Micheal Bloomberg's Britain

A visit to New York city has been on our bucket list for quite some time. For some odd reason, it keeps moving further and further down the list.

Why would anyone leave such a great state?

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New York State accounted for the biggest exodus of any state in the nation between 2000 and 2010,
with 3.4 million residents leaving over that period..

That decade the state gained 2.1 million,
so net migration amounted to 1.3 million,
representing a loss of $45.6 billion in income.

I am usually considered too far right by your kind to have anything to do with me, but in this case all I can say is - finally someone is paying attention to the horrific damage pop creates in human body. About time!

Bloomberg is just another rich pinko. They all behave the same, like robotic copies of one another.

I suppose no-one has ever thought of this but I think someone might actually buy 2 bottles instead of one. Or they might go to the corner store and buy a chilled 2 liter. Beyond stupid. Why don't they do something like solve some murders or something.

My guess in the not to distant future one will have to have a card ( distributed by the government of course)on their person that will have all the legal selections they are allowed to purchase at restaurants and grocery stores. All in the name of keeping you healthy and out of the government run (nee funded by stolen money) monopoly health care system.

It is becoming less and less credible to argue against the science showing excess consumption of sugar and starch (as a percentage of calories consumed) as a principal cause of the obesity epidemic.

Next thing you know they will be telling us what to think. Oh wait...

As a diabetic I can see some benefit in this.

Marketing campaign of the New Millenium (NYC edition): "With each 32-ounce cup of calorie-free soda water you buy, you get a FREE 4-ounce cup of flavoured high-fructose corn syrup. And a plastic stirrer."

What has happened to NYC? When I was there, nobody would've put up with this moronic crap from a MAYOR for one second. There'd have been an angry mob busting down the gates of Gracie Mansion in a hot second.

Dictators, despots, totalitarians, tyrants, socialists, fascists, communists, national socialist.....

work slow, a bit by a little bit, they will control you, they will tell you what to and what not to do, what you can and cannot say, where you can go and where you can't.

You won't notice until they come for you when you tell them to buzz off.

What Lev said.

Not too many seemed to mind when smoking was banned by government in private businesses. Or when seat belt usage was mandated for our own good. Or when mini-bombs were forced on us in our own vehicles.

This is just an extension of that. ho hum

Yeah what Lev said!

Obesity is a side-effect of affluence. In a slightly perverse way, the fact that even the poor in our society have the ability to overeat is a sign of our success. Walk through a museum, castle or church and you'll see that, historically, wealth and girth are linked. Even a neanderthal like myself, who prefers looking at structures instead of wall decorations, could not help but notice that most elites of past eras were on the tubby side.

Restrictions on sugar, snacks and unhealthy meals will do nothing to change this. Prohibition (even half-assed ones) does not work and government should not legislate morality. It is better to accept fat people than a bloated, meddling government.

Two quotes that should send a shudder down the spine of anyone who values free markets, free choice and limited government:

" New York City is not about wringing your hands; it’s about doing something,” he said. “I think that’s what the public wants the mayor to do.” "

"He also said he foresaw no adverse effect on local businesses, and he suggested that restaurants could simply charge more for smaller drinks if their sales were to drop."

This, of course, will be completely ignored.

Researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center recently presented strong data proving that diet soda makes us fat. They found that the more diet sodas a person drank, the more weight they gained. It doesn’t get much simpler than that.

NY is starting to resemble a place like the one represented in one of Stallone's movies, "Demolition Man".
A place where one corporate restaurant was allowed to exist and only served govenment approved fare.
Meanwhile, a flourishing underground economy served up great smelling, flavorful food (even though it was rat).
The end result was a society that was ripe for take over and it was only through the intervention of the heartier types living under ground that they where able to save the weaker metrosexual above ground gun banning civilization that wet themselves at the very mention of an explicative

NY is starting to resemble a place like the one represented in one of Stallone's movies, "Demolition Man".
A place where one corporate restaurant was allowed to exist and only served govenment approved fare.
Meanwhile, a flourishing underground economy served up great smelling, flavorful food (even though it was rat).
The end result was a society that was ripe for take over and it was only through the intervention of the heartier types living under ground that they where able to save the weaker metrosexual above ground gun banning civilization that wet themselves at the very mention of an explicative

You see, according to Bloomberg's plan, I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think; I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy who likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I WANT high cholesterol. I wanna eat bacon and butter and BUCKETS of cheese, okay? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section. I want to run through the streets naked with green Jell-o all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiener".

