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Topic: Let Them Eat Gruel:
The Government-Health-Security
Complex Invades Your Kitchen |
Let Them Eat Gruel:
The Government-Health-Security
Complex Invades Your Kitchen
Spectator [UK], by Alex Massie
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 1/5/2013 10:30:03 PM
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| Addressing the American people for the final time as President, Dwight Eisenhower warned that: This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence--economic, political, even spiritual--is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government.[Snip] Sometimes slippery slopes really do exist. Some folk warned that the public health industry--that is, the Government-Health-Security Complex--would never be satisfied with its battles against tobacco and alcohol and that it would, in time, launch fresh offensives against fast food, soft drinks, and all things salty and sweet. Don’t be
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Comments:
Surely this man is related to Jimmy D. Just needs to ripen a little more. I bet he could do a good piece on Nanny Bloomberg´s health diktats.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
SteelTurman, 1/5/2013 11:29:59 PM (No. 9100968)
Old age will keep me from seeing where this is going ...
... I´ll bet many boomers are glad they won´t be around.
I have learned something in my years ...
... humans are getting more stupid as time goes by.
The gene pool needs to be emptied and steam cleaned post haste.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
4Justice, 1/5/2013 11:36:38 PM (No. 9100969)
The food-nazis better not try that here. It goes against my "pursuit of happiness"!!!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/6/2013 12:00:28 AM (No. 9100992)
If the gov knows what´s good for us, why are so many fat and sick ?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/6/2013 5:04:08 AM (No. 9101054)
The food police should raid congress gourmet cafeterias. Oh that´s right. One rule for them, another for me.
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