tell me again how ObamaKare is “just” about Health
After failing to get a soda tax passed in Albany, or to convince federal lawmakers to prohibit food-stamp recipients from purchasing sugary drinks, Michael Bloomberg announced a plan to ban large-size sweetened beverages from being sold in New York City…
“I don’t think you can make the case that we’re taking things away,” since customers will still be able to buy multiple sugary drinks in smaller sizes.
So your point in using gov’t resources to tell people what size pop they may buy is …whaaa?!?
…an amendment to the city health code to prohibit food-service establishments from selling sugary drinks in cups or containers larger than 16 ounces, …ban would apply to restaurants, mobile food carts, delis and concessions at movie theaters, stadiums or arenas,…
…a diet soda, a milk shake or sweetened latte that is larger than 16 ounces wouldn’t be banned…
…The proposal will be submitted to the Board of Health on June 12, which will mark the beginning of a three-month comment period before a vote. Since the mayor controls all the appointees on the board, the proposal is expected to be approved. …The proposal completely bypasses the City Council and essentially enacts the ban by mayoral fiat.
Reins in the teeth.
Since *I* am now expected to pay for *everyone else’s* “Health Care,” *I* am also expected to approve of The Force of Law restricting everyone’s individual choices.
There’s one sure-fire way to fix this: everyone pay for your own Health Care. Your choices: your consequences. As it should be.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!”
—Samuel Adams
“We’ve got to do something. Everybody is wringing their hands saying we’ve got to do something. Well, here is a concrete thing. You can still buy large bottles in stores. But in a restaurant, 16 ounces is the maximum that they would be able to serve in one cup. If you want to order two cups of the same time, that’s fine. It’s your choice. We’re not taking away anybody’s right to do things. We’re simply forcing you to understand that you have to make the conscious decision to go from one cup to another cup,” NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg said …
…[Bloomberg's] administration also supporting “National Donut Day” … at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow morning, Entenmann’s will be unveiling “Custom-made Entenmann’s large donuts, 1-foot in diameter” at Madison Square Park at the same time they unveil a “Proclamation Letter by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.”
“The work of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reflects the mayor’s public health agenda,” Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs said about the possible donut conflict. “The message is that we will do what we need in our official capacity to protect the health of New Yorkers.”
Whoa Whoa! WHOA!! Department of Mental Hygene??!?!?
A gov’t Department of Mental Hygene??!
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Here in WA they don’t tax “sugary drinks” ( juices are “sugary drinks” that aren’t always good for you either but anyways… ) by size. It’s by container.
Just sayin’.
Personally, I don’t drink “sugary drinks,” and partly that is a healthy lifestyle choice that *I* choose to make for myself.
That said, what has happened to my country? It is now socially, and politically, acceptable for someone to suggest that the consumption choices of others should be dictated? How can this possibly be a free society?
(You will notice, by the way, that it is not just firearms that Bloomberg wants to abolish. This is a man who would be
kingdictator. It is too bad that the Republican Party has actually tolerated this person (and a fair number of others) in it’s midst, from time to time.)Liked that Sam Adams quote, by the way. This is a guy who deserves to have a beer named after him.
NYC sure has gotten soft.
Ney Yorkers I knew would have had one thing to say to the Mayor, and it rhymes with “achoo”…
Off topic:
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Yeah, the Health-Control© angle, sure.
(What? Yeah, okay, Lifestyle-Control©.)
However, I’m just as concerned with the fact that non-legislature bodies are enacting laws (i.e. regulations with punishment/tax/license-to-exist-or-act). That is clearly a slippery slope to dictatorship. You know, Bloombergism©.
Help! Can anyone tell me how much water to put in my glass when I want a drink?
^ You want it half-empty or half-full?
“You’re gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.”
— Colonel “Bat” Guano, Dr Strangelove (@3m:20s)
^Alan @6
Depends on whether you want regular or diet water.
“Shoot it! Shoot! With the gun! That’s what the bullets are for, you twit!”
– Group Captain Mandrake to Col. Guano
I only drink diet water.
I think the health of New York City will vastly improve when they throw Bloomberg into the Hudson River.
^ Yeah, but then there’s the environmental damage to the Hudson to consider!
…and this buffoon used to be a republican? How many more are there like him, and Mark Kirk, and Scott Brown, and Charlie Crist, and Joe Scarborough, and Arlen Specter, and John McLame, … and Mitt Romney?
If the health national socialist health commissars keep down this path they will eventually have to ban male homosexual sex. Interesting…
Joe Pags says “Dump the Lump”–
I don’t drink alcohol. I don’t smoke. I don’t do drugs, etc. etc.
