Bloomberg is a commie

[Brass]

Quote from CaptainObvious:

I'm defending my right, our right, to tell this bullshit government we have some real problems need solving. This is non-sense.

How very sequential of you.

 

[PiggyBank]

Quote from Ricter:

I'm afraid I still hold my American point of view on this. The difference in attitude was really brought home to me when I moved to Canada, which I soon began calling a nation of "safety sissies" (don't get me wrong, Canada is awesome). Recently I've eased up a bit and begun to think Canada's position probably has something to do with national healthcare. That is, if society is going to pay for your head injuries, society can make a helmet law, etc.

Which is a major problem with nationalized healthcare.. no?

Some of you guys continue to impress me with your authoritarian/fascist approach to everything. If you think the policy in the article is a good idea you simply don't value freedom. Where does this line of thinking end? i guarantee that just about everyone has some type of unhealthy habit. kids have parents and it is the parents responsibility to care for their child, not the governments. And adults don't need a fucking parent, they are responsible for themselves.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Quote from Ricter:

I'm afraid I still hold my American point of view on this. The difference in attitude was really brought home to me when I moved to Canada, which I soon began calling a nation of "safety sissies" (don't get me wrong, Canada is awesome). Recently I've eased up a bit and begun to think Canada's position probably has something to do with national healthcare. That is, if society is going to pay for your head injuries, society can make a helmet law, etc.

That is an excellent point, and one I had not considered.

 

[nutmeg]

Just yakking but Imo, super sized drinks are profitable plus selling them raises the dollar value per customer sale.

Now if the retailer can only sell 16oz drink the retailer is going to have a lower dollar volume in sales.

Suppose he still sells 2 - 16 oz drinks as opposed to one 32 oz or a 40oz drink, it's an extra cup lid and straw.

Indirectly a gov't reg has cut into sales and raised the cost of that sale if soda volume remains the same.

 

[Ricter]

Quote from Tsing Tao:

That is an excellent point, and one I had not considered.

Thank you. I really miss riding without a helmet! I've actually given it up for that reason.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from Brass:

Just as the solution to the gun problem is more guns...

We don't have a gun problem. We have a criminal problem, thanks mostly to liberal welfare policies and their refusal to execute the career criminals it helps to produce.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from RCG Trader:

....They are still doing civil war reenactments to this day, you know.

LOL you ARE a fucking moron.

 

[ChkitOut]

i think fruit juice is exempt but doesn't that have as much sugar as soda?? Although maybe bloomy is figuring since nobody buys giant fruit juices, no need to regulate perhaps..

"All of these beverages are largely the same. They are 100 percent sugar," Dr. David Ludwig, an expert on pediatric obesity at Children's Hospital Boston, said recently. "Juice is only minimally better than soda."

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-204_162-673229.html

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from PiggyBank:

... If you think the policy in the article is a good idea you simply don't value freedom....

Quote from CaptainObvious:


... Personal responsibility.

EXACTLY!

 

[Brass]

Yeah, laissez-faire is handling the job admirably. You're always ready to offer an Invisible Hand to anyone who needs one.