Cut food stamps and stamp out Childhood Obesity.

I appreciate Michelle Obama's attempts to help with childhood obesity but as a mother I think that she is on the wrong track in trying to limit the calories of school lunch Her plan is to limit the calories for students in kindergarten through fifth grade to 650, and to 700 calories for grades six through eight. High school lunches can contain no more than 850 calories. This places all children "on a diet" when all children do not need to be dieting. It also makes a lot of parents feel like they may not be getting their "money's worth" when it comes to a new smaller school lunch. One thing that Michelle could do that would help the childhood obesity problem and the dangerous deficit problem at the same would be to cut the amount that is given in food stamps to US families. Currently a couple with 2 small children can get almost 900.00 a month in food stamps. In Hawaii a single mother with 2 children can get up to $1200.00 a month. Food stamps are supposed to be a "supplemental" food program. How much does the federal government expect us to eat?!! I can easily feed a family of 12 on just $800.00 a month and I don't get WIC or free or reduced lunches as well as free or reduced breakfast at school, as well as all of the other free food programs to help reduce my food budget. If a food stamp family has $400 per person to supply 11 meals a week, they can eat quite a few calories for that amount of food money. That is nearly $10.00 per meal per person. This explains why when I am looking through the reduced priced meats to feed my family, a family on food stamps can buy the highest priced steaks without batting an eye, There is enough food stamp money left over for any brand of chips, candy, soda pop or ice cream. If there is a kid at the soccer game with an entire bag of chips or fun size candy bars that he is devouring while you are breaking a granola bar in thirds for your kids, that bag of bounty was most likely purchased with food stamps. I think cutting food stamps would greatly help the childhood obesity problem. But don't expect any such idea to even be considered until after the election.