The Big Cheese Earlier this week, some bright bulb in the FDA announced plans to ban the traditional aging of cheese on wooden boards. Yep—the process by which cheese has been made for oh, about 1000 years. It was a pointless regulatory move that threatened to destroy the entire artisan cheese industry in the US. Not only were the new rules going to apply to American cheesemakers, but to all those fancy European cheesemakers who import their high priced cheeses. Unfortunately for the FDA, they picked the wrong product. Someone in the government decided that the cheesemakers are very special people! Turns out bankers, celebrities, media tycoons and other political donors are also major consumers of expensive cheeses. Yes, they need a little cheese with their whine. When they heard they might have to start dipping their stone-ground, gluten-free kale chips into Cheez Whiz, they screamed so loud, you’d think they’d accidentally tasted Spam. Now, the FDA is backpedaling faster than Lance Armstrong on steroids. It was all a misunderstanding! They aren’t moving your cheese! As silly as this story was, there’s a serious lesson: federal regulators these days think they can force anything down our throats and make us swallow it. They’re drunk with power. But nothing sobers them up faster than a reminder that we are still their bosses, not the other way around. They are NOT the Big Cheese. Help support conservative candidates through Huck PAC. Chip in $5 or more to Huck PAC!
Posted on: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:00:58 +0000
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