thuja on June 14, 2012 at 9:08 AM

Stupidity like yours is truly repulsive. You miss the old Soviet Union, don’t you?

Picture of the guy who wants to limit popcorn sizes.

You can’t make this stuff up.

VinceOfDoom

Holy double chin!!

Makes perfect sense though. Something is missing in his life and cannot stop himself from trying to fill the void with food. Ergo, the Government must step in to control him and others.

There is going to come a point sooner or later where common sense is going to finally kick in with New Yorkers and they are going to start questioning, rather loudly, just who the hell this guy Bloomberg and his cronies think they are to encroach on what people can consume and not consume. Because the last time I checked, when you have it where leadership starts thinking they know what is best for people, it is when it becomes something known as tyranny.

I’m not so sure what the rationale is

These are the words of someone who has never once in his life considered that he might be wrong.

While the majority of the NYC population can and will be ignored, there are two groups that can make reality drop into the 5 Boroughs. The fiscal reality is, there are a limited number of people paying the bulk of the New York City income tax.

The number, out of a population of 8 million plus, making over $500K is 34,245 [2009 figures from the NYC Controller]. Since 2009 and the financial collapse, I am pretty sure that the number has shrunk considerably. But let’s use those figures.

Of that number, 1916 make over $5 million. To be honest, that group has the money and clout to ignore pretty much any lifestyle restrictions Bloomberg puts on the proles. But there is another number. It is the 32,329 who make between $500k and $5 million.

New York City is one of the most expensive cities in the world. From the Composite Cost of Living Index, if Denver is 100, NYC is 212.1 [in 2005 pre-the recent inflation]. Thus those incomes equate to $250K – $2.5 million in purchasing power in the rest of the country. These are not a bunch of “Daddy Warbucks” types. These are skilled middle to upper management, which every company needs to survive. And they do not have the clout to totally get around the “lifestyle police”.

For that class, living in a city is a balancing act between the glamor, perceived sophistication, and availability of luxuries -v- the Schmerz im Tuchus factor involved in living there. Granting that in today’s economy, employers have the upper hand. But if you are in that 1,916 you still do have to deal with the morale and recruiting of those skilled people.

If you hack off the middle management, it will get upstairs. Eventually, someone is going to start running the numbers about how much less it will cost to run the business if they are NOT in the 5 Boroughs.

Of the 10 companies with the largest revenues in NYC, 8 are financial services companies. With robust enough internet connectivity and office space; they can operate literally anywhere. And all their business costs are up to 50% cheaper.

All it would take is for one major company to start the stampede. And New York City will be on the same road as California, Illinois [especially Chicago], Detroit, and other Democrat run areas.

Gratuitously hack off the wrong people, and you won’t have enough revenues to calm the welfare classes and rake off enough for the Nomenklatura.

The good news is that even in deep blue NYC, 51 percent oppose the soda ban.

Only 51% oppose Orwellian Big Brotherism, and you call it good news???

I can respect the eeyore tendency AP has for what actually is good news alone, but simultaneous pollyannaism for clear portents of doom suggest it’s time for a check-up from the neck-up.

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Exactly! Don’t let them go after smokers. That is a “gateway” prohibition, and they get a big thrill in thinking that they are so magnanimous to save smokers from themselves.

Freedom counts. Just let people be. The rationalizations they have against smokers, soda drinkers, and whatelse next, sound impressive; but whatever they say, whatever benefit they hail, it is lesser than the cost to our freedom, of creating a society where we will feel our lives are infringed — by the liberal know-it-alls who think that we can’t decide for ourselves what to do.

We’ve got enough refugees down here in NC trying to tell us how to do things like they did in NYC, which is the reason their job left in the first place.

Instead, we sat around doing nothing, because there is a lot of us that think smoking is disgusting. So of course we did not mind either way.

Now look…. now they are after the next big thing. Its kinda like the whole slogan “for the children!!!!! elventy!!!!”…. now its in the name of health.

Yeah, I am going to enjoy watching the rest suffer and whine and moan about all these nice little “restrictions” and “bans”…. not only because it makes the rest suffer, in particular those that sat by and said nothing. I have a back yard with grass so I will have something to eat. Seeing people cry will at least make it taste better.

The Bloomburger:

Half the size, twice the price, and you get a really small drink with it.