As the mayor of a city defined by violent crime and absolute corruption at every level of leadership, Rahm Emanuel recently announced his priority for Chicago is … vending machine snacks?
Yes, Obama’s former chief of staff wants to impose restrictions on more than 350 vending machines in city buildings, thus preventing the company providing the snacks and beverages a say in what they offer.
The new guidelines allow “high calorie” beverages to make up just one-quarter of all cold drinks sold. The definition of high calorie, by the way, is a mere 25 calories per serving.
All hot beverages must come in below 25 calories, too.
Expanding on a nonsensical idea by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, only containers of water and seltzer are allowed to be larger than 12 fluid ounces.
Food regulations impose similar restrictions, allowing just one in four snacks sold to contain more than 250 calories. A certain number of snacks must also have less than 250 mg of sodium per serving.
Additionally, each machine must have nut-free and gluten-free offerings.
An American city should never arbitrarily stifle the freedom of private business, but this is just the latest of countless examples proving many do exactly that.
When enough employers in these big government nanny districts realize they’re being railroaded and move to states that encourage entrepreneurial freedom, Emanuel, Bloomberg, and company will be left with no one to intimidate.
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WHERE do freakin’ idiots like this come from?
from Bill Ayers’s living room
Chicago! That’s where they all come from!
I say the same to Chicago as to NY…….you voters put him in, now you will pay the consequences! Good luck with another mayor taking away freedoms and liberties!
So now O and his cohorts want to mandate what we can and cannot eat? Suggestions are fine, mandates are not. What’s next….clothing, make-up, hair styles, cars, living room furniture. They are going too far. Impeach is sounding, well, really interesting.
ANOTHER CRAP WEASEL MAMAS BOY !
Isn’t it about time to stop these mandates from hell? Every time a new tiny mandate is given, another one, a bit bigger, comes along. They are inroads to limit our freedom.
Sure, go after Snacks, which everybody knows aren’t healthy but IGNORE GMO FOOD, which is NOT LABELED, proven to cause TUMORS, and is more likely to KILL PEOPLE!
But what do you expect from somebody who wants BIG GOVERNMENT to take over people’s lives and who is probably still part of the o’bama REGIME?
If you think that Democrats or Republicans govern by their own rule, you are out of your mind. Monsanto, Dow Chemical, and all the other lobbyists in DC take newly elected leaders and show them a video of JFK in Dallas in 1963.
“Any questions?”
That’s all they have to ask.
The Mayor of Chicago is still playing the president’s puppet
EXXXXXXXXCUSE ME!!!! NOW WE HAVE FOOD POLICE? You can tell he wants re elected but he won’t worry he has obama to rig the elections.
who are these fools in Chicago?
Illinois is getting just what it deserves these people are fools, they are losing rights by the second, and they still don’t get it…..you simply cant fix stupid,…all you can do is muffle it’s sound…with Duct Tape….
OMG, the Bloomberg clones are multiplying!!
Two cities with the highest crime/murder rates in the country … and they worry about snacks and sodas?
No wonder he has brown eyes .. he’s full of ……….