Government Responsibilities: Defense, Roads, Treaties…Calories?

It had to happen- Congress wants to force certain restaurants to put caloric intake on their menus. Of course, it’s not just any restaurants- just the evil fast food restaurants. The ones putting a gun to America’s head and making us get fat.

Were our legislators not Democrats intent on taking over every aspect of our lives, this would be a joke. Unfortunately, that is what is required in the two health care reform bills on Capitol Hill. There are also two separate bills requiring the same thing. The goal, you see, is to help Americans lose weight and to overall become healthier. Of course, rather than go after fat Americans, the government is going after yet another business providing a wanted service.

I have a question for the legislators supporting this bill?(actually, a whole bunch, but I’ll limit it to one): do you really think Americans don’t know fast food isn’t healthy? The article linked above does a good job of telling both sides, and one of the critiques of the bill is that price will dictate intake of fast food far more than what’s in it for many people. Perhaps you could concentrate on getting out of the way of the economy so that it can recover and people will have more money to buy healthier food.