U.K. Seizing Obese Children

In the past two years, the United Kingdom has taken 10 children from their parents for obesity. A social worker says they prefer to "negotiate with parents about eating habits," but in "extreme cases" they remove the child from the home ("Social workers take children" Sunday Express, Dec. 29, 2013). This is done in the name of saving the child from abuse. America is moving in this direction, with such things as Michelle Obama's "expensive, intrusive obesity-fighting programs" and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg's ban on sodas. It's not that governments actually care about people; what governments care about is money. And when the government takes control of medical care and provide a major part of its funding, it eventually determines what the people can do down the level of diet and habits. Government control of medical care is the most intrusive form of socialism, which is why the Democrats in America have been pushing for it so long and so hard, and America's Obamacare is going to prove to be a bitter pill. The government will literally determine how people live and when they die. Medical care is very, very important to people, particularly to those who have no hope beyond this present life, and when they are dependent on government to provide it, they become slaves to the government. The government that can take away your children because they are obese can take them away for any other reason it chooses.

(Friday Church News Notes, January 17, 2014, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

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