Cellphones and Happy Meals

It seems everywhere I turn the government wants to intrude on my every day life.  New Mexico Senator Tom Udall has introduced legislation to help limit the cell phone “bill shock” that occurs when cellular customers unwittingly exceed their monthly limits for voice minutes, text messages, or data usage.  This is a waste of time.  When a person gets a cell phone a contract is signed.  If a person can’t afford a cell phone then they shouldn’t have one.  It’s that simple.  Why should the cell phone companies have to warn their customers that they are almost out of minutes when they should already know this.  Then I read in the paper about San Francisco.  They have gone after plastics bags in stores and now they are going after McDonald’s specifically Happy Meals.  Everyone knows that kids want the toys that come with the meal.  They usually eat the meal, but the toy is the main attraction.  Now the city council in San Francisco wants to ban Happy Meal toys unless there is a vegetable or fruit choice.  Well, SF City Council, there is a fruit choice. It’s called Apple Dippers.  My kids love them.  They would rather have them than fries.  While there is 10 percent unemployment nationwide and even higher in some states and people are worried about possibly losing health care coverage because of the new Obamacare restrictions, a senator from New Mexico and the San Francisco City Council decide that cell phone “bill shock” and Happy Meals are more important.  We, the citizens of the United States, can make our own decisions for the good of  our lives and that of our families.  We don’t need dopey politicians trying to make them for us.