Virginia Libertarian

Some People out there actually get it

If my employer decides they no longer want me as an employee, then it should be their right to fire me." she told me. "I understand the desire for people to have government step in and try to protect women, but there’s real costs to government intervention.

This is going to be a short post, I’m just going to try to re-enforce the Principles of Government yet again, and hope that more people at least try to understand.

Just un-fucking believable.

What scares me even more is that this realistically could happen in the U.S.

So Massachusetts is starting to jump on the bandwagon with regulations around fast food and calorie notifications on menu items.  Here are a few of questions you should be asking yourself:

1. Has anyone done any studies to see if this is effective?
2. What is the cost of oversight on these programs?
3. Why is this any of the governments business?

Ok, here are your answers:

1. Hell no, why would they do that?
2. Nobody knows, or cares
3. Control

Let me go into detail on the 3rd one, that will explain the answers on the other two.  The government is trying to control what you eat for one reason, to control the cost of health care.  But why should government care about that, I hear you crying!  They care because they have taken over and now own health care in Mass.  This is the wonderful result of government ownership of anything, once they own it, they will control you with it.  Now since everyone is becoming a fat ass, that adds cost to the bottom line of the health care program.  How long until they start requiring people to weigh-in in order to get their full benefits.  Wait, that would be exclusory, and government can’t do that.  What they can do is control businesses, so it won’t be long before you start seeing proposed legislation on what restaurants can sell, so they can then limit what you can eat.  It’s all about control.  They rope you in one little bit at a time.