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« Tennessee Trial Lawyers Dump Lobbyist at Center of Briley Scandal | Main | Cell Journalist Announces Ohio Deal » October 23, 2007Liberal Government = Less FreedomWant to know what you get when you put nanny-state liberals in charge? You get less freedom. Today's example comes from Los Angeles, where some nanny-state libs on the city council want to put a "moratorium" - a ban - on the opening of new fast-food restaurants in a poor area of town where the poor people are getting too fat.
The plan is to hold off on any new ones while city planners try to find ways to attract restaurants with a wider variety of food offerings to neighborhoods with some of the city's largest concentrations of minority and low-income residents.There's no proposal to limit the restaurant choices of the well-to-do in Los Angeles, mind you, this proposal would only limit choice - freedom - for the city's largest concentrations of minority and low-income residents. In the name of protecting them, of course. That's what nanny-state liberalism does - it limits your freedom under the guise of helping you. Critics say the efforts are misguided, particularly in inner-city neighborhoods where affordable food may be the biggest concern of some families, and where a safe place to play and exercise is more important than new restaurants."Dictating to other groups of people what they should eat or want to eat is about the most patronizing kind of activity I can imagine," says Barry Glassner, professor of sociology at the University of Southern California, whose campus is located in South L.A.Instead of patronizing the poor and trying to dictate what they eat, the nanny-state liberals ought to reflect on why they are poor. Most of the root causes of their poverty - from lousy public schools to limited employment opportunities thanks to Big Government's confiscatory tax rates and heavy-handed regulatory structure - trace back to liberal government. But rather than address those issues in order to revive the economic prospects of the poor in Los Angeles, so that they can earn more money and their neighborhoods can attract more-upscale restaurants serving healthier fare, the liberals of Los Angeles propose to saddle the community with more regulation and less freedom - choices that will also mean fewer jobs in the community. Freedom in America used to mean the freedom to make your own choices, good or bad, and reap the rewards or pay the consequences. But these days nanny-state liberals define freedom a little differently: it's the right of nanny-state libs to take your money through high taxes, and spend it on regulating your choices so that you don't make what they think are the wrong choices, for your own good as liberals define it. But it is nanny-state liberalism itself that is the wrong choice. Bigger government = smaller freedom. Posted in America the Beautiful
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Excellent analysis! I'll have to remember to link. Posted by: Ron at October 24, 2007 7:21 AMPost a comment
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