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This is a joke. Fast food places offer healthy choices. People just prefer to make stupid choices. Expecting government to fix that is absurd.
What's even more absurd is the thought that this new law is going to "make" nicer restaurants want to suddenly pop into the area. I just don't see it where those "nicer" (read - more expensive) restaurants are going to want to be situated in that area. They will seek out the best zip codes they can find so they can get the best return on their investment. They are not going to be able to come in there and charge $40-50 a plate, $60 a bottle of cabernet dinners. Who would their clientele consist of?
What's even more absurd is the thought that this new law is going to "make" nicer restaurants want to suddenly pop into the area. I just don't see it where those "nicer" (read - more expensive) restaurants are going to want to be situated in that area. They will seek out the best zip codes they can find so they can get the best return on their investment. They are not going to be able to come in there and charge $40-50 a plate, $60 a bottle of cabernet dinners. Who would their clientele consist of?
It is absurd but it is the original goal from Councilwoman Perry
What people need to understand is that this is one persons endeavor to change the area she lives in Councilwoman Perry lives there, her original reason for starting this was that she wanted family and nicer restaurants in her area not healthier food, she first tried to get the fast food places ran out and force better restaurants to come in, she couldn’t do that so this was the solution for her to get this to happen. It really isn’t about healthy food. at all or forcing people to eat healthy.
Councilwoman Perry sounds like a serious ignoramous.
Forget about restaurants, why not set up deli's and little grocers...
Now that's the entrepreneurial spirit! Go get 'em tiger! Do you have any experience in running a deli or a small grocery store, btw? It will come in handy.
j/k, I'm pretty sure you weren't talking about you YOURSELF actually setting up business there - although you really shouldn't speak for what and who should or could do business in a particular part of town.
I think we are failing to see the picture if comments like this come up. The legislation is not "pushing" existing fast food businesses out of town to make room for "healthier" establishments. It is just stopping new fast food business from setting up shop for a set amount of time, in the hope that "nicer" or healthier stores/restaurants will establish business there. Where there is faith, there is hope.
What people need to understand is that this is one persons endeavor to change the area she lives in Councilwoman Perry lives there, her original reason for starting this was that she wanted family and nicer restaurants in her area not healthier food, she first tried to get the fast food places ran out and force better restaurants to come in, she couldn’t do that so this was the solution for her to get this to happen. It really isn’t about healthy food. at all or forcing people to eat healthy.
LOL....I forgot about city politics and funny business. Guessing that she is getting contributions from local restaruant owners and is now "protecting" the people of her district by running out competition.
I'm sure the cries of racism are being made too....targeting minorities with big macs....it's genocide!
LOL....I forgot about city politics and funny business. Guessing that she is getting contributions from local restaruant owners and is now "protecting" the people of her district by running out competition.
I'm sure the cries of racism are being made too....targeting minorities with big macs....it's genocide!
Aye, again another law that attempts to fix a problem by instituting a solution based on something that isn't the problem. It is the result of delusional beliefs as to the causes of these issues. The real issue is individual responsibility, but this is ignored because they can't legally take that route as it attempts to force a person to live by the states rule (breech of individual liberties). So instead of taking that route, they make up fantasies about how the fault lies with these conditions and that gives them some legitimacy to regulate when ultimately the goal is to tell people what they can and can't eat. Its a lawyers way of removing freedoms.
People can eat healthy, I can build a shopping list for recipes that not only would be cheaper than going to a fast food place, but would be extremely healthy and balanced for an entire family.
These families have the ability to choose this, they do not. So, I treat it as their choice and any problems they create with their choice is their individual problem, not societies.
Now if the city wanted to encourage healthy eating through some education on how to buy and eat healthy cheaply, then thats great and would be a community service to which a city should be focusing on. Instead though, the do not do the community a service, they treat the community as if it serves them.
More and more local governments are being infiltrated by complete wacko's who have violated numerous concepts of individual freedom to further their own agendas.
I saw this happen in a small town in northern California before I left to another state. I lived there most of my life and watched slowly as these nut cases moved in from the big cities and started implementing regulations that coincided with their personal beliefs at the complete disregard of the community they claimed to serve (they were continuously voted into office by the students at the local university).
In the end, this isn't about their care for peoples health. It is about their care to have people live as they choose, what they want people to have. Nothing angers these wackos more than when you disagree with them. They are arrogant pompous fools and they walk a dangerous line. They hide behind laws that they use to push their agenda, but eventually people will get tired of them and their devious tactics and they will pay dearly for their manipulation of liberties for their own personal goals. When that time comes, there will be no law for them to hide behind.
j/k, I'm pretty sure you weren't talking about you YOURSELF actually setting up business there - although you really shouldn't speak for what and who should or could do business in a particular part of town.
And why is that???
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