Los Angeles to Limit Fast Food Restaurants…for Our Own Good

As America gets fatter, policymakers are seeking creative approaches to legislating health. They may have entered the school cafeteria — and now they’re eyeing your neighborhood.

  That is how this article starts. I still can’t figure out how the government has decided that they get to tell us what to eat, drink, and put into our bodies. If I want a big, juicy, mouthwatering hamburger I will have it. If my children want the same, I will decide if they should have it. I don’t need the government telling me what I can eat, or what I can let my children eat. What makes them think they have this right? They think they have it because they have been slowly but surely taken this right without the public seemingly aware of the encroachment the government is perpetrating on the American people. So, in this respect I guess they do have the right. I mean, if Americans aren’t even aware enough to see what is going on, why shouldn’t the government come in and save us from our own bad behavior? After all, it’s for our own good. isn’t it? Americans seem all to willing to let the government regulate all these industries that they have no right to. It isn’t until the government steps on one of THEIR so-called vices that they get angry. By that time it is too late.

Los Angeles officials, among others around the country, are proposing to limit new fast-food restaurants — a tactic that could be called health zoning.

  Why does it always seem these stories come out of California?

“The people don’t want them, but when they don’t have any other options, they may gravitate to what’s there,” said Councilwoman Jan Perry, who proposed the ordinance in June, and whose district includes portions of South L.A. that would be affected by the plan.

  A little supply and demand lesson here: The above quote states that people don’t want fast food restaurants, so they have to limit them. That makes absolutely no sense, simple supply and demand tells us that if people don’t want something(demand) than that said something will first cheapen it’s prices, and if that doesn’t work go away on it’s own. So why then do they feel the need to limit something they feel people don’t want anyway? It’s a simple matter of control, that is the only explanation I can come up with. Instead of letting the free market take care of itself they need to take care of it for our own good. And let’s not forget the tax aspect of this, once they deem a behavior bad for you they have a way of taxing the hell out of it.

  This appears to be yet another attack on capitalism by the left, diguising it as legislating our health habits for our own good, even though they have no right to tell us what to eat. And what does the left do to the evil capitalists? They tax them and redistribute the money to whom they deem worthy. This is socialism hidden in their protect-the-American-people-from-their-own-stupid-ways mantra that all to many Americans seem to be falling for.