republicans whining about government, part #integer overflow

Obtuse and overweight Wisconsin Republican Representative Jim Sensenbrenner has joined other prominent lardball/drug addicts like rush limbaugh and mike o'neal (just a quick google search to turn up others) in towing the party line that "government should not tell us what to eat".

where were these crusaders of freedom from government back in every year since 1894, when the USDA first began publishing food standards?

where was limbaugh when ronald reagan declared ketchup a vegetable?

the US government has been telling us what to eat for as long as i've been alive, and I wasn't born even close to 1894. but only now that we have a young, healthy first lady who is attempting to mildly address the obesity problem that is destroying our country, only now do republicans protest, or even notice, that the government offers guidelines on what to eat.

well, go ahead republicans, and sit on the couch with a tub of fried chicken. you know it's as unhealthy as michelle obama is telling you. you know that the size of her behind has not one whit of bearing on the substance of what she's saying, nor on the fact that she could effortlessly best you in the feat of strength of your choosing. you know what is good for you, and you know what is bad for you, but in your effort to stay with the herd, you go on ahead and eat junk in some insane effort to tweak michelle's nose.

where will it get you? you know that, too: a hospital bed, funded by medicare. that's right, eating junk food leads to socialism.

the republican war on healthy food, a wholly owned subsidiary of Big Food Inc., is nowhere more prominent than while traveling through airports. The total unavailability of reasonably healthy food in a major airport like DFW is an illustrative microcosm of where we're heading as a country. There's nothing to eat in DFW that wasn't made somewhere else and simply reheated there. The so-called salads are an afterthought full of wilted iceburg lettuce. McDonald's is thriving, offering the same greasy crap you can get anywhere but apparently, as an American traveler, can't go without for a week.

Where I live, and where I go by choice, I have the choice to eat crap, or eat healthy foods. But in places that are totally corporately controlled, like an American airport, or the Republican-dreamed future continent of the USA, there is no choice, only pre-packaged pre-processed Sysco extruded food-like-substances handed to you by massively obese unhappy teenagers.

I don't need food advice from healthy looking first ladies or from fat drug addled republicans. But for people in this country that do require food advice, it would be nice if the republican noise machine would stop talking about the first lady's ass (or arms, or thighs, or whatever they're obsessing about this week) and recognize that this country is heading into a culinary/health hellhole of soylent green and nothing else.