Bureaucratic Slobber

One thing this Country has is bureaucratic rhetoric and controls. I refer to all this as Slobber. Some politician somewhere decided that whatever it is you like or enjoy should be controlled by some form of government. The truth behind this is, no matter how they portray it or manifest it's needs, it provides the powers to collect taxes or fees, yes, it's down to money. They'll tell you it's for your protection or your safety or the good of everyone but it's all about money. This is the reason I call it slobber, politicians and taxes are like dogs and bones.

The truth is, it usually doesn't bother me, They want your money, They will get your money so why fight it. Look at the Lottery, You pay for a ticket, a random drawing is held, you win and the Government takes almost half of it back. Other countries, England for one, believes the winnings are yours, the only taxable thing is any money made off it. But that's where we live.

There are times when The Slobber does piss me off. When they take away something good and replace it with not so good in the name of anything. Case in Point....Apple Cider.

Apple Cider has been around forever. It is Sweet, crisp, and clouded with crushed apple particles. (Also crushed bees, spiders, etc). Someone in the 1990's got sick on it, and it was determined that the cider in question contained E.coli. the bureaucrats stepped in, made laws stating that the process had to change, all Cider had to be pasteurized. (That by the way means boiled).

So now you go to a Cider-mill you can't get fresh squeezed cider, You get boiled then refrigerated Cider that has sat long enough that most of the flavor and consistency (clouds of particles) have settled out. So no longer can we enjoy something that has been around since...The Romans invaded England in 55 BC and found the people there drinking the stuff. Sorry, we as Government officials have to jump to extremes, instead of fining the place that produced the un-clean product they pass a law. So, in the name of safety we get to drink Apple Juice instead of cider, Cider that most likely every English Royal Family, every member of Parliament, every person fleeing Europe for the new world, and Every person born here has had the pleasure of drinking or at the least, the ability to drink.