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   Dycel said, 3 months ago

   Another libertarian in action?
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   I Play One On TV said, 3 months ago

   What a sad world. How much of a lack of personal responsibility do we want to allow? Banning drinks above a certain size is silly, but the point made is clear and getting more costly.

   But I guess we should expect this when congressmen call for a Constitutional Amendment to force themselves to do their own jobs. What role models they are….
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   Radish said, 3 months ago

   The sequestration was supposed to be avoided. This is how the most powerful nation in the world governs itself.
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   jonesb said, 3 months ago

   They die early, this is just propaganda.
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   edinbaltimore said, 3 months ago

   We’re paying for their health care anyway. This type of person also spends more than they can afford, doesn’t save for a rainy day, doesn’t have a family doctor, and runs to the emergency room for a cold screaming “Give me drugs!” And our premiums and health costs go up as a result.
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   masterskrain said, 3 months ago

   Even with a “Ban” on large sodas, what’s to stop people from buying two of the smaller ones??
   Dumbest thing a Politician has tried to do in a LONG time!
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   Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago

   Just buy 2 16 oz drinks. Libs love to say no to other people but they stamp their feet and wet their pants when they are told no.
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   TheTrustedMechanic said, 3 months ago

   You morons are the ones who want health care to be a privilege for the very few who can afford it. You are the rectal units who want people dying in the streets for the lack of preventative treatments. You are the piles of feces who will then complain about the rotting corpses lying about and then scream that you have to pay taxes to have those bodies removed from your view.
   .
   There did I manage to rise and meet your same level of ignorant rhetoric? Truth in my post and yours, but your focus was really asinine. Nearly every other civilized, industrialized and developed country in the work has universal healthcare. They all view healthcare as a human right. In America the inhuman “right” believes it’s still a commodity to bought and sold by the power brokers and those wealthy enough to afford life. Just another in your long line of stupid, ignorant, partisan and self-serving posts.
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   lonecat said, 3 months ago

   @masterskrain

   I think the idea is that people have the right to buy two of the smaller ones — so their “freedom” is protected — but they are less likely to do so. Merchandisers know that people will buy more if they are given larger sizes. I’m not in favor of the law, but diet is a serious public health problem and we do need to try to think about it. What I miss in all the criticism is any better suggestion.
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    Jeff H said, 3 months ago

    So, how about this for a NOVEL idea: let individuals PAY for their own health INSURANCE [note: health CARE is not the same as health INSURANCE, though it seems no one in Washington or the media is aware of the difference], and let them KEEP the money they earn that they need to pay for it, and get government OUT OF THEIR LIVES.
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    Nos Nevets said, 3 months ago

    You want a mommy? You get a daddy.
    Grow up.
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    Nos Nevets said, 3 months ago

    When I was a teenager my folks would preach, “Freedom and Responsibility are Two Sides of the Same Coin.”
    Then I preached it to my kids.

    It turns out there’s another coin: The other side of Lack-of- Responsibility is Lack-of-Freedom.

    This 2nd coin is worth less, though.
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    Omnius said, 3 months ago

    Let’s all hope the ignorant tea partiers just give themselves incurable cases of diabetes, it’s their choice isn’t it?
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    dfrechet said, 3 months ago

    So WHY should Uncle Sam pick up the tab? Boobberg is rich, so let him and his cronies foot the bill!
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    saywhatwhat said, 3 months ago

    @jonesb

    “Die early” can be more expensive as dying late.
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