Dear Editor,
The Nanny State is on the rise but it is really for the people’s own good. How can someone expect to make good choices when evil corporations are pushing dangerous products on the market just to make a profit? The simple solution is for the Nanny State to use the awesome power of government to make life happier, healthier and safer. Put them in charge of the food supply.
The Nanny State wants to make sure the homogenized (as well as subsidized) milk and well-inspected meats are as pure as possible. No more scary E. coli spinach or evil trans fats to make people die horribly. No, no, no! They will see to it that all the food is healthy.
They will also let poor foreigners searching for a better life cross the border to pick the food for very little money to keep labor costs down. Why shouldn’t they benefit from the Nanny State too?
And while they are at it, let the Nanny State use feed corn to fuel vehicles. This is a great way to cut down on pollution. Okay, so it takes $1.50 to grow the corn, protect it from insects, fertilize, harvest, ship and process it into a dollar’s worth of usable ethanol. It’s good for the environment.
Besides, just because there is a wheat shortage and prices are way up because farmers get a higher subsidized rate for corn doesn’t mean anything. What else would the corn be wasted on, anyway, feeding cows, chickens and hungry people in Africa?
The Nanny State is here to save the people from foreclosure on houses. They were obviously pressured into spending too much money by greedy bankers and real estate agents. No one should lose their home simply because they were tricked by low sub-prime loans.
Who really reads all those little words in the mortgage contract, anyway? And what if that house is destroyed by mean old Mother Nature? Everyone is in good hands with the Nanny State.
If someone wants to spend money on eating out, cell phones and cable instead of health insurance, fine. The Nanny State will be more than happy to take that over, too. Never mind 86 percent of the people manage to afford health insurance already, let the Nanny State run the hospitals and the doctor’s offices. Everyone will benefit from the same excellent healthcare our veterans and senior citizens currently enjoy. The paperwork will be minimal.
People need the Nanny State to help them save money for retirement, and please don’t allow anyone to voluntarily control how 2 percent of that money is invested to perhaps get a bigger yield.
Let the Nanny State educate children. With just a little more money they can fix all the problems and make every child smarter by lowering the bar when it gets too hard.
Vouchers to make Nanny State schools compete with snooty private schools simply are not necessary. The Nanny State thinks everyone should stop smoking.
Smoking is a dirty, dangerous habit, so the clever Nanny State increases the price of cigarettes in order to fund programs to help people stop smoking.
Eventually those stubborn folks won’t be able to afford to smoke and be forced to quit. Well, thanks to the Nanny State, there are fewer places to smoke now anyway.
The Nanny State sure does take care of poor people, too! Why get a job when everything is taken care of. Sure the neighborhood is a little run down, but only a fool would give up all that free help.
Besides, there are all those aforementioned foreigners to do those jobs, anyway. Only skeptics and unenlightened elitists would oppose the wonderful benefits of the Nanny State. As for the cost .
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.” Thomas Jefferson
– G. Michael Thomas

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