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"City of Boston Mayor Tom Menino signed an executive order, Thursday, banning the sale, promotion and advertising of sugary drinks on government-owned property. The order requires departments under the city government to take steps to comply with the ban within six months."
See, they don't just stop at your kids. Now you can't have a soda vending machine in your office or buy sweet ice tea in the cafeteria. The big mommy in the Mayor's office knows what's best for his children and no union bats an eyelash.
Today it's the soft drink you put in your mouth. Tomorrow maybe you'll only get salads in the cafeteria or you can't have butter with your bread. Maybe he'll come for the employees who run on their lunch break next since he won't want to pay for any knee surgery, either. When will they come for your "vice?" Maybe your kid or your wife that's on your insurance policy talks on her cell phone while she is driving. Maybe you have unprotected sex.
In another thread I read someone calling the tea partiers, people who force their religious beliefs on you with no proof of that but here we have a mayor laying down what food/drink you can/can't buy on government property and no one seems to think this is outrageous.
I know people will pooh-pooh this but when they get into your personal life will you still find it amusing?
Mumbles Menino, Boston's Moonbat Mayor, has more chins that a Chinese phone book.
He's the last person who should be lecturing others about weight control and fitness. He's just another do as I say not as I do liberal nanny blow hard. It's pathetic....
Boo Hoo! If somebody wants a high sugar soda they can go across the street. They can even get some rum put in. I would like these, in fact, all commercial vending machines removed from government offices and school cafeterias. The government should not be aiding these dope pushers start kids on the sugar addiction that ends in Diabetes.
Addicting children to disease causing drugs for the profit of the few is the kind of immoral action that makes me despise some businesses.
The problem is. When does it end? Dude, I drank pop as a kid all of the time, in moderation and I turned out fine. My child doesn't drink it, and doesn't like drinking it. Good for him. Let me make my own decision on what to consume, and as for kids, let it be up to the parents. I realize that some people should not reproduce, and are horrible parents, but enough with the damn government intervention already!
I agree. But how? Both parties seem bent on taking away more and more of our rights as individuals.
Please let me know where in the US Constitution, the Massachusetts Constitution, or in any Massachusetts or federal statute where you have the right to a soda vending machine in a government building.
"City of Boston Mayor Tom Menino signed an executive order, Thursday, banning the sale, promotion and advertising of sugary drinks on government-owned property. The order requires departments under the city government to take steps to comply with the ban within six months."
See, they don't just stop at your kids. Now you can't have a soda vending machine in your office or buy sweet ice tea in the cafeteria. The big mommy in the Mayor's office knows what's best for his children and no union bats an eyelash.
Today it's the soft drink you put in your mouth. Tomorrow maybe you'll only get salads in the cafeteria or you can't have butter with your bread. Maybe he'll come for the employees who run on their lunch break next since he won't want to pay for any knee surgery, either. When will they come for your "vice?" Maybe your kid or your wife that's on your insurance policy talks on her cell phone while she is driving. Maybe you have unprotected sex.
In another thread I read someone calling the tea partiers, people who force their religious beliefs on you with no proof of that but here we have a mayor laying down what food/drink you can/can't buy on government property and no one seems to think this is outrageous.
I know people will pooh-pooh this but when they get into your personal life will you still find it amusing?
GEESH....HOW in your mind are Unions supposed to be responsible for and supposed to STOP this crap!!!!!!
After all Unions are too busy defending themselves from the Union Busting AGENDA of many Republicans.
This cracks me up........call the ACLU......OH WAIT.......many Republicans hate them too!!!!!!
Please let me know where in the US Constitution, the Massachusetts Constitution, or in any Massachusetts or federal statute where you have the right to a soda vending machine in a government building.
Of course it's not there. Please tell me why the government or anyone else should dictate what others can or can't consume? Is someone who wants to enjoy a soda harming your health in any way shape or form?
Of course it's not there. Please tell me why the government or anyone else should dictate what others can or can't consume? Is someone who wants to enjoy a soda harming your health in any way shape or form?
Does anything in Mumbles Menino's EO say anything about preventing people from bringing in whatever they want to eat?
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