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This is welfare checks to military contractors. from my point of view, this isless important. i dont think anybody wants to say every item, every line item of military spending is really more important to us than the school lunch program. >> i dont think most americans believe that. powerful points. thank you for your time this evening. >>ll by t . >> by the way, i have a bracelet here that says what would jesus cut? with eeel deliver one to every member of congress next week.

Gets dumped. >> thats absolutely right. one of the big goals of the school lunch program is increased participation because the more kids that eat school lunches, the healthier they eat. we did a study last week where we took healthy bean burritos that the school could never, ever sell and simply renamed it big, bad bean burritos, and they sold out by the second lunch room. >> yeah, i guess you would sound cool if you wolfed down a big, bad, mean burrito. the federal government says one in three...

People coming into the military were undernourished. the military stepped forward, we need a better program and advocated the national school lunch program in 1946 which is what we have today. it had a major effect. they passed it as a matter of national security. >> we talk about it, ironic were coming to this point now. full circle. needed to beef them up, now slim them down a bit. both on school lunches. and program, doing this, including the first ladys focus on childhood obesity, targeting ...

Healthier. joining us now is general norman site. he testified on capitol hill. general, its great to see you this morning. lets look at the statistics that you found in your report. 17% -- 27% rather of americans age 17 to 24 too fat to join the military. during world war ii, you had the opposite problem, 40% were to under nourished. they pressed congress to institute the school lunch program to fatten people up. where did it go off the rail? >> i think were a victim of our own success. overnou...

Country in the school system nationwide that will educate not only the students but their families on how to better balance physical fitness to make healthy choices. >> general, so many people are worried about the quality of the food that our children are getting in the school lunch programs. one of people very concerned is famous british chef jamie oliver, has the food revolution program. he was in huntington, west virginia, trying to revolutionize the school lunch program. it was the most unh...

Want to join because of something like obesity. >> the specific measures the generals want taken include getting junk food and high calorie drinks out of schools. increasing funding for healthy school lunch programs. and supporting education initiatives to help children and parents make healthier choices. if we continue on the path we are on, the retired military officers say the majority of our young men and women will simply be too fat to fight. now, this is not the first time military leaders...

Obesity has tripled. so weve got a national problem here. jane: do you find it ironic that the school lunch program was originally conceived and instituted because there was the opposite problem, potential recruits were not getting enough to eat? >> it is ironic. back in the 1940s the military realized recruits coming in were underneuroriched, and they advocated for the school lunch program in 1946. now we have a different problem. its the type of nourishment were getting and too much of it. we ...

Put a wake-up call today by suggesting that there are too few youngsters fit for military service in part because they are obese or not physically fit enough to serve. it is an indication of why this needs to be a national priority. school lunches and breakfasts, one way of addressing that is by improving the nutritional value of those maeals. >> the school lunch program was established after world war ii because the military found that some lacked in nutrition and were too small, so then it was...

Fight shows 9 million young americans are too heavy for military service, and they blame -- well, you see it there -- french fries, processed foods, all those lunches served everywhere. the group is pushing for a nutrition bill that would make school lunches heavier. tom vilsack will join us at noon with more on proposed changes to the school lunch program. the u.s. takes out three top al qaeda members over the past two days. what this means for the iraqi insurgency and the war on terror. the ...

Clinton said, "its the economy, stupid." no, not anymore. its my money, stupid. obamas budget cuts dont cut it. in other words, what chris edwards said, the president says $17 billion has to be cut out of federal spending. it is $3.7 trillion budget. one-half of 1%. no. what is needed is what you are talking about, $200, $300, $400 billion. his cuts dont cut it. >> glenn: i saw something that you have been working on. it was a slide, do we have the slide where the kid is bellying up to the schoo...