NO COFFE FOR BREAKFAST

No! No longer will you be allowed your coffee for breakfast if the Obama administration ordains caffeine to be a dangerous substance. Consumption will be forbidden and we will all - not just TEA party people, be tea sippers. This type of nannying, typified by our First Lady Michelle Obama, is responsible for a bill spending 2.6 billion dollars for more “healthy food” in schools (junk food disallowed) including the installation of salad bars. What will self-interested students do as they pass through lines at lunch counters in school? They will top the natural or organic lettuce and carefully selected vegetables with gobs of thick, creamy, calorie-laden, delicious dressing. Of course, in the real world, children aren’t fools; brain work and after school athletics demand that a biological bulk up with fuel. The irony of my coffee supposition is that those who oppose government interference in our lives and wasteful spending on unnecessary projects are already tea sippers. We belong to TEA parties.

We know it should be us not them who decide what’s best for our pursuit of happiness. Another glaring example of the irony involved in this question of government vs. the people, is Wilmington, Ohio. Conservative, Glenn Beck plans an appearance and show in Wilmington in mid-December to highlight the town’s effort to pull itself out of the economic malaise without government help. The town’s a symbolic Bedford Falls, from the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life.” At the same time, in the same town, Wilmington College has decided to drink from the government’s trough of ‘free’ money. My local newspaper contains an ad for a Lead Project Manager for a government funded VISTA program engagingly titled, “Grow Food, Grow Hope Garden Initiative.” The Manager will guide 9 AmeriCorps members.” That’s a total of 10 government funded positions paid for by you, me, Wilmington citizens and millions of our fellow Americans. The ad says, “community organizing” skills are important to “generating interest in small plot gardening...create a network of community food producers...maximize productivity.. improve access...” I smell the helping hand of government in every scoop of compost, don’t you? I don’t see my favorite sweet corn growing tall in the winter in one of `the college’s sponsored backyards. I bet federally funded greenhouses won’t be far behind.

Liberals never do good, rather they impede job creation, economic progress and entrepreneurial activity as they cover themselves with contradictions and justifications for profligacy. Obama has stopped offshore drilling for oil along the Atlantic coast and in the Gulf of Mexico, but other countries like China, Russia and Venezuela continue to drill and profit.

Congress plans to require all passenger cars and buses to be equipped with rearview video cameras to help prevent fatalities caused by drivers who back over a child hidden in the blind spot. This is in response to one two-year in 2002 having been killed in such a manner. Since then, deaths and accidents have virtually all occurred on private property but the law will apply to all cars on the highways. The consumers (as much as $200 extra) will pay for another do-good measure that completely ignores cost effectiveness related to the frequency of the problem. A truly odd accident will cost all Americans billions over a few years.

As I sip my tea, I wonder how many of my fellow citizens are aware that our outgoing Governor Strickland recently signed an executive order to permit Home Health Care Workers and Child Care Providers (paid by for by the state) to unionize. Why? A private child care provider, for example, would receive a notice in the mail asking if she could like to contribute to the support of a union. When this piece of paper lands in the circular file, and is forgotten, it is not forgotten. The disposal actually counts as an approval because it was not disapproved. When the next paycheck arrives, dollars suddenly appear withdrawn from the check. Why? You guessed it. Union dues. The state which pays for much home health and child care can now be lobbied by union workers for more benefits and in turn force the parents, babysitters and health workers to contribute to the union coffers.

Luckily, John Kasich, recently elected Governor in the elections, says that Strickland’s executive order for unionization is toast. Yes, toast, that’s what we conservatives as tea sippers will have with our hot beverage each morning from now on. If we choose instead to down a latte, a frappuccino or a strong black coffee, Washington better understand that for the sake of our right to liberty, we will not be denied.