Mayor Bloomberg and the NYC Department of Education: No Bake Sales For You!!

While watching Way Too Early with Willie Geist Monday morning on MSNBC, I learned some very disturbing news.

The New York City Department of Education has followed the lead of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s public health kick and just pulled brownies from the mouth of Big Apple students, encouraging them instead, to eat…well…a big apple.

Citing an obesity rate of 40% in New York City public school students, the diminutive Mayor and the New York City Dept. of Education have enacted a ban on Bake Sales at its schools.

No longer shall there be homemade cupcakes, lemon bars, or oatmeal cookies on display, for sale, or consumption within the hallowed halls of New York City Public Schools.

The joyous smiles on the éclair stained faces of students…the positive reinforcement of dangling a carrot cake in front of them…the camaraderie and sweet aromas elicited by the American Bake Sale, have been thrown into NYC trash dumpsters along with muffin stumps by Bloomberg and the others.

Not only that…

This action by Bloomberg and his cronies, has left Abraham Maslow unfulfilled, B.F. Skinner seeking retribution, and forced Betty Crocker to lick the sweet remains of her mixing bowl out with her own tongue…Sad.

Bake Sales are not simply a way for school groups to raise much needed funds, these sales are one of many threads that have for decades, helped to weave the fabric of America.

The school Bake Sale, especially in New York City, is where one can study and taste our nation’s rich history of immigration. German tortes, Italian cannoli, Greek pastries. But now, that too is gone.

In fact…

The action by these clowns isn’t merely the end of Bake Sales. It is…The Day the Moustokouloura Died.

Yes, obesity is a growing problem among our youth. Yes, something needs to be done. No, it is not up to the school system…yet another banning by the government or nanny state crybabies of a habit or activity is not going to fix the fundamental problem.

The fundamental problem in the case of childhood obesity, as well as many other problems, comes down to personal and parental responsibility.

I don’t want the government telling me what to eat. I don’t want the government telling my kid what to eat. I don’t want the government telling the eighth grade glee club that they can’t have a bake sale in order to raise funds to go on a trip.

Intervention by the government and ninnies who think they know what is best for others makes me livid.

This bake sale ban is goofy and in more than a few cases will be damaging to school activities. I don’t think any child’s future diabetes or heart disease will be due to buying a couple of cupcakes at a bake sale.

But, it does raise a more important issue…

Why does it seem, and perhaps rightfully so, that there is governmental intervention into the most basic areas of our lives? After all, this is America…a nation that is founded on personal liberty and freedom.

Well folks…One of those liberties and freedoms is the right for parents to be lazy, ignorant, and absent when it comes to the future of their children.

This is evidenced not only by the 40% obesity rate in NYC school children, but by the 40% dropout rate as well.

When a vacuum is created something has to fill it. In this case, lack of parental responsibility has created a vacuum, and the government has filled it with a silly dictate.

As Americans, the government control that seeps into out lives is, oddly enough, the result of the very freedoms that we enjoy.

The number one freedom being, the right to be an asshole who doesn’t give a crap about themselves or their kids.

And I’ll bet you dollars to donuts that many of the parents in NYC bitching about this ban, are some of the very ones who contributed to its implementation.

Cheers!!