[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1930]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              NANNY STATES

  (Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, a year or two ago, some 
local bureaucrat in Oregon shut down a 7-year-old girl's lemonade stand 
because she had not paid the $120 required to get a restaurant license. 
The bureaucrat's supervisor defended the action because some government 
officials will never admit a mistake. Fortunately, elected officials 
got the action rescinded and let the little girl operate her lemonade 
stand.
  I thought about this when I heard that Big Brother had struck once 
again by not allowing a 4-year-old girl in North Carolina to eat the 
lunch she had brought to school from home because supposedly it did not 
meet Federal guidelines. The little girl had brought a very healthy 
lunch: a turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, chips, and apple juice. 
Instead, she ate three chicken nuggets apparently okayed by the 
government, and the school sent a bill for the lunch to her mother.
  This is the Big Government nanny state run amuck. This was not only 
ridiculous and excessive, it was cruel to tell a 4-year-old child the 
lunch her mother had sent was bad or not proper. Plus, the little girl 
went home hungry.
  We seem to have, Mr. Speaker, a government of, by, and for the 
bureaucrats instead of one that is of, by, and for the people.

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