Posted on 04/21/2010 7:08:23 AM PDT by shortstop
If it werent tyranny, it would be funny.
But it is tyranny, so its not.
The Obama Administration has claimed for itself the right to determine how much salt is in your food. In this last area of personal choice taste you have lost your choice.
Or at least you will.
Under a plan being floated by the Obama Food and Drug Administration, the federal government will set salt levels in food the same way it sets emission levels for cars. In the name of protecting you, the government will enslave you.
And it will order food companies to systematically reduce the amount of salt in their products over the next 10 years. Like the proverbial frog in the pan of water, the regulations will become more stringent incrementally, in the belief that the American palate will adjust and comply.
Ten percent of the population is sensitive to sodium. One hundred percent of the population will suffer. Your bottle of V8 or can of Beef-A-Roni, the peas on your shelf and the bacon in your refrigerator, the ham at Easter and the hotdogs on the grill. All of these and thousands of others, prepared and marketed now to please the taste buds and attract the customers, will be bastardized tomorrow to bend to the dictate of government.
On Monday, Bill Clinton mocked those who believe government is a threat to their freedom. On Tuesday, the government took away yet more of our freedom.
And with Dredd Scott a new generation of Americans is forced to ask, Am I not a man? Is all remnant of individuality, dignity and independence surrendered to the government? Is there no corner of life where the oppressive hand of government does not reach? Is even the seasoning of our food to now be subject to the dictate of government arrogance?
Must the Obama Administration force upon us food that is drab and joyless, to match the socially engineered life, society and economy it is even now forging?
In our constitutional Republic, can any honest person open that Constitution and find any hint of authorization for the federal government to meddle with our food? Can the commissars of the new Reich truly dictate our recipes and tastes?
Must dill pickles and smoked salmon join potato chips and gravy as politically incorrect foods? Is Colonel Sanders the new Joe Camel? Are the Jolly Green Giant and Charlie Tuna now public enemies? Will olives and peanut butter be condemned with Stove Top stuffing and tomato sauce? What about Tabasco and Hungry Man and Campbells and Chef Boyardee?
Big Brother meets the Iron Chef and this is no longer the land of the free.
Unelected bureaucrats, led by appointed lackeys of a Marxist president, will make law and direct culture and we will have no voice. There has been no public discussion, no rising sentiment, no will of the people. The Congress has not weighed in, the courts have not spoken, no type of check or balance has come into play. The Constitution has been castrated, culture is meaningless, heritage is ignored and the last corner of life is invaded.
We have been informed that there is a public health crisis and that the government must act to save us from ourselves. And so one of the first shots is fired in the war to take over our food supply in the same way government has already taken over transportation and energy and health care. First they nationalized the banks and the car companies and now they will nationalize us.
Today it is salt and tomorrow it will be fat and the day after that it will be dairy and red meat. All will be taxed and regulated and overseen, and like the great collectives of the other socialist paradises China and Russia we will first be impoverished and then we will be starved.
He promised us change and we got the Cultural Revolution. Khrushchev is proven right yet again.
And the spiraling de-evolution of American liberty passes another milestone.
We cant even decide how much salt there will be in our food. We are not to be trusted to buy our own food, and judge for ourselves its healthfulness and desirability. The grocery store has become a threat to social order, where unrestrained shopping has produced politically incorrect production and the state must intervene.
We are tax slaves to a redistributionist scheme, serfs to a modern prince, and now we will not even be allowed to enjoy our food.
The Obama Administration knows better than you how much salt should be in your food, and will relieve you of the responsibility of deciding for yourself. The party of choice when it comes to abortion forbids you choice when it comes to dinner. The Constitution protects the privacy of abortion, they say, but not the privacy of seasoning your own food.
This is what its like when a free people are brought down.
Ye are the salt of the earth, someone once said. But if the salt has lost its savor, it is thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and trod under foot of man.
And thats exactly what this does to your freedom.
Indeed there may be a well documented history of harmful levels of salt in processed foods.
And so the intention to reduce salt levels in processed foods may be well-intentioned.
But ... this is an issue of health awareness and promotion versus regulation. It may be a role of government to promote the general welfare through education but to force compliance is a different matter.
I have nothing against the government mandating packaging requirements to call out the amount of salt versus what is recommended. I would also support a public awareness campaign to reveal the documented harmful effects of too much salt or effects of different types of salts.
Don't give them any ideas.
After that, you go to line "B" with a card that shows you paid the sugar tax.
After that, you go to line "C"...etc, etc
Yeah, but your food and lifestyle choices will affect your burden on the healthcare system,
therefore, we need to tell you how to live.
/fascleftist speak
....from my cold, dead hands ...
;o)
Sounds like we should be buying salt by the case at the grocery to stockpile for later.
“Soma rations”
There were two predictions in literature.
