Salt is an ancient commodity that was, at times, used as a portion of the wages paid to soldiers in the Roman Army. Its use as a portion of wages was so ubiquitous that the Latin word for salt became the root word for salary.
Even today salt is used in trade in many parts of the world as a substitute for cash. The third world is the biggest user of salt as a unit of trade which brings us to a story I read about the use of salt in American Public Education.
Under the gentle dictate of Michelle Obama and her renowned school lunch program the disposal rate of bland, tasteless and inedible has soared and only the garbage man is happy with the school lunch program forced on future generations by a lady who's only authority comes from a marriage and not from ability.
Enterprising kids are smuggling salt into their lunch rooms and trading or selling it to other kids. One school administrator was quoted as saying, in an article written by Elizabeth Harrington:
Children are creating their own black markets to trade and sell salt due to First Lady Michelle Obama’s school lunch rules. During a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R., Ind.), a school administrator told Congress of the “unintended consequences” of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. “Perhaps the most colorful example in my district is that students have been caught bringing–and even selling–salt, pepper, and sugar in school to add taste to perceived bland and tasteless cafeteria food,” said John S. Payne, the president of Blackford County School Board of Trustees in Hartford City, Indiana. “This ‘contraband’ economy is just one example of many that reinforce the call for flexibility [with the rules],” he said.
With the track record of inept and useless decisions by the political leadership we now have I have great fear for the stunts they will try in the remaining years of the administration
