Paranoid?

Sometimes I think I'm being paranoid when I worry about big government intrusions in my life. After all, "C'mon Ron...it's our government." When I was teaching and the commies controlled the USSR, I used to joke with students, "What do you think this is, Russia?" Hmmmmmm......

Here comes a little gem about the federal "food police." At a day care, a 3-year old girl had her lunch taken from her because it didn't meet the "food police" (HHS) guidelines. No, it wasn't the potato chips that caused the problem. The packed lunch was a turkey/cheese sandwich, the said potato chips, a banana, and apple juice. Apparently that wasn't good/healthy enough for the HHS and the little girl lost her lunch, replaced by HHS-approved "chicken nuggets." (Can you imagine what healthy chicken nuggets must taste like?) So, it's no longer up to Mom (or, in this case, Grandma who often packs the kids' lunches) to determine what to feed her kids. It's not as if the lunch was a soda and Twinkies! But, once again, it's the arrogant elitists running the gov't. They know what's good for us better than we do. And, of course, that really isn't the point, is it?

So, now we've been told what kind of televisions we must have. Let's not forget light bulbs. Oh, and there are gov't regulated toilets (flushes, you know). How far away are mandated-electric dars? After all, a gov't that can tell us we have to buy health insurance or tell insurance companies they have to provide free birth-control....

Maybe I'm not so paranoid at that. And, it's not that these arrogant elitists don't know more than I do. No, that's not the point. The point is that decisions like these should be my choices, not theirs. Isn't it enough that they can steal our money (look up the word "steal" in the dictionary and see if I'm being all that ridiculous) and, if we balk at the thievery, we, not they, go to to jail or face fines. Go ahead, try to defy the IRS--heh, heh.