An easily overlooked story in the middle of national debt talks, and two lockouts in professional sports, is that the incandescent light bulb is going to be banned starting in 2012. While it is easy to throw Energy Secretary Steven Chu under the bus for his comments, this proposal actually got started under President Bush's watch.
Steven Chu: “We are taking away a choice that continues to let people waste their own money”
Maybe Mr. Chu I like wasting my own money, although my real problem with this, is the government telling me what I can and can't do. As an online poker player who had to deal with black Friday, I know how inconvenient it is to have the government involved in your home life. It's easy to think, who cares its just a light bulb, but I think this opens the door for other things to be banned. Where would it stop, too much cell phone use can lead to cancer, should the government ban those? What about sun bathing, too much of that could lead to skin cancer. The really sad part is incandescent light bulb can't lead to cancer, but compact fluorescent light bulbs(CFL's... not typing that again) have mercury in them. It may be a small amount of mercury, but any mercury is extremely dangerous and poisonous. So if you break one of these light bulbs, please call poison control right away, or Steven Chu.
It shouldn't be up the government to tell us what to do in our everyday life, good choices and bad choices are a fact of life. The more we let them restrict, the more they will continue to do it.
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