Fiscal Responsibility And Vending Machines

For all their talk about fiscal responsibility, the Obamas seem oblivious to what the phrase really means.  Here's yet one more example:

First Lady Michelle Obama visited the headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington Tuesday. She devoted much of her talk to "the growing threat of obesity, particularly childhood obesity" in the United States, and she touted HHS's recently-announced plan to spend $373 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on plans to, among other things, improve the healthfulness of foods in vending machines.

Um.  Okay.  Deep, cleansing breaths...

Correct me if I'm wrong (which I'm not), but wasn't the point of the ARRA to stimulate the economy and create jobs??  Never mind that it actually did neither, that was the stated purpose, was it not?

It's a fine thing to combat obesity and improve the 'healthfulness' of food in vending machines, but seriously...do we need to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on that while our economy is hanging by a thread?  This is like lighting a fire in the fireplace to heat your house while it burns down around you.

Must be more of that superior judgment the Obamessiah promised us would compensate for his utter lack of legitimate qualification or experience.

There's my two cents.