Have you heard that the FDA is being urged by "experts" to regulate the amount of salt in packaged foods. WHAT? Yep, the government wants into your kitchen. Yet another of the thousands of intrusions made into our daily lives in a country whose founders insisted that the government stay out of such matters.
I thought I had an unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I want a life with salt. I want the liberty to choose pre-packaged food that is palatable often due to the generous use of salt. And I want to pursue happiness by enjoying all of the sensual pleasures in life including food with salt!
Something needs to be pointed out here. Salt does not CAUSE hypertension. It may exacerbate hypertension but there is no cause and effect relationship between the two. Studies show a correlation between salt intake and high blood pressure in a percentage of the population. Anyone who has studied the scientific method has the following repeated many times: You It saddens me that you chose to unfriend me and i hope that you will reconsider.can not draw cause and effect relationships using correlational data! It is the same as high cholesterol. It doesn't cause heart disease. It is simply correlated with it. But, there are many confounding variables.
Regardless of the misuse of science for the purpose of social engineering, the bottom line is that what a person eats is their choice and their choice alone. No one behaves healthily all the time. Everyone has things that they do that are unhealthy. So what? It's no one's business.
Liberty is individual, and it's of no one's concern (especially the government's)! Thomas Jefferson said that what his neighbor does is none of his business , “if it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” How true!
I thought I had an unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I want a life with salt. I want the liberty to choose pre-packaged food that is palatable often due to the generous use of salt. And I want to pursue happiness by enjoying all of the sensual pleasures in life including food with salt!
Something needs to be pointed out here. Salt does not CAUSE hypertension. It may exacerbate hypertension but there is no cause and effect relationship between the two. Studies show a correlation between salt intake and high blood pressure in a percentage of the population. Anyone who has studied the scientific method has the following repeated many times: You It saddens me that you chose to unfriend me and i hope that you will reconsider.can not draw cause and effect relationships using correlational data! It is the same as high cholesterol. It doesn't cause heart disease. It is simply correlated with it. But, there are many confounding variables.
Regardless of the misuse of science for the purpose of social engineering, the bottom line is that what a person eats is their choice and their choice alone. No one behaves healthily all the time. Everyone has things that they do that are unhealthy. So what? It's no one's business.
Liberty is individual, and it's of no one's concern (especially the government's)! Thomas Jefferson said that what his neighbor does is none of his business , “if it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” How true!
I love salt, especially when generously sprinkled on medium-rare grilled bone-in rib-eye steak. I also am overweight. However, despite these facts, I do not have hypertension.
This issue caused me to remember a letter I wrote back in the early 80's when then governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, was getting ready to sign the first (unconstitutional) law requiring the use of seat belts.(I have a copy of the letter somewhere. I will dig it out and blog it.) Even then, I understood the ramifications of such intrusion. I remember referring to it as a slippery slope, but admit that I had no idea the scope which these government mandates would encompass. These are an affront to the ideals on which the United States of America was founded and we must fight to the end to have personal liberty restored once again.
Limited government!
Maximum freedom!
Personal responsibility!
These are the values to which I pray my country returns!
Maximum freedom!
Personal responsibility!
These are the values to which I pray my country returns!
I found my letter to Mario Cuomo who signed the nation's first seat-belt mandate into law on July 12, 1984. My letter is dated July 4, 1984. (I remember dating it on Independence Day intentionally. Here is what I wrote (at the tender age of 23):
"Dear Mr. Cuomo,
Although I am not a resident of New York State, I feel it is my duty as an American to urge you not to sign the mandatory seat-belt law into effect. The results of of such a law will not make automobiles accidents less frequent or less fatal.
A law which forces a free citizen of the Untied States to an accessory on a machine that he owns and is licensed to operate is ridiculous. Why not sign a law which requires all citizens of New York to get up at 6 o' clock each morning and do a half hour of calisthenics because safe guard their health? This is just as ridiculous.
No, Big Brother Cuomo! I do not think any American wuld approve. you can not, through the law, attempt to protect each person from himself. A much wiser choice is to protect the people from war and loss of freedom.
It is because a law of this nature can set an extremely dangerous precedent for more destructive laws infringing on the freedom of our precious country tat I am writing.
Please, I urge you. Let the choice to wear a safety belt be left to the individual. We are sensible people, Mr. Cuomo. If you continue to education the public as to the the importance of safety belt use, and show us the hard facts, do you not think the number those using seat-belt will steadily increase? I believe so.
May I also inform you of the risk to New York to lose a substantial amount of revenue if such a law is enforced. I have spoken to hundreds about this matter and the vast majority will not drive or vacation in your state again if the mandatory seat-belt law is on the books. I am sure a boycott would not be difficult to organize.
Again, I urge you. DO NOT sign the Mandatory Seat Belt Law. Leave the freedom of choice with the people. Preserve our rights as Americans to decide for ourselves. Educate us, Mr. Cuomo, please do not parent us!
Yours in Freedom,
Lori Slager
cc: Governor Thomas Kean
President Ronald Regan
Senator Bill Bradley
WOR-TV
WABC-TV
"Dear Mr. Cuomo,
Although I am not a resident of New York State, I feel it is my duty as an American to urge you not to sign the mandatory seat-belt law into effect. The results of of such a law will not make automobiles accidents less frequent or less fatal.
A law which forces a free citizen of the Untied States to an accessory on a machine that he owns and is licensed to operate is ridiculous. Why not sign a law which requires all citizens of New York to get up at 6 o' clock each morning and do a half hour of calisthenics because safe guard their health? This is just as ridiculous.
No, Big Brother Cuomo! I do not think any American wuld approve. you can not, through the law, attempt to protect each person from himself. A much wiser choice is to protect the people from war and loss of freedom.
It is because a law of this nature can set an extremely dangerous precedent for more destructive laws infringing on the freedom of our precious country tat I am writing.
Please, I urge you. Let the choice to wear a safety belt be left to the individual. We are sensible people, Mr. Cuomo. If you continue to education the public as to the the importance of safety belt use, and show us the hard facts, do you not think the number those using seat-belt will steadily increase? I believe so.
May I also inform you of the risk to New York to lose a substantial amount of revenue if such a law is enforced. I have spoken to hundreds about this matter and the vast majority will not drive or vacation in your state again if the mandatory seat-belt law is on the books. I am sure a boycott would not be difficult to organize.
Again, I urge you. DO NOT sign the Mandatory Seat Belt Law. Leave the freedom of choice with the people. Preserve our rights as Americans to decide for ourselves. Educate us, Mr. Cuomo, please do not parent us!
Yours in Freedom,
Lori Slager
cc: Governor Thomas Kean
President Ronald Regan
Senator Bill Bradley
WOR-TV
WABC-TV
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