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As my kids would say: OMG!

The US govt is pushing further and further to the left as it advances its goal of quashing anything resembling the nation of our Fathers.

Our govt wants to tax everything some office pogue considers "unhealthy," from sodas to smokes to my favorite cranberry juice. Even worse yet, the people are following along like happy little sheep. "Well, you should see how many carbs are in that cranberry juice. Those are translated directly to sugar and then to fat." As though that makes it OK for the feds to tax me extra for drinking the stuff. All in the name of "fixing health care."

Does health care really need to be fixed? Many nations on this planet have tried government health care. NONE have succeeded. There is no evidence that the govt that brought us the continuously bankrupt Amtrak, the never-has-enough-money postal service, the broken bring-your-lawyer-if-you-want-benefits Social Security Administration, and the FCC, FDA, DHS, and much more can fix health care. There is one thing our government does well and that's defend our nation. But that works solely because of the great men and women in uniform working under the framework of our outstanding Constitution.

"But we have to get health care costs down!" But the fed does not pay the bulk of health care costs. In fact, it's the fed's involvement that has driven up the costs of electricity, gas, smokes (I am not a smoker), booze, cars, land ownership, and almost everything else. And again, what makes any sane person think the feds can do better with health care? As though it is any of their Constitutionally-granted business!

It's not just the US. Check out this article from Belgium. They want to tax backyard barbecues! It seems each cooking session emits a few grams of CO2. So they want to charge $27 for the backyard chef to turn cow flesh to cinders.

But wait! There's more! The Belgium govt will fly HELICOPTERS with CO2 sensors to police the barbecues. I wonder if they will be able to adjust those sensors to ignore the half a ton of carbon the helicopters themselves emit sniffing out those few unlicensed grams!

The whole CO2 thing seems, more and more, to be a cynical ruse to BS the people into calmly accept governmental meddling and eventual control of our individual lives. They are not only pushing hard on the CO2 thing (as though CO2 is not a rare trace gas that is essential for our biosphere), but they are sweating our fat as well. There is no way on this sweet planet that my weight is the fed's concern! There is no allowance for that in the US nor the many states' constitutions for this unholy intrusion!