Libralism’s ideal is to legislate every facet of our lives. A case in point is the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council who’s job it is to:
(a) provide coordination and leadership [...] with respect to prevention, wellness, and health promotion practices, the public health system, and integrative health care
(b) develop[...] a national prevention, health promotion, public health, and integrative health-care strategy that incorporates the most effective and achievable means of improving the health status of Americans and reducing the incidence of preventable illness and disability
(c) provide recommendations to the President and the Congress concerning the most pressing health issues confronting the United States and changes in Federal policy to achieve national wellness, health promotion, and public health goals, including the reduction of tobacco use, sedentary behavior, and poor nutrition;
(d) consider and propose evidence-based models, policies, and innovative approaches
(e) establish processes for continual public input
(f) submit the reports required by section 6 of this order; and
(g) carry out such other activities as are determined appropriate by the President.
So the progressive’s agenda is unveiled. They want us to remain healthy and happy worker drones to support the Collectivist-Statist-Altruistic program. The difference is they want to legislate how long I can sit on my ass and play video games. They need to increase the average lifespan for Americans for several reasons. First, they can push back retirement age. Secondly, they want to ensure we work longer into our lifespans so we can continue to provide social welfare to others for longer. Finally, they get the compounded economic benefit in taxes from our employers, alond with the costs of working. Clothes, transportation, etc. are all things that add to the velocity of the money supply, which helps hide the inflationary deficit spending of our masters.
My health is nobody’s fucking business but my own. If I want to eat five fucking pints of Ben and Jerry’s while smoking cigars and drinking like an Irishman at a wake, that’s my business. Not some shithead politicians. My problem. Not your problem. Not the other guy’s problem. My choice = my problem. If I’m fat because of “genetics” or “daddy didn’t hug me” or whatever, well my genes = my problem. So that excuse can go right out the fucking window. And before anyone pisses and moans, I got a BMI well past obese. (The BMI scale is flawed in several ways, don’t even get me going on that tangent.)
Just as if I had a heroin habit no one else should have to pay one cent if I overdose, no one should pay shit if I’m a fat bastard because I eat sticks of butter dipped in lard while drinking olive oil. Regulating how we eat, what we eat, how much exercise we get and so on is a fool’s errand. We need a reduction in legislation, not more.
The more things change the more they stay the same. Bush expanded the federal government by creating the Department of Homeland Security. He was a progressive. Now we got this other shithead Obama in there expanding the government again by working the health care angle. Fuck him. What’s the next expansion of government? Let’s roll the Department of Education, the Federal Communications Commission, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, etc. into the Ministry of Truth!
I know this commission isn’t going to outlaw Twinkies overnight, but just as the DHS has slowly turned out airports and train stations into military outposts, the slow but inevitable tide of change will be felt in out supermarkets, restaurants and gardens. Let that sink in. If you have flown in the last few months you know the hell it is to get through security. The asshat running the X-ray took 15 minutes to figure out I had a fucking umbrella in my bag. An umbrella, I shit you not. I had my bag searched on the subway the other day by transit police. How the fuck are these bureaucrats going to impact our food? “Sir, you have been randomly selected to review your food intake and exercise program. Please disrobe and allow the technician to forcibly remove a stool sample.”
The continual expansion and intrusion of the federal government into my life is rapidly pissing me off. Soon, I’m not going to put up with it anymore and then the gloves come off. I cease to be a passive protester to an active combatant. I won’t raise arms against this country unless they attempt to use force against me, but I’ll be much more active in becoming a monkey-wrench to the federal system.
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Where’s that little smiley that rolling on the ground laughing when I need it?
Seriously, this is a sucky executive order, it’s an intrusion into our lives that will cost millions.billions of dollars and won’t do any good. However, cheer up…it looks like this administration excels in talking and not doing, so chances are they will miss all their deadlines to get ‘er done. With luck, they won’t even be here in two years…not a single one of them.
Meeting on Saturday.
