More From The Dept Of Silly Grants

In more silliness from our stupid, moronic beloved govt, we have this... "A Gold Coast midwife and lactation consultant (what the heck is a lactation consultant? Putting a baby's mouth on the tit is natural. No so-called consultants needed here.) has been given a $10,000 state government grant to find out what is going on [with women who stop breastfeeding early] and what can be done to help."

On the surface this sounds like a noble thing to do, right? But then you discover the areas to be researched...the physical difficulties moms and babies experience, the mothers attitude to breastfeeding and their support system - public, family. And the information will then be used to improve post-natal services so moms breastfeed for longer.

This nutjob do-gooder who wants to impose HER view of how long mothers should breastfeed says, "I'm very passionate about this because it's every baby's birthright to be breastfed."

In more idiocy, she is a baaing sheep lapdog for the World Health Organization and regurgitates what they reckon - that mothers should breastfeed exclusively for six months and then slowly introduce more solid foods while continuing to breastfeed into the second year and beyond.

Picture in your mind some two and a half year old kid still getting breastfed. Odd image, isn't it? I mean, were are talking about a kid with a set of teeth here.

Hey listen up you doinks at WHO, if an animal (us included) has teeth, it means we should be masticating our own food and not living off food that BABIES are designed to live on so they can grow. And how arrogant of you to want to impose what you reckon onto other women. How about letting THEM decide for themselves?

Anyway. This useless research will involve four phone calls over the course of twelve months to help determine why moms might not have been able to breastfeed the way they had planned. And to ask those who did not achieve their breastfeeding goals, what would have made it easier for them. (And you just know, the answer to this question would then become another thing the do-gooders would want to petition the govt about to get funding for.)

For example, "It could mean we have to look at more ante-natal preparation". (And we all know where the funding for THAT would come from, don't we?)

Obviously, any of these questions could be asked of any mother. Just print up a small one page questionnaire, hand it out on the street to mothers with young children (or do the damn survey on the street), and ask them to mail it back. She only wants to do this research with 200 mothers. And I'm sure it could all be done face-to-face on the street within one week and would cost MUCH less than $10,000 of my tax dollars.

But the icing on the cake is her real reason for wanting to do this... "I just want to find out." Meaning, so then she can push to suck more money out of us tax payers to fund her good works.

I have a name for people like this. I call them "fuckers."

Utopia Sucks

I often rant about the nanny state, govt intrusions, the left socialists, and so on and so forth. I add how the market will provide, if given half a chance. And free trade would see us advance in leaps and bounds. For the game of capitalism is currently being played at only half speed - thanks to govt restrictions and taxes and rules and regulations. But let's take a moment to imagine a utopia world...

There would be no govt intrusion on business. Businesses would be free to trade amongst themselves as they saw fit. Many would self-regulate, and those that didn't would not stay in business due to word of mouth, and other businesses who had set themselves up as "Reviews of businesses" businesses - where a prospect could go to find out about a business before doing business with it.

Everyone would be treating each other with respect and as they wanted to be treated. As such, there would be little crime and no real need for a police force. There would be police BUT they would act more in an advisory role to help people sort out their own differences.

Everyone would have pretty well equal wealth and "things." This is because there would be no tax paid on money earned.

We could hire people to do bothersome tasks - such as cleaning - while we pursued out pleasures.

Sounds blissful, doesn't it?

I have another word for how it sounds...

BORING!

Imagine if there really was no socialist or group of people trying to take from you to give to some low-life they want to help. Imagine no govt forcing itself upon you. Imagine everyone being totally courteous.

It'd be like going back to pleasantville. It would drive us all batty.

It is only because we have these "obstacles" that we become strong people - with healthy egos and self-esteems. It gives us drive to achieve. Otherwise, we'd be living in some odd utopia mediocrity. Where everyone was equal and no-one else was especially better than anyone else.

Currently, the education system tries to paint a utopian picture to the students. Where you study hard, get good grades, go to university, then get a good job.

But none of this teaches people about the really real world. And so they enter into it as adult adolescents. As far as interacting in the real world is concerned, they are immature. Some grow up, most do not.

What if, instead of going to university, students had to have a job for a year or two? Maybe a factory job as a process worker or something.

In a factory you will meet nearly every type of person you can think of. Different shapes and sizes as well as personalities. A factory is like a microcosm of the world at large. And as a menial process worker, there is a good chance the stuck up student will come down to earth a bit.

Then, after a year or two of such work, they will have fulfilled the university pre-requisite and be allowed into their course, if they still want to go, that is.

Many will not want to go. Many will have come to realize that uni is the big con. Where you waste three to four years of your life, and spend loads of money, getting a degree so you can get a job that won't pay much more than the process worker was making.

Further, what if it turns out they don't like their career? They will be reluctant to throw it in because of the time and money they invested in it.

I recently had a chat with a young dentist client. He HATED being a dentist. When I asked why he didn't go do something else, he mentioned that he'd spent too much time and money to become a dentist to throw that all away.

Yet he was willing to throw more time away in a career he despised.

But getting back to the process work experience and other obstacles. They make us then realize how much we want something else. And then we would really strive for it. And when we achieved it, it would be all the more sweeter of a triumph.

We would not experience this in utopia land. In utopia land we would have no obstacles to overcome. So the triumphs would not really do it for us. We would become, in essence, kind of pod like. Dull and boring.

Utopia sounds kind of interesting, until you think about it. But as long as we never achieve it, trying to, does make for an interesting life's journey.