Last Monday dawned clear and bright in the nanny state of New York City. The newspaper brought word that the city's new health commissioner was working on ways to get residents to exercise more.
That same morning, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his latest assault on unhealthy behavior. By 2012, the mayor hopes "to lower the proportion of adults who drink one or more sugar-sweetened beverages each day by 20 percent."
Tuesday's news was about plans to forbid smoking outside at public parks and beaches.
The scariest part?
If the past pattern holds, initial gasps of outrage at such bureaucratic interference will sputter into acceptance, only emboldening yet greater intrusions by our Nanny government...
[Or, put another way {you knew it was coming}: 'They won't stop until stopped.'
Doing your part?]
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