VA Senator Mark Warner had a couple of articles published over the weekend, one on economic/monetary policy, and one on health care.? Unfortunately I was not surprised by his view on either issue.? What he proposes in his articles is, of course, more government.?
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:
Ok, here are your answers:
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.
This kind of thinking is, I think, a large cause of the troubles in the world today.
Although The Lancet study is proof of concept, experts still question the ethics of a pill for lifestyle issues.
Critics say the problems of high blood pressure and cholesterol should be tackled with diet and exercise rather than by popping a pill.
Why is it someone else’s business if I choose to “pop a pill” in order to address health issues instead of going the “correct” route of diet and exercise? And who are these “experts” that make this decision that diet and exercise are the “correct” route? Who appointed them our overseers? It’s this kind of thing that erodes away at our freedoms a tiny piece at a time if we don’t address them. First they criticize, then they suggest solutions, then they legislate what we can and can’t do. Why do they think that they can run our lives better than we can?
