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Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple
An anonymous reader writes "NYC residents may soon be unable to buy big gulps. In an effort to curb obesity, New York City's Mayor Bloomberg is seeking a ban on oversized sodas in restaurants, movie theaters and stadiums officials said on Wednesday. 'Obesity is a nationwide problem, and all over the U.S., public health officials are wringing their hands saying, "Oh, this is terrible,"' Mayor Bloomberg said. 'New York City is not about wringing your hands; it's about doing something. I think that's what the public wants the mayor to do.'"
If you quit giving them medical care, checks for their children, welfare, food stamps we would be better off.
I am not saying that we make them starve. But how about we go back to big colorful fake money looking food stamps.
That way there would be a bit of stigma attached. More incentive to get a fucking job.
YOU may imagine that making poor even poorer, less healthy and more stigmatized is a good thing.
Which doesn't only make you A PRICK - it makes you an ignorant prick.
Look at Africa and their numbers. Poverty and harsh living environments mean MORE children per woman - not less.
And since you think that those poorer than you are parasites, think for a while how much you've payed your computer, your mobile phone, your flat screen TV, your car, your house...
Think for a moment how much are they worth "on the street", when desperate people start coming to your neighborhood.
Poverty breeds crime. It also breeds diseases.
And when an epidemic of some "easily vaccinated for, but too expensive to waste on the poor" disease hits - your ass will feel it too, one way or the other.
By "giving" to those who have less you're not buying yourself some cushy cloud up in heaven.
You're saving your own ass down here in the mud.
Oh and BTW... "Colorful fake money looking"?
If you can buy stuff with it, you can trade it for money.
And when you and your kids are facing a choice of starving or taking the "colorful fake money", you don't really give a fuck about what some candy ass prick thinks about the stigma attached to its color.
You fucking asshole.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
You force socialized medicine down our throats and then when the costs get out of hand
The costs were already out of hand. Seriously, do some basic fucking research.
Also, this "shoving down our throats" bullshit whining has got to stop. Legislation gets passed all the time that not everybody agrees with; somehow, the only people that ever complain about having stuff "shoved down their throats" are anti-government retards.
--Jeremy
Jesus was a liberal