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Salt Is A Class I Drug
From The Daily Capitalist
The Food and Drug Administration is planning an unprecedented effort to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by Americans, saying that less sodium in everything from soup to nuts would prevent thousands of deaths from hypertension and heart disease. The initiative, to be launched this year, would eventually lead to the first legal limits on the amount of salt allowed in food products. ...
A recent study by researchers at Columbia and Stanford universities and the University of California at San Francisco found that cutting salt intake by 3 grams a day could prevent tens of thousands of heart attacks, strokes and cases of heart disease. ...
"We can't just rely on the individual to do something," said Cheryl Anderson, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who served on the Institute of Medicine committee. "Food manufacturers have to reduce the amount of sodium in foods."
This will get wings because, friends, you are paying for my health care. As health care costs rise because of government regulation and control, there will be pressure to cut costs as the bill for Obamacare spirals out of control. The justification will sound very reasonable. "All we need to do is cut salt intake by 3 measly grams a day, and we would save so much money because people wouldn't have salt related disease." That sounds OK. But ...
... then you need a regulatory apparatus to monitor this reasonable rule. A Salt Intake Control Evaluation Board (SICEM) would be set up to regulate food salt content. Since people really like salt, they would buy more salt at Safeway and use it to flavor things the way they want it.
As the futility of SICEM is apparent, we would have the Salt Control and Rationing Board (SCARB) to regulate individual salt intake. You would need a doctor's prescription to buy salt and, if your blood pressure was too high, well, you would be a parasite on the rest of us because you would be driving up our medical costs due to your anti-social behavior.
Unscrupulous types would then create a black market to meet the growing demand for illegal salt. This would be a huge opportunity for drug traffickers and, after bloody turf wars to control the market, a few cartels would arise. Of course you would have some shady doctors whom you could pay to get a prescription. The fraud would be enormous.
A special regulatory police would be required to audit and control this illicit trade. This Health Enforcement Legislation Police (HELP) would have officers dressed in white lab coats highly trained in salt related health matters. They would have broad authority to audit the health records of suspected salt abusers. A Special Branch would hunt out traffickers. These highly trained officers, known affectionately as the "Salty Dogs," would require greater and greater authority as the salt trade gets out of hand. Raids would be made randomly on households looking for private salt stashes. Tearful moms would be hauled off to salt health re-education camps (SHRECs).
Pretty soon the government would be forced to step in and nationalize salt production to control the market. In order to discourage consumption, they would completely control salt production and distribution, subject to the aforementioned rules. A Salt Czar would set production quotas and prices. This would hugely help the illegal salt cartels, because the government makes it a controlled substance. Lobbyists would seek emergency relief for their clients who needed salt in their businesses. Friends of the Czar would get rich.
This is what Friedrich von Hayek called "The Road to Serfdom."
Don't even think about a Double Quarter Pounder® with cheese. We can't afford it.
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so, your answer is to get pissed at your fellow slaves rather than be pissed at your owners?
that's a ridiculous answer. frankly, we need a dramatic restructuring of the entire system.
but the screaming and yelling of the "other side" about "obamacare" and the outright obstruction of any change whatsoever made it extremely clear to those of us financing this current system that it is serving some pigs very well indeed, and the other pigs can just go roll in the shit, cause that's where anyone wanting change belongs....cause we want change because we are freeloaders.
i'd be far more open to discussion if all discussion didn't start with the comment that things are just fine.
they are just fine for some people as long as other people are paying the bill.....
like you, mouser, you don't want change do you? cause i'm picking up and providing your doctor with his profit...so you don't have to.
i would like to see health care sans government....
i pay over $1000 per month for health insurance.
my daughter has a minor surgery tomorrow, the final cleanup of a hemangioma...
will take 15 to 20 minutes...
my deductible is $1000...
now, there is no way, in a free market health industry, with no government involvement, that that surgery would cost more than $1000 outright, but thanks to socialism, its costing my $13,000, and no telling how much more its costing you.
Sounds like it may have been worth a try to lower barriers to entry and eliminate the health insurance monopoly tyranny in your state.
You think it's expensive now, just wait until you see how much it costs when it's "free."
Gee, never saw this one coming. Weren't we assured that an attempt to control everything wouldn't be the natural result of Obamacare?
This is almost as dumb as the government's idea to securitize the air and facilitate it's trading in the capital markets.
Will this law also apply to salty non-food items that state worshiping sycophants put in their mouth?
LOL
Do you have personal knowledge that this non-food item is salty or are you relying on second hand word of mouth hearsay....er....hersay? :>)
I have associated with enough pros and 'experts' in this general field to form a (so far) reliable, working knowledge base in this regard.
The FDA can lick my salty nuts
Howard , you are funny.
On this week’s Solari Report, I will be speaking with Dr. Katherine Albrecht, one of the foremost privacy experts in America and founder of CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering), a national consumer organization created in 1999 to educate consumer-citizens about shopper surveillance.
I first saw Katherine in Aaron Russo’s From Freedom to Fascism. I will never forget my excitement at seeing someone this capable, intelligent and fearless take on large corporations and government’s use of RFID chips, clearly explaining the invasive and disturbing applications.
http://solari.com/blog/?p=6928
LMFAO!
Nice Beale; Fuck! I just got coffee all over my keyboard...
Yep...first the tobacco, now the salt...sugar tomorrow...
...Then the meat, etc, etc, etc...
If they come for the coffee, I'm gonna fuckin' snap.
Coffee? Rainforests import? Poor campesinos? Rich man's drink?
Thanks for giving Cass the idea to start regulating it!
Cass, kiss your own ass! Stay away from our coffee!
"If they come for the coffee, I'm gonna fuckin' snap."
Can't quit laughing...
Anyways, since when is the FDA really, (100%), concerned about our health..
" lick my salty nuts" You beat me to it Howie....
Fuck the Feds...Fuck The Bomma...Time for a regime change!!
This ain't the Soviet Union.....YET!!
+1
As a runner I sometimes consume extra salt so I can 'carry' more water, especially on hot days.
The penalty for possession of Gatorade will be 20 years to life, as for possession of any other antisocial drug.
"We can't just rely on the individual to do something."
No, because you know what's best for the Individual, don't you?
Fucking cunt.
I am Chumbawamba.
Aw come on Chum--I read articles like this and think of that movie Demolition Man--One day there will only be one fast food restaurant turned into 5 star haute cuisine (Taco Bell), and we'll all sing jingles as our car drives us.
"What's good it therefor bad and hence illegal."
Next we'll be handling out tickets for cursing.
Anyway, great fun that movie--coming to reality near you.
That pissed me off too.
All branches of the Fed Goobermint are a lost cause at this point. Assertion of states rights via nullification is the last chance. We are beginning to see this happen with the "Drug War"
What's that they say, "think globally. act locally?"
What douchebag called this junk? This strikes at the heart of the nanny-state issue.
Rarely does it happen, but when it does, it's a magical thing: I wholeheartedly agree.
what's your problem Chum? it says right there that this rule is "reasonable" :)