Personally, I can’t stand the gov’t telling me how to live my life. But if we could prevent our kids from growing up fat, unhealthy and prone to various chronic diseases….

I think we keep coming back to the same 2 problems

1. What the medical establishment tells us about the cause of obesity is WRONG
2. Personal responsibility has gone the way of the dodo bird – people, corporations, government, etc..

I read that piece. I also saw another one where someone suggested that Prez-Elect Obama name Michael Pollan as the head of the USDA.

My dear Obnoxious American reader:

1. If you are going to insult my audience by calling them imbeciles, could you at least spell imbecile / imbecil correctly

2. Your claim that Governor Patterson doesn’t have the “right” to influence your dietary choices is moot at best. In theory, Ron Paul and I would agree with you that we have allowed / encouraged our governments to create virtual nanny states out of both our countries. However, in practice, your government has been telling you what you can put into your body for a very long time….the war against drugs, cigarette taxes, liquor taxes, federal tax dollars spent to subsidize certain agricultural crops while neglecting others, etc…

3. Self-righteous…hmmm, well, I am pretty confident in my own POV. Maybe I am self righteous?…. But, am I intolerant of others??? …I don’t know. Maybe if I had an example of intolerance to compare myself to. Now where can I find an example of intolerance???

Anyway, glad you dropped by. Feel free to leave a comment anytime.

Merry Christmas

We are in the midst of a recession, and this idiot governor, who is also increasing welfare benefits btw, is passing an obesity tax on people buying soda? Huh? Given the obesity issue that the government of NY itself seems to have (billions in debt, large, useless programs, etc), it would seem that would be a more apt place to trim the fat as it were.

What happened to the land of the free? If you zombies ever woke up from your large government sweet dreams you’d realize that this is a direct assault on your freedoms. What’s next? Legislating whether gravy and glucose rich mashed potatoes are OK on thanksgiving? Perhaps we will need a stuffing permit.

Government Paterson has no right to tell me what I should be eating, nor penalizing me for those choices (and incidentally, I work out every day and do not drink soda of any kind – NOT obese), and neither do self righteous, “fat appeasement crowd” lambasting, non-Americans like you.

But we all end up paying for health costs later down the line. Heck, if they can tax cigarettes, soda’s seem like a good target too.

Maybe they should lower the tax on wine to make up for it!