Nannyocracy

Arlington Heights District 25 School Board has banned Birthday cakes from the classroom. Of course many area residents are happy with this, thus proving that people are willfully creating a nannystate, i.e. a nannyocracy.

Kudos for school’s birthday cake ban

I applaud the District 25 school board’s decision to eliminate birthday cake items from classroom
celebrations.

I like the idea of celebrating a child’s birthday or teaching a concept without the reward of food.

Reducing or eliminating highly processed foods from our school menu offerings is a must. If the school board wants to take a serious stand on healthy food choices, how about helping the district staff educate our children on the importance of choosing whole or minimally processed foods?

We have an opportunity to teach our children the importance of eating well.

Teach them this at home. Stop allowing the government to take over the parental responsibility for everyone. What rights are you going to give up next and allow the government to take care of.

Take school cake ban a step further

I applaud Arlington Heights District 25 school board’s decision banning cakes for birthdays.

As a registered dietitian, I find the use of high-calorie, high-fat desserts for celebrations problematic for many children.

Counseling children, I find those with health conditions ostracized at parties because of food restrictions. Some include allergies, celiac disease, diabetes, elevated cholesterol and obesity.

Why must unhealthy food be a major part of celebration? Can’t we teach children that a sweet dessert or high fat snack does not have to be the basis for every celebration or outing?

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I challenge District 25 to go further to eliminate all unhealthy snacks for all holiday celebrations. This will teach our children healthier behaviors, help curb obesity and diabetes and lower future health care costs.

Again, teach them nutrition, but don’t take away the rights of parents and force upon them draconian rules on what kids can and can’t eat.

At least there is one resident who gets it and does not want to allow a nanny state.

Parents of Arlington Heights Elementary District 25: Please join me in a slow clap for Sarah Jerome, superintendent and crusader against cupcakes, for elevating District 25 to national laughingstock status.

Her zero tolerance policy against frosted baked goods was justly ridiculed on MSNBC’s Monday “Zeitgeist,” making her and our district the poster child for a nanny state gone awry, where clueless administrators suck every last ounce of fun out of childhood.

The Wall Street Journal has an article explaining how the insurance industry is trying to nationalize disaster insurance. This is really being done to protect the insurance companies from making bad decisions and providing insurance in areas that should not be built in. Even businesses want to be protected from their own stupidity and they are going to do it at our expense. The taxpayers are going to pay for this which is going to gradually lead to more and more taxes and regulations.

WASHINGTON — As hurricane season begins, Democrats in Congress want to nationalize a chunk of the insurance business that covers major storm-damage claims.

The proposal — backed by giant insurers Allstate Corp. and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., as well as Florida lawmakers — focuses on “reinsurance,” the policies bought by insurers themselves to protect against catastrophic losses. The proposal envisions a taxpayer-financed reinsurance program covering all 50 states, which would essentially backstop the giant insurers in case of disaster.

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But environmentalists and other critics — including the American Insurance Association, a major trade group — say lower premiums would more likely spur irresponsible coastal development, already a big factor in insurance costs. The program could also shift costs to taxpayers in states with fewer natural-disaster risks.

“This bill makes it a little bit too easy for the state to go to the federal government for a bailout,” said Eric Goldberg, associate general counsel at the American Insurance Association, an insurers’ trade group.

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The two Democratic contenders, Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York and Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, in their recent visits to Florida — a key swing state — have both voiced support for the plan.

I’d like to know where John McCain stands. It would be nice to have at least one Presidential Candidate who is opposed to this nannyocracy legislation.

Maxine Waters wants to Nationalize the Oil Industry so she and here fellow members of Congress can take care of all our oil and gas needs. This is a perfect example of how far we have come on the road to a Nannyocracy. View the video for yourself and ask yourself where is the national outrage over comments like this? It’s because too many of the American people are willing to sacrifice their freedoms to the government so that