Overgovernment: It’s Better To Be Hungry Than To Be Salty Edition
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Big Government, The Nanny State & A Regulated Society
Nanny Bloomberg strikes again:
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s food police have struck again!
Outlawed are food donations to homeless shelters because the city can’t assess their salt, fat and fiber content, reports CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer.
Glenn Richter arrived at a West Side synagogue on Monday to collect surplus bagels — fresh nutritious bagels — to donate to the poor. However, under a new edict from Bloomberg’s food police he can no longer donate the food to city homeless shelters.
Big government is a jealous government. You shall have no other providers before big government. You shall depend entirely upon big government for your sustenance, for you know not what you do.
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