Back Off Nanny State! Why Government Doesn't Know What's Best For You

Sigh... People who believe the government should take care of you. That we are too stupid or incompetent to take care or ourselves, that somehow wee need a cradle to grave nanny state. Here's another I told you so! Government forcing companies to put calorie listings on the wall because supposedly when consumers see the amount of calories on the wall they'll start to consume fewer calories which will lead to leas obesity and less health conditions that are damaging to consumers. So all the government slobs who want to control everybody's life and think, "If we just had the proper education, if we just required business to do the right thing, then people will eat more healthy." Guess what? It turns out all the big governrment slobs were wrong. Not just wrong, but DEAD WRONG!

A study was recently done by several professors at NYU and Yale whether or not calorie postings actually changed people's behavior. They tracked consumers of four fast food restaurant chains; McDonald's, Wendy's Burger King, and KFC. They did it in poor areas of New York where there are high rates of obesity. Half of the customers noticed the calorie counts. 28% of the customers that noticed them said it influenced their ordering. 9/10 said they has made healthier choices as a result. The researchers checked their receipts and found out that people had actually ordered slightly more calories than the typical customer had before the labeling law had went into effect! Not only where they wrong about how these calories posting would effect behavior, the people that they poled lied.

New York City is one the nanny cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles filled with government officials who know better. They think as they stoke their beards, "I know what we can do with these poor fat people. We'll just inform them, we'll educate them and it will change their consuming habits." NO!