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Mayor Bloomberg Declares War On ... Salt
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| 1/28/09
| Marcia Kramer
Posted on 01/29/2009 5:19:55 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32
Singer Jimmy Buffett will never find his "lost shaker of salt" in New York City or any other place in the country if Mayor Michael Bloomberg has his way. The mayor is waging a war on salt and he wants food manufacturers and restaurants to join his army
or else.
It's ironic that the war on salt began on the very day the city was spreading tons of it on the streets to fight a snow storm, but in Bloomberg's view there is good salt
and bad salt.
City officials said that people don't realize the salt content of the things they buy in the supermarket.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloomberg; health; loopy; lping; medicine; rino
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
Nero fiddles while Rome burns...
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posted on
01/29/2009 7:24:46 AM PST
by
Tin Cup
To: GoldenPup
Mayor Bloomberg Declares War On ... Salt
War on Smoking;
War on Food Fat;
War on Guns....while the War on Terror is suddenly a non-issue, so much so that the term cannot even be spoken. According to Obama's press secretary, they prefer to call it a "challenge." But dietary salt? Liberals have finally found a danger to the republic worthy of battle.
If Herr Bloomberg wants to use the power of the state to wage war on hidden substances in our food, I'd be cool with a war on melamine.
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posted on
01/29/2009 7:28:26 AM PST
by
Eroteme
To: Constitution Day; Ezekial
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posted on
01/29/2009 8:10:04 AM PST
by
aculeus
To: GeorgiaDawg32
Bloomberg was not the first to declare the War On Salt. The first shot fired was in
Britain in 2008.
![](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/06/28/article-1030164-01C4578E00000578-113_468x488.jpg)
"People will just put on more salt if they want more. In fact, we have had some people unscrewing the lids to do so."
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posted on
01/29/2009 8:16:59 AM PST
by
Sender
(It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
To: GoldenPup
Sounds like divine rights of king, especially the fact that he wants to run for a third term. God help us all if he does.
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posted on
01/29/2009 8:35:36 AM PST
by
Ptarmigan
(God Hates Bunnies. God Loves Ptarmigans)
To: GeorgiaDawg32
City officials said that people don't realize the salt content of the things they buy in the supermarket. If they care, it's on the label. All they have to do is look.
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posted on
01/29/2009 9:22:17 AM PST
by
freespirited
(Help save humanity. Cure the RINOvirus.)
To: GeorgiaDawg32; Ezekiel; Yehuda; dennisw; dighton; aculeus; Constitution Day
To: martin_fierro; GeorgiaDawg32; Ezekiel; Yehuda; dennisw; dighton; Constitution Day
Maybe Mr.
Moron Mayor had a bum meal
here.In my NYC days it was a popular lunch spot for the expense account crowd. Rather unusual in that all the waiters were Caucasian.
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posted on
01/29/2009 11:58:27 AM PST
by
aculeus
To: GeorgiaDawg32
“Bloomberg Declares War On Salt; Residents Say NYC Becoming Nanny State...”
becoming?
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posted on
01/29/2009 12:15:20 PM PST
by
lainie
(The US congress is full to the brim of absolutely disgusting thieves who deserve humiliating ouster.)
To: GeorgiaDawg32
or as they say on MST3K, “sodium!”
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posted on
01/29/2009 12:15:54 PM PST
by
isom35
To: GeorgiaDawg32
Nah, it started with the War on Drugs. Once we set the precedent that the government gets to decide what adults may put in our own bodies, this was the predictable result.
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posted on
01/29/2009 1:46:39 PM PST
by
ellery
(It's a free country.)
To: Gabz; bamahead
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posted on
01/29/2009 1:54:59 PM PST
by
ellery
(It's a free country.)
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posted on
01/29/2009 7:03:40 PM PST
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: ellery; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; ...
"Nanny state. We don't need any more nanny state people can take care of themselves. We don't need the government to take care of us..."
And yet, your fellow New Yorkers continuously vote your nannies into office time and again.
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posted on
01/30/2009 5:35:28 AM PST
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: catman67
New York State is one of the biggest exporters of salt there is. While he’s only a twit in NYC, he still is part of the problem, buying so much of the stuff.
Other states need to sue NY for exporting the stuff and causing dangerous conditions there.
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posted on
01/30/2009 6:07:39 AM PST
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: GeorgiaDawg32
Unintended consequences
Bloomberg-like autocrats want to use taxation to encourage the sale of diet drinks compared with sugared drinks.
Yet, I think I read the other day that mice given access to sugar substitutes actually eat more.
With this in mind...
Will salt restrictions make it necessary for some patients to lower their dosage of high blood pressure medication?
Will people who are taking potassium supplements know how much to reduce their intake?
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posted on
01/30/2009 6:47:41 AM PST
by
syriacus
(Obamaham Lincoln would have told the South, "Keep Fort Sumter. Secede if you wish.")
To: bamahead
New York is screwing the rest of the USA in many ways. This is nothing new.
I bet that some huge percent of the bailout money is going to New York. Certainly the $18 billion in ill gotten bonuses are mostly all going there. A huge chunk of the stimulius will go there, too, because they get more FedGov matching funds for welfare than any other state.
FDR was the Gov. of New York and ever since the New Deal we (out here in sagebrush country) have been paying tributes to our Lords in New York.
To: GeorgiaDawg32
Thomas Frieden, the city's health commissioner, said he wants manufacturers and restaurants to join the war on salt voluntarily. If they don't, the city could pass legislation making it the law.Oh, fer crying out loud.
Sounds just as voluntary as a military draft, and a voluntary tax system
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