Land of the free?
Clothilde is a self-employed florist and while she is annoyed enough at the red tape required to run her business, she is absolutely livid at the Mississippi proposal to prohibit restaurants and food establishments from serving food to obese customers
"Since when has it been the government’s job to force people by law to eat what it tells them to eat and to live their lives according to its dictates (backed by its Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Bank or Big Business cronies)?" asks Clothilde. "Also, to make private businesses the enforcers of these dictates –do as we say or we'll revoke your business permits –is blatant thuggery."
"When you consider that for most of the 20th century we were fighting against communist, fascist and other totalitarian regimes –and we’re currently fighting against the oppressive Taliban in Afghanistan (who denied their people the joy of music among other things)," says Clothilde, "it makes you wonder – I mean really wonder – about the hypocrisy of our politicians and the social contract they are supposed to uphold."
"Land of the free? Yeah, right!"
"Free to listen to music (as long as you don't disturb the neighbors) and free to show a bit of flesh in public (as long as you don't do a Janet Jackson), but don't you dare eat fatty foods, or smoke or drink or take recreational drugs or do anything vaguely entrepreneurial,” sneers Clothilde. “Instead, they force feed us their latest pharmaceutical snake-oil soma and tell us to have a nice day."
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"Since when has it been the government’s job to force people by law to eat what it tells them to eat and to live their lives according to its dictates (backed by its Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Bank or Big Business cronies)?" asks Clothilde. "Also, to make private businesses the enforcers of these dictates –do as we say or we'll revoke your business permits –is blatant thuggery."
"When you consider that for most of the 20th century we were fighting against communist, fascist and other totalitarian regimes –and we’re currently fighting against the oppressive Taliban in Afghanistan (who denied their people the joy of music among other things)," says Clothilde, "it makes you wonder – I mean really wonder – about the hypocrisy of our politicians and the social contract they are supposed to uphold."
"Land of the free? Yeah, right!"
"Free to listen to music (as long as you don't disturb the neighbors) and free to show a bit of flesh in public (as long as you don't do a Janet Jackson), but don't you dare eat fatty foods, or smoke or drink or take recreational drugs or do anything vaguely entrepreneurial,” sneers Clothilde. “Instead, they force feed us their latest pharmaceutical snake-oil soma and tell us to have a nice day."
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Labels: Big Bank, Big Business, Big Oil, freedom, legislation, Pharma, prohibition, red tape, social contract
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