Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Governments Can and Will Do Anything

NEW YORK (AP) - The Board of Health voted Tuesday to make New York the nation's first city to ban artery-clogging artificial trans fats at restaurants - from the corner pizzeria to high-end bakeries. The board, which passed the ban unanimously, did give restaurants a slight break by relaxing what had been considered a tight deadline for compliance. Restaurants will be barred from using most frying oils containing artificial trans fats by July and will have to eliminate the artificial trans fats from all of their foods by July 2008.NYC's ban on street crime never worked out too well. This is a prime example that laws don't curb crime, they create criminals. One day you're an innocent citizen, scarfing down a bucket of KFC (original recipe) and the next day, you're a Bond villain.
Liberals love to say that you can't legislate morality. But when politicians begin to pass laws that are NOT based in morality -- that's when government begins to be repressive.

1 comment:

Trader Rick said...

Governments can and will do anything. BUT...The people of New York still have the ability to curb governments' frivolous or egregious excesses thru their elected officials, and courts. But not if they're too stupid or apathetic to care... And perhaps when the government takes away their ability to rein in the government, then they'll care--if it's not too late. Have a nice day!!