Hey, we're not shoving this down your throat, stop whining

RALEIGH, N.C. — It was a tale of government meddling that outraged radio talk show hosts and a pair of Congress members: A 4-year-old was forced to dump her packed lunch and eat a state-dictated cafeteria lunch of chicken nuggets. Now school officials are blaming a teacher’s error in making sure the child had a nutritious meal.

Yes ... this was just an "error."  They've fixed it and they want you to look the other way now.

Conservatives who see it as yet another example of government overreach leaped on the story, and it reached a pair of North Carolina’s U.S. representatives, Republican Renee Ellmers and Democrat Larry Kissel. They wrote a letter asking U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to investigate.

“The content of a school lunch provided to a child by their parents should be governed only by the child’s parents, not another government bureaucrat,” they wrote in the letter.

The cafeteria details are true, but rather than an example of government “lunch bag police” overruling a family, it’s an embarrassing lapse by a teacher, Hoke County Schools Assistant Superintendent Bob Barnes said Thursday.

Right, it wasn't the government lunch police requiring anything at all ... again, just a mistake by a teacher so everyone please relax your buttocks, ok?  There, that's better.

The girl’s teacher should have handed the child a carton of milk to round out the turkey-and-cheese sandwich and banana she brought from home. Instead, the teacher erred by telling the tyke to get a cafeteria lunch, Barnes said.

Exactly.  See?  The mistake wasn't that the teacher/government got involved, the mistake was the teacher replaced the wrong food.   

The government made the child go thru the cafeteria line when she should only have been given some milk. (Given?  And who pays for the free milk? And does this happen every day?)

“We do not go over and stare down every child’s lunch,” Barnes said. 

You don't?  On the contrary, I think you do.  And I think you have zero business doing so.  I know you think you do ... all libs think that way.  It doesn't matter what the parent thinks, it only matters what the lib thinks.  And why?  Because the lib has "science" to back him up ... and NOBODY can disagree with their science.

Ever notice?  Libs ALWAYS use some type of excuse to snatch your freedom and money.  And it's ALWAYS for your own good.

“If you looked at the lunch the child had, I’d love to have that lunch today. However, there are occasions that kids bring lunches that aren’t that complete, and that’s why we try to supplement them with the things that they need to make it a complete lunch.”

Hey, nobody asked you, jackasses.  If the parents ask then go right ahead, but they aren't asking, are they?  No.  But nothing stops a jackass lib when they've got a good head of steam.

USDA does not “regulate sack lunches or any other food children bring from home to eat at school. That is a responsibility for parents, not the federal government,” Rowe said.

Right, they don't regulate sack lunches, except for the fact that they are regulating sack lunches.  Never mind the facts, just read our lips.

Barnes said the school is apologizing to the child’s parents for startling the girl and sending her through a cafeteria line she was unaccustomed to.

“I am so sorry this happened to this little girl,” Barnes said. “On that day, the policy wasn’t followed, and hey, we’re the grown folks here. That’s our fault. The teacher never should have sent that little girl into that line. She should have gone over and picked up the missing item and brought it to her.”

Again, they WILL NOT admit to regulating lunches yet they repeat over and over that they should have regulated it differently.  I'm guessing they do this with a straight face too ... totally serious.

The mistake isn’t a sign teachers are delving into diet details where they don’t belong, Barnes said.

It isn't?  I disagree.  I think that's EXACTLY the problem here, nitwit.

“We’re not trying to force government down anybody’s throat. All we’re trying to do is make sure that our children get a good education and a nutritious meal every day,” Barnes said. “It comes back to: We had an employee who made a mistake.” More here:

No, no, we're not trying to force it down your throat at all.  We wish you would swallow it happily and willingly.  And if you don't, we'll push it down ... very gently ... but it's going down.  Not by force though.