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.
Do you really believe a movie? come on surely you have more sense than that.
How do I invest in NaCl futures?
Yes, I pretty good, the movie serves to illustrate how little ( or none) credence is given to the consequence of the health effects they cause.
You would be logging some serious time on on the toliet if you ate that.
Time itself is lethal. Do we put a government label on that? Better yet walking in front of a moving bus is bad for your health. Let's put a label on the front of the bus to let us know that.
There is no label you can use to keep stupid people from harming themselves. Maybe it's God's way of thining the herd.
A simple solution to the food problem. Buy fresh food and cook it yourself. No need for government labels.
There’s a notion of a reasonable person. If we have roads and highways and dangerous moving objects, then we design the structures so that people can reasonably be safe yet free.
My philosophy is that government is free to educate me and make me aware but not to restrict me or enslave me unless it impinges on the freedom of others.
Transfat education is Ok. My choice to eat them or not does not impinge on the health and freedom of others, so they should not be banned.
Same with salt. Educate me, tell me the opinions, let me decide for myself. But my ingestion of salt has no bearing on the health and safety of others.
So government can educate and label. Labels are cheap. If a tank contains explosive or flammable material, yeah I want to know that and I believe there should be a law that requires such things be marked or labeled.
I don’t have a problem with labeling, I have a problem with overreaching.
Salt content, amount and type with warnings is fair game for labels, but not for banning.
As for your examples, they are silly. Time is not an object but we have watches and timepieces to remind us that it is valuable. Walking in front of a bus, we have crosswalk signals. Those objects are in effect labels. Whatever point your examples were trying to make seems to have gotten lost. Are you saying we should not have crosswalk signals?
>HCFS
It’s like ethanol for your body.
Let me sit down.
I love how they say they tried volunteerism but it didn’t work so now their gonna force us.
Umm... It was never voluntary if when we say “no” they force us to anyway.
OK, foodwise one.
What about soy?
What’s in it that makes me projectile vomit if I forget to read a lable or ask in a resturant?
Soy was supposed to be the meatless food of the future.
Hey, haven't you heard? “Cleanliness is next to Godliness :)
Just remember, victims believe.
Just remember, victims believe.
This is exactly what has happened in Britain with their government system. Read the book, The Tyranny of Health. It was written by a British doctor, and he shows how doctors have been turned into agents of the state in charge of snooping into people’s lives and ensuring they comply with what the health Nazis say is the right way to live. Scary stuff.
Under gov’t health care, not only will you be denied treatment or have to wait for it, but you will also be required to be a certain weight, to have all your numbers in the “normal” range, and to submit to whatever treatments they say will get you there. How ironic that only the healthy will be deemed worthy of health care.
What did anyone expect would happen when a Marxist got into the white house?
I still don’t get the surprise I see here.
The way they operate is to put huge hidden taxes on us, then give us visible tax credits to behave. Then claim we got huge tax cuts. You see it over and over again. Here democrats raised huge energy taxes, then gave a credit for connecting our thermostat to company/state control.
As far as rationing goes, middle class white men taxed the most will be put on the back of the line. The illegal kid who came over yesterday, will be in the front.
“As far as rationing goes, middle class white men taxed the most will be put on the back of the line.”
...and the elderly. Their lives are no longer worth the cost, so they should just take a pain pill and go away.
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