Unintended Consequences of the Nanny State -- the thread

Thought it would be good to have a single thread dedicated to news articles detailing unintended consequences of big gov

Anyone is free to post to this thread.

To start us off:


L.A. schools' healthful school lunches panned by LAUSD students - latimes.com

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-food-lausd-20111218,0,2593733.story


Sounds like some of the food offerings were decent but not easy to properly prepare.

Since this is “The Thread”

The Fed is the worst of them all. Created to protect us from the banks :blink:

:nono: the root of the problem is fractional reserve banking, before central banks were even conjured up.

How about the Patriot Act and the National Defense Authorization Act.

Those are intended…imo :o

Yeah. I agree. For better or worse.

This is intended for things like the article I posted:

They are trying to get kids to eat better, so they “reform” the school menu. (It also appears that the kids have to eat at school and cannot bring their own lunch).

Instead of kids eating more nutritiously, kids are hungry and lots of food has to be “wasted” (yes, that is what they sometimes call it when they throw out good stuff – like my RN wife describes, they have to “waste” unused but dispensed narcotics with certain procedures).