By Douglas V. Gibbs
The government would like to tell you how much salt you are allowed to consume, disallow all transfats, and force you to fit their model of health. Obesity is bad, and fit is good, and your opinion means nothing; the Democrats mean to make you healthy.
Michelle Obama, figuring the fat adults are out of reach, is concentrating on the children. She, and a bill coming up before Congress shortly, has decided that they will parent for you, and determine your child's diet. In fact, some radicals in this field believe that if your child puts on weight, you are guilty of child abuse.
The proposed legislation is the Healthy Choices Act, which was introduced by Rep. Ron Kind (D-Wis.). The bill, if passed into law, would establish and fund a wide range of programs and regulations aimed at reducing obesity rates by such means as putting nutritional labels on the front of food products, subsidizing businesses that provide fresh fruits and vegetables, and collecting BMI measurements of patients and counseling those that are overweight or obese.
The bill is one of many attempts going on right now to micro-manage your lives in the name of "the common good."
Not only does the liberals wish to dictate to you how you eat, decide for you whether or not you can have health care, force you into green energy programs that are a proven failure (just ask Spain), but in California, in quarries, you must now honk your horn before any vehicular movement, or else be fined.
California is king of liberal mismanagement, so it makes sense for the most loony micro-manage debacles to come from the not-so-golden state, as well.
The event that led to the "Honk or get fined" rule in California is the result of someone being hit by a big rig when he walked in front of the truck just as the vehicle began to move.
From what I read, and my experience in quarries, I am figuring the events transpired pretty close to as follows:
The operator of the loader, finished with part of the day's work at the quarry, pulled his piece of equipment beside the scale house, and exited his vehicle. Every day he did the same thing, and marched the same steps. His path across the front of the scale was a usual journey. So routine that he didn't bother to consider the big rig on the scale, or the fact that the gears were being put into motion as he stepped in front of the truck.
The driver signed his ticket and climbed back into his truck. In his side window he saw the loader park his equipment on the other side of the scale house. "Must be break time," thought the driver. After scanning his load ticket he'd just signed to make sure all of the information on it was correct, he put the truck into gear and began to pull forward off the scale - as he'd done a million times before - not seeing the loader operator walking in front of his rig, just below his line of sight.
The bureaucrat in Sacramento viewed the report regarding how a heavy equipment operator was run over and killed by a diesel truck as the eighteen wheeler pulled forward to exit a scale. Like the majority of his leftist colleagues in the California capital, the bureaucrat failed to reason that a failure in personal responsibility caused the accident, and calling for companies to bring attention to the accident in their safety meetings would probably resolve the problem. Instead, his only thought was that in order to be "compassionate" he needed to make sure this "never happened again." Besides, pressure from the insurance companies on the event was expected. The insurance companies would be expecting protective regulations, plus a whole lot more. . .
Of course the way the accident transpired, as I wrote above, is a fictional depiction of a very real accident. The facts, however, was the victim was in fact a quarry equipment operator, and was no stranger to the fact that many big rigs were on sight, and that the rigs stop and start often, especially when on one of the scales.
As a result of the bureaucrat's decision, any vehicle in a quarry must honk before any kind of movement of the vehicle, or risk being fined. Rails are being added to the sides of the scales as well, and hard hats are now being more strictly enforced. In the early morning hours, when a couple dozen trucks are moving around in the quarry, which neighbors a bunch of other quarries, and every truck is blowing their horn with each movement, I bet it won't be long before the neighbors are complaining about the early morning noise.
Hey, aren't the liberals the ones usually complaining about noise pollution too?
So they tell us what to eat, and to honk when we move. . . what's next? Telling us what we are allowed to say too?
Oh, wait, Hate Crimes legislation is taking care of that.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
The Federal Fat Police: Bill Would Require Government to Track Body Mass of American Children - CNS News
Feds tell court they can decide what you eat, 'Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to obtain any food they wish - World Net Daily
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