Alphecca

Vermont to Ban Trans-Fats?

Sen. Kevin Mullin, R-Rutland is another of those jerks that can't seem to keep out of people's lives. He wants us all living in a "nanny-state." He actually thinks that We The People want government to make all of our choices for us and wipe our ass when we get up from the toilet. I say this because now he wants government to regulate and micromanage our diets. Like other control-freaks before him -- NYC Mayor Michael Blowhard comes to mind, -- he wants to BAN trans fat in Vermont restaurants. From the Times Argus:

Vermont could follow in New York City's footsteps in passing legislation that would ban restaurants and other eateries from preparing and serving food that contains trans fats.

Sen. Kevin Mullin, R-Rutland, has proposed a bill that would prohibit Vermont restaurants from using the saturated fat, which doctors say clogs arteries and greatly increases the chance of heart attacks or strokes, starting on July 1.

Mullin said he was inspired to sponsor the bill after New York City passed a law banning the use of the saturated fat late last year. He said the fat, which doctors say has no health benefits, would help reduce medical costs in the state.

"This could translate into a huge cost savings for Vermont down the road," Mullin said Friday. "We're looking at ways to reduce the cost of health care, and exercise and eating right, including not eating food with trans fats, are part of that."

Hey, Mullin, get the hell out of our lives. Take all of your endless rules and regulations and bans and move to fucking Singapore or Syria or China where an over-reaching state is appreciated?

See folks, little Hitlers like Mullin don't believe in freedom, including the freedom to eat unhealthy food if a free person so desires. And of course, with tyrants like Mullin, there can never be any half-way measures. Leave something up to market forces? God forbid! The people must be protected from themselves at all cost, until we're all living in rubber-rooms.

Oh, we could save "health care money" down the road? What a crock of shit as any insurance actuary will tell you. The people who live the longest generally cost the health care system the most.

But even if that's not true, it doesn't matter. The pursuit of happiness and a life of liberty, of freedom, comes with some costs and that includes the costs of being stupid if that's what some folks choose.

Notice, by the way, that all the statehouse assholes in Vermont (and other states) want to ban everything except alcohol? Alcohol costs society more, in terms of illness, crime, accidents, lost work, domestic abuse, and death by auto than almost any other factor in our lives. So how come schmucks like Mullin aren't calling for Vermont to become a "dry" state? Because they're fucking HYPOCRITES. They know that it didn't work and it won't work and there'd be a rebellion. Not only that, they like to drink booze themselves.

So instead they go after the little stuff they can control, like trans-fats. They chip away at our freedom to choose. A little fleck here, a chip there. Before you know it, we're all living in THX-1138 or some other horror movie where the government tells us how many breaths to take every minute of the day. That's how they handled smoking in bars. They could have simply required that restaurants either allow it or not allow it, state that in the window and in ads, and let the customers decide. Instead -- Ban it! Don't let restaurants and their patrons decide for themselves because the government must make all decisions for you.

That's my one big gripe with Vermont; even the Republicans act like a bunch of limp-wristed leftists who need to control-freak everyone's lives. This state needs a serious shot of testosterone in the Capital, with men who still act like men. Ironic, isn't it? It takes someone like me to point that out.

Back when I served on the planning commission of my town, time-and-again me and another member lost votes because we supported the rights of property owners over that of the other liberal jerks on the board. Sometime I'll have to tell you why Fairlee still doesn't have high-speed DSL available.

Back then, friends thought I should be running for (local, state) representative. But in the real world, who the hell has time to get away from their day jobs for three months a year? And so we wind-up with crap like Mullin. On the bright side, over a thousand people, many of them Vermonters, visit Alphecca every single day. Mullin might have a tough time in the next election.