The all you can eat buffet rule . . .

Alabama has the fourth highest obesity rate in the United States.

But don't worry.  Our fatness cannot be blamed on us.

It is the federal government's fault.

If only the federal government would get busy on a good anti-porker policy, we could get off our formidable derrieres and do something about it.

Darn that federal government.

Silly isn't it?

When President Clinton left office in 2001, the United States economy was booming. Or at least bubbling. Debt and deficit were under control.  Revenues were good.

Shortly after taking office, in 2001 and again in 2003,  President George W. Bush advocated, and achieved, a dramatic reduction in income taxes.   Additionally Bush began a dismantling of the evil government regulation that would set the job creators and business investors free to create.

Still drunk on the excesses of the internet bubble,  big business and job creators deftly transitioned to another champagne, the real estate bubble.  Happy days were here.again.

Big business and job creators got everything they ordered.   Lower taxes. Less regulation. Life was good.  And it got real good.  With trays loaded with money to invest and fewer pesky regulations, business and investment speculators took advantage of the plentiful offerings of delights at the all you could eat business buffet. Their appetite was insatiable.  They even found a way where they didn't have to pick up the tab.

And they stayed at the trough for years, feasting at the excellent Bush concession stand.

But it turned out, there is no such thing as "all you can eat."   We call that the other Buffet rule.

In 2008, the all you can eat buffet closed down.

By the end of the year the economy had been picked as clean as a turkey carcass at the family Thanksgiving by big business and job creators while willing Bush Administration  waiters served it up on a silver platter.  The tips made it worth the while.

As far as government policy is concerned, nothing much has changed, even now.  The same tax rates are in place.  Actually the rates are a little lower. The anticipated regulation reform by the Obama administration has been restrained, at best.

Big business and job creators have had it their way for over a decade.

Big business and job creators got obese, diabetic you might say, after years of eating up any and everything they wanted without a concern for health, theirs, or anyone else's.

But it's the federal government's fault.  If they would only fix it.  Just another deadly Whopper. And we the people have swallowed this ridiculous logic.  I can't believe we ate the whole thing . . .

Silly, isn't it?

No, it's not that simple.  I know that.  

But spoiled big business and job creators have been having their cake and eating it too.  The collapse of our economy was in great part their fault.  They indulged their gluttony but refused to repent.

And now they insist that the federal government fix the problem they created.  They insist on help.  On government welfare.  They must have more tax cuts.  More deregulation.

More of the same sweet diet they enjoyed for the last decade.  The same diet that almost killed them. And took many of us with them.  Now that is really silly.

I'm sick of this feeling of entitlement, this idea that the federal government is supposed to be their nanny.

It's time they went to work like the rest of us.

Or at least be drug tested.

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