In Search Of The Nanny State: Where is this "nanny state" the Red Wing Nut Right so often rants about? What is the "nanny state" exactly? I see 48 million Americans living poverty. Do they have a "nanny state"? I see 150 Million Americans living at or near poverty. Do the have a "nanny state"? Most importantly, nearly 15 million American children – 21% of all children – live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level – $22,050 a year for a family of four. Do they have a "nanny state"? 
Tell us do America's students facing cuts to education, and trillions in debt for the privilege of learning have a "nanny state"? Do the parents, that pay more and more out of pocket cost to send their children to public school have a "nanny state"? Do those American's sitting homeless today have a "nanny state"? Do the 16 million Americans out of work and in dire need of re-training have a "nanny state"? How about the veterans that are committing suicide for lack of treatment in mental health, do they have a "nanny state"? Every social program that seeks to feed or house our people is under attack by the Red Right Wing Nuts. Is this a "nanny state"? Programs for food cut, but programs for bullets expanded. Is this a "nanny state"? Would love to know where this "nanny state" exist in American today? The so called "right to life" party, the same mental giants that gave you the term "nanny state"! Wake up American the GOP is blowing sunshine up your ass! Their is no "nanny state", there is however a corporate welfare state of "plutocracy"!