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Banning Softdrinks and Never Enough Money

By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

          The latest target of the do-gooders is soft drinks.  They want to put warning labels on soft drinks, ban them from schools, etc., blaming them for our obesity epidemic.  As a fat person who hasn’t had a sugar-laden soft drink in many years, I find the whole business very amusing.  How can it be that I don’t drink sugary drinks, don’t eat Twinkies, bread, potatoes, and the other things that are supposed to be causing obesity, I exercise regularly, swimming one kilometer on the way to work, walking, working out at the YMCA, etc., and yet I still am fat?  I have a theory.  I think it is the do-gooders who are making me fat.  I get so aggravated from all those people trying to run my life, and making me work so hard to be able to pay all their taxes and still have something left over to live on, that my stress levels are greatly increased, causing chemical imbalances that prevent weight loss.  So, if you really want us fat people to lose weight, put your **#$*** warning labels on the ***$#** do-gooders, get rid of them, and leave us in peace!

          Have you noticed that, no matter how much money the government gets, it is never enough?  There is always a good cause that desperately needs more money, a political backer who needs to be humored, or a business that could use another subsidy.  Money is needed for education, for health care, for mental illness – you name it, and it needs more money.  All kinds of groups are marching and demanding more.  But what about us taxpayers?  Do we have to march and carry on in order to be remembered by the politicians?  We are the ones who go to work every day to support our families and all the politicians and all their causes.  We are becoming tapped out.  The political leeches ought to seriously consider where they will be left when we decide to throw in the towel.

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