Posted 5:23 PM by Gene

DOW 36,000's crew daydreams again:

Take the issue of childhood obesity. Familiar voices of outrage are lining up behind command-and-control measures to stop the "epidemic." Beltway crusaders have mobilized against everything from Big Soda in the schools to video games. These two enemies figure well into a rather porcine narrative: capitalist pigs create legions of materialistic pigs for mutual gain: Companies gain wealth. Kids gain weight. Public health gains problems. Or so the story goes.

But while regulators think of ways to control our lives, the market will respond in a manner that will allow us to change our lives ourselves.

Just one problem, DOW: we wouldn't being having this obesity problem if THE MARKET didn't help cause it.

That's the thing about GLIBERTARIANS: their middle name is DENIAL.