Posted on 12/29/2013 7:36:41 AM PST by rktman
Not even vending machines are outside the scope of Obamacare mandates. Under the bill's new labeling regulations nutrition information must be placed next to each slot of candy bars, chips, peanuts and cracker-jacks.
Around 457 pages into Obamcare, section 4205 stipulates:
"the vending machine operator shall provide a sign in close proximity to each article of food or the selection button that includes a clear and conspicuous statement disclosing the number of calories contained in the article."
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwfW9WwIXLk
I wonder if they will have to print signs in both Spanish and English ?
But at least the vending machines in Congress are exempt!
This was probably suggested by the snack manufacturers. Now they can make the portions even smaller to make room in the machines for the literature. Ink costs a lot less than chocolate.
Wake me up when the shooting starts.
I’m certainly glad you recognized that Spanish would be first with sub-titles in english. LOL! Yo quiero taco bell? Or something.
I am entirely in favor of this. People need a reminder in their faces, every damn day, of how ridiculous government regulation has become.
People don’t read labels. When a person wants a Snickers, he isn’t going to waste time reading up on the calories. He just has to have that Snickers right now!
This is ham handed all right. While to be perfectly fair these dear Democrats probably envisioned a little sticker, again like half baked schemes thought up by self-proud kids, it is going to be limiting in ways they did not envision and will now try to excuse rather than ameliorate. For example, right now several different $1 items could be put in a $1 slot one behind the other, just to fill the machine. They might not have the same calorie count. Now if one were to really press the issue, maybe a sticker on the front of the item would be considered OK but that does not match the language of the law.
I kind of like knowing that stuff, it helps me keep my snacking within reason when my eyes are bigger than my stomach, but why oh why has the private sector gotten so flaccid when standing up for good things? Could it be because it believed Uncle Sam could do everything and that Father God counted for nothing?
Calories are probably helpful to know. For one thing it has assured me that McDonalds isn’t as sinful as some might lead you to believe. I can get that meal, WITH fries, and not blow my belly out of proportion, as long as I eat sanely all the day.
On the other hand. Why did it need Uncle Sam to make it happen, clumsily as it were. I don’t damn the private sector but I hold it accountable for not using whatever we do know to honor God.
LOL! “snacking within reason”. Blasphemy! (I know. A lot of folks need to keep it “real-er” than others.)
This will have the same blazing success as cancer warnings on cigarette packages. I know millions of people who have read each warning on each package, then they quit. (Or I am sure that must have happened, in Utopia.)
We need warning labels on all condom packages. And they must be read and acknowledged before use.
Labels must be in sign language for the blind (or maybe in dog language).
How do they know how many vending machines? Are they registered?
The people who live in this country are too stupid to figure this out by themselves. The Nazi Nannies are just looking out for us!
“How do they know how many vending machines? Are they registered?”
No problem, Homeland Security is hiring inspectors and acquiring the Prius’s for them to drive around inspecting with even as I write this.
It’s not enough that they’re pushing for $10 burgers but now they want $10 cokes, chips and candy bars.
I thought HS traveled in MRAPs?
The sign makers will have a huge boost in employment...
Don’t forget the permitting and licensing fees and surcharges to be added.
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