[danjarch]

Windy the use of the interstate commerce law goes like this. Local schools buy goods like books, buses, and desk from other states, therefore we can regulate what is allowed in schools. Therefore schools can be forced to accept stipulations in exchange for funds. Therefore, if you want your money back you have to agree to give free lunches, and follow the dietary guide put out by the fed, even if this program makes the school spend from it's own budget to keep the program going. Failure to keep this program going doesn't just risk the money for this program or that school, but every dollar in federal funding at all schools in the state.

A better example would be the libruary in Winter Park Fl. Big money city, in fact so many people lived off of capital gains that the city fell below the poverty line in earned income. So the fed required the city of Winter Park to accept 5 million and build a new libuary. Winter park had just spent 7 million to build a new libuary though. Refusal to accept and build a new libuary would have cost the city any and all other federal funding, including schools, roads, parks, and grants. Rollins college, a expensive private collage got a brand new $7 million libuary for free. This was all done under the interstate commerce law. With out that the fed would't have the constitutional authority to give your money to Winter park, and you could sue to stop them.