You Know Gov't is Too Big When.....

What's wrong with this picture? An AP story in the Pasadena Star-News reports that the Gov't is urging Americans to slash calories and exercise more:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government on Wednesday told Americans to slash their calorie intake and exercise 30 to 90 minutes a day, updating guidelines that advised people to lose weight but gave few specifics on how to do it.
The new dietary guidelines will be used to update the familiar food pyramid, which most people recognize but few heed. The revision will be the pyramid's first since it was created 12 years ago.

"The guidelines offer Americans achievable goals for controlling weight," said Tommy Thompson, secretary of Health and Human Services, which developed the guidelines with the Agriculture Department. "Let's start today."

Isn't this situation grossly juxtaposed? Why aren't Americans demanding that Congress stop their egregious spending and lessen our tax burdens? It's no business of theirs whatsoever how many calories we happen to consume or how much or how little exercise we get. How dare they presume to tell us how to live our lives. It's not their job to tell us what to do...it's our job to tell them what to do! What's worse is that Joe 6-pack and Jane Q. Public won't have a clue that this is none of Big Gov't's business. Pity! (Be sure to read the entire piece and then let your Representative know that you think Congress should immediately begin to cut the massive waste (waist) in our entirely too vast federal gov't.)