Baylen Linnekin on the School Lunch Fight

The ongoing fight over the USDA’s controversial
National School Lunch Program reached new depths this week, as
Republicans in Congress and First Lady Michelle Obama argued openly
over the direction the trouble program should take.

But like so many food fights in Washington, writes Baylen
Linnekin, this latest series of political volleys is really just
another battle over the proper role of big government.
Conservatives and others who oppose the current school lunch
program and who want to roll back the program to what it looked
like several years ago are simply supporting a government program
that failed years ago, while Mrs. Obama wants to expand the program
that’s failing right now.

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