Too much salt is bad for you. And we’re going to make sure you don’t get to much of it by lowering your portions. That’s the message coming from New York City Mayor Bloomberg this week. Aligned with the Health Department, Blomberg is taking steps to make restaurants and food companies to reduce the sodium content in their servings by 25% over the next five years.
Heroin, that’s also bad for you. But if you’re going to use it anyway, you should know how to use it correctly and…we’ll show you. That’s also the message coming from Mayor Bloomberg aligned with the very same Health Department. Via printed pamphlets they are educating addicts about the correct way of using a needle and tourniquet to inject the drug. And this is only costing the tax payers $32,000.
So, to sum things up, rather than educate about the dangers of too much salt in the average daily diet, they are going to try to force people to stop using it. Rather than try to force people to stop using the illegal substance heroin, they are going to educate addicts about the dangers of shooting up improperly.
Does anybody else see this as completely backward?
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I completely agree with Mr. Chesterton. A better use of everybody’s time and money would be let people have as much salt as they want, legalize the heroin (taxing the dickens out of it) and let man be in control of man, with all the accountability, responsibilities and consequences therein.
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January 14, 2010
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