In case you missed the news...you should drink water. In a speech at Watertown High School in
Watertown Wisconsin - gee aren't they clever - Michelle Obama announced the
latest program to spring forth from the "Let's Move" [toward democratic
despotism] initiative called "Drink UP!". Don't worry Mrs. Obama, we're way ahead of
you. At least that's what I thought
until I realized she wasn't suggesting a drunken stupor as a way to cope with
her husband's lawless regime. No,
instead she wants us all to drink more water.
Thank God for our Imperial First Lady for imparting this amazing nugget
of wisdom to the ignorant, huddled masses.
Why I had no idea that when I'm thirsty it's good to drink water. I have no idea how I've lived this long
without knowing that fact.
Mrs. Obama stated "Drink just one more glass of water a
day and you can make a real difference for your health, for your energy, and
the way that you feel. And there’s plenty of scientific evidence to back this
up." Actually not really. But when you're part of the Obama
regime, you don't need real science. You
need a good back drop (a govt. school), lots of props (teachers, kids, local officials,
smart-looking science types) and a complicit main stream media machine that
won't ask the wrong questions. Questions
like, "Mrs. Obama, exactly what business is it of the federal government
how much I exercise, or what I eat or drink?". Wouldn't that be a neat exchange?
So she continued with even more ridiculous statements like
the following:
"Plus, water is almost
universally available. You can find it anywhere, and it’s free. You can find it
in schools, in parks, shopping malls, even in your own kitchen sink.
All over this country, you can
turn on the faucet and get clean, safe, healthy water that tastes great. But
here’s the thing -- and something we hadn’t thought about -- because water is
so basic, because it is so plentiful, sometimes we just forget about it. Amidst
all the ads that we watch on television and all the messages that we receive
every day about what to eat and drink."
So not only is she not qualified to offer advice on the
science of drinking water, we now know, as if we didn't before, that her grasp
of the capitalist system is severely lacking.
Did you know water is free?
I don't mean the water you collect in your super special look-how-much-we-care-about-the-planet rain barrels,
but the actual water from your tap, from park fountains, from shopping mall
faucets and schools. All these years
I've been paying my water bill every lousy month not knowing it was supposed to
be free! I'm preparing a spreadsheet to
send to Michelle for reimbursement right now.
Not only that, I've been paying taxes to support local parks and schools
and I guess any money spent for water was a mistake. Just imagine, we can run the schools for
decades with no taxes at all based on the refunds due for water which we now
know has been paid in error! Actually
that's not true, the government school system is a beast that knows no bounds
when it comes to the ability to spend our money.
All kidding aside, she shares the same level of ignorance
about economics as her husband. To
Michelle, that water really is free. She
has no concept of the fact that only through the labor of tax-paying citizens,
or private patrons in the case of the shopping mall is clean, safe drinking
water available. If it just simply
happened on its own, there wouldn't be almost 1 billion people worldwide
(according to U.N. statistics) who did not have access to clean water. I suppose you could just excuse her
statements as simple misspeaks, but if you know these people, you know they
really believe this nonsense and are not grounded in reality. They are part of the elite ruling class and
must not be questioned. Of course we know this is not only ignorance. It is simply the Statist philosophy. In particular how Statists depend on control and influence over the population in all facets of life from birth to death. This is how the Statist gains generational control over once free people. Sometimes it's seemingly innocuous things with cute titles like "Drink Up!". In other instances it's taking over nearly 1/5 of the U.S. economy and forcing citizens to engage in contracts completely outside the bounds of a Constitutional Republic like Obamacare demands.
The question we must ask is when is enough, enough? At what point will Americans turn away from
this kind of nanny-state nonsense, spending our grandchildren into oblivion
while the political elites fly around on our dime telling us how much to
exercise, what to eat and what to drink?
Before long, they'll try to tell us what medical insurance we can have,
what doctors we can see and who lives or dies.
Let's hope we take action before that happens.
