In a measure to control childhood obesity, the Californian Board of Supervisors today banned toys in Happy Meals that do not meet the new nutritional standards. The move also effects any other fast food restaurant that serves toys with meals that do not meet these standards. If you ask me, these are not "standards" but efforts to control what we eat based on someone else's opinion. This is a ridiculous move. And obesity or not, anyone voting for something like this should be voted right out of office immediately!
This is nothing more than an act that takes our government one step closer to socialism. Why should our government at any level, Federal - State - City - Town, be allowed to control what we put in our stomaches. Honestly, it is bad enough that we allow them to control the other things we put in our bodies, such as medications/drugs. It should not be up to one person to dictate what another person does with their body so long as what they are doing does not effect that other person. And in the case of McDonalds and their Happy Meals they are not hurting anyone. They are in no way forcing you to purchase this particular meal. There are many more cases of companies and other organizations actually forcing people to do things such as pay ridiculous fees or submit to unnecessary tests in order to gain their services.
Take the example of a Doctors office and your medical records. The records a Doctors office holds of your care are your records. Should you want to have these records sent to another office or take the records or a copy of the records for your own safekeeping, the office can choose to charge you an unorthodox fee in order to gain access to the records. Or just flat out deny your access all together. Why can't the government step in there? Or in many of the various other cases of wrong doing happening all over the country? Of course not, because they would rather waste their time and our tax money to regulate how we eat or better yet, how we feed our children.
So back to the law being enforced in San Francisco. The new Lt. Governor who was previously the Mayor stated in his election speech that he would veto the new law. But apparently his veto will be pointless because I guess with the vote being 8-3 in favor of the law, the Board can override his veto! It is sad that in a country where we cannot pass unemployment for the people who really need it but we can surely protect the rich from paying a little more in taxes that a silly little cheap-ass toy that comes with a burger and fries is seen as a problem. A problem that we have to make a law for and we have to teeter on socialism for. Our for-fathers would be rolling in their graves if they were alive today and could see what is happening.
