{"id":1568,"date":"2006-12-02T23:41:59","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T23:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservative-compendium.com\/blog\/index.php?itemid=441"},"modified":"2013-06-15T18:20:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T18:20:59","slug":"nanny-state-to-save-homeless-from-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/2006\/12\/nanny-state-to-save-homeless-from-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanny State to Save Homeless From Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big government nanny-staters are here to help the homeless&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/11\/28\/AR2006112801583.html?nav=most_emailed\">by making it harder for them to get food<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under a tough new Fairfax County policy, residents can no longer donate food prepared in their homes or a church kitchen &#8212; be it a tuna casserole, sandwiches or even a batch of cookies &#8212; unless the kitchen is approved by the county, health officials said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>They said the crackdown on home-cooked meals is aimed at preventing food poisoning among homeless people.<\/p>\n<p>. . .Health officials said they weren&#8217;t aware that food from unapproved kitchens was being served in homeless shelters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dear lord, no! Private citizens exercising their freedoms to help people? <i>We can&#8217;t allow that!<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re dealing with a medically fragile population . . . so they&#8217;re more susceptible to food-borne illnesses than the general population,&#8221; said Tom Crow, the county Health Department&#8217;s director of environmental health. <b>&#8220;We&#8217;re trying to protect those people.&#8221;<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The most dangerous phrase ever uttered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big government nanny-staters are here to help the homeless&#8230;by making it harder for them to get food. Under a tough new Fairfax County policy, residents can no longer donate food prepared in their homes or a church kitchen &#8212; be it a tuna casserole, sandwiches or even a batch of cookies &#8212; unless the kitchen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9854,"href":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/9854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briangarst.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}