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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thundley4 on May 27, 2009, 11:51:02 AM
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Government should ensure we all have enough, but not too much, to eat.
One of the great scandals of our age is the fact that America spends more on food than any other nation. Many political leaders are now calling for urgent reform to bring spending on food under control. While food spending is rapidly increasing and many Americans are overweight, some do not have enough to eat.
Despite this high spending, the United Nations reports that, according to surveys they sent to government officials around the world, the quality of U.S. food is ranked very low. Officials in France report that their food is the best in the world. More insulting is the higher ranking that British experts give their food.
Leaders in Congress now point to what they see as the root of the problem: corporate greed in the form of grocery stores and restaurants operating on a for-profit basis. They promise to replace all private grocery stores with a national system of government commissaries, which purportedly will operate far more efficiently without the administrative overhead required to make a profit. As it will take some time to organize the national network of commissaries, initially groceries will be available only at offices of the Department of Motor Vehicles and U.S. Postal Service, which will provide the models for developing a government commissary system.
Congress and the administration say they will achieve further efficiencies by prohibiting all advertising of food and food products. Consumers will find shopping much easier if personal preference is eliminated in favor of whatever foods government makes available.
To better control costs, the government will invest billions in new electronic food purchasing records. Everything you eat will be reported to the government, which will analyze the data to eliminate wasteful or unhealthy eating. All new food must be approved by a new Comparative Calorie and Taste Administration, which, for example, would eliminate most of the unnecessary brands of potato chips. And as anyone knows, we have far too many brands of beer.
Satire from the OC Register. (http://www.ocregister.com/articles/food-government-new-2425213-groceries-commissaries)
At least I hope it is a satirical comparison of grocery stores to health care and insurance.
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Now we will tell you what to eat and when!!! We are all powerful.
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That's so close to sounding like something the DUmmies would do that it ain't even funny.