Big Government

Interesting Walter Williams piece this AM. If gov't can take the steps toward cigarette smoking that it has, what else can it put in its cross hairs? It seems fast food is next--note how lousy McD's fries are now, KFC is now, etc. since gov't went on the attack against transfats. And, in Calif someplace, Happy Meals can't have toys in them because toys cause kids to want Happy Meals and Happy Meals aren't healthy and..... Ignoring, for a moment, where the parents are, what's next?

What's to stop the gov't from taking kids from parents who give them Happy Meals? How ridiculous, Ron--are you an idiot? Gov't can't do that. Before actually saying that, review the history of gov't's treatment of smoking--from warnings to taking of kids. Then, think before you speak. I'm not talking overnight, but over decades.

Once again, it is not gov't's job to tell me what I can and cannot buy (within reason--I accept that gov't can stop me from buying a Sherman tank). If I want to eat KFC fried in transfats, that's my own decision. What was it Jefferson said, "Laws are there to protect you from others, not from yourself." Oh, I forgot...that's history and history isn't important. My mistake.