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Health-nut Mayor Bloomberg wants NYers to take the stairs instead of the elevator
The New York Post ^ | July 18, 2013 | SALLY GOLDENBERG

Posted on 07/18/2013 4:22:25 AM PDT by fruser1

...The bill, which City Council Speaker Christine Quinn quickly endorsed, would require that newly constructed stairways be equipped with glass doors to make them more appealing...

..."If you sit for seven hours in front of a computer, you need to get up and walk. It’s good for you," said Marina Pyatetski, a 40-year-old city worker at the Municipal Building in lower Manhattan...

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: health; tyranny
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To: fruser1
The stairways will be littered with the corpses of people who died of a heart attack.
21 posted on 07/18/2013 6:03:19 AM PDT by JoeFromSidney ( New book: RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY. Buy from Amazon.)
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To: fruser1

Nudge, nudge, nudge and if you don’t listen then it will be force.

I’d like to give a special shout out to those FReepers that celebrated the smoking bans on private property. That foundation will be put to good use by the nanny staters.


22 posted on 07/18/2013 6:04:04 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: fruser1

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences. – C. S. Lewis


23 posted on 07/18/2013 6:07:27 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: cuban leaf

Yep, when folks forget that insurance is a voluntary risk transfer, then they quickly transition to the socialist approach. We see this quite often with supposed “conservative” thinkers......


24 posted on 07/18/2013 6:12:28 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: cuban leaf

I made the decision to wear a seatbelt on my own before there was a law....and that’s the way it should be.

I make the decision. NO LAW.


25 posted on 07/18/2013 6:16:58 AM PDT by Nextrush (A BALANCED BUDGET NOW AND PRESIDENT SARAH PALIN ARE AT THE TOP OF MY LIST)
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To: fruser1

In a sane world, this man would be in a straitjacket someplace, getting the very best in professional help.


26 posted on 07/18/2013 6:25:26 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Nextrush

I made the decision to wear a seatbelt on my own before there was a law....and that’s the way it should be.

I make the decision. NO LAW.


Zactly. But just to show that we are all capable of stupid behavior, I always wore my seatbelt until it became the law. I then did not wear one for something like seven years in protest.

But when they passed the bicycle helmet law, I kept wearing one. I’ve been up to 58 mph on my bike. A helmet is prudent, not that it would do much good at that speed.


27 posted on 07/18/2013 7:04:44 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: saganite

If he mandates shutting down the elevators he could be sued out of existence under the ADA.


28 posted on 07/18/2013 7:42:43 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: fruser1

I think this is the best idea Bloombutt has had yet. Turn off the elevators. Y’all do what daddy nanny says. Next will come the calls to exercise, like the Muslim call to prayer. Drop and do gorilla hops.


29 posted on 07/18/2013 8:14:39 AM PDT by pallis
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To: fruser1

Umm, who PAYS for this new mandate?

Who the F* let this douche onto the (R) ticket?


30 posted on 07/18/2013 8:23:49 AM PDT by i_robot73 (We hold that all individuals have the Right to exercise sole dominion over their own lives - LP.org)
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To: fruser1; Revolting cat!
Race you to the top!


31 posted on 07/18/2013 8:26:31 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: saganite

I wonder if Doomberg is planning to visit the observation deck of the Empire State Building?


32 posted on 07/18/2013 10:01:40 AM PDT by Ancient Man
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To: Ancient Man

Which reminds me, have they finished the building that replaced the twin towers yet?


33 posted on 07/18/2013 10:29:26 AM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: Labyrinthos

it is when people get old that the health care costs skyrocket. people in their 80’s , 70’s etc are always in the hospital . you and your “We shold do something” , “we” collectivism would leave the free maerket alone “your” insuracnce would be lower because the “idiots” as you named them would not wear seat belts and then they would die young and not cost “You” nor “we” any money as only when allowed to live to 70 will they cost anything.

I destroyed a liberal in a debate with this simmilar argument as it argued against me for collectivist/socilalst obamacare

you leave the free market alone .who are you to tell us or me that I must wear a seat belt or get obamacare or anything? socialism doesn’t work.


34 posted on 07/18/2013 4:27:59 PM PDT by Democrat_media (IRS rigged election for Obama and democrats by shutting down tea party)
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