McNanny State

Aren't we all excited that First Dietitian Michelle Obama is enthralled with the revamping of the McDonald's Happy Meal. French fries' portions are reduced. Out with the apple caramel dip and in with fresh apples. Why- because the consumers government decided it would be best. McMoochelle added "McDonald’s has continued to evolve its menu, and I look forward to hearing about the progress of today’s commitments, as well as efforts in the years to come.” Years to come? Banana split with no ice cream? Out with fruit juice boxes, in with wheat grass? McTofu Burger? 


Did I miss a phone call from Dr. Spock ? Last I recall, my Happy Meal aged kids never placed a single order. They were too busy launching themselves off the slide into the germ-filled ball pit while I let Sally know what I wanted. The government must think as parents we approach the counter and inquire, "Sally, can you help me out, I am a bit retarded with my pubic education and all. I am looking for a healthy choice--would you recommend to me the Sausage McCellulite or the bowl of Cheerios with a carton of milk?"

Let me be clear, I am a proponent of good eating choices. My wife can vouch that I don’t bring a shovel to the dinner table. She focuses our diet on REAL foods. We have two garden areas. My Colorado family will attest to my Healthy Choice dinners. I am aware of my height/weight proportions. It takes discipline, not governance.

What I am against is the spending of umpteen dollars by the destitute Federal 

government to influence and educate on us on areas we should have grasped as 2nd graders. I trust allocated funding by our States as well as our local school systems will be directed toward making wise decisions. There are passionate folks out there, ala Jamie Oliver and even a high school friend of mine who are committed to the cause. We do not need legislation mandating salt removal from restaurant tables, mandatory posting of nutrition content on drive-thru menu boards and a hypocritical First Lady trying to impose her ways on the fast food industry.

We get it---sugar-bad, salt-bad, fat- bad, couch potato-bad. We don’t need a 51^st state- McNanny. Can we get a compromise-- fried apple pie please.

More ridiculous waste. The USDA recently spent $2 million dollars (from the spare change drawer) to create this new food chart, also known as the Michelle Hierarchy of Feeds. Seriously, is this not ground-breaking? Let's create a PIE chart for healthy eating.Who would have known this without a $2 million dollar commitment! You could have offered that challenge up to a 2nd grader and offered a Ding Dong as a reward.

Government intervention in obesity prevention efforts has been an abysmal failure. Their biggest undertaking was the Nutrition Education and Label Act of 1990. Yes, nutrition labels began 21 years ago. America now ranks 9th amongst the Fattest Countries list with 74.1% of citizens over 15 years old being overweight. Wow- Americans don't read fine print--who would of thunk? I am a proud statistic, one too many Happy Meals growing up is where I place my blame.But let me guess, this will be the rhetorical response from the Left: "But Dave, if not for these efforts, we would probably ranked even higher". Yes, the same mentality that brought us the "jobs saved or created" figure Obama loves to boast about.

In closing and breaking off the wire, we have the first reaction of the new McDonald's change. Heart-breaking for Lil Johnny man.

Oh well, with the debt crisis about to bankrupt us as the two parties form their plans of deception, I am sure Happy Meals will be off limits to the family budget regardless.

President Scarecrow

When you know you have no solution and you know your economy continues its nosedive, who do you call-- CBS News. Yes, the Covering up Barack's Screwups network quickly accommodated his request to run cover for him, as per usual.

Yesterday, during the interview, President Barack Insane Obama stated the following: "Well this is not just a matter of Social Security checks, these are veterans checks, these are folks on disability, their checks. There are about 70 million checks that go out --I can not guarantee those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it".

Translation: "Nice Social Security check you have there, it would be a shame if something happened to it".

When all else fails, let's play the "scare" card. Let's pick winners and losers. Let's take hostages. Let's have class wars. Sound familiar? Can you say "Stimulus", "Obamacare" or "Bailout". When you are a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the Chicago School of Thuggery, that is all you have left to play. Your arrogance King Obama will be your undoing.

Here is a simple look at the Treasury's forecasted revenue for August:
Income- $172 billion.
Expenses- $307 billion.

