Re: 100 fountains
AskAsa
6/6/2012 10:16:21 AM
Apples and Oranges
A cheap little sippy drink you can carry on a walk or in the subway is completely different from a hyper addictive, hyper expensive drug you plunge into your arm in a back alley shooting gallery.
I've never heard of anyone robbing, stealing or prostituting themselves just to get enough money to buy a 32 oz cherry slurpie.
Why waste time with this kind of foolish regulation when you could put that time, effort and money into helping and rehabing the heroin addicted whores walking around the hunts point market.
If 16 oz of Herion was legal, but it was illegal to sell 32 oz....
Can you see how that would be stupid too?
The government regulates Heroin, doesn't it?
Re: 100 fountains
AskAsa
6/6/2012 9:42:44 AM
I seriously dont know how anyone can look at government control at this level and think its a good thing.
I'm fine with a ban, even if it does trample some civil liberties
So you're willing to trade away freedom for a law that won't really accomplish anything? Scott, I hope you're just saying that to get a reaction.
Our freedom is much more precious than that.
Here's a better idea. Instead of more bans and regulations, take a positive step and support a water fountain. There is a project underway to place 100 water fountains all over NYC. This solution respects everyone's right to choose what they want to drink. Even better, since people will want to dring water, it avoids all the workarounds that foil the aim of the proposed regulation.
Hat tip - Dr. Susan Rubin and a caller on WBAI last night.
PC
Ahh man Scott, can't get rid of the 32-ounce, gut-busting soda...what else is there to look forward to? (sarcasm)
I don't like the 32 oz drinks either Scott--but I like them better than what will come next...people walking around with 2-ltr bottles and gallon jugs, drinking right from the containers like survivalists near dehydration after months in a desert.
Yea, that'll be better than seeing those huge plastic cups.
You can't eliminate crass or unhealthy behavior with a law.
I find the 32-ounce soda one of the most disgusting elements of American culture. I'm fine with a ban, even if it does trample some civil liberties.
Re: Government interference
driven
6/5/2012 11:28:50 AM
We wouldn't have to pay for their health care if the government wasn't also mandating that.
Re: Government interference
Tenacious
6/5/2012 11:19:18 AM
So we let them gorge on HFCS, smoke, eat trans fats till they burst -- and then pick up the cost of their medical bills?
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