Thread: Is Nutritional Education Failing in the United States?

The more you want the Federal government to do, the more its gonna cost, and the more its gonna waste.......

Originally Posted by JohnBoy

The more you want the Federal government to do, the more its gonna cost, and the more its gonna waste.......

LOL ... actually I nearly forgot ... this is the same government that:

1) Between 1997 and 2003, spent $100 million on 270,000 commercial airline tickets that were never used. These tickets were purchased by the Department of Defense and even though they were fully refundable, the pentagon never applied for a refund.

2) U.S. Department of Agriculture credit cards were misused to the amount of $5.8 million ... for everything from Ozzy Osbourne concert tickets to tattoos, lingerie, bartender school tuition, and personal car payments.

3) Need we even raise the issue of Medicare? By way of example, Medicare pays $8.26 per liter of saline solution compared to $1.02 paid by the VA. In 2000, they spent $1.9 BILLION more for identical medication ordered by other Federal departments. If Medicare was reformed, we could save between $20-$30 billion a year without cutting programs.

4) The Department of Education has $21.8 billion of student loans currently in default. Several of these loans were actually fraudulent in nature - paid for students to attend schools that don't even exist.

5) The passage of the "U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Health, and Iraq Accountability Act" included provisions for the compensation of some $5 million for tropical fish breeders and transporters who lost fish due to a viral infection. It also included a provision for $283 million in compensation for the Milk Income Loss Contract Program.

6) And above all - my very favorite examples of government inefficiency - the Department of Defense gross over payments of the 1980s that included $96.06 for what were then 12 cent Allen wrenches and $600 toilet seats!

Oh yeah, our tax payer dollars at work!



Now ... if I just knew a congressman who could sneak in a provision about giving ethnic Chinese chef instructors in Arizona a (by government standards) paltry $1 million ... I'd be all set. :lol:

You have to ask yourself, is nutritional education going to solve the problem of the huge percent of obese people in America?

I believe that it is more an issue of our culture as a people and must be changed in another way.