Remember, most bad ideas that start in Europe,  find their way over here:

Easy on the cheddar, chubby! Don’t even think about eating those fries, fatty! Do I even have to mention the profiteroles, porky? Are these merely playground taunts? Worringly, they increasingly echo the voice of governments worldwide.

Owing to the rise of so called ‘fat taxes’, authorities are taking an ever-more active part in what their citizens digest (and what comes out of their wallets, of course). In the last few months alone, Hungary, France and Denmark have all implemented their own ‘fat tax’. And whilst, as it stands, no gendarme will be confiscating your next banana-split, authorities, in their paternalistic wisdom, are increasingly frowning upon foods deemed undesirable.

Take Denmark, for example: a range of fatty foods, including even milk and butter, will be subjected to a tax if their saturated fat content is above 2.3%. The price of a pack of butter, for example, will increase by 45% due to the tax. Therefore, so it is thought, those selfish souls who indulge themselves on fatty foods will buy tofu and lentils instead: hey presto, obesity problem solved!

For liberal governments, it’s a win-win. They get a new ‘revenue stream’ to play with and they get to exercise more control over its citizens.

AP environmental writer spills a ton of virtual ink extolling the virtues of Obama’s wild spending on his Great Lakes Restoration Initiative while ignoring the initiative’s true purpose.

The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is just like every other Obama (or Democrat / Leftist) ‘initiative’ and can be summed up in two words.

Wealth. Redistribution.

If you are a regular reader of MCT, you have read about Great Lakes Restoration Initiative over a year ago:

In a related move, Obama has unleashed another bureaucratic layer, in the EPA, to oversee the implementation of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative:

This Action Plan – including the funding and other policy tools that will be used to leverage its outcomes – is intended to realize our goals: that the fish are safe to eat; the water is safe to drink; the beaches and waters are safe for swimming, surfing, boating and recreating; native species and habitats are protected and thriving; no community suffers disproportionately from the impacts of pollution; and the Great Lakes are a healthy place for people and wildlife to live.

“[N]o community suffers disproportionately from the impacts of pollution” is another way of stating the EPA is planning to use its regulatory power to implement Environmental Justice in the Great Lakes region. An example of how this will work is outlined on page 20of the Action Plan.

Now, not only does the EPA have the power to regulate carbon dioxide, the gas all people exhale, the EPA through the National Ocean Council has the authority to regulate the usage of the Great Lakes, its adjacent waterways and the oceans with John P. Holdren pulling the strings.

You can’t trust the MSM to tell the entire story.

A lot of media types are spending a lot of time spinning the idea that the Occupy Wall Street crowd is “a bouillabaisse of views representing the many groups that have signed on, and their demands are unclear.”

This is bogus.

The common thread running through the bouillabaisse of views is the desire for ever expanding government. They are all big government leftists.

What is really amazing is the notion that the Occupy Wall Street crowd fear ‘corporations.’ They act as if a corporation can seize your property (eminent domain), imprison you for not paying your taxes or tell you what you can do with your property (EPA). The only organization that has this kind of power if the the government. And now, thanks to ObamaCare, the government will be able to withhold medical care if they so choose and there will be nothing you can do about it.

There was a reason the Soviets constructed the Berlin Wall and it wasn’t to keep people out.