Monthly Line Items-
Medicare/caid- $50 billion
Social Security- $49 billion
Military Troop Pay- $3 billion
(Remaining obligations)- $205 billion (Yes, a whole different blog post, but let's move on).

$102 billion for those 3 line items with $172 billion forecasted revenue. ANY DECISION TO NOT PAY THESE FOLKS RESTS AT THE HANDS OF ONE BARACK INSANE OBAMA!

And while you are busy with your scare-a-thon, stop food stamps and welfare checks. Let the parasite class the Liberal agenda has been cultivating know the harsh reality of a bankrupt government for a few months and then ask them if they now favor working out solutions.

I know personally of two blog commenters and my airport shuttle driver who got frantic calls from their parents as they heard this come out of the President's orifice. Even today, at a Senate Hearing, to alleviate concerns from the masses, the head of the Treasury Dept. had to state "Unless the President is making this a political decision, there will be money on Aug. 3rd to pay entitlements".

Just this morning, a Gallup poll confirmed: 42% of American OPPOSE RAISING THE DEBT CEILING while 19% favor raising it--so of course, President Contrarian supports what the people oppose (see Obamacare). As to the other 1/3 polled, they had no opinion-- they were probably too busy looking for their next meal to focus on such trivial issues.

No surprise today also from a Rasmussen poll , Election 2012- Generic Republican 48%, Obama 43%. That's right, a ticket of SpongeBob Squarepants/Moldy Loaf of Bread boots out Comrade Obama.

Maybe after yesterday's quote, Americans will finally wake up. Your Social Security and Medicaire payments that you so diligently paid into the system never went to the lock box. Your military contract has no value. If that doesn't concern you, maybe losing your tax-free/deferred status of your 401s, 403, IRA's will-- that is the final pot of gold the Kleptocrat Party will be after next, MARK MY WORDS!

Serial liar. Could I despise him less? I submit that I cannot.

556 days.

Serial Liar..

When Twit-in-Chief had his self-promoting, staged Twitter Town Hall, he commented the following:

"We froze federal pay for federal workers for two years.  Now, that wasn’t real popular, as you might imagine, among federal workers.  On the other hand, we were able to do that precisely because we wanted to prevent layoffs and we wanted to make sure that we sent a signal that everybody is going to have to make some sacrifices, including federal workers. By the way, people who work in the White House, they’ve had their pay frozen since I came in, our high-wage folks.  So they haven’t had a raise in two and a half years".

Fact Numero Uno: Across the board Federal pay freezes went into effect January 2011, Obama began office January 2009. See link. Raises banned in 2009 were only for those making $100, 000 or more, not for everyone, as Obama cites.

Fact Numero Dos: 75% of all White House staffers got raises in the 2009-2010 time frame.See link.

Fact Numero Tres: 54% of all White House staffers enjoyed raises from 2010-2011. See link here and here.

There you go, The Obama Lie-fecta!

How about this year? Oh yeah, Obama's "zero" has been rounded up to 1.4 million. PATHETIC.

When the White House was asked by a conservative blogger to respond to their own statistical data which is available to the public (and was contrary to what Obama said), they stated "Pay increases were given for a variety of reasons, ranging from promotions to additional responsibilities". So once again, Pres. Obamaurkel deprives us of the facts. A more credible response would have been "no one at the White House received a pay increases, unless they deserved it, or sometimes even when they didn’t, or because we changed their job title or because we gave them a few more tasks. Otherwise, absolutely no one got a raise".

I remember when the media assured us that everything the President (Bush) said was a lie, even when it wasn’t, and explained to us that this was because he was so stupid. But now they assure us that everything the President (Obama) says is the truth, even when it isn’t, and explain to us that it is because he is so brilliant. Once again, the mainstream media nowhere to be found. Well, excuse me, they have been beside themselves with the one thing that they believe matters most to Americans-- THEY FOUND CASEY INNOCENT! 

The fact is since Obama bamboozled 52% of the American populace. White House employees have averaged an 8% annual raise where the private sector has suffered at less than 3%.

I am demanding an Obama pay-freeze from my employer this year!