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‘Real News From The Blaze’: Is Bloomberg’s Soda Crackdown Making NYC Nanny State City?

New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg plans to propose a ban on sodas and “sugary drinks” over 16 ounces from New York City’s delis, movie theaters and restaurants. The ban will need to be approved by the city’s Board of Health, something Bloomberg does not see as much of a challenge considering that the board is made up of officials he appointed. Once passed, the ban’s measures could be put in place as soon as next March.

Bloomberg defends his far reaching law as a means to reduce obesity.

“Obesity is a nationwide problem, and all over the United States, public health officials are wringing their hands saying, ‘Oh, this is terrible,’ ” Bloomberg told the New York Times in an interview on Wednesday in the Governor’s Room at City Hall.

“New York City is not about wringing your hands; it’s about doing something,” he said. “I think that’s what the public wants the mayor to do.”

While no one is advocating extreme overindulgence of sweets, many have criticized the measure for stripping consumer choice from all New Yorkers. Others question if the measure can be effective in meeting it’s goals considering the law does not ban milkshakes, diet soda or alcoholic beverages, and leaves the window open for unlimited refills at restaurants or multiple purchases of sugary beverages at the 16 ounce size.

On “Real News” Thursday the panel discussed whether or not Bloomberg’s regulation would fizzle out. Surprisingly, at least one panelist was not too bothered by the ban, which comes as only the latest in “a huge pie of nanny state regulations.” Watch a clip from Thursday’s show below:

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  • scrapadapolis
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:36am

    Here’s the REAL question?What are you New Yorkers going to do about it?NOTHING..He banned salt from your restraunt foods,You did nothing,He over stepped his authority by sending police to Arizona to investigate sales of guns,You did nothing,He’s forcing you to drink smaller portions of sugary sodas.You will do nothing.

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    • poorrichard09
      Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:06am

      “Nanny” state is too gentle a term. How about dictatorship?

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    • midwesthippie
      Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:06am

      …segment was already done on FOX.

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    • rrb4kids
      Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:16am

      I do care about freedom … but i don’t really care about New York City. I think everybody in New York City thinks that they are the center of everything… but really everybody outside of New York City could really care less about them….

      But yeah New Yorkers … get off your butt and fight it …i would if that happened to me where i live.

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:21am

      This Mayor with the Napoleonic syndrome is really a threat to your freedom. New York you need to wake up and America in general needs to wake up to similar things which take place at state legislatures, county boards, city councils all over this country. You just can’t make this stuff up.

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    • goodgrubguy
      Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:29am

      ……and he extended his own term limits and they did nothing!

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    • Orion the truth hunter
      Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:32am

      A suggestion for the restaurants: serve the 16 oz drink BUT then provide FREE REFILLS ON MIKE. Call it a BLOOMBERG SPECIAL. Make the patron have to ask for their free refill ON MIKE since they are willing to ask HIS PERMISSION for everything else. This would get around the ban AND keep it in the public conscience till they get the chance to boot him out of office.

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    • dimitrisokolov
      Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:14pm

      That is what they get for voting for this douchebag Bloomberg. I thought the terrorists hated us for our freedoms? We aren’t even free enough to drink a large coke.

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    • rickc34
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 11:27pm

      New Yorkers deserve what they get. They voted this guy in .if they really cared they would have a recall. So they do not care. There is not one thing that would interest me into going to New York. Bunch of little babies that need daddy Bloomberg to wipe their backsides.

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  • tomloy
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 6:54am

    Typical. Guys what makes you think people aren’t going to buy multiple 16 oz drinks? If you turned our elected officials brains to gunpowder you wouldn’t have enough to blow your nose.

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    • CatB
      Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:01am

      Amen to that .. this is insane .. I think Boss Bloomy needs a mental evaluation .. seems to have quite a Napoleon complex.

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    • 10-32inIdaho
      Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:39am

      Nope, I’d order a pitcher.

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  • 3katmomma
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 5:55am

    I find it amazing how so many of our elected officials can be so smart (at least they believe so) but totally lacking in common sense. The very same people who have done away with phys ed/gym, and especially recess in grammer school, are now wondering why we have an obesity problem.
    Let me give them a clue: IT’S NOT THE DIET, IT’S THE LACK OF EXERCISE!!!

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on June 1, 2012 at 6:26am

      It’s what the pu blic expects a mayor to do.
      WRONG – the public expects the mayor to manage city government and maintain the infrastructure needed for the citizens to function. The public does not expect you to tell them what to drink, what to eat and how to live their lives.
      Come on Bloomburg, do the job you were elected to and quit trying to be the arbitrator of diet.

      OMG 2012

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    • Yeah_Buddy
      Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:31am

      I’d say add mandatory daily excersises for all New York fatties.

