I know the vast majority of us have never had a nanny. It seems, however, that our government is trying to fill that void we had in our lives while growing up.
The government wants to dictate what we eat when we dine out. My family and I watch our calories at home but when we have the treat of a restaurant dinner at a nice place, we don't want to menu to cut back on prime ingredients or spell out to us that we are splurging. Nor should restaurants be chastised because they use rich ingredients. The restaurants do not lay in wait for us and then drag us in by the hair and force food down our throats. They expect us to be mature and grown up about paying our bills and taxes yet go nanny state on us about what we want to put on our dinner plates.
I heard about a school forbidding bake sales with those fatty cupcakes we all grew up and enjoyed. Nope, now they want granola bars and carrot sticks. Don't even mentione using pizza for fun raising.
We are all more than aware that the government is currently taking over how we receive our medical treatment and deciding for us whether we can or cannot have treatment. Don't want to waste taxpayer money on . . . tax payers?
The current light bulb situation is crazy. One hundred watt bulbs have been outlawed and we have to use those silly curly bulbs in order to save the environment. Two problems they don't seem to want to address:
The 'curly' bulbs have a flicker and I believe it is in England, they have found it can be a problem for children and people suseptible to seizures. These people now have to get a 'prescription' to buy the old-style bulbs! Also, if you break one of the new bulbs, you are exposed to high levels of mercury. Our brave, new world!
There are even medications that are deemed too expensive even though the use of them would cut back on medical treatment. Has anyone in the government ever taken a financial course or learned to use a checking account?
When I worked in the bank, it was back when the first debit cards came out. One of the bank officer's came storming in, one day, and was VERY upset to discover his wife thought the debit card meant she could use it for any and everything not realizing it tied into her checking account balance. Seems this woman's mindset has taken over the financial brains of our 'ruling class' as they like to borrow without a chance of paying back and then just 'charge' some more.
Makes me wonder how we are going to teach our children how to manage finances when the government will tax it away from them immediately and then our children will have to borrow against an empty bank accoutn.
