[quote]vroom wrote:
sasquatch wrote:
And yes, in a way, I am saying we can or should try to limit size of containers. I mean the gov’t has seen fit to say it’s legal to smoke, but not in any public area. That has to do with personal choice. You must wear a helmet on a motorcycle. That’s personal choice. The gov’t does it everyday. Seat belts. PC. Baby seats. PC
You may be right, but it just seems like a dangerous path. Legislating that we can’t freely choose what we wish to eat.
Can you imagine if it’s suddenly decided for us what type of food we can grow in our home gardens?
Maybe they will outlaw frying pans and we’ll be forced to eat everything steamed instead!
Oh the horror.[/quote]
You’ll have to pry my frying pan from my cold dead hands.
So a student buys a 24-pack of Coca-Cola and sells them for $1/can. $16 profit per case. I don’t see how this will stop students from drinking soda in school.
[quote]grew7 wrote:
So a student buys a 24-pack of Coca-Cola and sells them for $1/can. $16 profit per case. I don’t see how this will stop students from drinking soda in school.[/quote]
There was some serious bitching and moaning by parents.
This seems very well thoughout, but morever, it seems like the policy when I was in elementary school 20 years ago! I didn’t have school access to a pop machine until I was a sophomore in high school! What the hell happened?
Doogie, i’m just curious, what kind of bitching and moaning did the parents do? Why the hell would they be against this?[/quote]
When it was first put into effect, the comptroller who initiated it had over-stepped her power in a huge way. That pissed off a bunch of people and set the stage for resistance. If I remember correctly, the Young Republicans challenged it in court.
Also, when it was first introduced, it didn’t have as many exceptions as it does now. Things like taking cupcakes to school for a kids birthday weren’t allowed. Also, it was written in a retarded way, to where a Hershey Bar was banned, but Hershey with almonds was alright. The original rules were just faxed and emailed to schools by the comptroller.
Parents (and teachers) bitched and moaned that she was trying to raise their kids, they are the parents and they can feed their kids whatever they want…that sort of thing.