Category archive: Nanny State
Ruling Class Alchemy
By Chuck Roger • September 27th, 2011 12:00 am
by Chuck Rogér Routing other people’s money through the government alchemy machine is supposed to somehow magnify national wealth and income, while leaving it in the pockets of those who earned it is somehow a drag. This priceless statement by economist/historian Lawrence Reed accurately encapsulates the attitude of big-government money launderers. The most visible of [...]
Food Totalitarians on Parade – Part Deux
By Chuck Roger • July 29th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Well that didn’t take long. Yesterday, in a post discussing a New York Times op-ed that called for heavy taxation on “unhealthy” foods, I asked, “How long before some starry-eyed but angry-faced Democrat proposes legislation to force ‘healthy food’ advertising?” Now The Daily Caller reports that food producers [...]
Food Totalitarians on Parade
By Chuck Roger • July 28th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Within the last few years, we have been treated to attempts by government to control our food intake with regulatory “nudges” and legislative edicts. Sugar, salt, trans-fats, fats in general, fast foods, and school lunches are just a few ingredients and food types which have come under assault [...]
Charles Schumer’s Call for Government Censorship
By Chuck Roger • May 20th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér At a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Democrat Senator Charles Schumer badgered witnesses from Apple and Google to comply with his demand to censor cellphone software that the Senator considers objectionable because those apps warn users of DUI checkpoints. Schumer’s official demand is that “Apple, Android, Blackberry, and others… remove smart-phone apps that [...]
New HHS Plan for Health Redistribution
By Chuck Roger • April 13th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, April 12, 2011 By Chuck Rogér Can government make all people equally healthy? The U.S. Health and Human Services Department has announced a new plan aimed at doing precisely that. The HHS “action plan” will allegedly “reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities.” A “health disparity” is defined as “a [...]
American Indians Putting Faith in Government ‘Help’? (Follow Up)
By Chuck Roger • April 11th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér I previously called attention to a New Mexico state government measure aimed at reducing teen depression and suicide in Indian communities, pointing to two tragic aspects of the situation. First, the high suicide rate attests to social problems endemic in Indian communities. But the second tragedy is even worse, for it compounds the [...]
American Indians Putting Faith in Government ‘Help’?
By Chuck Roger • March 30th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér Originally in American Thinker, March 29, 2011 In New Mexico’s state capitol, a local newspaper reports that Santa Fe Indian School students are “watching with bated breath” for Governor Susana Martinez to sign a bill that would create “culturally sensitive programs” designed “to help Native American communities deal with teen suicides.” The [...]
Enter the USDA, to Rescue Americans From… Something
By Chuck Roger • March 23rd, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, February 12, 2010. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced an initiative of a type which has never succeeded in the history of civilization: centralized government planning. Espousing the unsubstantiated belief that CO2-induced “climate change” is already reducing food and lumber crop yields, the USDA now claims the ability to use [...]
The nanny state shifts into turbo drive: FDA wants dominion over our food choices
By Chuck Roger • November 30th, 2010 1:38 am
Democrat Chuck Schumer recently hailed an FDA ruling that the senator proclaimed “should be the nail in the coffin of… dangerous and toxic drinks.” Schumer has been urging the Obama administration to ban beverages that combine caffeine and alcohol. The funny thing is that there is absolutely no proof whatsoever that combining caffeine and alcohol [...]
Rejection intensifies progressive arrogance
By Chuck Roger • November 16th, 2010 2:05 am
Observe. Most Democrats are dismissing Tuesday’s results as little more than a complaint about the weak economy. When the economy returns to a healthy pace of expansion, as it eventually will, they think their reformist programme [sic] will be popular again – as it was, these Democrats point out, in 2008. This is half-right at [...]
Big government nannies this way cometh
By Chuck Roger • October 26th, 2010 2:18 am
A recent post on NBC’s Philadelphia area website documents a proposed Upper Moreland Township law that would make it illegal to leave a car unlocked in public. Why? Because Northeastern big government liberals are looking out for the people. About three-quarters of thefts of items from cars in the area are committed on unlocked vehicles. [...]
