Mr. Williams makes a great point. Restricting personal (bad) habits or taxing consumer goods that some say create "a burden to society" may sound like a good idea, but people who feel this way are missing the big picture. The thing we really have to be wary of is the subtle, gradual usurpation of our freedoms, which is happening now, seemingly everywhere. I'm a non-smoker and I am in favor of smoking bans in public places, but I strongly support people's right to do themselves harm in whatever form that takes without government intervention, as long as that doesn't infringe on the rights of others. First the habit police, then the thought police. What next?

Dr. Williams,

Excellent article, however, you had left out just one point. If the federal government stayed within its Constiutional mandate, Medicare would not exsit and therefore the government would not have to worry about what effect our food choices would have on our health.

I quit smoking and gave up coffee at the same time ... and I've finally gotten lucid again.

I've gotten so lucid that I know how badly the American Public is being shook down by the Flim Flam Man at DNC under the banner of feel good consumerism.

Here's an IQ test:

While the Dems were screaming bloody murder about SSN going bankrupt, 'HOW MUCH' money did they demand that the USA give away to foreign tsunami victims? ... you know, like those grateful SOBs in Indonesia who declared Jihad on the USA over Danish cartoons.

And how much did we have left over for Katrina and the other disaters in the Gulf this year?

So, obviously, the Dems don't see a problem with wasting American tax dollars abroad because they can always get MUCH MORE from the same stupid voters, and still ignore SSN reform.

So who are the CSPI crowd? They and the DNC have one mission and one mission only ... to find more and better ways to rape your wallet and sell your soul all in the same package deal called 'feel good consumerism'.

The tobacco people only get a small fraction of the actual cost of a pack of cigs. The bulk of the price always was TAX added. Thanks to the tort lawyers the price is now way up, and the TAX money is going where??? Sure as hell not to SSN.

Same with the cost of gas at the pump. Most of the cost is TAX added. And where is all of that TAX money going? Sure as hell not to SSN.

There is no longer a reason for debating this in front of the American Public ... it is the time to ask the American People the all important question: JUST HOW STUPID ARE YOU???

Fixing SSN is easy. Lock it up so Congress can't get at it ... and it was LBJ who first raped SSN to foist off his Great Society Welfare Ghettos. Make it a manditory death sentence for any politician to even think about raping the fund again.

Next, apply means testing to Donald Trump, and anyone else who got wealthy enough to forfeit SSN.

But, most importantly, cut the foreign aid package in three parts:

One third goes right into SSN to help pay for all of those illegal aliens the Dems imported.

One third goes to countries who actually show some appreciation for the USA ... and none to those who keep spitting in our faces.

And one third is put in an interest drawing account to pay off the European and Japanese debt for us rebuilding their socialist cess-pit countries after WW2 ... it's not as if we HAD to do it, after all.

Too bad we cannot sue the CSPI (what a misnomer) for proposing restrictions on our freedom. Notice that they cannot (they won't even try) get their legislation passed through the democratic process. They must use the courts to have some black-robed tyrant to impose their will upon us.

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