In New York City, its NEVER about personal choice (except when it comes to taking the life of the unborn).
We recently have another Federal mandate to SPEND $27 Million so that all street signs in the NYC area will be changed from ALL CAPS (which they are now), to upper and lower case.
Restaurants are now REQUIRED to post a grading system regarding the quality of their sanitation given by the NYC Inspections Department IN FRONT OF THEIR Restaurants.
This has caused a lot of Restaurant owners scrambling to convince (wink wink) inspectors to give them a better grade.
ALL THESE BURDEN TO BUSINESSES IN THE MIDST OF A RECESSION WHERE 1 in 10 people are out of work.
When someone complained to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (Who wants to replace Mayor Bloomberg when his term is up) that we cant have this burdensome dual flush toilet legislation in the midst of a recession, heres her response (which should be a classic) :
When the economy is in the toilet, toilets are the way to bring back the economy
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