Posted on 02/15/2013 4:54:19 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
Autocracy: Still pulsing with the power from outlawing big servings of sweet drinks, Michael Bloomberg now wants to run Styrofoam out of his city. Clearly, he believes that everyone has to live exactly as he wants them to live.
During Thursday's State of the City address, New York Mayor Bloomberg called for a ban on Styrofoam food packaging.
It's all a part of his crusade to eliminate smoking, sugary drinks, salt and other items he doesn't like — and, hence, thinks no one else should have.
So what comes next, Mr. Mayor? What's the target after Styrofoam? Beef? Eggs? Cheese? Or maybe a limit on toilet paper purchases? Or an outright ban on paper towels? Because paper products do have an environmental impact, don't they? Paper is the most common product found in landfills, making up 28.5% of volume.
Bloomberg is going after polystyrene because, he said, it "is virtually impossible to recycle and never bio-degrades." It is "something that we know is environmentally destructive," he said, and "is something we can do without."
"We will work," he promised, " to adopt a law banning Styrofoam food packaging from our stores and restaurants."
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Get used to doing without, New Yorkers. You deserve it.
I can say this, 'cause I'm from Massachusetts.
New Yorkers have reelected him twice. Like with the foolish people who reelected Obama, only to find their own taxes going up, they brought this on themselves. The only tragedy is that they also brought this down on innocent people who knew better.
This is the “natural” chain of events in any major city. As time goes on, a city like New York becomes a place where more and more people live, and yet less and less really productive work ever gets done. At the end of the day, everything is a “burden” of some sort because you’ve got 8 million people living in a confined geographic area who are absolutely incapable of fending for themselves and end up living like domesticated animals.
3 times. They voted for him 3 times.
The once tough and unflappable New Yorker has learned to be happily and docilely led around by the nose. There’s a lesson here about government.
Bloomers is a Crony-capitalist, nebbish, poor little rich boy, self hating jew, tiny buttwipe of a man...the only reason he is probably not a fag (the jury is still out) is that he has the greatest aphrodisiac of all time, billions of dollars....he decries the 2nd amendment, but whines about how the enemy’s first amendment rights to worship are being usurped....even though Islam is NOT a religion but a murder cult.....and dont get me started on salt, transfats, cigarettes and sugar
© Vaquero 2013
I’m really beginning to believe democratic form of government can never work. They just can’t. Deep down, people want a king to lead them around and absolve them of personal responsibility. It’s what happened to the Israelites in the Bible.
well...the ones who voted did.
or they voted for a WORSE democrat, or threw away their vote by making a 3rd party choice or write in.(which, if I still lived in the wormy apple, I would have done).
it is lose, lose no matter how you look at it and the only fix is to take over the republican party in NYC and put up a conservative candidate...who will be voted down for whatever democrat, that those clowns put up.
Next he’ll ban dihydrogen monoxide.
In the history of the world, representative government, based on the natural law, is extremely rare.
Don’t give him any ideas.
I guess there’s no crime in NY and this is why he has so much time to spend on this kind of stupid legislation! < /sarc >
Well, as we know, they put up no resistance to the “usurper.” A complete disgrace as bad as slavering for Hillary Clinton to move to NY and run for senator.
Keep On Rockin' In The Free World, Bloomberg.
(How odd is it that things have "progressed" so much from the warnings of a song released in 1989).
Yes. The third time was after he got the term limit law changed to allow him a third term. Will he do it again so he can run again this year?
Agreed. NYC is one of the nastiest cities I’ve ever visited.
“Next he’ll ban dihydrogen monoxide.”
Now that is one scary name... Absolutely must be banned...
A truly democratic form is probably impossible to MAKE work.
A constitutional republic would work for a people who have morals and fortitude but when the people become degenerate it devolves into a democracy. The spectacle of people who should know better referring to America as a democracy as if it was designed to be a democracy is all the explanation needed for why the country is falling apart. Try to explain to most people that the United States of America was never intended to be a democracy and they look at you as if you are an idiot.
When people are sold the idea that ANYONE who is over eighteen years of age and breathing is a qualified voter there is no way for a nation to survive. Very few of the people who SHOULD be voting want a “king to lead them around and absolve them of personal responsibility” but their votes are overcome by the votes of those who in all too many cases don’t even speak English let alone understand one thing about what they are actually voting for and by the votes of those who actually DO NOT EXIST. Vote fraud is an old and honored tradition in this country.
Why doesn’t he clean out the homeless shelter formerly known as Penn Station. It’s disgraceful that commuters and tourists have to walk past able bodied homeless men and smelly, dirty bag ladies shuffling around. As soon as you walk through the main area you smell bum.
LOL
I like that song, but I try not to listen to the words.
It was even worse in the seventies. Pimpmobiles and peep shows. Yeeeech. It puts "Taxi Driver" in perspective.
This is the “natural” chain of events in any major city. As time goes on, a city like New York becomes a place where more and more people live, and yet less and less really productive work ever gets done. At the end of the day, everything is a “burden” of some sort because you’ve got 8 millionFixed.peoplesoy latte-drinking hipsters in skinny jeans and Ugg boots living in a confined geographic area who are absolutely incapable of fending for themselves and end up living like domesticated animals.
Make that 3. He changed the “rules” so he could run again.....and did so.
Doesn’t look like it. But the damage has been done to the democratic process - which, I suppose, was what he and the City Council really wanted, anyway.
Polystyrene burns. Oh, I forgot, there is a burning ban.
[Polystyrene is a strong plastic created from erethylene and benzine that can be injected, extruded, or blow molded; making it a very useful and versatile manufacturing material. However, do not forget to recycle polystyrene products.
Most of us recognize polystyrene in the form of styrofoam used for beverage cups and packaging peanuts. However, polystyrene is also used as a building material, with electrical appliances (light switches and plates), and in other household items]
Just how far will the little dictator go? Will he set an example by going through all his houses and have everything that has this material stripped out? Will he have all insulation panels that keeps his houses warm taken out? How about the State Capitol, will he do the same there?
Well, that's what reelected twice means. Elected, reelected, and reelected again. Makes a total of three terms.
Reelected twice is actually more to the point - the first time can be put down to electing the unknown. But then reelecting the now known twice...that's just stupid.
“3 times. They voted for him 3 times...”
And quite possibly a fourth time, as well.
This is New York City — things are different here than they are in “America”.
Closing thought: if Bloomberg doesn’t run, look for his replacement to be even loonier!
I was listening to some story on NPR yesterday (I know, I know, once the story got my attention I had to hear it through) about how NYC is taking down the “no honking” signs because they haven’t made any difference. One New Yorker whom they interviewed was going on about what renegades New Yorkers are and how just seeing such a sign made them more likely to honk their horns. I rolled my eyes thinking, yeah, right, you guys are such renegades, that’s why you’ve repeatedly elected a nanny who lays down the law regarding what size soft drinks you can have, your salt intake, laws in opposition to your 2A rights, etc, and you’re all out marching in the streets in protest to this nanny statism. What rugged individualists!
Keep in mind that people driving and presumably honking in NYC are not New Yorkers. No one who lives there drives there.
Thanks for the reminder.
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