Senior Center Bans Free Doughnuts, Seniors Protest

  This is what senior citizens at the William Koehler Memorial Senior Center in New York resorted to when they were basically told that they didn’t know what was good for them.

  The protest started when the center decided not to accept free doughnuts for the seniors because they are bad for you. I love the sign on the left of the picture, we are old enough to chose. While he may believe that he is old enough to choose, the truth is that the liberals in government never believe you are old enough to take care of yourself. Now this way of thinking is creeping into other organizations. It is becoming a mindset, and people don’t even realize it. The government decides that it is their duty to regulate trans-fats and the next thing you know our senior citizens are being denied doughnuts.

  Here are a couple of examples of some of the other signs the protesters wore:

“Give Us Our Just Desserts” and “They’re Carbs, Not Contraband.”

The average age of the protesters was 76. You would think that by the time someone reaches 76 they would be allowed to decide for themselves what they want to eat.

At issue is a decision to refuse free doughnuts, pies and breads that were being donated to senior centers around Putnam County, north of New York City. Officials were concerned that the county was setting a bad nutritional precedent by providing mounds of doughnuts and other sweets to seniors.

The picketers said they were objecting not to a lack of sweets but that they weren’t consulted about the ban.

“Lack of respect is what it’s all about,” said Joe Hajkowski, 75, a former labor union official who organized the demonstration. He said officials had implied that seniors were gorging themselves on jelly doughnuts and were too senile to make the choice for themselves.

C. Michael Sibilia said, “I’m 86, not 8.”

  Not everyone was upset that the doughnuts were taken away. I mentioned earlier that there was a mindset creeping into society that the government knows what is good for us and therefor the government has the right to regulate industries that the government really has no buisness in.The following comment by a woman at the center is what I am talking about.

“It was disgusting the way people went after them,” said 80-year-old Rita Jorgensen. “I think the senior center did them a favor by taking it away.”

  While this was not the government denying the doughnuts, it does show you how the mindset has creeped into people’s minds. Local governments have started banning trans-fats and because the government has decided to regulate them, people begin to blindly follow. This senior center decided not to accept free doughnuts because they believe that doughnuts are bad for you. And the woman above follows along blindly also. Just look at what she said, “the center did them a favor”. Because she has decided not to eat doughnuts, she feels everyone else should give them up.

  Typical liberal.

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