In case you haven’t heard, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) wants to ban the sale of sodas over 16 ounces in New York. I’m really glad there are no larger, pressing issues facing New York City so that Doubcheberg Bloomberg can focus on this most crucial of issues.
Yeah, I know, there is an obesity epidemic in this country. I know that high sugar content drinks contribute to it. What I don’t get is why the government feels the need to get involved by banning large sodas. What’s to stop someone from buying two or more smaller sodas to equal more than 16 ounces? We’re going to ban those sodas, but feel free to buy that Bic Mac and super-sized fries. Apparently, they don’t cause obesity. Oh, and you can still drink all the fruit juice you want. No sugar in that. /sarcasm.
And let’s talk about enforcement, shall we? Just how is this going to be enforced? Are they going to create a new government agency to oversee every restaurant in NYC to see if they’re selling contraband sodas? Or will they simply hire more people to work for the Health Department to enforce this nonsense? I can see it now, back alley soda deals going down. This whole thing is ludicrous!
But really, this isn’t about sodas. It’s about control. It’s about the government trying to control what you can and cannot buy or do or eat. Banning restaurants from selling sodas over an arbitrary size won’t put a dent in the obesity epidemic. If people want mass quantities of soda, people are going to drink mass quantities of soda. They will just get it somewhere other than a restaurant, or order more than one. This is just another example of government intruding where government has no business intruding.
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It is so ridiculous and nit-picky.
They certainly have more important things to be focusing on right now.
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it’s more about the cluelessness; how out of touch with reality these officials are. Kind of like at work, where we just got a memo from corporate about how product X is the thing we have the most of in stock, so we are going to have a competition to see which region can sell the most of product X, when the reality is that product X is a piece of shit and we have so fucking many in stock because so many have been returned without exchange and word has spread that product X is junk and nobody wants it anymore; yet here is corporate telling us to push product X, and the store associate who sells the most will be served ice cream by the store associate who sells the least.
WTF?
I refuse to sell product X. I know it’s junk and will just be returned for refund, not exchange, because it is junk. My customers have better things to do with their time and money.
Our government is made up of people much like those in my company’s corporate office. Clueless. Out of touch. They have no clue and refuse to get a clue
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That is really weird. You’re right, nothing is going to stop people from drinking more than 16 oz. I don’t think there’s any way to limit that without outlawing soda completely.
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You are so right, they should be focusing on SO many other things other than soda!!
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