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Old 04-08-2011, 08:33 AM
 
Location: Tennessee
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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."

Boston Mayor Tom Menino | Executive Order Bans Sugary Drinks from Public Property | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

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?
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Old 04-08-2011, 08:47 AM
 
Location: A great city, by a Great Lake!
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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."

Boston Mayor Tom Menino | Executive Order Bans Sugary Drinks from Public Property | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

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?

A councilman in Cleveland is trying to propose a ban on smoking in public places as well as ban trans fat in restaurants. Yet they go after the smokers and tax them to fund 3 stadiums as well as the arts. Hmmm let me see, with high poverty, some of the worst schools in the country, one of the most dangerous cities in the country (not the rest of the region mind you, just the city itself) corrupt politics, loss of industry, as well as a declining population (where at one point the city itself had about 1 million people, and has dwindled to just below 400,000), they're more concerned about this???? Really??? I guess that the people in charge want to destroy what is left! It's too bad, because this city has so much potential if the people that run things would get their heads out of their a**es and focus on the real issues!

With all that, I'm sick of the freakin' nanny state!
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Old 04-08-2011, 01:31 PM
 
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NY is doing something similar too. See where this is all going? This HAS to be stopped ASAP!

NYC Food Police Reach New Low - Food Police - Fox Nation
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Old 04-08-2011, 01:38 PM
 
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NY is doing something similar too. See where this is all going? This HAS to be stopped ASAP!

NYC Food Police Reach New Low - Food Police - Fox Nation

I agree. But how? Both parties seem bent on taking away more and more of our rights as individuals.
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Old 04-08-2011, 01:40 PM
 
Location: texas
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2012 can't get here soon enough.....
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Old 04-08-2011, 01:42 PM
 
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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.

Only if your office and cafeteria are buildings owned by the Boston city government.
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Old 04-08-2011, 01:44 PM
 
Location: A great city, by a Great Lake!
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2012 can't get here soon enough.....

Does it really matter?
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Old 04-08-2011, 01:46 PM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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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.
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Old 04-08-2011, 01:55 PM
 
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Only if your office and cafeteria are buildings owned by the Boston city government.
Those building are owned by the PEOPLE. The PEOPLE should have that say, not the dictators running the government.
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Old 04-08-2011, 02:08 PM
 
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Those building are owned by the PEOPLE. The PEOPLE should have that say, not the dictators running the government.
The buildings are owned by the people of Boston, who democratically elect their local leaders.
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