The left-wing Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has announced that it will spend $500 million to combat childhood obesity.

The foundation believes the $500 million is the largest amount ever directed against childhood obesity. It comes atop $80 million spent on the topic by the foundation over the past three years, Lavizzo-Mourey said.

Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher called the foundation's effort "tremendous." The "investment highlights just how critical this problem has become and is a call to all the nation that past efforts have been too small, too slow and too fragmented," Satcher said in a statement provided by the foundation.

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The foundation also is the largest funder of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a project of the William J. Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association, whose efforts include having schools serve healthier food.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's new initiative will build on successful programs, such as Arkansas' trendsetting efforts that included sending home obesity report cards to warn parents of overweight kids' health risks.

This foundation is a huge supporter of the use of government force for keeping the "unhealthy" in line. A VP from the foundation recently called for "increased federal funding for prevention and public health" in front of a House appropriations subcommittee.Not surprisingly, the President and CEO of the foundation states, in the article, that poor, woeful parents face "insurmountable barriers" when it comes to having their very own children eat right and exercise. In other words, there's just nothing they can do about what goes into their childrens' mouths, and what activities they do or don't partake in.

As would be expected, agents of the state's causes must first convince the populace that there exists a crisis. Then this crisis must be something that dooms "the children." For no one cares if 50-year-olds are affected, only the children. Following that, they beat the topic to death, using the hapless media airheads as their tools of propagation. Then the agents of crisis make sure it is understood that accountability is a non-issue because there is no solution to the crisis that can come from within oneself - no self-education or parenting in the world can possibly provide a positive outcome that will negate the harrowing crisis at hand. Thus we must throw money at the children, the poor, the minorities, the affected, and the unaccountable. The bulk of the money is always earmarked for some politically correct gender or race or social class. In the end, the bottom line is that somewhere there lurks the state and its adherents - the necessary link to forge a more synergetic statism.