You’ll take away my trans fats when you dig them out of my cold, clogged arteries
by digby
Rand is all up in arms over the jack-booted doughnut snatchers:
Sen. Rand Paul warned Americans that the federal government is targeting doughnuts, the latest example of the oppressive nanny state in America.
“They’re coming after your doughnuts!” the Kentucky Republican said, referring to the Food and Drug Administration decision to ban trans fats.
Paul added that if the FDA was banning trans fats, the employees of the agency should be forced to get healthy themselves.
“I say we should line every one of them up. I want to see how skinny or how fat the FDA agents are that are making the rules on this,” Paul said…
“Because if we’re going to have a nanny state and everybody’s got to eat the right thing, and you can’t eat a doughnut, maybe we just ought to enforce it on the government workers first,” he said.
Apparently he thinks you can’t make doughnuts without trans fats. I think that’s going to come as a surprise to Krispy Kreme. Or anyone who’s ever eaten real doughnuts made with real ingredients.
He’s all upset about the nanny state in this piece, but keep in mind who he sees as the truly aggrieved party: the major food industry manufacturers who want to keep poisoning people with cheap, chemical ingredients that are killing them. In fact, Paul would defend their right to put arsenic in the food supply on exactly the same basis that he defends the right to put trans fats in the doughnuts.
Libertarian economics can be summed up in one phrase: Caveat emptor, suckers
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