Fast Food and Furious

I never thought it would happen in America--a country where kids used to stand in class and recite the Pledge of Allegiance--you know, the "One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all," pledge. Where the government respected the rights of the individual and did not treat its citizens as children. Where we were responsible for our own choices: we could smoke cigarettes and get cancer, and all cigarette companies were required to do was inform us of the risk. Where we could have a McFat Burger with fries, an apple pie made with palm oil for dessert, and a slurpee to wash it all down. It was our choice. We could even have public Christmas displays in our shopping malls.

Now we are no longer allowed to use the name of God in our pledge, and many schools are not even allowed to say the Pledge of Allegiance. So to whom do we give our allegiance? I think the answer is obvious: to the rules and regulations of government.

The dietary dysfunction of our First Lady has now become her obsession with us, and we must obey her rules. McDonald's burgers are out and what she deems as health food is in. There are school districts in the USA where school cafeterias are no longer allowed to serve certain foods because it is making the kids obese. Some of these privately owned cafeterias had to close up business, and the kids now go to area pizza parlors for lunch. Now there is talk about restricting fast food restaurants from operating near schools.

What about the rights of parents? Don't they have the right to make decisions about what their kids eat, and let's face it, there are times when a parent doesn't have the time and/or energy to cook a lean cuisine meal for junior, and fast food fits the bill for those occasions. So the government has become the Nanny State, where the responsiblities of child-rearing have been removed from the parents and placed in the hands of our lawmakers. How wonderful is that? How Big Brother-ish are we becoming? 

Unions protecting the least competent

When government begins to dictate the minutia of our lives, they can more easily dictate the more important aspects of them too. A government that does this is rightly called a dictatorship. And this is what liberals seem to want because they believe the masses do not have the ability to care for themselves. It reminds me of unions who take care of incompetent workers by making it almost impossible for management to fire them--think teacher's unions, for example.


I believe our next election is going to be a referendum not only on Obama and his socialist policies, but on the Nanny State in general and how people are fed up being lied to and shown feigned caring for by BIG GOVERNMENT.


Liberals hate the wealthy in this country because they demonstrate success in spite of government interference in their lives.

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