My vice is soda.
While I’m fine with a ban in big huge drinks for a number of reasons, it’s a the first step in the direction that leads to the complete ban of such things.
Personally I’m pissed off *now* because next in line is banning of free refills.
Not that anything that can be done will stop this shit anymore.
Only when they have complete cradle to grave control over everyones lives, and the ability to terminate those lives with or without reason will they cut this shit out.
Constantly chasing an animal will cause it to just run away, but many animals get quite different when you corner them.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
— C. S. Lewis
PS:
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
– C. S. Lewis
I wonder if any of those “Sugar junkies” are smart enough to buy two or three drinks.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. If we could learn from mere experience, the sidewalks of New York City would be wiser than its wisest men. {…with profound apologies to George Bernard Shaw…who—-was simply proving his own axiom…}
This crap will spread to statewide law like wildfire. People will start leaving the cities in droves to head for places where the law can’t be enforced as easily, or can be skirted in some fashion. Then the government will use that as a reason to simply overtake and shut down rural areas.
Would be nice if the people would actually fight back the violent way, but the government is near omnipotent now in our lives.
Should have started fighting back decades ago.
The bad thing is how may people that would need two trips to haul ass away from the urban areas.
The good thing is there are 32 oz. drinks for sale on the way.
Our society is irony on acid.
The ban is not about health. They want you to buy more of the little cans so they can TAX YOU MORE.
Just like red light cameras, it isn’t about safety. It’s about MONEY!
The Lump says just buy two–ummm soooo what the hell you doing this for????
I thought San Angeles was on the left coast.
clicky^
You know, if I never hear about that psychotic, self-righteous, limp-dicked little control freak again, it will be twenty million years too soon.
Re: update…
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can’t wait for the photos!!!!!!
^ I can’t wait for the photos — of what? The foot wide donuts?
BTW: doesn’t “Department of Health and Mental Hygiene” sound like the kind of bureau that dictatorships maintain to make sure that citizens think & say things the regime likes?
MMMmmmmmm, Maple Bacon Donuts.
I have to find this place and try a fresh one.
Mental Hygeine= Brainwashing. .
Cold water only. Use
lyelie soap.Rinse and lay flat to dry.
Do not mix colors to avoid bleeding.
People will just buy 2 or 3 drinks in order to get their fix and create even more waste for the landfills. Then they will apply a tax per container to generate more revenue to handle the extra garbage…..
… except to put 20oz in one cup.
… or go to jail.
If you made a conscious decision to drink 20oz, that’s okay. You just have to carry around two cups in one hand rather than just one when toting your eco-freindly shopping bag.
Oh, yeah … while you’re carrying two cups, you won’t be able to get to your sidearm.
Now, about those big bottles of malt liquor …
WTF???
You mean I can’t drink Mountain Dew anymore?? Even Dr. Pepper? (OK, this one I will give up).
I will be sent to the Mental Hygiene clinic to get rid of my fix for Coke? (The bottled one)
I don’t like this world anymore …
(mech, thanks for mentioning Demolition Man. This is my favorite movie EVAH!!)
I love it. I hope he outlaws pizza. Liberal voters need to be slapped until they understand what they’ve been voting for.
“… a diet soda, a milk shake or sweetened latte that is larger than 16 ounces wouldn’t be banned…”
Brilliant! This is one heck of a big job-creator. “Inspector of Regulated Drinks”. They’ll have to be trained, of course, in order to recognize the various types of beverage. Maybe they’ll carry around a little Test Kit, so they can measure the sugar content to with .01%, and an Official US Bureau of Weights and Measures Standard 16-oz (473.176473 cc) Graduate. We’ll need at least one Inspector for every 3 or 4 locations.
And of course, there’ll be a Union.
^ Wait! There’re *still* gonna have 20oz cups, but you just can’t put coke original in them?
If so, I only have one question:
What insane, Alice-in-Wonderland, parallel universe, bizarro planet have I landed on, and how do I get back home?
(… oh, that might be two questions. Okay, I’ll just settle for the answer to the last one.)
DougM (7)
A half glass of water is still full. It’s just filled to the half-way point with water. :)
Mech (30)
If you wash the brain properly, it will no longer have unclean ideas.
Ironic (36)
Hmm … that raises the question:
can you bring your own 20-oz cup and have it filled in one go,
or do they have to stop pouring for a split second at 16 oz or wait until you drank 4 oz?
I think it’s like the plastic-bag ban. You just bring your own shopping bag, right?
Okay,
Soda jerk joke #1
Soda jerk joke #2