Recent advances in biotechnology have allowed private companies to offer affordable genetic testing directly to consumers, to help them determine their risks of developing problems such as diabetes, heart disease, and various forms of cancer. In response, the U.S. government has told these companies that their tests must be approved by FDA regulators before they can be sold because, in the government’s words, “consumers may make medical decisions in reliance on this information.”
These restrictions thus represent a new level of government paternalism over the citizenry. In the name of “protecting” us, the government seeks to prevent willing consumers from learning medically useful information about their own bodies that could tell them which diseases they may develop — and help them make important treatment, prevention, and lifestyle decisions.
Silly peons, you don't need to know what's in your bodies. Its not like you'll be making your own medical decisions anyway.
Related on the flogging of peasants:
By the way, why do White House officials talk so candidly to Politico? Probably because they write lines like this: “Obama is perceived as failing to win over the public, even though by most conventional measures he is clearly succeeding.”
Silly readers. You only think you don’t like what he’s doing!
Yes a true parsing of that sentence does read that Obama is really winning over the public, but is perceived to be failing at it.
You could give Politico the benefit of the doubt and think they meant to write “The public perceives Obama as failing on his initiatives, even though by most conventional measures he is clearly succeeding at them.” You could then quibble with what "conventional measures" and how he is "clearly succeeding", but at least you would have a sentence that asserts that the president is doing better than people think he is, instead of one that asserts that the president is more well liked than people admit he is.
Though a core tenant of progressivism is that the public well and truly likes the progressive agenda, once it's messaged properly to them.
That goes hand in glove with the other tenant of progressivism: that the public is unfit to make their own decisions and need to have such things properly messaged (and if that fails forced) to them.
And here's some more paternalism and control. Again going to Bill Press and his thoughts on spoiled americans
It comes as no shock to hear a liberal talk about the American public
as 'children' who need scolding. (It also doesn't come as a shock to see that Bill Press doesn't check the data on jobs before declaring that Obama has rescued them.) That's the entire mindset of liberalism -- that the masses can't make their own decisions and need a cadre of elites to do it for them. That explains ObamaCare and every other social engineering project that we've seen since FDR, one of the people that Press claims couldn't possibly govern the nation today if given the chance.
And if the nation is ungovornable well... clearly that means the goverment needs more power.
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