First Lady Michelle Obama kicked off a new campaign to combat childhood obesity Tuesday.
The effort, called “Let’s Move,” is a bipartisan movement that has an admirable goal that eventually should lower health care costs, as these children will learn better eating habits that will carry them into adulthood. That should create fewer cases of diabetes, cancer, and heart disease lessening the strain on our health care system.
But we won’t realize that financial benefit for years and in the meantime, the First Lady’s program comes with a 10-year price tag of $10 billion.
Yes, $10 billion when we are running record deficits and, according to the U.S. National Debt Clock, our current national debt is $12 trillion dollars.
I know that $10 billion is a drop in the bucket to $12 trillion dollars. But, every bit makes a difference. President Obama is proposing to tighten the belt to reign in federal spending, after a year of a spending free for all.
Well, perhaps this is a place he could start.
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