Big Brother Is A Mother

Here's a list of proposals by California lawmakers as given by the LA Times:

• Restrict the use of artery-clogging trans fat, common in fried and baked foods and linked to heart disease, in restaurants and school cafeterias.

• Bar smoking at state parks and beaches, and in cars carrying children.

• Open a savings account, seeded with $500, for every newborn Californian to use at 18 for college, a first home purchase or an investment for retirement.

• Fine dog and cat owners who don't spay or neuter their pets by 4 months of age.

• Require chain restaurants to list calorie, saturated fat and sodium content on menus.

• Phase out the sale of incandescent light bulbs, which are less energy-efficient than compact fluorescent bulbs.

The proposals are the brainchildren of Democratic legislators. Republicans, who say the sponsors are trying to parent the whole state, are having none of it.

"Could you imagine the founding fathers dealing with — I don't know — wearing a helmet when you're in the buggy?" said the Assembly's Republican leader, Mike Villines of Clovis.

"We all know you can't mandate behavior; it just does not work," he said. "It creates criminals of people for things that are not criminal behavior…. You can't legislate for stupidity."

Political scientists say legislative paternalism can be taken as a sign of economic success. It's "post materialist," said Bruce Cain, director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley, because such measures are about quality of life, not survival. Nota bene, this comes from Berkeley, California's Bedlam.

"These post-materialist concerns may be ahead of the curve," Cain said. "Some of the things we did that seemed kooky 20 years ago are now widely accepted."

Just because their widely accepted in places like Berkeley, does not mean they aren't still kooky. Berkeley and kooky are synonyms.

It's incredible that when it comes to protecting the public from terrorism, the liberals are the first to begin whining about the erosion of rights to privacy and freedom. Yet, to further their agenda they will intrude into what you eat, check your dog's genitals, watch to see who is in your car, if they're smoking, what kind of lightbulbs you have in your home etc. etc. etc. They have determined that the lifestyle you choose will be defined by them and that is vastly more important than protecting your life from their fellow lunatics worldwide.