Limiting Choices

[icenine]

Well I was sort of joking Bhunter....however just because someone works for the government does not mean he or she is not an individual. I have read Hannah Arendt's book also (back in graduate school).

I do not like to paint people with too broad a brush if I can help it...sometimes it leads to what Arendt was talking about.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by bhunter

The problem is who ought make these decisions: government bureaucrats or individuals. Do you enjoy being nudged along like cattle being prodded? I find it dehumanizing and morally repugnant, thus, the notion that the best government is one that doesn't entwine itself in the lives of citizens.

No. Not at all. Not when the nudgers are.......RIGHT.

It's the idiots who get in the way of the necessary "nudging", then bitch about problems never getting solved that irritate the hell out of me. If you think about it, "nudging" is the very nature of leadership, something we accuse our leaders of not doing.......Leading, that is.

[icenine]

By the way Bhunter government mandated compulsory education nudged you into the very literate person that you are, and even if your old man sent yout to a private institution government nudging has made me intelligent enought to understand your very lucid posts advocating from what I can deduct is a very libertarian view of life or what life should be.

[finnbow]

I heard the cost of childhood obesity in the US is now edging up on $200 billion/year, almost 10% of all healthcare spending.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/09...ity/index.html

With the garbage that the American food industry manufactures and markets, it's no friggin' wonder.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I heard the cost of childhood obesity in the US is now edging up on $200 billion/year, almost 10% of all healthcare spending.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/09...ity/index.html

With the garbage that the American food industry manufactures and markets, it's no friggin' wonder.

Yes, yes, but the parents of these pre-adult plumpers have a constitutional right to feed their piglets Suzy-Qs and Coca Cola, breakfast, lunch and dinner, then drag them into the emergency room when junior goes into insulin shock.

Didn't you know that? It's right there in Article.....ummmm, uhhhh.......Hold on, I'll get back to you.....

It's such wonderful freedoms that make America exceptionally unhealthy and inefficient. And, we should never suggest doing anything to change our exceptionalism now, should we? God forbid. Why the teabaggers would crap themselves.

Dave

[wgrr]

I saw three kids sitting on a concrete picnic table today in a park I was driving by. I would have to say they were risking their lives because the table looked like it was going to collapse. Their combined weight had to be close to 1000 pounds. They were huge. On kid was holding a basketball. What do they do with the ball, hide a bucket of KFC chicken, with a side order of McDonalds double quarter pounders in it?

WTF is wrong with their parents. These kids need to be on the fat farm before they die at the age of 16.

[Wasillaguy]

I'm certain if we just pass some more laws, our problems will all be solved. I mean, they've been passing laws pretty much non-stop since this country was founded, and just look, things keep getting better and better.

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

I'm certain if we just pass some more laws, our problems will all be solved. I mean, they've been passing laws pretty much non-stop since this country was founded, and just look, things keep getting better and better.

Things are a helluva lot better now than they were in the Gilded Age. Lets just hope that we don't revert to unfettered capitalism. I still have more faith in the rule of law than in the invisible hand of the market.

Regards,

D-Ray

[Wasillaguy]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

Things are a helluva lot better now than they were in the Gilded Age. Lets just hope that we don't revert to unfettered capitalism. I still have more faith in the rule of law than in the invisible hand of the market.

Regards,

D-Ray

I guess so, unless you're talking about real wages, GDP, world power, capital formation, wealth, growth in industry, growth in exports, etc.
At least now the unions try to hide their illegal and violent activities behind shell organizations, like OWS. That's better I suppose.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

I guess so, unless you're talking about real wages, GDP, world power, capital formation, wealth, growth in industry, growth in exports, etc.
At least now the unions try to hide their illegal and violent activities behind shell organizations, like OWS. That's better I suppose.

Mbwaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahehehehe. Read a history book instead of some bloggers blowfly interpetation and you might get some traction