Posted on 03/10/2013 9:32:50 AM PDT by SMGFan
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg defended the city’s new law banning restaurants from serving large sugary drinks, saying that it’s “in the country’s interest.”
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“We’re not banning anything,” he said. “It’s called portion control — it’s a typical [way] that companies use and governments use to explain to people what’s in their interest and what isn’t,” he said.
‘Ban’ on large Bloombergs ‘in the country’s interest’
Fixed it...
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I would like to point out it started out with the smoking ban...
A sock in napoleon bloombergaparts pie hole would be in the country’s best interest. What a meddlesome old biddy.
There is one rationale - and one rationale only - for the ban on large drinks, and that is clearly the exercise of Bloomberg’s enormous and demented ego.
Ban sugary drinks, legalize marijuana. Moral posturing in a decadent, declining America.
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY!!!!!
what business is it of Bloomberg OR ANYONE ELSE IN GOVERNMENT !! to tell someone that they can or can’t sell a legal product!!?!?!?!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I am about to explode!
and who wants to bet that this SAME freaking idiot would fight tooth and nail to allowed some poor person on food stamps to be able to buy ANYTHING that want at the grocery store!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ARG!
Bloomberg is nothing but a little tyrant. Thank God he’s restricted by the borders of his city. Of course, the good liberals of New York City deserve whatever the hell they get out of what they vote into office....
SMGFan~:” .. how 80% recent of NYC High Schools grads cannot read? “
Hey , we have priorities , ya know !!
Its not like you have a right to a quality education which is government funded and controlled.
See what Bloomie has done to pain medications in city hospitals
See what Bloomie has done to nutrition and sugary drinks
See how Bloomie wouldn’t even allow the State National Guard into the city without weapons despite looting
We have to expand government control since the public cannot be trusted with their own health issues.
Why doesn’t the power hungry old fart ban Obama and his crew from coming into NYC and holding up traffic..
Why don’t the people of NYC see he doesn’t get reelected?
If sugary drinks are that pernicious, then just lobby the congress to outlaw them, using the interstate commerce clause. They’ve already set the precedence.
The idiots of NY put him in for a third term, had to change to law to do it 2 terms as republican, 1 term as independant...they deserve him....
“I would like to point out it started out with the smoking ban...”
As I am deathly allergic to nicotine, I was ever so grateful that smoking was banned in the workplace. But it upsets me to see the ban getting bigger and bigger. People have been ticketed for smoking in their trucks, by themselves, because that is their workplace. As this happened, my first thought was, okay, what will they ban next? The other disturbing thing is that so many people support this type of intrusion. Why? I’ve noticed that these people project. Case in point, Michelle Obama. Michelle is carrying a few extra pounds in the caboose. I’ve seen her pictured woofing down the very things she would ban from others. I looked up Bloomberg. He appears lightly built so he probably isn’t projecting. He is, however, attempting to control activities that should be well beyond the realm of politics.
This guy just won the grand prize for oppression. No level of government has any right to tell me what legal size any legal drink has to be. This is just the stupidity of political ego and arrogance. Take your nanny state and shove it way up there but be sure to leave room for your head.
Fixed...
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