It is becoming less and less credible to argue against the science showing excess consumption of sugar and starch as a principal cause of the obesity epidemic.
~murray

True. It's carbohydrates in general, but sugar is very bad. So is booze.

That isn't the issue. The issue is this:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their JUST POWERS from the CONSENT of the governed

Government over-reach and abuse of power is the issue.

Obesity is a difficult issue. Sugar and starch are plainly a problem. They are unnatural food extracts that make us fat and sick in quantities now considered "normal." Alcohol is a good comparison in this regard, except it is simpler to detect short-term alcohol over-consumption. I'm not saying prohibition i sthe answer, but there is clearly a problem.

As to obesity and affluence, this hardly decribes the obesity epidemic among North American aboriginals. Obesity became a problem with the introduction of sugar and starch even in the 1800s, hardly in conditions of affluence. Taubes makes the observation about depression era children in New York City:
he very first childhood-obesity clinic in the United States was founded in the late 1930s at Columbia University by a young German physician, Hilde Bruch. As Bruch later told it, her inspiration was simple: she arrived in New York in 1934 and was “startled” by the number of fat kids she saw—“really fat ones, not only in clinics, but on the streets and subways, and in schools.”

What makes Bruch’s story relevant to the obesity problem today is that this was New York in the worst year of the Great Depression, an era of bread lines and soup kitchens, when 6 in 10 Americans were living in poverty. The conventional wisdom these days—promoted by government, obesity researchers, physicians, and probably your personal trainer as well—is that we get fat because we have too much to eat and not enough reasons to be physically active. But then why were the PC- and Big Mac–-deprived Depression-era kids fat? How can we blame the obesity epidemic on gluttony and sloth if we easily find epidemics of obesity throughout the past century in populations that barely had food to survive and had to work hard to earn it?

Posted by: Oz at May 31, 2012 12:12 PM

Precisely.

The passage you selected is the biggest thorn right in the heart of socialists those like them.

They would like nothing less than twist and turn and intellectualize about few simple precise words that tell the government that they can't.

The words are a sweet music to those that love freedom above all else.

Murray needs to read Lev's and Oz's comments again. Educating people is one thing, mandating is another. Obviously neither murray or any of his family has ever lived under the heel of an oppressive totalitarian government, but like Lev says, murray will soon find out, by increments.

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do with the approval of their own conscience.”
C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock (Eerdmans)

Ken, I said I do not agree with prohibition. I merely said there was a serious health problem that science shows is caused mostly by extracted sugar and starch. I find the "social" explanations to be in inadequate. Oz seemed to get it.

There will never be a end to the people that know what's good for us, and their mission in life is to force us to live it as they see fit. The rallying cry is always the same, " think of the children, look at what it's costing the health care system or it's for your own good." Professional busybodies now feel empowered to remove one freedom at a time due to public acceptance/ indifference or apathy and every little victory on their part emboldens them to attack the next perceived problem as their mission in life. The freedom to make your own decisions in life must be set aside for the greater good and they will enforce it with the weight of the law behind them. It's only a matter of time before national anthems must be revised to eliminate words like free, proud, strong and brave as they show signs of independence rather than compliant sheep. Remember that activists never quit. When they have ridden one horse into the ground they simply change horses and carry on. Usually supported financially by your tax money. There are still so many freedoms that must be eliminated.......for your own good, of course.

When will Mr. Bloomberg limit the number of 15 ounce sugar tainted pops / sodas that one can purchase in one sitting?

Clearly, he can't stand to have folks ordering 2 at a time can he? Doesn't make sense to me, but I'm not one of them either.

Edward Teach at May 31, 2012 11:50 AM

Denis Leary in his role as Edgar Friendly in the movie Demolition Man, right?

Making the gubmint fatter makes us skinnier.
Duh!

What Lev said. That smoking bans have become so ridiculous, should be a barometer of how far these people want to go.

Posted by: Revnant Dream at May 31, 2012 5:02 PM

This is interesting, I was going to start the original comment with the exactly same thought that you introduced.

I appreciate your comment.
You are of course right, that is where the control freaks chose to begin.

All of Bloomberg's fat is between his ears.