Good points. My parents and grandparents would be appalled at how we have thrown these wars on the national credit card. I still remember all of those war bonds that my folks had at the end of World War II. We need to get back to shared sacrifice to make our country greater. We seem to have become obsessed wiht materialism in the U.S.

That's what I heard. Time for the wicked witch of the west to get water thrown on her.

Some of these posters don't get of the house much or they would notice the huge increase in the number of fat kids in our country. That is not healthful and will cost us down the road. We declared war on smoking and won and we should continue the fight against obesity. Kudos to Michelle Obama.

Only white women are allowed to be bitter?

Too many parents don't have the wherewithal to pack a healthy sack lunch and the school cafeteria is their only option for at least one hot healthy meal a day. We need to start healthy living choices at an early age in order to control health care costs down the road. Pay me now or pay me later.

Healthy living should start early. The crap we were forced to eat years ago has gradually gotten better. We are also better off by having fewer smokers around. Obesity should be our next target. Have you seen the number of fat people in this country especially in the South? They are driving up our health care costs dramatically. Thanks to Mrs. Obama for highlighting the importance of healthy food for our children. We parents for years have been trying to get our kids to eat better and many of them are now. Why criticize Michelle for doing exactly what we parents do every day with our kids?

I don't think Romney is a real conservative but he has the best chance of winning in November, although I doubt he will win. Ginrich, Santorum, and Paul have way too much negative baggage and would turn off independent voters who will decide the election. Of course if the voter suppression efforts going on in many of the red states keep minorities and college students from voting, than Romney may win. Nothing will help Gingrich. He is way too divisive.

Not surprising. This issue comes up every year no matter what party controls the levers of power. In fact if you look at the list of people owing taxes, there are a lot of wealthy people who seem to have a problem paying their taxes. All of the recent presidents including Obama have been pretty squeaky clean on taxes.

She looked very tired at the SOU Joint session. She has been a very effective Secretary of State and deserves a rest.

The average tax payer has zero lobbyists working for him/her. The number of lobbyists working for corporations is between 30,000-100,000 depending on how they are classified. There is a reason guys like Romney only pay 15% on carried interest earnings. Thousands of hedge fund lobbyists decended on Washington D. C. to inundate our Congressmen to defeat raising the tax rate on carried interest. if there is class warfare we are vastly outnumbered in Washington D.C.