Do we need the government to monitor everything we do “wrong” to help us “improve” our lives? Is it scary to have a “Nanny” as such watching your actions? Do we or should we have the ability to make all our decisions for ourselves? What decisions should be taken out of our hands? What happens when the decisions that are taken out of our hands are put to a vote and made into law?
Some excerpts:
An Iowa school district's lunch program asks children as young as 5 years old to memorize a four-digit PIN code so it can monitor what they eat in the school cafeteria -- prompting some parents to claim it's an unhealthy case of "Big Brother."
The Ankeny Community School District is maintaining a database that records what the kids buy to eat and then checks their food choices against national nutrition guidelines.
The program is intended to provide the children with more food options while ensuring compliance with new and stricter state-mandated nutrition requirements. But some parents are worried that the program infringes on people’s freedoms. And others want to know why their 5-year-olds need to memorize a PIN before they can tie their shoelaces, and what they’re supposed to do if they forget their four-digit number.
“The PIN pulls up the child's picture for validation and records what the child is eating so Big Brother can keep track of my child's food consumption,” he said (The father of the children in the article.)
Should children have personal freedoms? If not, should that be controlled by the parents or by the system? Or is this just one big case of parents no longer being able to take care of everything and relying on a government system to do it for them?
(ORIGINAL LINK) FOXNews.com - Big Brother in Iowa? School District Monitors Kids' Lunch Choices
Gosh darn it they could FIX you if you would just give them the POWER they need to do it.
ReplyDeleteYa stupid hicks.