The “he” in the above line is not Santa Claus. It’s Big Brother. And thanks to a $2 million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, he will be keeping an eye on schoolchildren in San Antonio both during and after school lunch.
The latest step in the government’s efforts to curb childhood obesity—mainly by means of unprecedented overreach into the realm of personal choice—is to install surveillance cameras in school lunch rooms.
Childhood obesity IS a problem. Spending money on video monitoring equipment IS a problem too. The latter is a waste of money. The US government has better ways to spend the dollars they are borrowing.
