Bob Jenkins: Feds hungry for power

Regarding the Sept. 18 editorial “School lunch food fight”: The federal government’s decrees on school lunches imply two situations:

One, the people of Wake County and the state of North Carolina are too stupid to know what is nutritious for their children.

Two, the people of Wake County and the state of North Carolina just don’t care about their children.

Without the enlightened orders from some lifelong bureaucrat in the Obama Department of Education, the children of Wake County would have Slim Jims and Red Bull for lunch each day.

The really sad thing about this is that it demonstrates the influence that the federal government has over the daily lives of American citizens. The bureaucrats who run the program realize that if control over school lunches was returned to state or local government, which are closer to the children, they might lose their jobs.

The Obama administration realizes that assuming local control and refusing federal funds is a terrifying attack on central government control, which is why something as simple as school lunches must be defended. Read the 10th Amendment to the Constitution and see whether it mentions lunches at Fuquay-Varina Middle School as a federal government responsibility.

This story was originally published October 12, 2015 at 4:37 PM with the headline "Bob Jenkins: Feds hungry for power."