One of the big news items on Monday was the new food pyramid. Apparently, because Americans have gotten fatter since the original food pyramid was introduced, the original pyramid was faulty. In reading this New York Times piece on the pyramid, we learn that $2.5 million of our taxes were used JUST "TO CREATE A SUITABLE SYMBOL!" That doesn't include the likely millions spent to "research" these new pyramids. Do we even need these damn things? NO! When was the last time you pulled out your food pyramid to plan out meals for the day? That's right, you never have done so. The food pyramid is something that belongs in a health textbook somewhere, written by private scholars, not in government literature.
Government spending is like a drug addiction. Unless we start electing leaders with extreme amounts of common sense, eventually we are going to have to go cold turkey to beat the habit of wasteful spending. I'd much rather see us wean ourselves of it. Start with "food pyramids."
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