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January 30, 2009
Bloomie to Wage Nationwide War on Salt
New York's nanny-Nazi governor Mike Bloomberg, having saved his subjects from the perils of trans fats, is taking his jihad against consumer choice national by waging war on salt:
The city's plan is to get food manufacturers in the United States to agree to gradually start reducing salt content until it reaches a 50 percent cut in 10 years.
"Salt, when it's high in the diet, increases the blood pressure and high blood pressure is a major factor for heart disease and stroke," said Dr. Sonia Angell of NYC's Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Program.
This is just Mayor Bloomberg's latest health initiative, following on the heels of a smoking ban, a ban on trans fats and forcing restaurants to post the calorie contents.
Salt is a nutrient essential to our diet. But CO2 being an essential element of our atmosphere hasn't stopped totalitarian moonbats from crusading against it.
The brutal truth is that New Yorkers deserve Bloomberg's authoritarian edicts, having repeatedly elected him. But the rest of us don't. If anyone is able to penetrate deeply enough through the dense layers of his ego to get a message to Bloomie, they're encouraged to remind him that he is most definitely not America's Mayor.
On a tip from Raptorman.
Posted by Van Helsing at January 30, 2009 6:50 AM
Comments
MICHEAL BLOOMBURG is a BLLOMING IDIOT this jerk wants to pursicute gun stores in other sates now he wants to go after salt. What he realy needs is a good swift kick in his backside real real hard KICK HIM TO THE MOON
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at January 30, 2009 7:59 AM
as a new yorker, bloominstien needs to go in the next election.
Posted by: furballz at January 30, 2009 7:59 AM
well I can start off by agreeing that public health is focused toward children in most cases. Who are sensitive.
I'm for it, i don't think there is anything nanny or nazi about it. scientific.
Posted by: fine ahht at January 30, 2009 7:59 AM
I'm kind of a fence-sitter on this salt thing, since I've had to cut a major portion of my salt intake due to congestive heart failure, and I'd agree that the bulk of processed foods out there contain WAY too much salt. I mean, it's not like we need it for preserving the food anymore, it's pretty much just a flavoring. That said, if Bloomberg wants to cut salt in New York City, fine and dandy, but if he wants to make national policy, let him run for President.
Posted by: The Watcher at January 30, 2009 8:20 AM
Get off my damn back Bloomberg.
Posted by: forest at January 30, 2009 8:23 AM
How's this: cut your OWN salt intake. Don't put a burden on manufacturers to do so.
Is it really that difficult to control what you eat?
Posted by: Anonymous at January 30, 2009 8:26 AM
Watcher, the marketplace has responded to your concerns by offering an array of reduced sodium products. Some nanny-mayor attempting to manipulate the national food supply is just inappropriate and overreaching.
Bloomie is not my Mayor. Aside from presiding at my wedding, my personal mayor intrudes in my life not in the least.
People will just go ahead and add back any salt until it suits their taste. What a waste of time.
Posted by: Karin at January 30, 2009 9:08 AM
Wait for it: (bad economy) + (moribund financial industry) + (crowded city) = (out-of-control crime).
By this time next year, people will not believe that hizzoner ever even wasted a single thought on this kind of nannyism.
Posted by: MikeO at January 30, 2009 9:15 AM
Eh...
I'm ambivilent on this one. Sodium and iodine are an essential part of our diet, but we don't need them in anywhere near the level they are present in our food.
I don't really see how reducing salt content will hurt manufacturers.
Regulation on this one would reduce health care costs.
Call me mildly for.
Posted by: Anonymous at January 30, 2009 9:40 AM
Why dont BLOOMING IDIOT BLOOMBURG climb back into his golden carrage and go back to his gloomy mansion on the hill at stay there forever we certianly dont need this rich spoiled little brat sticking his big fat bulbous nose into our kitchens. HE IS AS ARROGANT AS THAT NASTY MR POTTER in the movie ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at January 30, 2009 3:32 PM
Are we electing nutritionists now?
What's next - making failing to floss a capital offense?
Are these the biggest issues before us? Can't they think of anything productive to do?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 30, 2009 7:00 PM
Bloomburg makes a strong case for requiring all elected officials to have the words "Mind your own Goddamned business" tattooed on their rumps. That way they will be sure to see it every time they go to ram their heads up their backsides.
Posted by: C. S. P. Schofield at January 31, 2009 8:25 AM
