Mayor Bloomberg of New York City wants to restrict the sale of super-sized drinks. Is the Mayor right in his effort to keep us from super-sizing ourselves?

Mayor Bloomberg,step out of city hall and look to the northwest. See the Holland Tunnel at the western end of Canal St? Just how are you going to stop those supersize sodas from being imported from NJ?!

dumb

Mayor Bloomberg is someone who has no respect for the Constitution, and revels totalitarian rule. The man is one of the greatest enemies to the Second Amendment of the 21st Century, and tries to pass that off as "sensible". There is nothing sensible about his position on the Second Amendment, or on much else, and the former should inform everybody about the later. A lot of people think the Second Amendment is some sort of antiquated joke, and that could not be further from the truth. The way a person views an individual's right to defend himself/herself is directly corollary to how that person views individual freedom in general. Mayor Bloomberg is a threat to individual freedom in general, he is part of the political slime that thinks government knows best, and there is nothing, and I mean nothing more un-American than that.

He should start with limiting the supersizing of NYC government and then the politicians supersizing themselves.

This is ridiculous! It is amazing that these politicians keep making laws infringing on our rights. I can go out and kill my baby but I can't have a super size drink!! Stay out of my body! Stop telling me what I consume! Get out of my life!!!Freaking big government.

Typical democrat elitist that thinks all his little petty people are at too dumb to make any decisions for himself so they need a "smart" elitist to rule over them. The real Petry people are the ones dumb enough to vote for him.

No.

NO!! Another ridiculous, control freak, mental midget of a politician who needs to mind his own business. People are going to choose what they want to do. If he bans super-sized drinks, people will buy double and triple of what ever is available.

Doesn't NYC have any real issues to deal with?

SO TRUE!

He is out of his blooming mind like all progressive prohibitionist are. People are going to get what they want or they will find alternatives even if they are worse-- sort of like the druggy bath salt cannibals are doing now when their regular drugs are taken away.

But when did common sense ever stop a moral meddler from believing that a bigger hammer was the solution to every problem in the world... At least the political class can say that they cared and they tried and that they did something-- even if it was only to apply a band-aid to cover up an increasingly infected wound... Right?

No, it's none of his business what people eat or drink and if he gets rid of super sized drinks people will just buy more. It's really silly and with all of the problems NY has he needs to focus his attention somewhere else.

America is not fat. America is obese and grosteque. Children waddle to their bus stops. People cannot fit into airplane seats and complain about it. There are now super size gurneys at ERs.

I don't care if people want to stuff their faces and balloon up to the size of a Brinks truck. That is their call. But it hikes up health care big time because more and more people have health issues related to obesity. So, why should I pay because someone insists on the triple cheeseburger and a couple of orders of super size fries.

No, I don't agree that mayors should be able to determine what can and cannot be served in their cities. But we need a huge call out about obesity. We did with Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, and it helped tremendously with awareness. We had the call out about seat belts. Stranger Danger. The problem with obesity is that many people simply don't care enough to change their habits. They live for food. Sad.

In my opinion it is technology that has made people fat, everyone is so lazy. We don't get up to change the channel or even answer the phone, everything has a drive through and kids spend far too much time in front of the television with 24 hour cartoon channels and video games.

Where do these fascists get this stuff?

I disagree with the Mayor on this one. At some point people have to take responsibility for their own decisions. Besides, doesn't he realize that if he bans 20 ounce drinks someone can still buy two 12 ounce drinks?

My exact thought.

I don't support this action.

Super sizing your fast food meal is not a right, it's a poor decision.

ridiculous