Liberals believe all Americans are stupid. So much so that they want to tell everyone what they can and cannot eat. The way they are going about this is to get as many people as possible dependent on food stamps (a record 41.8 million people now receive them), and then dictate what you can or cannot buy. New York Nanny Mayor Michael Bloomberg - always minding other people's business - wants to ban food stamps from being used to purchase soda. From The New York Times via memeorandum: New York Asks to Bar Use of Food Stamps to Buy Sodas
This not the first time the food stamp program was used to control what you consume:
Of course there's a big difference there as neither smokes nor liquor are food! Good grief! In other Nanny news, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (like the bad guy from Pale Rider) is weighing urging ban on all driver phone use in cars. That article, ironically, appears in Bloomberg News.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg sought federal permission on Wednesday to bar New York City's 1.7 million recipients of food stamps from using them to buy soda or other sugared drinks.
The request, made to the United States Department of Agriculture, which finances and sets the rules for the food-stamp program, is part of an aggressive anti-obesity push by the mayor that has also included advertisements, stricter rules on food sold in schools and an unsuccessful attempt to have the state impose a tax on the sugared drinks.
..."In spite of the great gains we've made over the past eight years in making our communities healthier, there are still two areas where we're losing ground — obesity and diabetes," the mayor said in a statement. "This initiative will give New York families more money to spend on foods and drinks that provide real nourishment."
...Bloomberg and his health commissioner, Dr. Thomas A. Farley, said the ban would help curb the city's obesity epidemic, which they contend has been fueled by rising soda consumption over the past 30 years.What could be going wrong? Bloomberg already banned smoking and trans-fats and those did exactly jack squat.
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In 2004, the Agriculture Department denied a request by Minnesota to prevent food-stamp recipients from buying junk food. The department said that the plan, which focused on candy and soda, among other foods, was based on questionable merits and would "perpetuate the myth" that food-stamp users made poor shopping decisions.Nannies like Bloomberg already point to the fact that you can't use food stamps to buy cigarettes or liquor.
Congress debated but rejected restricting the purchase of sugared drinks with food stamps as part of a 2008 farm bill, Mr. Hacker said. But this year, the chairman of the House's Agriculture Committee, Collin Peterson, Democrat of Minnesota, said the House should think about such a ban in its deliberations over the next farm bill.
Of course there's a big difference there as neither smokes nor liquor are food! Good grief! In other Nanny news, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (like the bad guy from Pale Rider) is weighing urging ban on all driver phone use in cars. That article, ironically, appears in Bloomberg News.
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