Actually... I see ADDING vegetables and fruits to the menu to be very positive. The problem is taking away everything else. Increasing options - good. Decreasing options - bad. At schools where they have done this, the amount of waste thrown in the garbage has skyrocketed and a black market in "bad" foods has been created.

I plan to write in Herman Cain.

If you brought the whole population of the world together, every man, woman and child, (I know this is impossible... this is just a visualization test) and gave them each one square yard to stand in... how large of an area would they take up? Texas, Alaska, Australia, Europe????

Let's do a little math.... 7 billion people... 3,097,600 square yards per square mile... that would give us 2260 square miles... a little larger than Delaware... or half of Connecticut. Delaware??? Yes, Virginia, mankind is just a pimple on the butt of the world. Think of the size of the human infestation next time someone tells you we don't have anywhere to put the garbage or that mankind is a big enough problem to affect the weather of the entire globe.

I'd like to try an analogy I've been kicking around. Please don't jump to harshly if it doesn't work.

Wealth is created... just like a farmer creates a crop. When his crop is harvested, a percentage becomes bread on his table (profit), a percentage goes to his workers (job creation), a percentage goes to paying his bills, a percentage goes to more/better equipment and/or expanding his lands (growth) and a percentage goes to the government (taxes). What is left over is seed grain for next year's harvest.

The leftists call it "redistribution of wealth"... I call it eating our seed grain.

I have complained to some of my righty peers about their rhetoric. However, this is not one of my usual haunts. I don't think insults by either side advance the cause of understanding each other and finding common ground where possible which we need to stay a united country. I don't have to agree with you to understand you.. You preach to the 20% choir on your side. I preach to the 20% choir on my side. The target audience should be the 60% in between. If I were one of them, I would be turned off by insults and empty statements. I personally find the term "libtard" to be over the top and I see it far too much on our side. It also doesn't help when you put words in other people's mouths then criticize them for it. No?...just as I thought.

Ummm... no... I didn't get that. I live pay check to pay check and can't afford energy saving appliances much less new cars and homes.

Your ideas and arguments are not as earth shaking as you seem to think they are. Maybe you should tone down the "Got thats?" and try "this is what I think... what do you think?"

I remember the Bush years... 7 years of constant growth and health... even in the wake of 9/11 which should have put us under... with the Democrats and MSM complaining the whole time how bad it was. Then the Democrats were put in charge of the money and it only took them a year to make their complaints a self-fulfilling prophesy (that means they crashed the economy).

I know, I know... you have a different view of those events... but I didn't call you an idiot or question your intelligence.

So... if giving away money to people who are unemployed (and will remain unemployed as long as you keep giving them money) because they will spend the money instead of saving it makes the money circulate fast... just think how much more velocity you would get if you sent those of us who are employed the same amount, but promise to spend the money immediately as well!

I have no blinders when it comes to the Republican Party. I may be registered as a Republican, though it doesn't really matter in my state (I can ask for either ballot in primaries), but I don't truly consider myself one. I am a conservative. I voted for McCain, but only because he tapped Palin. Otherwise, I would have sat out that part of the election. Is Palin the one? I am not sure, but I like what she says and I like her on a personal level (as long as I can read rather than hear her). She will probably be king maker rather than king.

Last gubernatorial election I voted for the incumbent Democrat. Why? Because I thought he did a good job and didn't go all liberal on us. The previous "Republican" governor tried to institute an income tax on us, built a real nice road in the middle of no where that was convenient for him, and named a bunch of stuff for his wife and family.

No... politicians of all ilk are dangerous, petty and worthless. I am hoping some true statesmen will step forward and lead this nation away from the left.

You are probably right about 2008... but that was eons ago. My point was that you said that nothing has changed, and I believe the emergence of the Tea Party is a significant change. I also believe there are a lot of conservative people who are sympathetic to and generally support the Tea Party, but may not be in total agreement with them.

"That's how bad Republicans have sucked lately and nothing indicates that anything has changed."

I think you need to open your eyes. There was a little disturbance last August when the congressmen went home to their districts and held town hall meetings. The people rose up. A whole movement called the "Tea Party" rose up. A lot of establishment politicians are sitting on the sidelines the election because of the Tea Party. I think the Republicans have noticed that. I think they recognize when change is mandated.