In a contentious radio interview today, former New York Mayor Ed Koch expressed support for suggestions by some members of the city’s Board of Health to ban large tubs of popcorn and big cups of milk-containing beverages.
Those proposed bans were reportedly discussed during a meeting earlier this month of NYC’s 11-member health board at which current Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed embargo on sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces was approved.
Koch was speaking on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on New York’s WABC Radio.
The former mayor said he strongly backed Bloomberg’s soda ban.
“I also supported his proposal which he offered to the state legislature earlier to tax the beverages that exceed that amount (of 16 ounces),” he added.
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Another control freak like obama and others.
The next time Bloomberg and Koch speak in public, everyone should show up with triple-decker ice cream cones and chocolate eclairs. Then those two jerks would ban ice cream shops and bakeries. One only needs to ask, though, are New Yorkers as nutty as Californians? Why don’t they vote out Bloomberg who is fast becoming a true diktator.
I can actually remember when America was free. I could even get on an airplane and smoke a (god forbid) CIGARETTE! Nobody died, it’s amazing! We didn’t even have helmets when we rode bikes! Most of us are still alive! Then the nazis came to power…started with the evil weed tobacco of course, easy target as a minority group, couldn’t fight back. Then we move on, let’s go for food, especially foods we like to eat, yea, let’s control what everybody eats and drinks (including the poisoned fluoridated water forced on us for our ‘health’)…Let’s just call this planet ‘nerf’, mandatory to pad everything with nerf, hey, there’s a cure for unemployment, open up a bunch of nerf factories, we can’t make anything else these days except for chopsticks in South Carolina, we MAY still have the machine tools to gear up for nerf production! Yea, hard to believe this is the same country I grew up in, sure glad grandpa isn’t around to see what it has become. Pretty soon they’ll have us eating rocks, will probably regulate what type of rocks we can eat, I’m sure sandstone will be the poor mans lunch, more well off will be able to afford granite, I can see it now. “Be a Rock Man, eat GRANITE”….
I remember those days. In order to get this far down the road to Communism, though, they first had to start with the destruction of religion. Then they sold the public the big lie about homemakers being second-class citizens in order to get women into the work force and children into government-sponsored propaganda camps. Next they started hacking away at men, making them appear weak, stupid, and useless. Drug promotion and anarchy in the streets followed that. They then started into the affirmative action nonsense and started eroding individual rights, thus comes the cigarette fiasco. Actually, when this started, smokers were in the majority. I never heard of anyone dying from cigarettes, either. Think about it: in the 50′s, 60′s, and early 70′s, how often did we hear anything about cancer? Precious little. Seat belts, helmets, and the other foolishness followed and these freaks started on guns. Some here may be old enough to remember when every high school boy had a pickup with a gun rack. Customarily that gun rack had, at a minimum, a .22 and a shot gun. Those vehicles were parked on school property and everywhere else and no one thought a thing about it. How many kids killed one another? None. Now they want us eating roots and berries so that we will be sick and weak. Too bad the mind of the American is already sick and weak from all of the above. The people failed to shout these statists down and tell them to keep their noses in their own business when they started nibbling away at our freedoms. I don’t know if it is too late since we have now allowed them to use drones to spy on us, they have FEMA lined up to overpower us, and the military is on the streets of America to kill us.
It’s too far gone for ‘elections’ to solve the problem, the cancer has invaded the body thoroughly and completely. Our only real hope is that Drake is the real deal and the actions he mentions are to commence immediately. Somebody get me a time machine, I’d be outta here in a heartbeat! The people in this country have earned what comes next. I have been warning folks for decades, nobody listened. Well, it is now Judgment Day, we will get our just rewards for not listening to our founding fathers warnings, it is coming DOWN, quickly at this point, very quickly.
Who keeps voting these idiots in ?????? Who are these politicians to tell us how to live our lives??? Good grief, the inmates are running the asylum!!!!!!!!!!!