Posted on 03/28/2010 9:22:25 AM PDT by RobinMasters
Nancy Pelosi told the public that we’d have to pass ObamaCare to find out all of the surprises Democrats had loaded into it. Since its passage, we’ve discovered a number of them, including the elimination of a tax credit that kept seniors on private medication coverage that has forced publicly-held corporations like AT&T, Caterpillar, John Deere, and Verizon to take massive charges against this year’s earnings. Earlier this week, the Associated Press discovered a new mandate, this time on chain restaurants, that is at once petty, paternalistic, and anti-growth:
A requirement tucked into the nation’s massive health care bill will make calorie counts impossible for thousands of restaurants to hide and difficult for consumers to ignore. More than 200,000 fast food and other chain restaurants will have to include calorie counts on menus, menu boards and even drive-throughs.
The new law, which applies to any restaurant with 20 or more locations, directs the Food and Drug Administration to create a new national standard for menu labeling, superseding a growing number of state and city laws. President Barack Obama was expected to sign the health care legislation Tuesday.
The idea is to make sure that customers process the calorie information as they are ordering. Many restaurants currently post nutritional information in a hallway, on a hamburger wrapper or on their Web site. The new law will make calories immediately available for most items.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Obamama.
My wife is thinking we should go buy 100 - 200 right now and freeze them.....
When the IRS throws me in prison for non compliance I will have plenty of time to read up on why I’m locked up.
I will not comply, I will not pay the fine and I will not play nice.
They found my hill and I’m keeping it
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Mmhmm... member this???
So that’s what we want to do on global warming here in the United States.
“We are also, though, going have to negotiate with other countries. China, India, in particular Brazil. They are growing so fast that they are consuming more and more energy, and pretty soon, if their carpet footprint even approaches ours, we’re goners. That’s part of the reason why we’ve got to make the investment; we’ve got to lead by example. If we lead by example — if we lead by example, then we can actually export and license technology that have been invented here to help them deal with their growth pain. But keep in mind, you’re right. We can’t tell them, don’t grow. We can’t — drive our SUVs and you know, eat as much as we want and keep our homes on you know, 72 degrees at all times, and whether we’re living in the desert or we’re living in the tundra, and then just expect that every other country’s going say OK.
You guys go ahead and keep on using 25 percent of the world’s energy. Even though you only account for 3 percent of the population, and we’ll be fine. Don’t worry about us. That’s not — that’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.”
Oops, quotation marks were supposed to be starting at—”So that’s what we want to do on global warming here in the United States.”
Nice to see that at least there are two of us who get it! ... The democrap party had three vehicles by which they meant to take control of Amerika: cap&tax, OR healthcare control, OR national ID hooked to interstate commerce as part of an amnesty bill.
I have to wonder if that’s not what the muslim wants. Massive lay offs and the country is kaputs.
I don't think I'll ever see that word without thinking: STUPAK.
It is only the beginning- it won’t be long until the government tells you which item on the menu you are allowed to buy....
If people are too stupid to pay attention to all the health reports, news articles, books, and warnings about the fats, calories, sodium, and chemicals in the food they are eating having the calorie count on a menu isn't going to change their habits one bit. It will however, limit the selections, specials, new items, of many restaurants and prevent many from opening a new location once they reach the magic number of 19 locations. Not to mention adding to the cost of doing business which will be passed on to customers.
Will companies have to get new computer programs or reprogram to add the medical device tax? If so that is another hidden cost that will be passed on to the consumer.
They post some of that stuff already on Subway stuff, doesn’t stop some one from eating a foot long, when all they should eat is a half a one.
Pretty soon they will require it on your kitchen wall!
YES...we need a BUSINESS STRIKE....for about a week! Let’s see how Obomba would fare under that....
big BUMP
“superseding a growing number of state and city laws”
And, there is the real meat and potatoes of the mad march to marxism...supercede local control and local government; bring big brother gubmint to the masses.
This has very little to do with healthcare, and EVERYTHING to do with control and extending the socialist agenda of the anointed one and his 0bamunistas...
It’s time to take back the country.
“I have to wonder if that’s not what the muslim wants. Massive lay offs and the country is kaputs.”
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