The Nanny State

The Nanny State

It was considered a good thing when laws were passed against alcohol. It was considered to be a good thing when laws were passed against smoking. Now laws are being considered about what you eat. Everything from the amount of salt, meat, transfatty acids. Carbohydrates and the list goes on.

When it was something that offended other people everyone was all for it, but now it is coming down to whether you can eat cupcakes or donuts and people are getting a little fed up with what the government is doing. They even want to start passing laws on whether you can drink raw milk.

Do our legislators have nothing better to do than act like dieticians? Do they have nothing better to do than to decide what we eat and pass laws about those things? If this seems excessive to you it is beginning to seem that way to other people as well. I believe this problem exists in large part due to the fact that our leaders either think we are like children that need their guidance or that it is a matter of control. Whatever the reason they are now taking the stance that if the constitution does not forbid a thing than it is a power of the state, but that is not what the constitution does. The constitution makes it clear that the government has only certain things allowed to it and whatever is not allowed is forbidden. This is something our leaders are trying hard to change.

Nancy Pelosi seems to feel that Americans are simply made at incumbents but doesn’t question why that would be. I suppose she thinks it’s just a natural cycle of politics, and up till now it probably has been. This is no longer the case. Americans are catching on that our leaders are going to far and are fed up with it.

We have leaders ready to support bills they haven’t even read as the best thing since sliced bread and at the same time we have other leaders willing to condemn other laws as human rights violations. One they were willing to support was the health care bill, almost 3000 pages long and none of them seemed to know what was in it because in all probability none of them had any hand in writing it. This is a bill that will definitely affect all Americans. Then we come to the immigration bill passed in Arizona and we have a leader willing to condemn it but couldn’t take the time to read it in spite of the fact that it was only 10 pages long (the way a bill should be). After being caught that he hadn’t read the bill it was then announced that they would get a TEAM on reading the bill. Isn’t Holder a lawyer? Why do you need a TEAM to read 10 pages. This is more of the typical waste our federal government exercises all the time.

It is time we got rid of these people and got some people in Washington who can and will exercise a long lost skill, COMMON SENSE!