Well, it appears “Big Government”, you know the one…the guys that want to help you choose your life style all the while telling you its in your best interest to do as they say, not as they do. Apparently the Mayor of San Francisco has issued another “city-wide proclamation” which will ban all soda drinks from all vending machines. They want all San Franciscans to fully understand the harmful effects sugar-laced soda has on you, the constituent, you know, the ones they were elected to serve. To help the city leaders logic sprout wings and sore among the populace, they implore citizens to trash the idea of drinking soda and, responsibly “drink pure clean refreshing water” from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir, which is San Francisco’s major source of drinking water. That water is clean and refreshing and chemical free. Not a bad argument, huh?
Forget the water issue for the moment, allow me to compare milk as a substitute for soda. What the city “soda police” forget to mention are a few miniscule facts. No, its not the chlorine issue in water, its that milk has far more fat calories than soda, it is worse for your arteries, and yet milk is being pushed in the schools. Take a look at the ingredients in a Starbucks Frappucinno, 220 calories all from fat and sugar, definitely more sugar calories and fat than can be found in a can of soda. Apparently, the good people of San Francisco won't be told to halt milk and Frappucinno consumption anytime soon! Or, the good people of San Francisco don’t want to hear this nonsense of an argument from their elected officials.
Back to the issue of water… I don’t need to mention the fact all the chemicals being poured into the water treatment plants in order to ensure pure clean water is served out of the pure clean distribution pipes under the city. That’s not the real issue…apparently the real issue is the Hetch Hetchy reservoir. The “Dam Hetch Hetchy” reservoir has been in the sights of environments for eons, at least ever since it construction. Environmentalist want to take the Dam down, apparently this is San Francisco’s major supplier of (you guessed it) drinking water for the past eons. Do you think the city water pushing leaders, in their infant (I mean infinite) wisdom are trying to secretly subvert a major force in the electoral body within the city (environmentalist) by agreeing with one side of the group (soda haters) out of one eye, the water pushing group out of the other eye and the coffee and milk producers out of the other eye (this is getting confusing, I know, and pretty soon, you run out of eyes to please).
Perhaps their bottom line IS to “secretly” stifle those environmentalist that want to bring down Dam Hetch Hetchy. Pretty sneaky!
Well, apparently you can eat your sugar and milk laced coffee cake but not your water and sugar laced soda too! Then again, the elected officials know what is best for the none-elected.
Forget the water issue for the moment, allow me to compare milk as a substitute for soda. What the city “soda police” forget to mention are a few miniscule facts. No, its not the chlorine issue in water, its that milk has far more fat calories than soda, it is worse for your arteries, and yet milk is being pushed in the schools. Take a look at the ingredients in a Starbucks Frappucinno, 220 calories all from fat and sugar, definitely more sugar calories and fat than can be found in a can of soda. Apparently, the good people of San Francisco won't be told to halt milk and Frappucinno consumption anytime soon! Or, the good people of San Francisco don’t want to hear this nonsense of an argument from their elected officials.
Back to the issue of water… I don’t need to mention the fact all the chemicals being poured into the water treatment plants in order to ensure pure clean water is served out of the pure clean distribution pipes under the city. That’s not the real issue…apparently the real issue is the Hetch Hetchy reservoir. The “Dam Hetch Hetchy” reservoir has been in the sights of environments for eons, at least ever since it construction. Environmentalist want to take the Dam down, apparently this is San Francisco’s major supplier of (you guessed it) drinking water for the past eons. Do you think the city water pushing leaders, in their infant (I mean infinite) wisdom are trying to secretly subvert a major force in the electoral body within the city (environmentalist) by agreeing with one side of the group (soda haters) out of one eye, the water pushing group out of the other eye and the coffee and milk producers out of the other eye (this is getting confusing, I know, and pretty soon, you run out of eyes to please).
Perhaps their bottom line IS to “secretly” stifle those environmentalist that want to bring down Dam Hetch Hetchy. Pretty sneaky!
Well, apparently you can eat your sugar and milk laced coffee cake but not your water and sugar laced soda too! Then again, the elected officials know what is best for the none-elected.
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