Sentences with phrase «nanny state»

This is not some sort of nanny state and I don't think anybody would want that to be the case.

However, it seems altogether unreasonable for nanny state interventions from local councils to be pushing even more of them out of business.

To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump — You want to talk about nanny state, I think we just got a new definition.

Forty years of socialist nanny state growth, all about to go down the drain.

They don't want their council wasting time on money on nanny state, politically correct or vanity projects.

I am always surprised when people link nanny state to a child's health.

The first stage, of course, is the full nanny state, groceries in the boot, everything on mode.

It is certainly a mistake to go too much nanny state.

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I am not much happier at spending more money on health visitors either - busybody nanny State in the literal sense.

If you want to refer to things as nanny states, then the place you go in Europe is not the southern tier — Portugal, Spain and Italy; the place you go are Germany and Scandinavia, because they provide more social services to their people than anybody else.

And for a while this looked like a great success for what might be called Nanny State Lite, the idea that the government can help you help yourself in a subtle way that you will hardly notice and that will maintain the pretense that we think you are an adult.

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Foreigners tend to view Nordic countries as «these socialist nanny states where everybody has a collectivist mindset,» Partanen said.

This government has seen the evidence that children do better if both parents are involved in their upbringing and is actively considering how they can make that happen without straying into nanny state territory..

Providing federally subsidized school meals IS the ultimate nanny state program.

The liberal nanny state is not based on a liberal desire to improve the lives of others; it's based on liberals desire to be nannies — that is, to run the lives of others.

That's not nanny state.

But America — the greatest country in the world according to Americans — does not mandate paid maternity leave because requiring companies to offer support to new mothers and fathers would undoubtedly turn America (pronounced «Amurrica») into a weak - kneed nanny state like Europe.

8 June 2017 MEDIA RELEASE Beverages Council says nanny state approach by NSW Health won't solve the problem The Australian Beverages Council has today responded to the announcement by NSW Health that it will phase out sugary drinks in health facilities by December of this year.

The only thing I worry about is not you but the responsible parent who may have to endure an overreaching nanny state as a result of someone else's neglect.

With a bit of luck, Cameron will be elected with a huge majority which will mean he can stop pandering to the eco-fascists and start work on some progressive Conservative policies; i.e. Massive tax cuts, renegotiation of the Treaty of Rome, building up our armed forces and reducing the size of the mammoth nanny state which we still have to endure

Posted by: 37thand0street ------------------------------------------ Is O bringing over Imadinnerjacket next week so Nanny State Pelosi can do another standing ovation???

America's libertarian refusal thus far to create a European - style nanny state has led to the economic growth that enables the United States to afford its more costly system.

«Today's announcement is a case of the Chief Health Officer, Dr Jeanette Young, jumping at shadows and employing nanny state tactics to address a complex and multi-factorial problem like overweight and obesity,» said CEO Geoff Parker.

Here's one representative headline from Fox News: «Nanny State Fired From Kids» Lunchboxes: Trump Boots Michelle Obama's Lunch Standards — Finally.»

So when much - needed reforms were instituted two years ago, one of the first complaints from the political right was that big, strapping football players were going hungry due to Mrs. Obama's Nanny State school meal calorie limits.

This knee - jerk nanny state - ism is getting really old.

The misguided nanny state, as advanced by Michelle Obama's «Healthy and Hunger Free Kids Act,» was interpreted by Secretary [Tom] Vilsack to be a directive that, because some kids are overweight, he would put every child on a diet.

At times, you won't know whether to laugh or cry as Littlejohn takes a piece of regulatory or nanny state nonsense and derides it in a style that makes you wonder why he doesn't do stand - up comedy.

An authoritarian nanny state that spies on its own people and a judicial system that assumes we're all guilty until we can prove our innocence.

«The ratings give voters a scorecard on how their individual legislator voted and how many times they force local governments — reeling from unfunded mandates — to raise taxes or nanny state proposals that interfere in how we choose to live our lives... As long as voters continue to hold Legislators responsible, we believe New York will become a business friendly place that people no longer have to flee in order to save on taxes.»

«We are astounded that, for all the other positives in the Budget, the Chancellor surrendered to the middle - class nanny state snobs trying to bludgeon the little people into changing what they eat and drink.»

The right - wing Nanny state?

Grannis is another NYC nanny state liberal who has never run an organization in his life and been on the public teet the whole time.

«It's one gigantic nanny state we're dealing with here,» fumed New York Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long, a former Brooklyn liquor - store owner.

The Conservative Nanny State by Dean Baker (free): This book will either delight you or infuriate you.

There is a movement amongst earnest policy wonks that might be called Nanny State Light.

Tate vs Nanny State You really have to ask yourself, is this 1960?

Before one million friends of liberty took to the streets of the nation's capital on September 12 shouting «NO» to government control of the nation's health care; «NO» to nanny state socialism; and «NO» to an unending spiral of taxes, spending and debt.

Mr. Blair's «Yes, Minister» nanny state scorns free speech.