Mar 13, 2007
Nanny Go Home
Here at manunderstress global media watchdog sports center, we object to all forms of cultural Nanny Statism, most especially trendy authoritarian legislation designed to keep us from getting fat, having too much fun, or just being as stupid as we want to be. We think nannies are better kept out of government.
In Georgia, our very own Governator, one of them deep-fried Southern “Conservative” types, wants less government, if less means more, and more means Jesus.
Two years later, some Georgians say the governor has done an about-face. Perdue recently signaled his opposition to a bill that would allow voters to decide whether to allow Sunday beer and wine sales in stores. He remarked that the Sunday prohibition teaches Georgians “time management” by forcing them to purchase alcohol earlier in the week.
Ah, I see…so it’s actually a government sponsored “time management” program. Clever, Big Government Sonny, clever indeed.
Statewide, 68 percent of Georgians polled in January wanted the chance to vote on the question. In middle Georgia, support dropped to 45 percent.
Hmm, 68%? So democracy is where then?
I’m guessing I don’t have to tell you that this drives me CRAZY. And it really hit home for me on Sunday night, when Todd and I had plans to partake in bloody cow steaks for dinner, but had no Cabernet with which to wash them down. Thank God for Sonny, or I might have had a glass of wine with dinner, at which point society would fall apart at the seams. Oh, or maybe it is the committed gay couple living next door to me that is responsible. One or the other, most definitely.
And to think that this is what a “small government conservative” gets away with. I guess it’s got to get really bad before it gets better? Fine then, bring on the wars, the welfare and the trans-fats regulations!