>>>>>First it was the end of my McDonald's super-size meals.
>>>>>Then it was Mars Candy ending the king-size snickers bars.
>>>>>Now NYC wants to take away my big-gulps too?
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>>>>>This is sooo unfair! I'm 6foot and maybe weigh 140lbs. Hey if I want a supersize bigmac, 3 king sized snickers bars and a bucket sized super-big-gulp then I should be allowed to have em! Just because other people are fat and can't seem to control themselves doesn't mean we ALL should suffer!
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>>>>I have no idea what Mayor Bloomberg was thinking. This is never going to fly.
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>>>I hear it's actually getting some support. Perhaps for once the evil capitalistic corporate empires of USA will do something useful politically and buy..errr..lobby their way out of being forced to sell teenee weeene soda's instead of nice bucket sized ones. :)
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>>Sure, and then when the vendors start offering a second drink at say, half price, then that will be made illegal too. Finally, it will be against the law to have more than one drink at a time.
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>>The whole thing is probably well intentioned, but ultimately, stupid.
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>But isn't it the role of government to organize society in such as way that after Experts Agree, Studies have Shown and there is consensus in Academia that proles who are out there lost and wandering can be guided to choices more sensible than they are capable of making for themselves?

No - government shouldn't form society - society should form/control the government.

>Have you no faith in the Vision of the Annointed?

I certainly have no faith in the 'elites'' controlling social policy - although I suppose it might be better than having the bible-thumpers doing it.

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>http://www.amazon.com/The-Vision-Anointed-Self-Congratulation-Social/dp/046508995X
>( viz T.S.Eliot quote in sig below)
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> BTW just started Sowell's "Intellectuals and Society".
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>http://www.amazon.com/Intellectuals-Society-Thomas-Sowell/dp/046501948X#reader_046501948X
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>Every once in while after the news of the day makes me feel I just stepping in a steaming pile of Kardashian I need a strong dose of Sowell, Paul Johnson or Dalrymple to fight off despair.