stupid law, in school we were only allowed one bake sale, so we had to come up with different ideas on how to raise money, and generally raised more money from things other than our one bake sale.
 
Grim17 said:
You said "Government operates the schools, government writes the rules." So if Obamacare isn't struck down then just remember, "Government operates the health care system, government writes the rules."
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Uhhh, FYI Obamacare isn't a single-payer system.
 
StillBallin75 said:
Government operates the schools, government writes the rules :shrug: so the whole "too-powerful government who has its hands in places it has no business" is bull****.

If you were talking about banning ALL bake sales in the state, then yes, that I would have a problem with.
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I don't see how this makes the rule any less idiotic. Bake Sales are not driving some obesity epidemic. God forbid the state allow students a little fun.
 
jambalaya said:
Doesn't make it a good rule just because the government created it. Like, we can't really do much about it. Like, overreaching B.S.
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I never said it was a good or bad, or smart or stupid policy. I said that since governments operate public schools, they are entirely within their rights to make decisions about what goes on within those schools. This isn't a case of overreaching.
 
jambalaya said:
Doesn't make it a good rule just because the government created it. Like, we can't really do much about it. Like, overreaching B.S.
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DrunkenAsparagus said:
I don't see how this makes the rule any less idiotic. Bake Sales are not driving some obesity epidemic. God forbid the state allow students a little fun.
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Alright, alright, hold on a minute. I didn't say the policy wasn't stupid. Let's please clear that up right away.
 
StillBallin75 said:
Alright, alright, hold on a minute. I didn't say the policy wasn't stupid. Let's please clear that up right away.
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But you are a Redskins fan, so can you blame them for the assumption you thought it was a good idea? Like having Grossman and Beck as QBs.
 
StillBallin75 said:
Government operates the schools, government writes the rules :shrug: so the whole "too-powerful government who has its hands in places it has no business" is bull****.

If you were talking about banning ALL bake sales in the state, then yes, that I would have a problem with.
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So the government can do what it likes in the schools since it runs them? So, it is ok for lunch regulators to go around and decide which kids have properly nutritious lunches and which do not, and to force those kids to purchase properly nutritious items? That has already started and clearly you support that?

If I want to buy bake sale cookies and be fat, then why does the government have to try to regulate that. This is getting weird, the government regulating cookie sales. But you say its ok because its government-run.

Well, that is one of the problems with Obama care. If I am obese, then suddenly it is more directly the business of the government (ways to save money...) and, hence the will be more reason than ever for ever more reaching government regulations.

Our nation was founded on the notion of government restraint, but actually pushing for some government restraint now is just a kooky conservative idea, right?
 
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StillBallin75 said:
I never said it was a good or bad, or smart or stupid policy. I said that since governments operate public schools, they are entirely within their rights to make decisions about what goes on within those schools. This isn't a case of overreaching.
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You are correct that the government is within its rights to make decisions about the public schools. However, its such a ridiculous action to ban something such as a school bake sale. There are zero neg benefits, only positive ones as kids become active, learn a trade or skill, are involved with something other than mindless brain drain of video games, socially interact with each other and the community and make money doing so.

So yeah, they are within their rights to prevent all of that.
 
Comment_Guy said:
The Departments of Public Health and Education in Massachusetts has banned bake sales in the interest of protecting kids from themselves!! The government has stepped in to make sure kids eat more nutritiously:

Source: Parents: Rule’s half-baked - BostonHerald.com

So here is the question for you... is this good government at work, or a small step closer towards a too-powerful government (in this case, state govt.) who has its hands in places it has no business?

If you eat poundcakes and cookies, you will be punished!!
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Sanitized for your protection.

Gotta love nanny government.
 
StillBallin75 said:
Government operates the schools, government writes the rules :shrug: so the whole "too-powerful government who has its hands in places it has no business" is bull****.
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So, when Obamacare is in full vigor, the government will be in charge of citizens' health.... and it will then become all their business how fat or unhealthy you are and why.

What would it take for you to actually question the reach of government, SB?

Do you have ANY sense of government's encroachment on individual sovereignty, and how your argument highlights the concentration of power that Obamacare will have over our lives in the well-intentioned battle against obesity?

p.s. The state house passed a bill today to overturn the bakesale ban... stay tuned.
 
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Comment_Guy said:
The Departments of Public Health and Education in Massachusetts has banned bake sales in the interest of protecting kids from themselves!! The government has stepped in to make sure kids eat more nutritiously:

Source: Parents: Rule’s half-baked - BostonHerald.com

So here is the question for you... is this good government at work, or a small step closer towards a too-powerful government (in this case, state govt.) who has its hands in places it has no business?

If you eat poundcakes and cookies, you will be punished!!
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Wait! I thought the Right Wing Clan have their beef with the Federal Government, but when it comes to Local and State the government, they can butt rape anything and anyone and the that it is totally fine because it is in the constitution.


Why Mitt Romneying all of sudden?

Diving Mullah
 
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