Yup. The Federal Gubmint is responsible for EVERYTHING. More wagyu beef please!
Parents, not the government, should decide what their children should eat and any nutritional value derived therefrom.
These kinds of matters should be individual choices, not a government decree.
“We can’t just leave it up to the parents.”
Go F yourself,,
I don’t want a Wookie hanging out in the Larder.
At times it appears the temptation is to think that if it’s left up to others to make choices about their health, they won’t make the right ones; and because the experts' or policy makers' knowledge is so valuable, or of such potential benefit, or the situation is so critical, the decision must be made for them.
For one reason or another, this mindset is oblivious to the fact that a fact (the descriptive) cannot lead directly to a command (the imperative). It is always mediated through the idea of what one ought to do (the prescriptive). Such an idea is the product of individual judgment.
The difference between a society existing in a state of liberty or in what, throughout most of history, appears to be its default mode is persuasion of the individual judgment by knowledge and example (accomplished in the context of limited proscriptive law) vs. coercion of individual will by force or by its threatened use (from “Your money or your life”--the Highwayman to “The American people are going to get a health care bill whether they want one or not”--Senator Rockefeller).
In the broadest terms, is the end to be a state of knowledge in which the individual is able to understand the possible consequences of his behavior and is then free to choose according to his own desires and goals, the general state of society then an amalgam of informed individual choices? Or is the end to be a state in which the individual’s choices are limited by others to a range calculated by them most likely to result in what they think should occur, the general state of society then an expression of coerced individual actions?
Among some, the attitude seems to be “We know so much now, but people don’t care or won’t listen or aren’t changing fast enough. What can we do to change things now?" The yearning appears to be for some universal remedy. This may be “nice”, but is hardly practicable, let alone even conceivable. It would require an understanding of life and society beyond the capability of any individual or group. Universalist approaches in the realm of economics and government have proved uniformly disastrous.
I am from a family of 14 children & our Mother made sure we did not leave the house without breakfast or a sack lunch. I have witnessed the welfare program of making sure there is breakfast & lunch for the children of lazy parents or mothers. These kids were also without coats, gloves or hats for the cold weather in Colorado. So much for the parents or single parents on taking care of their children. There is no way that I am going to let this black administration take what I have put aside for my children to be put in the pot of wealth distribution. The people of MA better get it on & kick this type of crap out of office.
I’m tee’d off at Barney Frank going after the inheritance.
I’m tee’d off at Barney Frank going after the inheritance.