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Food Apartheid

This ordinance is in no way attempting to tell people what to eat but rather responding to the need to attract sit-down restaurants, full service grocery stores, and healthy food alternatives. Ultimately, this ordinance is about providing choices—something that is currently lacking in our community.
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So now the economically challenged cant go to McDonalds and get a $.99 double cheeseburger, now they have to go to Applebees and get a $10.00 hamburger and fries??? So much for diverse sit down restaurants and grocery stores. Makes no sense. And as far as the obesity "epidemic" get on a tredmill, or run around the block once a day. It's not rocket science guys. I'm in the gym everyday, and I eat whatever I want.
 
I'm trying to figure what the final destination is with all this nanny state legislation. Are we not going to be able to have free thought, is individuality a thing of the past? Who is the ultimate arbiter of all things thoughtful. What measuring device will be used, this is not America, it's old time Russia. ???
 
sack said:
I'm trying to figure what the final destination is with all this nanny state legislation. Are we not going to be able to have free thought, is individuality a thing of the past? Who is the ultimate arbiter of all things thoughtful. What measuring device will be used, this is not America, it's old time Russia. ???
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Don't worry, nanny legislation can't beat up the corporations forever, eventually the nanny promises will just be campaign promises, then with their pockets lined with gold, the legislation will be closer to the movie Idiocracy, everything will be company sponsored or owned. The United States of America, brought to you by Starbucks, Wonder Bread, and Miller Lite.
 
I keep thinking that soon we will see a ban so enraging to the everyday person, that it will spark a nation-wide chorus of 'Enough is Enough'. That people will finally tire of watching the government taking liberties (if you will pardon the pun) from them, and stand up to it for once.

This would have fallen into that category, I would have thought. Telling people what they can and cannot eat according to their income capacity is dystopian at best. What is it going to take for us to be pushed to far? Passing an act that makes us pay for the air we breathe? The banning of free speech? Do we really have to be treated any worse than we are at the moment for us to decide this is all wrong?


I have to say that this sickens me a great deal. I am a libertarian to the core, and to see our freedoms die at the sound of self-righteous applause scares me in no small way.
 
The problem is that these politicos disgues their agenda's as a measure that is for our own good. Its a fine idea for people to have health choices on what to eat. The ban on trans-fat was one step, this is all together different. If the demand for healthier options were there, then would an establishment open to "caterer" (pun intended) to that need. Instead we have the self-rightous dictating what should go where. I have no idea what restaurants they think will come to these economicial depressed areas, I am not sure the organic crazy has hit those under the poverty line yet, but hey what do I know?
 
This nanny state legistlation will have it's "Have you no decency?" moment, eventually. But how many rights will be infringed upon before that moment comes is the real question.
 
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would 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 so with the approval of their own conscience."

C.S. Lewis
 
Swifty said:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would 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 so with the approval of their own conscience."

C.S. Lewis
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I can't remember, but I think this may be from the Abolition of Man, if not it's in one of his essays/letters.
 
BigMacFU said:
sack said:
I'm trying to figure what the final destination is with all this nanny state legislation. Are we not going to be able to have free thought, is individuality a thing of the past? Who is the ultimate arbiter of all things thoughtful. What measuring device will be used, this is not America, it's old time Russia. ???
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Don't worry, nanny legislation can't beat up the corporations forever, eventually the nanny promises will just be campaign promises, then with their pockets lined with gold, the legislation will be closer to the movie Idiocracy, everything will be company sponsored or owned. The United States of America, brought to you by Starbucks, Wonder Bread, and Miller Lite.
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Hehehe...a post in this thread by a guy with the Handle...Big Mac FU!

:laugh: :thumbs: :D
 
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