Mayor Bloomberg's Food Fetish

I have been warning about the erosion of freedom in our country for several years now. We as Americans have been too willing to accept the crap handed out by government official do-gooders with agendas. The most dangerous of these governmental whack jobs is Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York. It is clear that he has a food fetish, and he ought to check himself into a mental institution to find look for an explanation as to his pre-occupation with what you put into your mouth.

Mayor Bloomberg, who is obsessive compulsive about weight, has now proposed a ban on Big Gulp drinks in New York City. This goes with his ban on trans fats, his ban on salt (he actually tried to make it illegal for restaurants to put salt shakers on tables); his calorie display on restaurant menus…ad nauseum…no pun intended.

What is NOT funny is that there will be no end to his desire to determine what you are allowed, or not allowed, to eat. If he can Big Gulp drinks, he can begin to issue edicts as to portion sizes allowed in restaurants, or to size of ice cream cones, or to what is sold in grocery stores…there is no end to this slippery slope. His justification is that New Yorkers are too fat, and it costs the city money. That, my friends, is a bottomless hole. If that is his justification for these kinds of edicts, New Yorkers are in trouble, and so are the rest of us as the fitness fanatics begin a reign of terror over food consumption throughout the United States.

Can somebody tell me where it says he can do these things? As I understand it, he is using the city of health code to regulate these things through the Board of health. These laws were developed to prevent food poisoning, not milk shake sizes. In all seriousness, folks have defended him on television these past few days actually saying that sugar should be regulated as an addictive substance. They are serious about this. If this sort of thing is not nipped in the bud, we are going to have serious problems with the government in your refrigerator, mandatory weigh-ins, exercise charts collected by the IRS. Can’t happen? If we can sit quietly by nodding our heads, it absolutely can happen.

I would hope that the food industry wakes up and takes this jack ass to court. This is NOT a function of government. Every whack job in America who ends up in politics always has agenda of knowing what is best for you, otherwise they would be sitting at home like the rest of us passively accepting this idiotic clap trap.

I would suggest that Mayor Bloomberg concentrate on illegal drugs, murders and robberies, trash collection, snow removal, neighborhood development, New York’s failing school system…and I will decide for myself what I should or should not eat.

Next on his agenda will be the weight of a hamburger, the size of a slice of pizza, and how much cream cheese can be allowed a bagle.

Wake up America. Is this the America you want to live in?

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Anonymous said…
Wait, isn't he a Republican? Maybe there's hope for you yet, Mark. Now, imagine what kind of repressive stuff 'The Rominee' has in store for you if, God forbid, he should win the presidential election?
7:37 PM
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