Fitness Guru/Congressman Steve Kagan's workout earmark
It keeps kids alive so that they can one day pay taxes.
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Check out what Congressman Steve Kagen, M.D., (D-Wisconsin) is doing with several hundred thousand of our tax dollars:
A new program at the Green Bay Boys & Girls Club is getting a big boost. Congressman Steve Kagen announced a $218,000 grant for "Get Green Bay Moving" Monday afternoon.
The program aims to fight childhood obesity and promote the physical fitness of club members. It requires elementary-age children to get at least 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity, and high school-age members to get 45 minutes a day.
"If our children are healthy, they'll develop into their full potential and become wonderful tax-paying citizens sometime," Kagen said.
The Boys & Girls Club serves about 350 kids each day after school at seven area sites.
He justifies the $218-thousand earmark by promising that it will keep the kids healthy enough to pay taxes when they get older. They could go to gym class with everyone else, but for $218-thousand, Rep. Kagen can probably bring in fitness guru celebrity John Basedow, who denies that he might have died in the Tsunami a few years back.
(HT, the NRCC's The Real Democrat Story blog.)
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On a side note, does anyone else find the quote by Kagen "If our children are healthy, they'll develop into their full potential and become wonderful tax-paying citizens sometime," to be just a little disturbing?
for PE teacher and require gym for everyone? It would make about as much sense.
I do think encouraging kids to excersize is a good thing, and I do think our society is in general too sedentary, but this doesn't seem much like a constitutional mandate to me.