If there’s one thing that truly baffles me, it’s the seemingly uncompromising love of the coddling hand of government that so many people are exhibiting lately.
Yes, ok, I understand that for some reason people are running scared from their own shadows in recent times, and there is such a powerful selfishness permeating through people’s attitudes as the “world revolves around my wants” mentality consumes even the most supposedly altruistic of people…
So imagine the teeth-gnashing that I do when I see an anonymous boob write in an editorial for one of our local Wisconsin newspapers and asks big government to come in and wrap him/her in its warm, protecting embrace…
Editorial: Time for state to legislate smoking ban
Plain and simple, the time has come to enact an indoor smoking ban in Wisconsin. It’s a public health matter that, left to individual communities to legislate, has created a counterproductive patchwork of bans around the state.
The editorial goes off on the expected tangents and could be repeated verbatim in any number of other venues… But what really gets me is this:
So, let’s get it done, take a healthy step forward and confront on the rest of the problems that confront Wisconsin. A prolonged debate on the inevitable is guaranteed to distract Wisconsin from what is now feared to be a $5 billion deficit and long-neglected reforms within education, corrections and general government.
Ah! So this genius understands that we have bigger problems to deal with here in Dairy Country… However, he/she isn’t willing to admit that the issue should just be dropped and real issues should be brought to the forefront with the possibility of bringing the smoking ban back up once the state is perfect. It’s all fine and dandy to have priorities; however it’s useless if the priorities are this backwards!
Yes, we have problems. Lots of them. Smoking in public, however, is NOT one of them… So why are we even barking up this tree?
Oh yeah. I guess it all comes back to the simple and indisputible fact that these people ♥ the nanny state.
Filed under: Wisconsin Ban, Wisconsin Culture, anti insanity, reality check | Tagged: priorities, smoking ban, wisconsin