      How’s that life, liberty and pursuit of happiness working out for ya?

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    • sacwoodpusher
      Posted on June 3, 2012 at 12:51am

      This is nothing. His next action is really gonna get us all mad……….He’s going to mandate the consumption of broccoli.

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  • Lone Ranger
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 4:56am

    Whatever happened to the pro-choice argument that what we do with our bodies is our own business??

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  • Case_Logic
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 4:19am

    New Yorkers, you can see it in their eyes… no life in them, all just Liberal Lemmings.

    17oz soda and Bloomberg are just sympoms of their deprvity.

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  • jabatten
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 2:51am

    Next month he will ban FREE REFILLS!!!!

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    • Orion the truth hunter
      Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:37am

      call the free refill a BLOOMBERG SPECIAL. If they try to say you can not give a refill away, CHARGE 2 cents and donate it it who ever is running against him.

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  • jabatten
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 2:49am

    Correct me if I am wrong….but does a person lose their constitutuional rights the heavier they become?? I guess there were no over weight people in the 1700′s when the constitution of the US was written?? This is a test to see just how far they “City Government” can go before the people fight back and say NO!

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    • EP46
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 6:04am

      Remember, President Taft was the only potus to ever be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court…he lived to be 73 yrs. old………..BUT he weighed 300 POUNDS….guess back then people were judged by character not weight or skin color !

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  • 2smart4libs
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 2:27am

    Its a well know fact libs will always tell you how to run your life

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on June 1, 2012 at 3:07am

      2Smart4Libs, It is not just Libs, it is Progressives on both sides of the aisle. We have to stop blaming everything on just the Libs, sure they have socialist tendancies and that is terrible, but it is not just socialism we have to look out for, it is fascism also. PROGRESSIVE candidates like Gingrich, Santorum and Romney have to be stopped before we can even start to consider fixing this country.

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  • ghostsouls
    Posted on June 1, 2012 at 2:22am

    Tomorrow Bloomberg is praising National Doughnut Day, and Entenmann’s is going to make large donuts, 1-foot in diameter. So, how the hell are they suppose to wash that thing down with a small 12-16 oz cup of drink?

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  • dmar003
    Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:38pm

    This is insane saying that nobody can buy soda if it is over 16oz. They are trying to get people to stop buying coke. You idiots it wil never happen.
    There was a saying about obese people:…………….fast food don’t make people fat, people make people fat……….

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    • Favored93
      Posted on June 1, 2012 at 2:27am

      And guns don’t kill people …. husbands that come home early do!
      :) lol …. ( for all you mindless libs out there.)

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  • THXll38
    Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:34pm

    The prohibition of soda. Now soda will be sold like pot, and a new government agency will have to be created to fight this heinous crime!

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    • dmar003
      Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:58pm

      This is insane, telling that you cannot drink anything over 16oz. They will get more it won’t effect anybody.It gets the people upset because they are taking money to do this type of reasearch.

      There was a saying about geting the obese:…………Fast food dose not make people fat,People make people fat.

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    • Bryan B
      Posted on June 1, 2012 at 5:44am

      @THXll38

      You are absolutely correct on that….One day you’ll be sitting in your home enjoying a Cigarette, drinking a Super Big Gulp and eating a bag of Cheetos. And you will hear a knock at the door, then the explosion of the Flash Bang, the sound of the door being riped out of the frame. Police with Machine-Guns, Boots, Helmets and dressed in Black….The Police Screaming !!!!! EVERY GET DOWN !!!!!!……No Trial just strait to prison for violation of the Bloomberg Act…..

      And it‘s a good thing you didn’t have a Box of Hostess Twinkie’s, because that will be a automatic death sentences……

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    • Orion the truth hunter
      Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:43am

      @ Bryan B Never heard it called a Bloomberg act, but about an hour after I drink a big gulp, I do have to go take a BLOOMBERG.

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  • Oasis1209
    Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:06pm

    REALLY, REALLY?? the soda sellers at the theater can now sell 2 or 3 smaller sodas to the thrifty family that buys one large one and shares. Instead of $9 for a large, now $12, maybe $15 for that family to quench the family thirst? And how do you isolate soda for target. Isn’t it called a beer belly? It’s ok to drink all of that you want but limit the size of sodas? Blumberg’s personal social agenda denies personal freedoms of lifestyle choice. Much like ObamaCare, people “smarter” than us will continue to tell us what we can and can’t do. The more of this socialization we allow “for our own good” the fewer liberties we will have. STAND UP FOR FREEDOM!!! TELL THE MAYOR TO KISS YOUR CUP!

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  • TheEDGE
    Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:00pm

    Do bums make San Francisco smell like pee?