Amen Brother! It’s way past time we tell these sons-a-bitches just where they can stuff it!
If that mongoloid in the White House thinks he’s going to tell me how to live my life, he’d better start by cleaning up his own act first. And those fucking drunks in the CONgress can start with outlawing tobacco and alcohol before they start telling me how to live my life. Fucking hypocrite sonsofbitches.
Shy III
This article should be of some interest to you as it concerns your state.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/15/news/economy/massachusetts_healthcare_reform.fortune/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
Well, I won’t be paying ANY taxes past this year. I will be retireing in July @43 Years old via the V.A. at that time I don’t have to pay any taxes on anything I buy and I won’t have to pay my taxes on my home either so ….
Under socialized medicine YOUR health is EVERYONE’s business, because everyone has to pay for your health care whether they want to or not. This is sort of like people who don’t have children showing up as school board meetings – they pay for the school, too, so they should have a say in what goes on there. Now, when you reach the age or condition where the government starts giving you “end of life counseling” instead of health care then you can do whatever you want. Until then you belong to everyone.
This is just another benefit of socialism.
I actually think you are giving the liberal (or far left) the benefit of the doubt. I think their agenda is more nefarious. I think their intent is to create a crisis that will stampede the voters to vote for something they would never go for under normal circumstances. But it gets worse. They are inept and instead of creating a false crisis or a manageabe crisis they have created a very real crisis that threatens our country and ultimately our lives. Make no mistake our economy will collapse and all of the governments efforts to date intended (they claim) to fix it have really only put off the inevitable and contributed to the problem. It is because they used borrowed and printing press money that our situation grows more dire and inevitable. Just like the man who jumped off the Empire State building who said as he passed the 10th floor “so far so good” we are in a free fall and are being told it is a “recession”. Well it started as a recession but then we printed a couple trilion and borrowed another 3 trillion and are on the way to double or even tripling that in a very short time. We got the crisis the far left wanted we even got a lot of the legislation the crisis allowed them to sneak by us. But now the crisis is growing and our government is unable (to stupid/inexperienced) stop what they started. The worst part is so many people are unaware of the seriousness of it and are saying “so far so good”…
Totally agree with you! Personal responsibility people! BTW, you swear a hell of a lot, LOL.
Another point: Everyone believes they know what actions or what diet leads to good health but in general they are wrong. The problem is our health is very complex and it is easy to generalize what might be good for one person is good for everyone. Everyone “knows” that being overweight or obese is harmful to your health. But everyone is wrong! In many cases the overweight or obese person has an underlying disease and the obesity is merely one of the symptoms (diabetes is the best example of this). It is the underlying disease itself that is harmful to their health. But for people who do not have diabetes being overweight is not only pretty harmless but according to statistics actually healthy. That’s right, healthy! It’s called “the obesity paradox”. In brief it means that given the arbitrary ideal BMI is 24.9 the paradox is that people who fall into a BMI of 25-29.9 are in general healthier then people with a BMI of 20-24.9. It is equally true for people with a BMI of 30-34.9 being healthier then a BMI of 15-19.9. This flies in the face of those who advocate for thinness or lower BMI’s. To put some of this into context it is useful to understand the ideal BMI of 24.9 was arbitrarily chosen. It seems that after looking at real world data the ideal BMI is 27.5. That is where going in either direction results in lower life expectancies and greater chance of illness. This is an emperically derived number and who knows if it really means a whole lot. But what it does do is show us how difficult it is to know “what” is healthy a and what is not. For example I have aunt’s in my family who were obese, never “excercised” in their life, ate meat and potatoes and lived into their late 80′s. I suppose you could argue that if they had kept their weight around 100 lbs, ran everyday, and become vegetarians they would have lived into their 90′s. But even there the real life evidence belies our prejudices. Contrary to what you’ve been told even those “healthy” traits don’t seem to extend life or prevent illness. So what, exactly, should we force everyone to do to keep health care costs down???