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Re: Junk Food Nation

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From: Jon Nadelberg
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:01
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"Tim May" <timcmay@removethis.got.net> wrote in message 
news:140820052235276093%timcmay@removethis.got.net...
> In article <ddnqo5$re7$7@blue.rahul.net>, axlq <axlq@spamcop.net> wrote:
>
>> In article <uCFLe.30391$Kx6.420@fe12.lga>, Mr. R <nospam@nochance.com> 
>> wrote:
>> >So this is Bush's fault, too?  Get real.  Do you remember Clinton and 
>> >his
>> >jogging, followed by stops at McDondalds?
>>
>> Non sequitur.  Clinton's eating habits aren't related to an
>> administration's policies toward major food companies.
>
>
> It's _never_ the function of government to take any position whatsoever
> on what people choose to eat.
>
> Those who wish to fund the development of "food pyramids" are welcome
> to fund such efforts, read the books of these kind of people, etc. And
> those who prefer to eat certain kinds of foods are free to do so.
>
> But government has no business, no constitutional right (in the U.S.),
> to use tax monies to fund food advocacy of any sort.
>

In the Preamble, one of the things the government is supposed to do is 
"promote the general welfare" of the people.  So this is part of it. 
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