Nanny State Watch

The Onion weighs in on LA fast food.

I never quite understand where people stand on these issues. For instance, to perpetuate a stereotype, this might offend a conservative who has concerns about nanny-statism because he'll be damned if the state tells people how to behave.

And yet, these same conservatives used to argue against the Central government imposing it's will against the state and local government...the two obvious cases are 1) a historical one - slavery, followed by desegregation, when the state's were claiming sovereignty while denying rights to their citizens, and 2) abortion where states want to make their own rules in defiance of federal law.

In short, who cares what a local municipality does? Should anyone care if someone says - we won't eat fast food in my house? So why can't a local municipality make health decisions for it's citizens? If the citizens are unhappy, they can vote people out of office and clamor for a change in the law.

Certain towns and states all have weird liquor laws, cigarette laws, driving laws, marijuana laws...I don't see why this is so much different. I can just picture California in ten years - all healthy fast food, legalized pot, and everyone driving electric vehicles. It doesn't sound like hell to me.