The General Assembly may soon be sending to every county in the state a “full-time
public health professional…to work on the public health issues
of physical inactivity, poor nutrition, and tobacco use.”
In other words, to help impose the state’s lifestle values on those
non-comformists who feel like they are smart enough to make their own
tradeoffs in life. Thanks to my colleague Becki Gray for passing along this proposed
$4.3 million attempt to bring one more bureacrat into the personal the
lives of our citizens. You have a right to pursue happiness so long as
it is done in a way that the so-called public health community approves.