Bloomberg: Gov't has right to infringe on your freedom

[green73]

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Sunday: Sometimes government does know best. And in those cases, Americans should just cede their rights.

“I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom,” Mr. Bloomberg said, during an appearance on NBC. He made the statement during discussion of his soda ban — just shot down by the courts — and insistence that his fight to control sugary drink portion sizes in the city would go forth.

“We think the judge was just clearly wrong on this,” he said, on NBC. “Our Department of Health has the legal ability to do this. … [They’re] not banning anything.”

Mr. Bloomberg’s remaining months in office have included a firestorm of regulations and policy pushes on wide range of issues. Aside from the soda size ban and a well-publicized call for tighter gun control, another contentious policy he pushed: Nudging hospitals to lock up baby formula to force mothers to breast-feed newborns.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/25/nyc-mayor-bloomberg-government-has-right-infringe-/

 

[sailingaway]

NY has got to get rid of that meglomaniac more concerned with the size of other people's sodas than with the fact that 80% of high school graduates in his city can't read.

 

[green73]

NY has got to get rid of that meglomaniac more concerned with the size of other people's sodas than with the fact that 80% of high school graduates in his city can't read.

1 in 5 city preteens have mental woes
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/in_city_preteens_have_mental_woes_z3NTWFgdVioO0n804SZhWK

 

[Origanalist]

I have a hard time feeling sorry for New Yorkers.

 

[DGambler]

How the hell is this guy in office? I don't understand the world anymore.

 

[pmbug]

Mr. Bloomberg never tires of imposing his will on other people. He apparently doen't realize that his shit does, in fact, stink.

 

[jclay2]

NY has got to get rid of that meglomaniac more concerned with the size of other people's sodas than with the fact that 80% of high school graduates in his city can't read.

This. The only reason this man is in power is his 20 billion + fortune. He can pay off/buy votes as needed.

 

[Cleaner44]

New York citizens can suck it! They not only keep electing this ahole, but then they see themselves as leaders in our nation and think it is their job to spread their freedom crushing form of democracy to others that don't want it. FUNY

 

[shane77m]

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

These words become more relevant as the days progress.

 

[Spikender]

"I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom."

If anyone takes this man seriously after saying something like this, they deserve it. They just do.

Naw, I take that back. New York just deserves Bloomberg period because they keep electing his corrupt self.

 

[whippoorwill]

I have a hard time feeling sorry for New Yorkers.

In(fucking)deed.

 

[jdcole]

How's about he and his government go fuck themselves?

 

[jbauer]

"I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom."

If anyone takes this man seriously after saying something like this, they deserve it. They just do.

Naw, I take that back. New York just deserves Bloomberg period because they keep electing his corrupt self.

All this time I thought California was teh land of fruits and nuts.

 

[kathy88]

It's one thing to know he thinks it, but to just come out and say it? FUCK YOU BLOOMBERG you psychopath.

 

[Carlybee]

New Yorkers are Californians in leather jackets.

 

[ClydeCoulter]

I would bet there are plenty of New Yorkers that hate this and all the other crap there. They don't deserve it.
Do they use voting machines or well accounted for ballots?

 

[Quark]

It's funny, I was watching a documentary about the revolutionary war and how the urban New Yorkers were mostly loyalists. Times might change but the people don't. Anyway, as long as New York City keeps itself contained and tamed I don't care what they do and whom they choose as their temporary slave-master.

 

[juleswin]

Wasn't it a few years ago that people were bring up his name as the sensible republican? Now no republican worth thier salt would touch him talkless of nominate hi for anything.

I can imagine him now publishing a pamphlet of state mandated sex position with the selling point that it would save tax payers $X on missed work days and medical expenses. The man is a creep

 

[NCGOPer_for_Paul]

Y'all realize that Rudy Guiliani even thinks Bloomberg is out of control.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Bloomberg is power-mad.