[rktman]

What the heck? Why do I need reminded of all the contents, calories/fat/trans-fat/salt/glucose/Hg/Pb/ and on infinitum? I'm sure there's a lot of folks who DO read all the labels, but to madate it? On vending machines? Now you gotta stand in line to get a Snickers waiting for the folks ahead of you to read the labels? When are they going to mandate that you read the label and sign off on having read it? "Set Me Free Why Don't Ya Babe?" (Loved Vanilla Fudge version of the song) In fact, here it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwfW9WwIXLk

[rktman]

Oops. Here’s the active link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwfW9WwIXLk

[UCANSEE2]

I wonder if they will have to print signs in both Spanish and English ?

[Red in Blue PA]

But at least the vending machines in Congress are exempt!

[1raider1]

This was probably suggested by the snack manufacturers. Now they can make the portions even smaller to make room in the machines for the literature. Ink costs a lot less than chocolate.

[The Antiyuppie]

I am entirely in favor of this. People need a reminder in their faces, every damn day, of how ridiculous government regulation has become.

[fatnotlazy]

People don’t read labels. When a person wants a Snickers, he isn’t going to waste time reading up on the calories. He just has to have that Snickers right now!

[HiTech RedNeck]

This is ham handed all right. While to be perfectly fair these dear Democrats probably envisioned a little sticker, again like half baked schemes thought up by self-proud kids, it is going to be limiting in ways they did not envision and will now try to excuse rather than ameliorate. For example, right now several different $1 items could be put in a $1 slot one behind the other, just to fill the machine. They might not have the same calorie count. Now if one were to really press the issue, maybe a sticker on the front of the item would be considered OK but that does not match the language of the law.

I kind of like knowing that stuff, it helps me keep my snacking within reason when my eyes are bigger than my stomach, but why oh why has the private sector gotten so flaccid when standing up for good things? Could it be because it believed Uncle Sam could do everything and that Father God counted for nothing?

[Scrambler Bob]

This will have the same blazing success as cancer warnings on cigarette packages. I know millions of people who have read each warning on each package, then they quit. (Or I am sure that must have happened, in Utopia.)

We need warning labels on all condom packages. And they must be read and acknowledged before use.

Labels must be in sign language for the blind (or maybe in dog language).

How do they know how many vending machines? Are they registered?

[FlingWingFlyer]

The people who live in this country are too stupid to figure this out by themselves. The Nazi Nannies are just looking out for us!

[bgill]

It’s not enough that they’re pushing for $10 burgers but now they want $10 cokes, chips and candy bars.

[trebb]

Does this mean that the manufacturer of said articles no longer have to have that info on the wrappers? Next thing, any building that has machines will have to have the fact, along with a comprehensive list, posted on the outsside door to the establishment. Then, the county will have to have signs that list all the establishments and the same info. Then the State will have to list the counties/establish,ments/machines info. Then all entries to the Country will have to have even more signs (that might be able to be integrated into a border fence because it will be a huge array of signs). And eventually, we will pay the Chinese to post a global set of signs on the moon to warn any aliens visitors of the hazards.

The sign makers will have a huge boost in employment...

[varon]

"the vending machine operator shall provide a sign in close proximity to each article of food or the selection button that includes a clear and conspicuous statement disclosing the number of calories contained in the article."

If this disclosure is for the benefit of well being, then wouldn't it stand to reason to mandate that each voting booth be provided a sticker in close proximity to the voter that informs them of: "Voting Democrat can be detrimental to your health, wealth and pursuit of happiness"..?

[Kickass Conservative]

I am reminded of the South Park episode regarding Toilets and Safety Belts. It didn’t go well.

[pa_dweller]

Cloward-Piven marches on.

[mikrofon]

Obamacare Vending Machine: