Posted on 04/21/2010 7:08:23 AM PDT by shortstop
If it weren’t tyranny, it would be funny.
But it is tyranny, so it’s 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 Campbell’s 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 can’t 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 it’s 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 that’s exactly what this does to your freedom.
I don't what that is but I will try to avoid it.
Will people who live on the coasts be taxed accordingly? They live so darn near all that salty water...it’s second hand salt and may be dangerous....need to get on that.../s
Anyway, I had blood tests Monday and she wants to see me tomorrow. I expect the number to be either just on the min or slightly under.
Looks like 0bummer is going to start a new product for border smugglers to bring salt from Guerrero Negro, Baja Ca, Mexico salt fields!
I SEE ANTI-OBAMA BUMPER STICKERS ON CARS EVERYWHERE.
That's what happens when you make a President out of something other than a "natural-born citizen."
I am pretty sure that salt is one of the items required in canning and producing foods that have a long term shelf life.
Reducing such item can lead to a very short shelf life of canned goods, etc.
Is this a direct attack on Mormons and others who stock up a long term supply of food?
How about those of us who live rural and keep a goodly supply on hand, even tho we are not MOrmon>
There is real trouble coming in this country, and not being able to take care of yourself with a personal supply of food is another nail in our Freedom coffin.
In ten years, all food will taste like cardboard...or at least like the stuff they serve in old folks’ homes.
Dear Leader prepares to issue another decree...
“Time to march on Washington in a ‘salt’ party rally to protest salt taxes”., “First our salt, then our guns... They will have to pry the salt shaker from my cold dead hands”.....
Will MSNBC call us ‘salt shakers’ instead of Tea baggers?
Which, on paper looks good to a clean finger-nailed executive(government or otherwise), but the wiser person knows it suppresses the function of the hormone Leptin (which tells you to stop eating "I'm Full".
Which, maybe wouldn't so bad if you didn't mind looking like New Jersey in pants!
But, it increases the function of the hormone Grelin( the "Gurrrrr, I'm hungry" hormone)
At Taxpayer expense, we are being made sick & fat, and they know it, always have.
Iodine regulates the human immune system. In America, very little of our food contains iodine. We get it through salt. “
I am pretty sure that Iodine is added to salt. Lite salt does not have iodine. White salt blocks for large animals also does not have salt. Horses cannot process iodine.
As with most subjects, the media and other “experts” are completely wrong on what they've been saying is good for us. And now the government is using this misinformation to limit access to what keeps us healthy.
When we finish off Obama, we must go after the networks.
Here’s hoping for a good report.
Of course obama will continue to enjoy his favorite candy.
"President Obama’s sweet tooth boosts export of salt from Wales"
Salt from Wales used to make President Obama’s favourite caramel has helped to boost British food export figures for the fifth consecutive year.
The President’s passion for Smoked Salt Caramels, produced by the artisan confectioner Fran’s Chocolates of Seattle, is one of the successful trade stories which led to total food and drink exports last year being valued at £9.65 billion.
The increased sales were just 4.4 per cent, but in a difficult year because of the economic downturn and when other manufacturing sectors suffered an overseas sales slump of 11.8 per cent, the performance has lifted morale among entrepreneurs in the food industry....
The sweet has been a favourite for four years after one of his original campaign team, who hails from seattle, gave him a box as a present. These caramels are now handed out to visitors to the White House.
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.”
People walked from their parking space or the bus to their jobs. Those kids didn’t sit in front of a computer or a X-Box each and every free minute of the day. They actually played outside—got exercise—etc.
There were NOT very many people on Welfare, living off the taxpayers and sitting on their collective asses doing nothing.
Show me a kid who lives today on a ranch or a farm and has to do their share of the chores, and you will find health youngsters. We have raised a whole generation of chair sitters, who have TV remotes.
“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.”
I can see why you call yourself Hostage.
Get your kids outside and make them get some exercise!!!
This is beyond being a Sheeple !!!
That's what happens when stupid people vote.
Coke tasted great because it was mostly natural cane sugar grass juice (not artificial chemical modifying hormones as mentioned above).
That is a great point because right about that time HFCS became a larger and larger part of our food supply.
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