Never mind that our state is 30 days into its new fiscal year with no budget in sight. Never mind that we are facing an $18 Billion dollar deficit and that 200,000 state workers might be placed on the Federal minimum wage of $6.55 starting tomorrow. Never mind that our education system teeters on the brink of insolvency and that our roadways are a pothole away from dysfunctional as our highway taxes are directed toward trying to keep the doors of the State Capitol open. Never mind that our once-popular Republican Governator Ahnold makes Barack Obama look conservative by his willingness to pander to the tax-and-spend liberals who dominate our legislature.
By
God we are able to focus on
and accomplish the big things that really count in this state.
Why just yesterday the Los Angeles City Council became the first in
the nation to ban fast food chains from opening in 32
square miles of the city, home to 500,000 mostly poor people. Why, you
may ask? Because those people are FAT
and they don't need more fast food - they need healthier food and
grocery stores so they can prepare their own healthier food, that's
why.
Never
mind that these are the same people who burned most of their own
grocery stores a few years back to get even with 'the man'
for beating Rodney King. The grocery chains have not exactly been
beating down the doors to rebuild in this area. Never mind that many of
these people can't
even afford a diet of fast food nor do they opt for the
healthy alternatives offered by the existing fast food
outlets. Ignore the fact that most are ill-trained to
prepare their own gourmet vegetarian lo-cal chi-chi meals and/or lack the time, interest or
facilities to do so. Ignore as well the fact that fast
food restaurants account for 45%
of the current food outlets in this area and provide a like number of
local jobs in an area where unemployment is chronic.
The
law's sponsor, City Councilor Jan Perry, said the law is a "victory for
the people of South Los Angeles. We need to attract sit-down
restaurants, full service grocery stores and healthy good alternatives."
She pushed for the legislation because statistics show her constituents
had a higher incidence of disease linked to obesity than some other
parts of Los Angeles. So the government needed to step into the lives
of those poor misguided souls and take control. Don't worry about
exercise or education on proper diet to control your weight, the government will just take
away your source of inexpensive food and neighborhood employment
opportunities because we know what's best. As soon as we
attract some upscale sit-down restaurants you all can trot your fat
asses in there to work and if you save your money you can afford to eat
there too.
Fortunately
this comes on the heels of their ban on trans-fats after 2010 so the French fries will taste like
crap anyway, and just before the ban takes effect on
plastic bags so they got nothing
to carry the food home with either. You think Hollywood is
the only area of SoCal that specializes in unreality? If we were only
that lucky.
So the people of South Central, who have been preyed upon and victimized by nearly every faction imagineable over the years, are once again relegated to subservience by some 'enlightened and well-meaning' liberals who know what these people need better than they know themselves. As Ronald Reagan once said - one of the scariest statements you will ever hear is 'We're from the government and we're here to help you.' Ain't it the truth.
Remember, Don't wait to buy real estate - Buy real estate and wait.
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