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  • TeaPartyForRomney
    Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:55pm

    Wisconsin Debates are on right now. Watch Walker wale on Barrett: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2012/may/wisconsin_debate2.html

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  • Principlex
    Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:50pm

    I have to say that I was quite disappointed at the inability to defend liberty displayed on this issue. Not a person here understands why liberty is necessary. Not one – not really. Although we have a history of it, it isn’t because of history.

    The truth is, you can’t force a mind. In fact, you can’t force your own mind. But, until you understand exactly why you can’t and why freedom is soooo important, this fact is not real for people. Clearly that is the case with the people on this program. They don’t get it. When you do get it, not only are you immediately morally outraged, but not even the slightest infringement on freedom can be permitted.

    When you are ready to get this point, perhaps I can assist. I developed a course which brings a person face to face with this fact and how it fits into the survival and success of an individual human being.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:48pm

    Mayor turdberg is bringing fascism to NY with a big smile,‘it’s for your own good’.All politicians do is think up new laws to erode our liberty and freedom from government.You might say hey it’s just a soda no big deal,but that‘s not the issue they keep creating new laws and regulations and they’re all designed to have the same affect,more government control over our lives.

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  • KeystoneState
    Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:47pm

    If the Mayor wants to truly help, he should consider supporting a measure banning himself!

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  • bklynbel
    Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:45pm

    Re: Soda size restrictions in restaurants. Bloomberg’s ill advised ban of over 16 oz. bottles in restaurants discriminates against families who buy the larger bottles because they are cheaper and because they have to provide drinks for several people. I personally don’t buy soda for my home, but this attempt to dictate how families can order soda for their families and to force them to pay more for individual cups smacks of tyranny. Larger families who go to pizzerias and fast food restaurants go to these establishments because they are inexpensive and require minimum preparation. It is they who will be the hardest hit by this. If there is anyone in Bloomberg’s administration left with common sense he needs to Bloomberg to reality and have him rethink this intrusion on individual choice and focus on more important matters.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:43pm

    LOVED the show! Well done, group. Exceptional presentation, S.E. Keep on keeping on.

    While I’m on it: LORD GOD, here is another incredible missing link whom I rebuke in YOUR HOLY NAME, bloomberg is an arrogant idiot so full of himself not even satan can get in there. So, GOD, in YOUR PRECIOUS AND MIGHTY NAME, I send the blimpboomberp to YOU for YOU to deal with as YOU see fit. Thank YOU, LORD, that YOU have made a way for us. It is in YOUR HONOR, YOUR GRACE AND YOUR MERCY that we pray and always in JESUS’ HOLY NAME, amen.

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  • this1can
    Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:39pm

    I’m not from NY but I think things at the fast stops work the same around the country.So what I would like to know is if you can buy any size diet drink.and you fill your own cup at the dispenser with a sugar drink will the cashier have to taste test your drink before selling it to you to make sure it is diet or are the soft drink company’s going to add dyes to the sugar drinks so the cashier can just look at the drink and tell the difference. or maybe they might have some type of test strip that they stick in it before they sell it to you. Oh and once you walk down the street with it will the cops have to stop you and test it for sugar. Just like to know how they are going to make this thing work. sounds like allot of fines being paid to the city to me. Love/Pray

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  • MDDAWG
    Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:28pm

    I could never live in New York.
    I have never purchased a soda larger than 16 ounces, but this is just ridiculous! No wonder intelligent people are moving out of New York in droves.

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    • Cosmos102
      Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:35pm

      Bloomberg is instigating Totalitarian rule. His subjects no longer have the right to think or choose for themselves.

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    • wntsmallgov
      Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:06am

      I moved out in 2004

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  • TreeOfLifeSword
    Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:28pm

    It’s all about control. First the little things….until you all get used to it. Then North Korea….

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  • burnsst
    Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:27pm

    OK,
    Instead of one 16 oz soda I will order two 12 oz soda’s and drink more than I would have to begin with. Makes no sense!

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:24pm

    I’m having some folks from NYC on my show tomorrow; one is a lib and the other is my staunchly conservative brother. I can’t wait to hear the difference in response from both about the elf mayor of the big apple.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:34pm

      Ask the lib if he/she thinks congress has the authority to regulate every activity.The lib will cite the commerce clause ,they always do,and all libs think congress can regulate every activity which they clearly have no authority to do.

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    • TRONINTHEMORNING
      Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:46pm

      I shall for sure!

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on June 1, 2012 at 3:10am

      The Commerce Clause should be repealed and re-written to show a better understanding of what the true meaning was suppose to be. A protection of trade between the states that was fair to all, not a way for the government to regularte everything in our lives.

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  • gregjackie1
    Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:23pm

    What next? Is he going to come into your house and regulate your cupboards?

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