I am writing this while my child runs around inside a McDonalds Playplace. I opted to not get fries with my cheeseburger, thinking I would eat a portion of the fries that came with the kiddo’s Happy Meal.
Win-win, I thought. We both get enough fries to be satisfied, but we don’t overload on the deep-fried goodness.
Silly me, to make my own decisions.
I opened the Happy Meal bag to find the world’s smallest container of fries, plus a small bag of apple slices. Oh yeah, I remembered, the food police have struck.
Michelle Obama and other food fascists have browbeaten the once-entrepreneurial food giant into altering one of its iconic menu items. True, she has no formal power over America’s diet, but the company of the Golden Arches knows that power that is informal is still very real.
By the way, I’m using a free-of-charge Internet connection to type this. As far as I know, nobody forced McDonalds to partner up with AT+T to offer this service.
Private initiative expands personal choices. Government initiative restricts them.
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