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.
Democrats winning 2008 was their death sentence (for ratings). Most of MSNBC viewers are just watching them for entertainment, to see what outrageous stuff they will try to pull next. They are melting down.
(But they seemed to think some RINos will flip on bank reform Thursday.)
Now they tell us.. I remember taking salt tablets in high school and during basic training.
Oh well, I guess that explains my high blood pressure. Oh wait, the current administration is to blame for that.
Yep. My parents ate real food, and so do we. We have no prescription drugs in the house. The only time I've had to see a doctor was for child birth.
2 kids are in college now, one on the presidents list, the next on the honors list. Neither is overweight, both are healthy and glowing.
I see the people around us, and their skin looks gray. They're fat. They're tired. They're miserable. They eat "healthy" according to the politicaslly correct diet dictators. (My guess is these people aren't going to enjoy a very long life. They look like they're half dead already.)
Nope. They are the people that dine on high calorie quick foods including lots of sugar and fats.
“(But they seemed to think some RINos will flip on bank reform Thursday.) “
I no longer have any faith in the Republican Party. They have to PROVE their worth to me on a case by case basis.
And their food would be real. They'd grow or raise their own.
Currently? Where do you live?
No, they'll call us salt baggers. WE'LL call ourselves salt shakers. ;-)
OK, WHAT is that picture about? How can you post a picture with NO explanation?
It's good to be king.
It will have to be a modified milk toast. You see, the recipe I have calls for white bread, whole milk, cream or butter optional (there are times to omit these), salt and pepper.
The future recipe some dense, dry whole wheat bread and low fat soy milk substitute and pepper.
Darn straight. That box of salt stays.
Great bumper sticker - "Obama = what happens when stupid people vote".
WHAT the heck is HFCS?
The future recipe some dense, dry whole wheat bread and low fat soy milk substitute and pepper.
Sounds like another yummy future fast food recipe! Make note Obama, order #1 Dry, whole wheat bread,soy milk, butter buds & pepper, milk toast. Can’t wait to place my order and thanks for the delicious sounding recipe :)
The Informant a little known Matt Damon movie reveals a little of the corrupt dealings of these folks, it's worth seeing (I got a copy from netflix with an interesting commentary track).
In the quantities we are now being force fed this artificial and dangerous industrial product, most of us will die from diabetes and obesity related disease's.
And , it wouldn't be in our food if tax dollars didn't support it.
It has to do with products containing poisonous substances that were sold decades ago and led to the death of children.
Packing information is cheap and amounts to less than a fraction of a penny for each unit packaged. It is no more onerous than to place an excise tax stamp on packages to show the products are legal.
Transfats are lethal over time. I don’t approve our government banning them but I can see a role for government to call out the dangers of such substances.
I am a big supporter of federal government mandating that each product package be labeled with a federal tax burden estimate in the price of the product. For example, a Starbucks latte for $2 would have either a label on a cup or a placard inside the cafe stating that the federal embedded burden of taxation is estimated to be 20% of the price of the latte, and other products.
Gotcha. Thank you.
I thought the historic reference was clear enough.
That’s Ghandi at the sea collecting salt on which the British otherwise had a massive tax.
Ghandi’s point was that you cannot have an exorbitant tax on that which we can pick up ourselves.
Similarly, the Feds cannot truly regulate salt, ever. People can literally head to the sea, and make their own.
Memo to ADM: Die, corporate scum.
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