Mississippi Lawmakers to Debate Banning Obese People in Restaurants
The Smoking Gun is reporting that Mississippi lawmakers are considering a bill that would ban restaurants from serving obese people. This is just the next logical step in the government’s intrusion into personal behavior, and private businesses’ practices. It started with smoking and now it has moved on to who can eat what and where they can eat it.
While this bill appears to have very little chance of passing, it is just the first attempt. These liberal do-gooders never stop trying until they succeed. They just keep coming back for more. Eventually they break the will of enough people and are able to pass their agenda.
To be honest with you, I don’t understand how America has come to this point. It is trully sad. I know I have said that over and over again, but how else can I describe it. It is not only sad that America’s liberal politicians feel that they should be able to regulate how a business operates, IE no smoking in bars and now restaurants being banned from serving obese people, it is even more sad that this mindset has been ingrained in so many Americans heads that they feel this type of nanny state legislation is not only necessary but good.
Smoking is bad for your health, so is being obese, but does that give the government the right to swoop in and save people from themselves? I think not. If a person chooses to engage in an activity or behavior that does harm to ones-self that person has made a personal choice that may have consequences down the road. It is not up to the government to try to protect that person from the consequences.
If a business decides to allow certain LEGAL behaviors in it’s establishment should the government feel free to come in and tell the business that they must change their policies? I think not.
Americans are giving up more and more of their personal choices year after year. Non smokers laughed when smokers were getting the shaft all these years. Why, because these sniveling little brats didn’t like the smell and the bans didn’t affect them. Now obese people are coming under attack and many people will be laughing at them. Why? Because it won’t affect them. But what is next? If we keep letting the over-reaching arm of the government step into different aspects of personal choices and behaviors, it will only be a matter of time before no-one is laughing. Why? Because everone will be affected.
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insanity. Pure insanity.
You’re right, it probably won’t pass, but the simple fact that it would even enter into the minds of lawmakers and not be immediately dismissed is scary.
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Click to access HB0282IN.pdf
Jim Crow for the 21st Century.
This underscores the need for a “New Texas” (cf H. Beam Piper) amendment to the constitution. Politicians wouldn’t pull stupid crap like this if they knew they would literally be taken behind the woodshed for the butt-whipping Daddy never gave them.
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Here in California the Los Angeles city council, yes the city council, was telling hotel owners what they had to pay their workers, most of which were illegals. The city council, many of which are openly illegal alien activists, say it is only a living wage they are demanding for people to support their families. A “living wage”? What sort of idiot thinks they can support a family on minimum wage? That is entry level pay for entry level jobs. And like with raising the minimum wage unintended consequences abound. In this case thye are the same as when the do-gooders raise min wage. The businesses are forced to let some employees go and the ones that do keep their jobs almost never ger pay raises because the businesses just cannot afford it. The whole problem is the way socialists perceive businesses as a bottomless money pit. They think that regulating a businesses pay structure “fixes” a problem that really requires massive change in the educational system to better educate our youth as well as controlling our borders to reduce the influx of uneducated non english speaking workers from other countries, most notably Mexico. But results are secondary to good feelings to liberals. So the fact that it doesnt really work is irrelevant as they have shown they really do care and have good intentions. They are all just examples of the unchecked growth of the Nanny State the left so desires. But none of that is unexpected as their ego and arrogance constantly tells them they are better able to make life decisions for us than we could make for ourselves.
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This is very scary. I’m not obese – but I am a larger guy, and I travel 5 days a week all over the US. The US “land of the free” is a joke worldwide – this country has less freedom than Germany these days.
By the way – I note that these sort of bills are always blamed on “liberals” – when they get passed under a conservative government. Neither the democrats or the republicans are “liberal” otherwise your liberties wouldn’t be threatened this way.
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by the way this idiot is a republican – and shows that this government is more concerned about restricting ctizens rights than fighting terrorism.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/members/house/mayhall.xml
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I LOVE IT! People love the government controls when it serves their personal interests, but hate the government when it shows up in their own backyard. Now, all the nonsmoking obese people can think about the monster they fed that led up to this issue.
As a smoker, you can bet I would vote this in. Why? 1) Since I am not obese, but I have to pay for all the extra medical care obese – wait a minute, FAT, people cause due to their poor heath and, the real reason, 2) because it won’t be until EVERYBODY loses their personal rights that we realize the damage we’ve done to our society.
People are down right RUDE to smokers because there’s no law against it. I’ve seen the seemingly nice people turn into the most insulting creatures on earth. All I can say is: “My Turn!”
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Frank, I don’t blame you for being angry. I am neither a smoker or obese, but I hate to see these personal decisions being taken away. I would probably feel the same way as you do if I smoked, I would be laughing too.
As Rico said, the government thinks they can make better decisions for us than we can make for ourselves. Even if that were true the question is, should they? And the answer is, NO!
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Aren’t obese people the ones who eat out most often? It seems to me some restaurants will be hurting for business if this bill did manage to pass. Idiots!
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Did anyone actually look at the bill. First of all, you’re trying to convince us that the “liberal” legislature is working on this. In which state? Mississippi? That’s right, they are just known to be outrageously liberal in Mississippi. Also, the bill is being sponsored by three people: 2 republicans and 1 democrat. If you’re going to bitch about politics, at least do the minimum amount of homework required. Or go work for Fox news.
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A lot of bills that thought weren’t going to pass, has before in the past, went into law. Consider the laws that were passed in many of our states in history. It seems that some people are reverting back in their genome pool. Which each additional descendant they become more and more stupid. Perhaps there should be a law that states that you aren’t worthy based on your IQ. The BMI is equal to that of an IQ test in that sense. I believe that it is irresponsible for the writer of this bill to use the law to make a statement. The writer of the bill, who doesn’t even think that the bill will pass, but just wants to raise everyone’s interest and concern to the growing obesity in our country. Its a waste of time and tax payers money.
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Guy, I re-read my post and I mentioned liberals once, I mentioned neither Democrat nor Republican. I know that two Republicans sponsored the bill, that does not mean they are not liberal. Big government, over-regulation nanny state supporting politicians are liberals in my book, Democrats or Republicans. The less government intrusion the better.
So yes, they are Republicans, but they are pushing liberal, I know better than you agendas. To me they are liberals.
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They should ban these idiots from the House for lack of Intelligence!
Don’t they realize that weight is a recognized disability in most states?
There are more causes for weight than just eating too much. Genetics come into play more than what people know.
Also, has anyone ever heard of Webber Cushions Disease? This is an actual disease my cousin has that the body doesn’t rid itself of fat; it somehow grows, and cells multiply from what I understand.
Unreal. What a Civil Rights violation!
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I seriously hope that bill does not pass. I have always believed that the government has no business deciding what people can or can’t do (marriage, eating, etc) PROVIDED it is not hurting others. Obese people should definitely do something about their health but since when should the government tell them what to eat? If obese people need more treatment, they should pay a premium for it.
I am a non-smoker and don’t have a problem with nicotine-addicted-people sections in restaurants as long as there is a section for non-nicotine-addicts. I do have a problem with an environment where non-nicotine-addicts have to inhale noxious and toxic fumes from the nicotine-addicts. Why should an addict detrimentally affect my own health?
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