The Republican Welfare State . . . .

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During the first two years of President Eisenhower's first term, when the Republicans had absolute control of the government, the National School Lunch Program could have been killed while it was still in its infancy just like all the New Deal programs put in place by FDR and the Democrats. The Republicans made no attempt to do so. Just like they made no attempt to do so during the six years that they controlled the Senate when Reagan was president.

Republicans who rail against Mrs. Obama because of her meddling into the school lunch program need to take a good long look in the mirror—and in the Constitution. Not only does the federal government have absolutely no authority to have anything to do with school lunches, it has absolutely no authority to have anything to do with schools, education, teachers, or students.

Pay no attention to Republican rhetoric about fiscal conservatism, limited government, federalism, balanced budgets, spending cuts, and free markets. They don't mean a word of it. And pay no attention to what Republicans say about Mrs. Obama and her stupid ideas of what your children should eat for lunch at school. Republican criticisms only serve to mask the gross violations of the Constitution that they are guilty of.

Read on:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/12/laurence-m-vance/the-gop-welfare-state/