Nanny/Police State: NYC Ban On Large Sugared Drinks...

[The T]

What's next for Big Brother? Shutting down kids' lemonade stands? Oh wait...

National Lemonade Stand and Bake Sale Hug-A-Thon Day

 

[The T]

So what is legal in NYC anymore?

Paying taxes....
The Libs love that kinda shit here.

how long before Doomberg has a breathing TAX for just living in the city?

Tattoos on the forehead soon to come.

 

[paulitician]

What's next for Big Brother? Shutting down kids' lemonade stands? Oh wait...

National Lemonade Stand and Bake Sale Hug-A-Thon Day

Kids and their Lemonade Stands are a threat to our American way of life. So says Big Brother anyway.

 

[Katzndogz]

What's next?
Rice or beans?
Top half or bottom half of that Hot Dog or Burger Bun?
Milk or Cookies?
Peanut Butter or Jelly?

Mayor Bloomberg, please go to France. Stay there.

What's next should be clear! If you want a double burger, buy two and make your own. It will be across the board portion control. The 8 oz steak will become a four oz steak. No large size anything. If you want more, pony up and buy two.

 

[ClosedCaption]

I havent heard one reason why this is not a good idea. No one wants to walk around with 2 or more drinks since we only have two hands.

 

[The T]

What's next for Big Brother? Shutting down kids' lemonade stands? Oh wait...

National Lemonade Stand and Bake Sale Hug-A-Thon Day

Kids and their Lemonade Stands are a threat to our American way of life. So says Big Brother anyway.

And that's the point. it's a statement to the rest of the nation. Get your children out there...teach them that THEY can go and earn money by thier work...

 

[The T]

I havent heard one reason why this is not a good idea. No one wants to walk around with 2 or more drinks since we only have two hands.

YOU are an idiot. Government has NO...(zip...zero...NADA) business telling a business what they can sell and how large.

It's an affront to liberty...

 

[paulitician]

What's next?
Rice or beans?
Top half or bottom half of that Hot Dog or Burger Bun?
Milk or Cookies?
Peanut Butter or Jelly?

Mayor Bloomberg, please go to France. Stay there.

What's next should be clear! If you want a double burger, buy two and make your own. It will be across the board portion control. The 8 oz steak will become a four oz steak. No large size anything. If you want more, pony up and buy two.

Are you being serious?

 

[The T]

What's next?
Rice or beans?
Top half or bottom half of that Hot Dog or Burger Bun?
Milk or Cookies?
Peanut Butter or Jelly?

Mayor Bloomberg, please go to France. Stay there.

What's next should be clear! If you want a double burger, buy two and make your own. It will be across the board portion control. The 8 oz steak will become a four oz steak. No large size anything. If you want more, pony up and buy two.

Are you being serious?

isn't it the natural course if you follow Mayor Doomberg's logic?

 

[Care4all]

I havent heard one reason why this is not a good idea. No one wants to walk around with 2 or more drinks since we only have two hands.

It's just not right to do Closed Caption....we are suppose to live in the land of the free, and be able to make our own choices in life, legal and even illegal if we are willing to face the consequences...and things like having the gvt telling us what we can order to drink is WAYYYYYYYYYY too much gvt over reach and certainly not what our founding fathers had planned.

And this really really really is a slippery slope that leads to taking away more and more freedom of CHOICE from ourselves and handing it over to some illusive government control....that's simply ridiculous and pretty stupid, cuz next will be hamburgers and ice cream, and candy, and biscuits, and cookies, and coffee with cream and sugar or chuck roast....

If anything the money spent to enforce these type of laws could be used to inform the citizens on better health habits and do things that make an impact on communities that make them change their bad habits on their own....instead of just setting up the situation for a healthy and strong "Black Market" of the future on all the things they told us citizens we could not have...

It is NOT good. Right now, it may seem logical, but that's the problem....no one really spends the time to see things through....to envision all the pros and cons long term before they make knee jerk reactionary legislation with no consideration of long term effects of the future domino type restraints that are written on the wall as we speak, if you try to open your eyes on this....please reconsider.... some of us may be here on this earth another 50 plus years and will have to live with the future laws and restraints put upon us that could have the beginnings with this one simple act of Mayor Bloombergs.

 

[RoadVirus]

Why not let the People decide how much sugared drinks they want to purchase and consume? What a novel concept ay?

But then Big Gov won't be able to stick it's nose into YOUR business!

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

The grape flavored Rockstar energy drink I had earlier would be illegal.

It's all so pathetically stupid.

 

[paulitician]

Why not let the People decide how much sugared drinks they want to purchase and consume? What a novel concept ay?

But then Big Gov won't be able to stick it's nose into YOUR business!

Yup.

 

[Avatar4321]

So buying large cup sugary drink is a bad thing?

