NYC Soda Ban

It's all over the Net. Mayor Bloomberg wants to ban sales of sugary drinks over 16 ounces in his little fiefdom to the south of us. 

The arrogance, the intrusiveness, the overstepping of the reasonable purpose of government, not to mention the utter stupidity of this.  After all, what is to stop folks from buying two sodas anyhow? It's mind boggling. Political smoke and mirrors at its lowest.


And consider this.


The good mayor's personal worth is estimated at $19.5 billion. I suspect that he drinks what he wants to and that such a concept as "economy size" (or economy in any form) never cross his mind. What could he possibly know about how the other 99% live?

I have never paid much attention to the regulatory infrastructure of NYC. Despite the whole state being identified by its excess and attitude, we live far away from there, both geographically and culturally. I can count on my fingers the number of times I have visited there, with quite a few fingers left over.


However, as of late last year, our boy works there. 


Or maybe I should call him a man now. Yesterday in the course of his job, he picked up, carried, opened, and poured seven and a half tons of bagged cement over the course of a 12-hour work day.


In the hot, blazing sun.

What gives Hizzoner and his pals the right to tell that kid that he can't have a large soda if he wants one? Certainly the not the Constitution. Certainly not any moral high ground where they perch omnisciently over the peons. In fact nothing gives them the right. They are just taking it....but only if New Yorkers let them. Maybe they should call up some of that famous attitude and cry foul nice and loud. Meanwhile.....

I don't even like soda, never drink the stuff. But this ticks me off.