Fred is Right again: Keep government out of food choice

Fred is right again with his small government and personal liberty message. CNN's Political Ticker carries the story

Fred Thompson wants the government to keep its hands off your dinner
plate.That's what he told a questioner Tuesday in South Carolina,
anyway.
Standing about 15 feet away from a mouth-watering steam tray buffet
loaded with fried chicken, creamed corn and macaroni and cheese at Wade's
Southern Cooking in Spartanburg, Thompson dismissed the idea that preventative
care and wellness education should be central features of a government's health
care system.
"I'm telling you, I don’t think that it’s the primary
responsibility of the federal government to tell you what to eat," Thompson said
to applause when asked if his health care plan included any details on
preventative care, a priority for Democratic candidates.
"The fact of the
matter is we got an awful lot of knowledge,” said the former Tennesse senator.
“Sometimes we don’t have a whole lot of will power, and I don’t know of any
government program that's going to instill that."
Thompson, ever a fan of
small government, said healthy living should be the responsibilities of families
first.
"We shouldn’t be looking at the federal government in Washington first
and working our way down, it ought to be just the other way around. With that,
or whether you're talking about education, there's some things the federal
government can't do," said Thompson.

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