All That Fat and a Bag of Sugar

Have you ever observed those people who frequent a Popeye's Restaurant?  They serve coronary-fried chicken, flaccid fries, Humungous Gulps, and fat burgers, and  they serve it with attitude.  The wait staff is proud to serve their delicious, fatty, oil-laden delicacies and their broad smiles and oily chins are proof that they too eat what they dish out.  It takes guts to eat at Popeye's, and there is no doubt the servers have guts; big ones, just like those they serve.  It is highly rare to see a svelte woman or skinny man eating at Popeye's, or a geriatric customer for that matter.  Older people don't eat there regularly because they'd never get to be old--coronaries, heart transplants, and bypass surgery has a way of limiting one's attendance at a Popeye's.

Bloomberg's Grinch Imitation

The Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, believes that a Big Gulp is worse for you than a big box of chicken wings, fries, cornbread, and a large Pepsi at Popeye's.  It's hard to imagine why.  Just one chicken wing has enough oil in it to burn a holy lamp for seven days and seven nights.  The fries can create gorgeous rainbows in puddles on Broadway, and the cornbread has enough cholesterol to be used as strategic weapons in the fight against mental health.  Big Gulps, however, have sugar in them and sugar causes obesity, diabetes, heart disease, tooth decay and ants.  Wait--so does most everything on the Popeye's menu.  In fact, leave a Popeye's meal on a New York sidewalk for a half an hour at night and it also causes rats.

So why doesn't Mayor Mike close down all of these unhealthy establishments?  And why did Mayor Mike hold "Doughnut Week" in the city the same week he moved to ban sodas over 16 ounces?  Power; nothing more, nothing less.  The Bloomberg idiots are calling the pro-Big Gulps the "soda cartel."  That's laughable.  Michael Bloomberg is an idiot with an idiot's approach to problem-solving.  Rather than educating the public about the dangers of obesity, he bans one item that can contribute to it if abused.  His thinking, I must say, is consistent and predictable--after the horrible Aurora Movie massacre last week, Bloomberg's knee-jerk solution was to ban guns.  

But banning is worrisome because if the government  can ban Big Gulps, they can ban cigarettes, alcohol, foods with cholesterol, and Roseann Barr.  and anything they want to ban.  It's called the nanny state for a reason--they don't want to allow us to decide what we can or cannot eat, or how we want to die.  We have the right to be fat--look at Michael Moore.  I bet he's slurped enough Slurpees to sink an aircraft carrier and downed plenty of Humongous Gulps in his time. 

What seems like a local city problem, is really a national one.  Just how much government do we want? 

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