THINK!!!

March 14, 2010
Sunday, 11:50 A.M.
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Last week, in my English 101 class, we had a spirited political discussion spurred on by "Zeit Geist", the movie. One of the issues brought up was the interference of the federal government in our lives. My own essay involved the government, in the guise of protector, promoting laws alien to our Constitution and easily slipping them by an unsophisticated, apathetic population. Listening to commercials over the past two or three weeks and hearing the subject brought up on one of the Sunday morning political discussion programs this morning, I am compelled to comment on the proposed soda tax the powers that be profess is in the interest of our "children" and their health. I am so sick of them and their balderdash! They are clearly stepping into our homes again, where they do not belong. Using our children has always been a key weapon in their arsenal because people are so malleable when it comes to their kids. They stop thinking and buy into the worst case scenarios being fed them. If soda and sweetened juices are going to affect the children's health, then parents, take note. Wise up and start feeding your children a healthier diet. Have we become so blindly dependent on the government to take care of us that we can't possibly come up with these solutions by ourselves?! Damn! It does NOT take a village to raise a child. It takes sensible, thinking, loving parents. That village quote comes from some African proverb, folks. They are starving in Africa. If my child is starving, I don't wait for the government and the village. I strap my baby on my back and I head out of there to find sustenance for my darling child. I will not stand by with the village watching him starve to death with all the other village children! I beg you to see, to listen, to investigate, to understand, to THINK!!