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Here Comes The Food Police
TalkingSides.com ^ | 03/23/10 | CaroleL

Posted on 03/23/2010 9:35:26 AM PDT by CaroleL

It takes a while for human beings to read and report on 2500 pages of twisted legislative language so details of the brand new health care reform law are being reported on in bits and pieces. Today, as President Obama and his accomplices were congratulating themselves on the signing of this monstrosity, news reports are informing us that to comply with the law, more than 200,000 fast food and other chain restaurants will have to include calorie counts on menus, menu boards and even drive-throughs.

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TOPICS: Food; Government; Health/Medicine; Politics
KEYWORDS: calories; fastfood; fda; healthcarereform

1 posted on 03/23/2010 9:35:26 AM PDT by CaroleL
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To: CaroleL

Food police? Well, I am coping today by eating my way through a sack of chocolate chip cookies. Arrest me! Arrest me!


2 posted on 03/23/2010 9:37:15 AM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: CaroleL

The Left’s Food Fascist Army rolls toward victory over America...


3 posted on 03/23/2010 9:37:48 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
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To: CaroleL

Yep, and I will disobey by eating what I WANT!


4 posted on 03/23/2010 9:39:47 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: CaroleL

I happen to catch all that part of the bill while listening to it being read online, a few nights ago... volunteers from Virgina were reading the bill non-stop. That part took a few hours to go through. Every calorie and ingredient is decided and regulated by your ObamaCare. I couldn’t believe it. I believe Rush was the first one to call this one.


5 posted on 03/23/2010 9:41:43 AM PDT by BigFinn
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To: MrChips

>>Food police? Well, I am coping today by eating my way through a sack of chocolate chip cookies. Arrest me! Arrest me!<<

Suicide is not the answer. Back away from the cookies...


6 posted on 03/23/2010 9:44:32 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: CaroleL

Well, well, well. I wonder how many liberal fat food junkies are gonna’ like this. And how the blacks will like their chicken wings baked only. I know I won’t! I love my fried chicken as much as anyone. Guess I’ll just have to cook it myself. A lot less salty cooked at home anyway.


7 posted on 03/23/2010 9:44:42 AM PDT by Terry Mross (We need a second SONS OF LIBERTY but there won't be one.)
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To: BigFinn

What is really great is that dollar menus are the way the poor now eat. I should add that is how they also get very unhealthy and overweight. Wait until this really ramps up and these same people can’t afford their cheap fast food and can’t get care at all because of their body weight index.


8 posted on 03/23/2010 9:45:29 AM PDT by chichipow
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To: CaroleL
I can see the big companies going "okay" because they've already put the work into this, but the mom and pops and the smaller, more localized chains are going to go bust.

Why does the movie "Idiocracy" come to mind?

9 posted on 03/23/2010 9:45:44 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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To: CaroleL

“This will result in Washington bureaucrats having more control over commerce as any restaurant with 20 or more locations will be forced to reprint/reproduce menus and menu boards in compliance with whatever new standard the FDA creates.”

OBAMACARE KILLS TREES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


10 posted on 03/23/2010 9:49:41 AM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: CaroleL
fat people will be regulated. smoking and drinking will be illegal. expected mothers will be herded into sanitariums where they can be monitored to ensure that they cannot behave recklessly, thus wasting federal funds on unhealthy babies. old people will be euthanized like dogs. being a doctor will be as rewarding and glamorous as being a minor bureaucrat, and as a result most doctors will be as smart as minor bureaucrats.

a brave new world.

11 posted on 03/23/2010 9:51:09 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: CaroleL

If the government is paying they will want a say in what you eat, how you sleep, smoke, drink, etc.

Already, major corporations have “medical health programs” that ask probing questions, including do you own any firearms.


12 posted on 03/23/2010 9:51:45 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: CaroleL
They are going to infringe on my choices?

I guess they will also have to rescind Roe v. Wade then.

13 posted on 03/23/2010 9:55:54 AM PDT by Slyfox
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To: Terry Mross
Guess I’ll just have to cook it myself

I've decided to start making my own junk food. Going to get a deep fryer and make my own potato chips and fries (with lots of salt!). The Chex Mix recipe that is popular at Christmas is good for salvaging a number of crunchy snacks that have had their taste and salt removed by companies who fear the food police.

14 posted on 03/23/2010 10:04:33 AM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: Slyfox

They are using the big umbrella of “proving the general welfare” clause. That could mean anything. Why aren’t they making us buy guns?


15 posted on 03/23/2010 10:06:54 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: IYAS9YAS
Why does the movie "Idiocracy" come to mind?

16 posted on 03/23/2010 10:24:32 AM PDT by TSgt (USA - Born: July 4, 1776, Died: Jan. 20, 2009, Buried: Mar 21, 2010)
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To: MikeWUSAF
Why does the movie "Idiocracy" come to mind?

Someone please post a picture of President Machado next to the picture below.

17 posted on 03/23/2010 10:26:26 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: MrChips

“Well, I am coping today by eating my way through a sack of chocolate chip cookies.”

I’d love to but I’ve been working out at the Y trying to drop pounds....For every 10 lbs off I get a treat (Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Blizzard). I am on VA, I get paid lots of money every month that I live so I have decided to voice my disgust at fedzilla by ensuring that I live as long as possible.

;o)


18 posted on 03/23/2010 10:31:43 AM PDT by Grunthor (Over YOUR dead body!)
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To: CaroleL

19 posted on 03/23/2010 11:04:52 AM PDT by mirkwood
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