Yet, you can still buy two drinks to get the same size. Thus, more cups in the garbage afterwards and filling up landfills. Why don't the environmentalists have a problem with this?

And isnt the entire argument of the pro abortion lobby that the government can't tell us what you can do with your body? So how come the government can tell us how much sugar we can put in our body and yet can't stop us from killing our offspring?

Do these policies make any sense whatsoever?

 

[paulitician]

So buying large cup sugary drink is a bad thing?

Yet, you can still buy two drinks to get the same size. Thus, more cups in the garbage afterwards and filling up landfills. Why don't the environmentalists have a problem with this?

And isnt the entire argument of the pro abortion lobby that the government can't tell us what you can do with your body? So how come the government can tell us how much sugar we can put in our body and yet can't stop us from killing our offspring?

Do these policies make any sense whatsoever?

Socialist/Progressive Nanny/Police Staters are very confused and disingenuous. It's all about convenience for them. They don't really care about Freedom and the Constitution.

 

[candycorn]

Second thread on this.

What..now Conservatives are against "State Rights"?

Or are Conservatives against other Conservatives making a "Nanny State".

Good point but this is a silly over reach by the Mayor.

 

[OohPooPahDoo]

So buying large cup sugary drink is a bad thing?

Yet, you can still buy two drinks to get the same size. Thus, more cups in the garbage afterwards and filling up landfills. Why don't the environmentalists have a problem with this?

They have recylcing in New York shit for brains.

Is it inconceivable to you that New Yorkers know what's best for New York or do you feel like its your business to decide that?
Why are you opposed to local government?

And isnt the entire argument of the pro abortion lobby that the government can't tell us what you can do with your body? So how come the government can tell us how much sugar we can put in our body and yet can't stop us from killing our offspring?

Do these policies make any sense whatsoever?

You're a fucking moron. This is the dumbest thing I've read today. Congratulate yourself. Stupidy head.

 

[Dr.Drock]

Who wants to carry multiple containers? Theres the answer

@Takeastep...C'mon son, it's not about hating liberty dumbass. All I'm saying is I think its a good idea in this case because Americans are the fattyest fat asses in the world.?! And its mostly from empty calories such as sodas and shit. You can still buy the big ones just not on the street. I understand the slippery slope argument but in this case, I dont see a problem...in this case.

Who wants to carry multiple containers?

People who want to buy that many ounces of soda.

If americans want to eat and drink themselves to death they should have that liberty, again not that this p-r move will have any impact on obesity.

But once they realize they have to use two hands to carry it around they may not do it. I agree, from what I see no one is stopping anyone from eating and drinking themselves to death. This law, if I'm right, would limit the access to larger amounts of beverages. You can still drink your life away you just have to go the grocery store.

Funny thing is I also believe in decriminalizing weed.

Big Macs are far more dangerous than weed, remember that when next time so you're not so easily duped into believing government is doing what's best for your health.

Gov't wants your money, doesn't matter if it comes out of a fat or skinny guys wallet.

 

[Dr.Drock]

Yep. He sure keeps turning up again and again.

The trouble with C6 H12 O6 is that it has empty calories with only 1 obvious advantage: quick energy. It is implicated as deleterious to hyperactive children but advantageous to a scholar who would like to do well on a test as the only food the brain accepts.

It's the argument of hyperactivity vs. food for thought.

Some parents didn't have food chemistry in school and don't know how to balance a child's diet. The State of New York is intervening, and if it's like other educational propositions the state has no business in, I predict a burgeoning obesity epidemic in the state, because like prohibition, pass a law against it, and people have to have it.

Too many silly laws on the books against free choice. *sigh*

Indeed. Will we see 'Soda Wars' and Speak Easies for Soda, as I am sure there are 'Grease Easies' right now for banned Trans Fats in NYC?

When will the madness ever end?

I don't know, The T. People change over time. Giuliani halted crime in NYC on his watch and did some budget control to help pay salaries of city employees, but by the end of his term, his family life was wrecked, but problematic murders on the street were down over 70%, the pressure must be tremendous to someone who takes balancing the books and justice in society seriously.

Soda is another story. If people drink a lot of it, they run a risk of cancer, because carbonated water flushes out potassium, and if everyone replaced their potassium levels with a banana every time a soda pop took K out, they wouldn't be able to make it through the door. Maybe if they told people "Hey, too much pop will give ya a stint instead of a butt," people would choose to cut down on the pop independently.

Make it a law, and it will go over like prohibition. Education is the key to getting people to take better care of themselves, not footshoot laws.

Giuliani's family life keeps falling apart because he's cheated on every wife he's had, not because of stress from the job.

 

[tjvh]

The problem is not the drink itself, it's that once they control "this", they will go after "that". And it will be a never ending cycle until "those who know best" are feeding you what "they" think YOU should eat.