Gaia squealing in delight
By Chuck Roger • October 1st, 2010 2:37 am
All-knowing government bureaucrats will tell us what household appliances we will be allowed to use. This is not a bad joke. This is a bad reality. Assistant Energy Secretary Cathy Zoi is overjoyed about her U.S. Department of Energy “mandate” to order Americans to use only certain household appliances. In fact, let’s allow Zoi to [...]
Nanny state cometh; woops… she’s here
By Chuck Roger • August 2nd, 2010 3:49 am
Abusive bosses or coworkers–most of us have come across the unpleasantness of workplace bullying to some extent, directly or indirectly. In Time magazine, Adam Cohen points out: Worker abuse is a widespread problem—in a 2007 Zogby poll, 37% of American adults said they had been bullied at work—and most of it is perfectly legal. Workers [...]
Federal Obese Police want to collect data, that’s all… yeah, that’s it, just collect data
By Chuck Roger • May 21st, 2010 9:06 pm
If passed by Congress, a new bill would require private health care providers to measure the “body mass index” (BMI) of 2-18 year-old patients and report the data to state governments who must report the data to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for analysis. Such a law would be problematic. The probability [...]
Big nanny knows best… and will manipulate your behavior to force her wisdom on you
By Chuck Roger • April 27th, 2010 9:39 pm
The Washington Post reports: The government intends to work with the food industry and health experts to reduce sodium gradually over a period of years to adjust the American palate to a less salty diet, according to FDA sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the initiative had not been formally announced. Call me [...]
Inside the mind of a control-every-aspect-of-everyone’s-life nanny-state progressive
By Chuck Roger • April 21st, 2010 9:40 pm
People are getting larger–horizontally. In “We need bold action to slow obesity’s march,” Michael Skapinker at Financial Times writes: Modern life… with its sedentary jobs and ubiquitous food offerings, conspired to make us fat. People’s behaviors don’t make them large, “modern life” does–through a conspiracy, no less. But Skapinker isn’t the story here. The story [...]
Obamacare’s destruction of wealth begins
By Chuck Roger • March 29th, 2010 9:53 pm
The Wall Street Journal points out that AT&T has announced a $1 billion writedown due to the legal requirements of the Democrat monstrosity of “health care reform.” The WSJ calls the AT&T action part of “a wave of such corporate losses.” Perhaps that explains why the Administration is now so touchy. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke [...]
The right to have a cell phone
By Chuck Roger • January 25th, 2010 11:45 pm
Latest available taxpayer figures, for 2005, show a bit more than 134 million taxpayers in the United States. The total population was over 300 million at the time, but only 45% paid net federal income taxes. The remaining either got all their withholding refunded to them and did fine on their own, or hung onto the [...]
Nanny scolds us for using too much salt
By Chuck Roger • January 11th, 2010 12:05 am
From the New York Times: First New York City required restaurants to cut out trans fat. Then it made restaurant chains post calorie counts on their menus. Now it wants to protect people from another health scourge: salt. NYC is pushing a “plan,” which officials claim has backing from “health agencies” across the country, to [...]
Congress set to pass law controlling how we pick our noses
By Chuck Roger • December 27th, 2009 12:16 am
The House has passed a bill demanding that the volume of loud television advertisements be turned down. Rumor has it that other helpful laws are forthcoming. All-caring, all-knowing politicians have plans to set how we tie our shoes, the maximum temperature at which we may serve food, the tanginess of toothpaste, the gripping power for [...]
Ideological silliness knows no bounds
By Chuck Roger • December 12th, 2009 2:08 am
Ideological nastiness lives at both ends of the sociopolitical spectrum — right and left. North Carolina’s ban on atheists holding public office is an insult to clear thinking and deters clear thinkers from associating with the religious right. North Carolina needs to grow up. Supporters of the constitutional ban on atheists are behaving no differently from [...]
