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Health & Fitness

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When we must order a "Small" or "Smaller" at the refreshment counter, this is the consequence of a sad trend. Everybody loses.

More and more, choices of personal freedom are removed from our grasp because somebody thinks we are in need of being told what to do. Government is inclined to restrict freedom and quell ambition. Government has caused an exodus of businesses and families to move away from California. 

I lament the erosion of personal liberty. When a government nanny state gets larger, the individual becomes diminished. 

Too many people believe that the pursuit of good health trumps personal liberty. It does not. American soldiers fought for liberty. They did not fight for a nanny state.

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