BIDEN'S HEALTH AND NUTRITION PROGRAM BETTER SUITED AT LOCAL LEVEL

HEALTH AND NUTRITION SHOULD BE DONE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL

By: Derek Varsalona

I appreciate President Biden’s concern for keeping kids safe.  But the kids' safety is the priority of the parents.  Also much of what the President is trying to at the federal level would be better situated to be done at the local level not by government but by the health teachers, athletic directors and physical education teachers.  But other then the child if they can make a determination for themselves the parents first must make the health care and dietary needs of their children and no the federal government.

President Biden is forming a new partnership with professional sports to focus on guiding your children through nutrition standards.  He is forming a new partnership with professional sports to boost physical activity and increase nutrition.  This focus should stay at the local level.  Guess what?  It already is.  When you vote for the school budget you vote yea on funding the schools.  That funding is provides the salary and equipment for the sport teams, their coaches, the physical education teachers and the health and wellness teacher.  That is where the money should be spent.   As a Libertarian, I am afraid that more government oversight by President Biden is going to lead to more draconian measures handed down by President Biden to the local schools.  In the end you the parent is responsible for the well being and diet of their children and not the federal government.

Now, fourteen sports leagues have signed on to President Biden’s imperial plan.  Let us look at Major League Baseball.  Most of those players use chewing tobacco for some reason or another.  I wonder if those players also smoke off the field?  If they want to use that product they should be free to do so.  It is up to them, their families and their doctors on what they should put in their body and not the federal government.  Being that they made this choose to chew tobacco our government should not force anyone in the league or anyone to do the governments business for them.  Professional athletes are athletes since they are the best in the world at their sport.  They should not become nutrition lobbyist for the federal government which is what the government is trying to make them begun by doing President Joe Biden’s bidding.

I do applaud President Biden for trying to end hunger.  Again this could be done at the local level.  Many localities have food pantries.   There is also meals on wheels.  Also there is a school lunch programs for students whose parents can’t afford lunch.  Those programs would be more efficient if the were locally controlled by the local government.  Also, the federal government does a job of ending hunger by offering SNAP benefits which I am currently on.  But those benefits are better suited to be administered through the local government.  The best way to end Hunger is to give restaurants and local fast food joints tax breaks for donations of their food at the end of the day to a food pantry instead of throwing the food away.  As always comments accepted.

Help with food and Nutrition should be done locally
Image: 49ers.com Harvest Food Bank

Source: President Joseph R. Biden “ Fact-Sheet: The Biden-Harris Administration Announces Historic Partnership With Major Sports Leagues.” The WhiteHouse. Washington, DC: Thursday, February 8, 2024.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/02/08/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-administration-announces-historic-partnership-with-major-sports-leagues-and-players-unions/