The headlines in the news today: San Francisco outlaws Happy Meals. Okay, they didn’t exactly OUTLAW them. What lawmakers did do is tell McDonald’s they can’t sell meals with toys unless they meet certain nutritional requirements. Seriously? A law to prevent kids from getting fat? I guess parents really just can’t say no anymore.
Get ahold of yourselves parents. Just because your kids want a burger and fries doesn’t mean you have to stop and buy one…every day! The real problem with this law is not that McDonald’s can no longer sell Happy Meals. I’m all for that, in fact I would go a step further and shut the whole chain down. The problem is that this is not our government’s place. They may not have the balls to come right out and say it, but they may as well…people who make laws like this actually THINK that people are not smart enough to make the right decisions. That’s right, I said it. Lawmakers who feel it is their calling to constantly overstep the boundary between policy and control are really telling us we’re stupid. We can’t be trusted with our own health and safety. And the people who vote for these ordinances are agreeing.
What we really need to do is pull our heads out of…well our TV’s of course, and pay more attention to the world around us. Including our health. And our finances. And every other facet of our lives that the government seeks to control. Because when we yield that control we begin a slide down the slippery slope towards socialism. That’s right I said it: cities attempting to control what we eat is only the most recent progression towards socialist control that is the bent of liberalism in America today. Look back at the Obama-care snafu of this time last year and it’s obvious…certain people in important leadership positions don’t care what popular opinion is, they just want control.
Whether you’re conservative, liberal, Republican, Democrat, or Independent, the facts are still the same. We cannot afford to continue giving up our liberties in this manner. Not only is it a trespass on our personal freedom, it represents an expansion of government, the pattern of which has led us down the path to insolvency we currently find ourselves on. China is buying up our debt because they have to in order to keep their own economy afloat. But who’s to say what happens once they own a majority interest? Red state will take on a completely different context. Wake up America.
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