People may say they hate the nanny state, but they sure do live like they need a nanny.
No longer will Britain be bound by every anti-business, nanny state, interfering regulation dreamt up by the Commission.
Even those usually associated in the public mind with the nanny state are dismayed at the heavy-handed approach.
Employers screamed, and in July the DOL backed off that Nanny State position.
In New Zealand, a new government scrapped the ban in 2008, saying it was an example of the "nanny state philosophy".
Personal responsibility and living in a nanny state are simply mutually exclusive.
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And if you are a died-in-the-wool progressive doing everything you can to expand the nanny state, feel free to ignore the movie.
So, once again the ever-vigilant Nanny State has saved the Little Old Helpless Consumer from the ravages of those nasty (and rapacious) capitalists.
For decades, he said, Americans had been like the proverbial frog, boiling unawares by slow degrees in the cauldron of the nanny state.
Prohibition never works and the Nanny State ought to know better.
Isn't it the case, since the BSE crisis, that the old nanny state approach of saying, "Don't worry, we've got it in hand" doesn't work any more?
Is he going to provide tax breaks to get a nanny for all the children (wait, that would not work because it would then be a nanny state).
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Every penny in taxes, every mandate or regulation defining permitted or prohibited activities, and every well-meaning nanny state intrusion slides us further from sovereign, self-reliant citizens towards serfdom.
But really, when it comes to someone we all know, is there anyone who's affected our health more than our very own nanny state tsar, Mayor Michael Bloomberg?
To review to make sure everyone got that: The nanny state must tax everyone and, after wastage, corruption, and administrative expenses, guarantee everyone their basic rights with what is left.
And those who are can buy "puts" on shares purchased as a form of portfolio insurance meant to protect their downside--all without someone from the Nanny State holding their hand.
If anything, the American Nanny State is too small.
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Above all, I care about preserving the America my generation inherited, where responsible sensibilities and free market incentives, not politicians and bureaucrats operating upon false premises and nanny state solutions, determine winners and losers.
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The rule has sparked reaction from pizzeria counters to late-night talk shows, celebrated by some as a bold attempt to improve people's health and derided by others as another "nanny state" law from Bloomberg during his 11 years in office.
Given that the Act was rushed through under a procedure reserved for noncontroversial legislation, never voted on in committee, and was never posted (in its modern October 10th form) for public review, well, let's just say our distrust of the Nanny State has peaked.
The first of its kind in the country, the restriction has sparked reaction from pizzeria counters to late-night talk shows, celebrated by some as a bold attempt to improve people's health and derided by others as another "nanny state" law from Bloomberg during his 11 years in office.
The first of its kind in the country, the restriction has sparked reaction from city streets to late-night talk shows, celebrated by some as a bold attempt to improve people's health and derided by others as another "nanny state" law from Bloomberg during his 11 years in office.
The idea of entering personal ID codes for every session seems onerous and nanny-state-ish.
Instead, we need a long-term, comprehensive and compassionate program to ween ourselves from the nanny-state and its attendant, non-productive bureaucracies.
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