Oh, pulleeaassseeee.....what is needed is the teaching of "self control"...(would affect out of wedlock births, and many other issues) but of course, that is banned by liberals....too MEAN!
Notice how they never take on the entertainment and media industry?
Using leftist thinking - I think its clear they are greatly responsible for Obesity in the USA. If leftists agree with even micro-managing people’s weight, why not start with looking at the entertainment industry?
Alcohol and alkaloids intoxicate and affect operation of equipment, and needs regulation. Cigarettes and donuts do not affect judgment. Leave them alone, its a personal choice, not a danger to others.
This is idiotic. Alcohol control laws do little or nothing to keep people from getting drunk, and do absolutely NOTHING to keep alcholics from getting drunk. A drunk will always manage to get booze, one way or another.
In the same way, sugar control laws would only make it less convenient for people who don’t have a problem with eating too many sweets. Those the laws would “help” will still get their fix, by stocking up on sweets, getting them on the “black market” (sound so silly when referring to pastries) or baking them themselves.
This seems very similar to the way muslims cover up women to “eliminate” sexual temptation (though rapes are very common anyway).
We can’t remove every temptation from the world. Instead we should work on strategies to encourage and help people to resist them.
Ms. Nanny needs to do some research-many, if not most of the laws regarding the sale of alcohol were passed to please religious groups, like so-called “blue laws”, etc-and that doesn’t make them any more sensible than this proposed idiocy, by the way.
I believe it is logical to expect adults to take personal responsibility for their actions, and not enact laws to take the place of that.
This is absurd beyond the pale.
Want to fight obesity? Lift the tariffs on cane sugar and get rid of High Fructose Corn Syrup. I think what they are saying in defense of HFCS is propaganda.
I know if you wean yourself from it by being VERY careful about what you eat you will feel a LOT better. It is very difficult to do though because the stuff is in everything from catsup to Coke and everything in between.
This is absurd beyond the pale.
Want to fight obesity? Lift the tariffs on cane sugar and get rid of High Fructose Corn Syrup. I think what they are saying in defense of HFCS is propaganda.
I know if you wean yourself from it by being VERY careful about what you eat you will feel a LOT better. It is very difficult to do though because the stuff is in everything from catsup to Coke and everything in between.
I thought the RAND Corporation used to make typewriters?
At least they need to hire researchers who are more up to speed on current conditions. Our liquor laws have been steadily liberalizing since the repeal of Prohibition. Even here in Puritanical Pennsylvania you can now buy booze on a Sunday.
Do candy stores still exist?
Totalitarian control is always the answer, from totalitarians. Did someone from the Rand (as in Ayn?) actully say this stuff?
This is the typical liberal approach—focus on the inanimate object to deal with a social problem. To curb crime, regulate guns. To eliminate graffiti, regulate marking pens. To deal with methamphetamine abuse, make it hard for cold sufferers to get pseudoephedrine. And on, and on.
Uh, you DO need a license to open a doughnut shop, and a gas station, and a dry cleaners, and any other business including, recently, lemonade stands run by kids.
What if liberal elitist busybodys minded their own damn business?
Does anything good come out of the Rand corp.?
Oh, great idea! Let’s put the people who have exercised such admirable restraint with respect to federal spending in charge of caloric intake! What could possibly go wrong?
From the headline I thought excessive drinking was fueling our national obesity epidemic.
I feel so sorry for my Grandchildren (not born yet)...oldest child is 14....the way this country is going, I can just imagine the limits that will be on them for everything. It definitely won’t be the free country of today. I bet food will be rationed (for their own good), mandatory physical fitness for everyone in the mornings....A weight control program where everyone is weighed and taxed according to their weight...the higher the weight, the higher the tax. I know some here will think that is crazy, but I just see it coming. Hopefully I will be dead by then.
How about a Nanny Tax? Every time someone opens their pie hole telling others what to eat, they must pay a substantial tax. The funds gathered could go into Medicare, because fat people may have more medical bills later in life,