Nanny State PING!
Reason number 10,865 not to live there.
Assuming the ban does go through, I’d like to see the obesity statistics six months to a year later. Supposedly 60% of New Yorkers are currently overweight. I’ll bet the number rises.
It’s like drugs. People who want the sugary drinks will find some way to get them.
This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Couldn’t you just buy two or three small drinks???
NY and CA need to secede.
I’m assuming that you can still buy a 40-ouncer of malt liquor in NYC?
So a 15 oz Scotch on the rocks will still be legal?
Since when did “public” health mean you can tell me what to do? “Public health” deals with communicable diseases, not what I am doing to myself. Sugary drinks, smoking, or transfats DO NOT cause health issues except to those consuming the products - therefore none are PUBLIC HEALTH issues.
What has Bloominidiot done to stem the spread of AIDS or hepatitis? Now those are true public health issues, as they are communicable diseases..........has he banned anything that causes those true public health issues?
When I go through the drive through and they mistakenly give me one of these things, these absolute monstrosities which don’t fit into any category of food, I just laugh and give it back, I don’t care if I’ve paid for it through some meal deal.
It’s ridiculous.
When someone asked me the other day re: German socialized medicine vis a vis Obamacare and the potential benefits, the answer was a very quick: Germans take care of their nutrition the way people in this country used to. We don’t have the resources they do to manage the plethora of obese people who won’t take care of themselves and who want the medical system to do it for them as they refuse to comply with medical orders and advice.
We have a thirty six percent obesity rate. That alone should take us out of the running for having a socialized medicine system, not to mention that the German system is not at all satisfactory.
And the waddling women I see regularly carrying these ginormous sodas around are atrocious, though they won’t make it past 65, they’ll utilize tremendous resources on the way.
Still, I enjoy using my choice to laugh and give the thing back.
I don’t need Mooch, who can’t dress to save her life or reputation and whose fat form I wish to never see, telling me nor Mayor Bloomberg telling me I’m too stupid to know how to take care of my nutrition.
They can check their own behaviors.
When I go through the drive through and they mistakenly give me one of these things, these absolute monstrosities which don’t fit into any category of food, I just laugh and give it back, I don’t care if I’ve paid for it through some meal deal.
It’s ridiculous.
When someone asked me the other day re: German socialized medicine vis a vis Obamacare and the potential benefits, the answer was a very quick: Germans take care of their nutrition the way people in this country used to. We don’t have the resources they do to manage the plethora of obese people who won’t take care of themselves and who want the medical system to do it for them as they refuse to comply with medical orders and advice.
We have a thirty six percent obesity rate. That alone should take us out of the running for having a socialized medicine system, not to mention that the German system is not at all satisfactory.
And the waddling women I see regularly carrying these ginormous sodas around are atrocious, though they won’t make it past 65, they’ll utilize tremendous resources on the way.
Still, I enjoy using my choice to laugh and give the thing back.
I don’t need Mooch, who can’t dress to save her life or reputation and whose fat form I wish to never see, telling me nor Mayor Bloomberg telling me I’m too stupid to know how to take care of my nutrition.
They can check their own behaviors.
Today I heard an interesting liberal rebuttal to the soda ban. Don’t ban it - people will break the law or find work arounds. Instead, tax ALL soda to decrease consumption, generating revenue while improving public health.
Don’t challenge it in the courts. Challenge it in the streets.
3/4 of the damned thing is ice anyway.
Great start Mayor!...but lets cut to the chase and get this deal accomplished!!...
Ban men's waist sizes bigger the 36 and dress sizes bigger then 14 for everyone in or visiting NY....Was that so hard??
Great start Mayor!...but lets cut to the chase and get this deal accomplished!!...
Ban men's waist sizes bigger the 36 and dress sizes bigger then 14 for everyone in or visiting NY....Was that so hard??
Go down to a NYC China-town restaurant and order a meal and they just don’t charge you sales tax, they just ignore that law.
Next is liquor cannot be sold in containers of more than one ounce.
It actually has a limit and a precedent.
the 32 ouncers where available before and never challenged when created.
The issue is a sugary substance and they are limiting the substance by fascistic dictate.
Courts? Now there’s a joke. Most of the “Courts” have either been bought and paid for, owe their positions to liberal Dimocraps, are driven by personal agendas, are crooked or are just plain anti-Constitutional.
No servings of meat over 3 ounces as has been demonstrably proven the body can absorb 5-10 ounces in an hour.
So it would generous to allow you to eat twice as much as you can reasonably absorb.
So Let it Be Written, So Let it Be Done.
Are the citizens of New York really going to let themselves be dominated by the State like this?
Tyrannical bullshit such as this, fomented by our rulers, makes me ashamed of the people we elect to represent us.
Petty Tyrants like Bloomberg are the scum of the earth, and they should be ridiculed and burned in effigy, if not tarred and feathered.
This sort of authoritarian nonsense is antithetical to minimal, non-intrusive republican government, and I can only hope that one day we all live in an America where such asinine thinking simply doesn't occur.
Education, not legislation.
Busybody Bloomberg, his health board, and their ilk need to be repeatedly and systematically soaked with Sprite from Super Big Gulps, or something.
Every time Bloomberg walks out in public he should be terrified that someone's gonna soda-fy him.
C'mon, New Yorkers, show some guts! It will always be an "accident", of course. Things happen. Drinks spill...
'Heal the planet' given as an excuse to strip humans of their rights