1984 predicted we’d be enslaved by an external entity.
Brave New World predicted we’d enslave ourselves to pleasures.
#2 has proven more accurate so far.
Look at some old news clips from the 1950's+ or so (the clips from the Kennedy assignation have big crowds). You'll be hard pressed to find a fat person. They ate comfort food - real, natural foods like meat, cheese, salt, sugar, milk, and butter. They also fed this food to their children.
Now watch the news and look at the crowds. You'll be hard pressed to find a thin person. These are the people who have been listening to the politically correct diet dictators. Notice the difference. Look at their children.
It’s not about salt, sugar, fat, carbon dioxide, gasoline, health care, savings, debt, or any other issue. It’s about a socialist lust for power in which Obama and Pelosi want to control every aspect of our lives for the sake of raw power. I hope all the tyrant-wannabe socialists in Congress and in our White House join the ranks of the unemployed . . . soon.
Where am I going to stockpile salt?
The sugar and incandescent lightbulbs are taking up half my basement, and the other half is filled with ammo :).
Lunch was usually a peanut butter or bologna sandwich.
Snacks were homemade cookies or cake. Cereal WITH LOTSA SUGAR for breakfast because all we had was plain cereal. Very little oatmeal...because it was yuk!!
I can see why you call yourself Hostage.
They won't get my salty nuts until they pry them from my cold lifeless hands
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Damn. I never thought of that. My bad.
Regards Bart.
This artificially made and artificially financed (taxes) sweeteners introduction into our food supply perfectly tracks on a graph with the rise in diabetes & obesity.
First they came for the smoker...and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a smoker...
....Here’s your Card....
This is a multipronged assalt on us again.
cream of wheat, milk toast and prune juice
You are right! We may be looking at the new menus at the fast food restaurants if I don’t shut up!
this is what I am so afraid of...right now they is the trying to control salt (is ANYONE believing this crap? This is SURREAL!)
But consider that the health killing measures uhbama and his team of marxists have enacted will also have unelected bureaucrats making LAWS about personal health care-that might include NO MEDICATION OR SERVICE at ALL. In other words, DEATH if your problem is not worth the costs to some marxist 24 year old health care czar in an office in DC.
OUR CONGRESS had better act IMMEDIATELY to remind the President that these groups CAN NOT MAKE LAW! Groups like the EPA or the Federal Food Administration! RIGHT NOW! They do not have the right to MAKE LAW over the American people.ONLY THE CONGRESS HAS THAT RIGHT AS STATED IN OUR CONSTITUTION.
Uhbama better take his silly knowledge of community organization and stuff it and sit his ass down and READ THE CONSTITUTION.
THAT IS THE DOCUMENT HE HAS SWORN TO DEFEND!
Q: Doctor, I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life. Is this true?
A: Your heart only good for so many beats, and that it...don't waste on exercise. Everything wear out eventually. Speeding up heart not make you live longer; it like saying you extend life of car by driving faster. Want to live longer? Take nap.
Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables?
A: You must grasp logistical efficiency. What does cow eat? Hay and corn. And what are these? Vegetables. So steak is nothing more than efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system. Need grain? Eat chicken. Beef also good source of field grass (green leafy vegetable). And pork chop can give you 100% of recommended daily allowance of vegetable product.
Q: Should I reduce my alcohol intake?
A: No, not at all. Wine made from fruit. Brandy is distilled wine, that mean they take water out of fruity bit so you get even more of goodness that way. Beer also made of grain. Bottom up!
Q: How can I calculate my body/fat ratio?
A: Well, if you have body and you have fat, your ratio one to one. If you have two bodies, your ratio two to one, etc.
Q: What are some of the advantages of participating in a regular exercise program?
A: Can't think of single one, sorry. My philosophy is: No pain...good!
Q: Aren't fried foods bad for you?
A: YOU NOT LISTENING! Food are fried these day in vegetable oil. In fact, they permeated by it. How could getting more vegetable be bad for you?!?
Q: Will sit-ups help prevent me from getting a little soft around the middle?
A: Definitely not! When you exercise muscle, it get bigger. You should only be doing sit-up if you want bigger stomach.
Q: Is chocolate bad for me?
A: Are you crazy?!? HER-RO-O!! Cocoa bean! Another vegetable! It best feel-good food around!
Q: Is swimming good for your figure?
A: If swimming good for your figure, explain whale to me..
Q: Is getting in shape important for my lifestyle?
A: Hey! 'Round' a shape!
Well, I hope this has cleared up any misconceptions you may have had about food and diets.
And remember:
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO-HOO, what a ride!!"
AND.....
For those of you who watch what you eat, here's the final word on nutrition and health. It's a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting nutritional studies.
1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.
2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.
3. The Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.
4. The Italians drink a lot of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.
5. The Germans drink a lot of beer and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.
CONCLUSION: Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.
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