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- Lucy from Brooklyn,
The reason why people north of Lex/96 are much bigger than people south of that intersection is because of the quality and content of food choices in poorer neighborhoods. People with larger incomes have greater access and ability to afford healthier food options. Poorer people just don't. If you compare the supermarkets between those two neighborhoods, the contrast of prices and items offered is startling.
- Edward from NJ,
I think 7-11 would be exempt because its considered a convenience store.
This just points out the silliness of this bill. You won't be able to buy a 20oz soda from McDonalds, but you will still be able to buy a 50oz soda from the supermarket.
- Everyone should read the Newsweek magazine that had on the cover a baby with the headline "I Will Grow Up to Be 300 Pounds. Help!". It was a fantastic article and it debunked so called anti-obesity campaigns like this one.
- I'm listening to this and its startling to me how the Commissioner of the Health Department of this city is so clueless as to the obesity epidemic. Soda consumption is dropping while personal weight continues to increase, yet he's still anti-soda thumping. When will these people realize that the problem is THE FOOD!!! We've attacked soda and banned trans fats but we're still gaining weight. We are continually gaining weight because the food is more processed and made with more artificial ingredients.
- Its very easy for the Vatican to criticize when they live in the ivory tower that is the Vatican.
- fuva,
As much as I don't like Citizens United, Jeff is not being naive. There have been many candidates that had MILLIONS poured into either their campaigns or PACs and that candidate lost the election. So hope isn't lost as long as the electorate is active, involved and informed.
- @Martin - Obama isn't responsible for the skyrocketing debt. Its been skyrocketing for the past 50 years.
But Obama is the latest US president that has failed to slow it.
- Martin and Maria,
Your point is fantastic. But do you guys realize why the US doesn't save for our retirement? Because our economy is based on CONSUMPTION. If Americans don't got to the mall every weekend, our economy tanks. The US financial system is now based on borrow and spend - on both Wall ST and Main St. Interestingly, when we were a MANUFACTURING economy (like Chile, Brazil, Germany) we saved more.
- What happened to good ol' fashioned walking??
- How can the guest already decide that Romney is going to win? We still have GOP primaries going on and Ron Paul is actually winning a few states. We don't know who the GOP VP candidate is. There are still too many conservative and independent voters that don't like Romney at all and may not show up on Election Day. We still have six months left and there's a lot of ground to cover.
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