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NYC Mayor Bloomberg: 'Government’s Highest Duty' Is to Push 'Healthy' Foods
CNS News ^ | 9/28/11 | Eric Scheiner

Posted on 09/28/2011 12:36:42 PM PDT by Nachum

(CNSNews.com) - During a United Nations General Assembly summit on non-communicable diseases -- a discussion that included diet and eating habits -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said “governments at all levels must make healthy solutions the default social option.

Speaking on the government's role in diet and health last week, Bloomberg told the UN General Assembly, “There are powers only governments can exercise, policies only governments can mandate and enforce and results only governments can achieve. To halt the worldwide epidemic of non-communicable diseases, governments at all levels must make healthy solutions the default social option. That is ultimately government’s highest duty.”

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KEYWORDS: bloomberg; bloomturd; donttreadonme; governments; govtabuse; liberalfascism; lping; mayor; nannystate; nutbag; nyc; pipsqueak; socialism; tyranny; waronliberty
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1 posted on 09/28/2011 12:36:50 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Yep. Sez right there is the Constitution. /sarc


2 posted on 09/28/2011 12:38:07 PM PDT by crosshairs (The U.S. has sown to the winds and now its going to reap the whirlwind.)
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To: Nachum

Somehow, methinks Bloomberg must have inherited his dough.

‘Cuz there’s no there there when we’re talkin’ about his intellect.


3 posted on 09/28/2011 12:39:17 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: crosshairs

On second thought,NYC is the perfect place for the UN.

Send in the blue helmets to shoot the trans fats eaters!


4 posted on 09/28/2011 12:39:59 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (See ya later, debt inflator ! Gone in 4 (2012))
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To: Nachum

Boy, he’s an idiot!


5 posted on 09/28/2011 12:40:20 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Nachum

D’ya suppose he was high on something when he made that ridiculous statement?


6 posted on 09/28/2011 12:41:14 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Perry is STILL a DemonRAT of the worst kind--one who is from Texass!)
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To: Da Coyote

Somehow, methinks Bloomberg must have inherited his dough.

‘Cuz there’s no there there when we’re talkin’ about his intellect”

I agree. He’s an idiot. But my guess has been that he has a financial wizard on his payroll that makes his millions for him.


7 posted on 09/28/2011 12:42:18 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nuconvert
NYC Mayor Bloomberg: 'Government’s Highest Duty' Is to Push 'Healthy' Foods

NYC's Highest Duty Is to Push Bloomberg off Political Cliff.
8 posted on 09/28/2011 12:42:39 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: Nachum

Now if they will only tell us which books we can read.


9 posted on 09/28/2011 12:44:37 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Bush called us "vigilantes." Perry calls us "heartless.")
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To: All

And to let the blind drive...


10 posted on 09/28/2011 12:45:27 PM PDT by Irenic
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To: nuconvert

Boy, he’s an idiot!

Leave it to the liberal leftists - just when you think you have heard the stupidist thing, they go and out do themselves.


11 posted on 09/28/2011 12:46:19 PM PDT by Bitsy (!)
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To: Nachum

But, but, but Rick Perry said he’d always side with government mandates to protect life.


12 posted on 09/28/2011 12:46:38 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Nachum

Make mine a double cheeseburger. Oh and double size those chili fries while your at it.


13 posted on 09/28/2011 12:47:51 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Nachum
Bloombooger the Tyrant
14 posted on 09/28/2011 12:49:06 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bailout)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

taht’s Palin’s job, silly !(sarc)


15 posted on 09/28/2011 12:49:17 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (See ya later, debt inflator ! Gone in 4 (2012))
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To: Nachum

I’m completely out of toothpaste but I have no idea what brand is approved by the federal government. What to do, what to do...


16 posted on 09/28/2011 12:50:38 PM PDT by Raebie (WS)
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To: Nachum

I can’t get too excited about Michael Bloomberg’s genuflecting to Big Brother government, always with the best intentions, of course. He may have run for his third mayoral term as a ‘Republican’ but he is really just another billionaire (18 billion, to be exact) ‘limousine liberal’ posing as a benefactor that wants to help the unenlightened masses with his great wisdom and deep concern - while steadily robbing them of their freedom. I’ll pass, Bloomie.


17 posted on 09/28/2011 12:50:49 PM PDT by Jim Scott ( "Game On!" - Sarah Palin)
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To: Nachum
“There are powers only governments can exercise, policies only governments can mandate and enforce and results only governments can achieve. To halt the worldwide epidemic of non-communicable diseases, governments at all levels must make healthy solutions the default social option. That is ultimately government’s highest duty.”

Mayor Michael "Fearless Fosdick" Bloomberg uses the full police powers of the state to keep a potential victim from eating a can of beans with too much salt and trans fats.


18 posted on 09/28/2011 12:51:23 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Compare "Delay is preferable to error" - Thomas Jefferson // "Pass this bill now!" - Barack Obama)
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To: Nachum
There are powers only governments can exercise, policies only governments can mandate and enforce and results only governments can achieve.

Baloney. The only branch of government that isn't a total failure is the military, and that's only because of help from the private sector.
19 posted on 09/28/2011 12:53:44 PM PDT by microgood
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To: Nachum

What a moron who is not of this planet, number one is defending this country from all enemy’s foreign and domestic.


20 posted on 09/28/2011 12:53:50 PM PDT by boomop1
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