Things That Make Me Go ARRGGHHHH!

Have you seen this?



The best part of the whole thing is where she walks her child down the aisle of artificially colored, sugar filled drinks and puts her arm around him as to say, someday son, maybe the economy will turn around and we won't have to drink water anymore.

When I was a kid we rarely had "extra" stuff in our fridge and pantry like popular soft drinks and snacks. I can remember going over to other kid's houses and seeing their pantries bursting at the seams with fruit roll ups, Oreos and other goodies. Damn my mom and her desire to only feed us real food! Our idea of a sugary splurge were those little Kool Aid packets you could get 10 for a dollar. Mom would mix them in a gallon pitcher with a cup of sugar and water and then call it juice. She claims now that she didn't know any better, that's just how people fed their kids then. People, we know better.

Our kids are fat. A first grader with a cholesterol problem is child abuse. I don't know if taxing the foods that cause our kids to be fat is the ultimate answer, but if it causes one parent to decide to pass on the crap this week and make do with water or 100% juice (which my kids think is a special treat), then who are we REALLY harming? The hundreds of corporations that are fighting against this tax because making our kids fat is their business, that's who.