http://www.patientpowernow.org/2010/07/kagan-commerce-clause-vegetable/ Because your health care is too important to be left to politicians. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.patientpowernow.org/2010/07/kagan-commerce-clause-vegetable/#comment-557 Trailmynx Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:44:51 +0000 http://www.patientpowernow.org/?p=3081#comment-557 If one opposes the government's mandating what you should eat does it not follow that the government has NO right to tell you what NOT to consume, this including alcoholic beverages, drugs, cigarettes, undercooked meat, melamine-tainted products, etc. no matter what your age?<br>The recent case of the YouTube smoking 2 year old in Indonesia comes to mind. Our govt has no authority to keep a 2 yr old from smoking or drinking here by the strict interpretation of opposition to govt. interference in our intake matters- any admission that there is a line where the govt could regulate this or mandate consumption invalidates the whole argument. If one opposes the government's mandating what you should eat does it not follow that the government has NO right to tell you what NOT to consume, this including alcoholic beverages, drugs, cigarettes, undercooked meat, melamine-tainted products, etc. no matter what your age?
The recent case of the YouTube smoking 2 year old in Indonesia comes to mind. Our govt has no authority to keep a 2 yr old from smoking or drinking here by the strict interpretation of opposition to govt. interference in our intake matters- any admission that there is a line where the govt could regulate this or mandate consumption invalidates the whole argument.

]]> http://www.patientpowernow.org/2010/07/kagan-commerce-clause-vegetable/#comment-474 Trailmynx Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:44:51 +0000 http://www.patientpowernow.org/?p=3081#comment-474 If one opposes the government's mandating what you should eat does it not follow that the government has NO right to tell you what NOT to consume, this including alcoholic beverages, drugs, cigarettes, undercooked meat, melamine-tainted products, etc. no matter what your age?<br>The recent case of the YouTube smoking 2 year old in Indonesia comes to mind. Our govt has no authority to keep a 2 yr old from smoking or drinking here by the strict interpretation of opposition to govt. interference in our intake matters- any admission that there is a line where the govt could regulate this or mandate consumption invalidates the whole argument. If one opposes the government's mandating what you should eat does it not follow that the government has NO right to tell you what NOT to consume, this including alcoholic beverages, drugs, cigarettes, undercooked meat, melamine-tainted products, etc. no matter what your age?
The recent case of the YouTube smoking 2 year old in Indonesia comes to mind. Our govt has no authority to keep a 2 yr old from smoking or drinking here by the strict interpretation of opposition to govt. interference in our intake matters- any admission that there is a line where the govt could regulate this or mandate consumption invalidates the whole argument.

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