"Let Me Make You A Sandwich!"

I've often contemplated how people can fall for such obvious schemes of evil. But then I realized that in all honesty they're probably not that obvious. Because the best way for evil to work is not to make something 180 out from what's correct, but instead to make it more like 7 or 8 degrees off from what's right.

It's like flying. Anyone can tell when a plane is flying the complete opposite direction from it's destination. But, if a plane is just off a few degrees it doesn't seem so bad. However, if a plane is off course by just a few degrees it will end up hundreds of miles off course by the end of its journey.

So, as we can see, wrong doesn't really have to seem wrong to be wrong.

And I think a prime example of this is Michelle Obama's food campaign that goes by the official name of "Let's Move!" (which in my mind always sounds like a command from a drill sergeant rather than a cheerful encouragement for healthiness).

Being healthy is not a bad thing. I don't have any problem with being healthy. I mean, heck, I actually eat vegetables and fruit as snacks. And although I could definitely use more exercise, I'm no couch potato.

So with that being established, we'll go take a stroll through the Let's Move website (actually I'll take a stroll and tell you all about it because I wouldn't want to subject you to that unnecessarily...of course if you don't take my word on it then go ahead and take that walk).

The site looks all cheery...kind of like an elementary school room. It's well laid-out (which is surprising considering it's a government website) and right across the top it has five things that I would like to call suggestions but are actually orders (remember? question, statement, exclamation, command--those are the only types of sentences).

And right there under "Learn the Facts" is a nice little quote by none other than Michelle Obama herself which says, "The physical and emotional health of an entire generation and the economic health and security of our nation is at stake".

What Michelle Obama has realized is that she can hide most anything she wants behind good intentions.

And it's just inevitable that someone will think, "But whatever could she be hiding?"

And the answer is really very simple--socialism.

It's kind of funny that everyone seems to think that seeing socialism behind someone's actions is this big hoax or that it's the same old excuse because you don't have anything else to say or that it's just stupid when, in fact, sometimes it's just the truth.

Let's look at it--what is socialism?

Merriam-Webster dictionary defines socialism as, "Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods".

And what this glorious new food revolution is beckoning into our country is just one more attempt to spread socialism. By supporting it we are advocating that what we eat should be regulated and controlled.

Did you know that there are schools across the nation that now send lists home telling parents what they can and cannot send in their child's sack lunch? Excuse me? It's not enough that the schools are removing soda, candy, ice cream, chips, and anything else that might be considered unhealthy from the school lunches and vending machines and telling children what they must pick up in the lunch line, now some feel that it is their right to tell us what we can pack to bring from home or to tell us that we cannot even bring our own food.

They can tout their banner of "protecting" people from their own bad decisions or reducing obesity or whatever else they want to hide behind, but in the end it's just an excuse to expand the ever-expanding government reach into our homes and our lives. And it's wrong.

Of course people praise this plan as a step forward. Of course the plan has good attributes. Every bad plan has good attributes or no one would follow it. But in the end, it is up to each of us to make our own decisions and deal with the consequences of those decisions.

If I want to eat ice cream and potato chips every meal for the rest of my (very short) life, then that is entirely my business and the government, to use a colloquial I'm rather fond of, can shove it.

When the government has the ability to reach into the very bowels, the kitchens, of our homes then our government is obviously too big. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Because if they government can tell us what to eat, then they can tell us what to wear and what to believe and who to vote for and who to worship and then Big Brother will "watch over" everything.

But at least we won't be fat.