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The soda measure will be introduced on June 12 at a New York City Board of Health meeting. The board is expected to pass the mayor's measure, following a three-month public comment period.

"Public comment period" is just a sick farce.

The proponent is already rejecting arguments against it...and the Board is expected to approve no matter what.

1 posted on 06/02/2012 7:22:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Hey Bloomberg. F___ you.

No, seriously, ____ you, Bloomberg. No, I mean it. ____ you. _____ no good for nothing ______ ________, _____ you. You piece of ______, ____ing dry up and _____ off. _____ing lousy son of a ______ _____ ________ _____ing ______ _________er.

Oh, and ____ you.

30 posted on 06/02/2012 8:22:08 AM PDT by Lazamataz (People who resort to Godwin's Law are just like Hitler.)
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what next? the foot long hot dog? That’s a lot of wiener!


33 posted on 06/02/2012 8:34:20 AM PDT by GotMojo
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“Bloomberg said that the proposal was aimed towards the city’s poorer residents who may not have a sophisticated understanding of nutrition. He insisted that the measure is not targeted towards big soda companies like PepsiCo and Coca-Cola.”

So because they’re poor they’re stupid? Wow.. that’s elitism at it’s most brazen


35 posted on 06/02/2012 8:48:51 AM PDT by SquarePants
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Ohhh....it’s election year and the food companies aren’t ponying-up enough Democrat campaign cash.


37 posted on 06/02/2012 8:57:48 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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The lunatic Bloomberg has more issues with ‘’health and safety’’ in the fact that huge rats infest every corner of his city. Instead of tackling real issues, the moron offers up feelgood crap to appease the radical nyc fringes.


38 posted on 06/02/2012 9:07:52 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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Boy, Bloomers has really paved the way for organized crime to take over the over-sized sugary drink business.

Rival gangs will fight each other for turf rights to sell illegal 20 ounce cokes.

Black market factories will spring up in abandoned warehouses producing the product. Workers will be forced a gunpoint to put duct tape over their mouth to prevent them from drinking the product.

Welfare moms will abandon their babies to drink the product in seedy apartment buildings taken over by the criminal element.

New Coke City, baby.

42 posted on 06/02/2012 10:09:30 AM PDT by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the White House)
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Disgusting. That’s what these freakazoids always do: have a “board” that gives legitimacy to their actions and makes the public believe the fiction of “public input.”

The only thing good about the idiot Bloomberg is that so far he has stood behind the stop and frisk policy. But this stupid stuff is making NYC feel like a police state.

I grew up on the Upper West Side, lived in NYC most of my life (with some periods on the West Coast) and moved to Florida a few years ago, not for retirement but for personal reasons. I go back to New York a few times a year, and when I was there last week, for some reason it really struck me that Bloomberg has made people doing perfectly innocent things (smoking on a park bench, for example) feel like criminals and feel that the entire government apparatus is focused on them. It was very creepy and I didn’t feel free or comfortable at all.


43 posted on 06/02/2012 10:09:44 AM PDT by livius
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I dislike looking at obese people. I try not to be rude but in all honesty, it grosses me out. I rarely drink any soda and I never buy those huge drinks. But if there is one thing I hate above all else, it’s nazis. I hate this mayor and the precedent these nazis are setting. This is not “Nanny State”. It is a police state. With enough crying your dad will eventually fire the nanny. The nanny has limited powers. The nanny cannot lock you up. It’s only a matter of time now.


44 posted on 06/02/2012 10:13:22 AM PDT by douginthearmy (Obamagebra: 1 job + 1 hope + 1 change = 0 jobs + 0 hope)
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saying his city is again leading the way in taking on critical health issues.<<<

No!..you're leading the way directly to communism and bypassing socialism!......Jeez..the size of a soda..what's next the size of a pork-chop?

48 posted on 06/02/2012 10:46:42 AM PDT by M-cubed
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Mike, really, is New York City such a sylvan paradise that you and the municipal government have nothing better to do than ban the Big Gulp? Really? Is that your final answer?


51 posted on 06/02/2012 11:32:21 AM PDT by RichInOC (Make the stupid mayor shut up.)
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"Nobody is taking away any of your rights," Bloomberg said later in the broadcast. "This way, we're just telling you That's a lot of soda.'

That's some pretty whacked out thinking.

53 posted on 06/02/2012 1:13:45 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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