It's not the Governments job

So Kiwis are getting fatter at rates only beaten by Mexico and the United States.

Labour typically blames National. National typically says they'll put more money into programmes to prevent it.

Ruth Dyson is crazy if she thinks that allowing schools to have the freedom to sell what they like has any part in this. Students were always able to visit shops at lunch or after school - and when the laws were stricter under Labour, the rates of obesity were not going down either. Blaming National for cutting programmes is playing politics vs commonsense. National need to pull finger and stop promising projects with pretty names to plough more money into.

The Government is failing at this - as it should be. It isn't their job to tell us how to eat, what to eat or how much we should eat. This job is for PARENTS.

The same PARENTS that should be allowed to discipline their kids and choose what schools our kids go to. Parents should be trusted with this not politicians and most certainly not politicians who don't have children.

Story here.