Fred Pwns Health Nazi Nanny Staters

Damn right Fred! Good answer to a good question.  Fred was making a campaign stop at a southern kitchen type restaurant, and got asked about what he thought about Nanny State efforts to control what people ate.  He said,

"I'm telling you, I don’t think that it’s the primary responsibility of the federal government to tell you what to eat," Thompson said to applause when asked if his health care plan included any details on preventative care, a priority for Democratic candidates.

"The fact of the matter is we got an awful lot of knowledge,” said the former Tennesse senator. “Sometimes we don’t have a whole lot of will power, and I don’t know of any government program that's going to instill that."

Thompson, ever a fan of small government, said healthy living should be the responsibilities of families first.

"We shouldn’t be looking at the federal government in Washington first and working our way down, it ought to be just the other way around. With that, or whether you're talking about education, there's some things the federal government can't do,"

Perfect, my only quibble is with the writer of the piece, its not just Democrats that favor this brand of Nannying, Huckabee does too.  Fred wasn't just talking to liberals there.

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