California Is Leading The Nanny-State Trend...

[paulitician]

Interesting article by Sandra Fabry


California nanny-staters are at it again. Sometime later this month, the Los Angeles City Council is expected to pass a ban on plastic carryout bags. Not surprisingly, San Francisco was the first U.S. city to impose a plastic bag ban and California accounts for almost two-thirds of the 74 plastic-related bans in the U.S.

The merits of the bans are, at best, questionable. Recent studies have shown that the unintended consequences of the bans often outweigh their benefits. For instance, an audit found that bag litter has accounted for a higher percentage of San Francisco’s litter in the years since the city banned plastic bags than it did in the years before. But that won’t stop Los Angeles from imposing a similar prohibition, just as it didn’t stop Watsonville from becoming the first city in California’s Santa Cruz County to ban single-use plastic bags. After all, it is about saving the planet.

In California, it is always about saving the planet. Or saving the children. Or saving the animals. Or saving ________. You get the picture.

That’s why California is constantly banning things. Just this week, the Corona City Council approved a ban on clothing donation drop-off boxes because they “were becoming an eyesore.” California’s chefs are currently rallying against the state’s soon-to-take-effect foie gras ban. Children in Santa Clara County will no longer get a toy with their restaurant meals due to a ban, while weekend warriors in Glendale may no longer use synthetic turf in their front yards. If you enjoy an occasional caffeinated beer, shark fin soup or “Kosher for Passover” Coca-Cola, you are now out of luck in California, as statewide bans have taken effect this year. California also recently became the first state to ban indoor tanning for minors, even with parental permission. A State Senate-passed bill to ban foam takeout containers did not pass the State Assembly last year, but the assault on Styrofoam, which makes serving containers inexpensive and reusable, is far from over. While the state-wide Senate measure is still eligible to be voted upon this year, city councils in San Jose and Hermosa Beach are proceeding with their own local bans.

As with the plastic bag bans, many of these measures, while undoubtedly well-intentioned on some level, are fraught with problems and unintended consequences.

The indoor tanning prohibition for minors, for example, gives California the dubious distinction of being the first state in which “a 12-year-old girl can decide to get an abortion without informing her parents, but a 17-...

Read more: California is leading the nanny-state trend | The Daily Caller

 

[Old Rocks]

Interesting article by Sandra Fabry


California nanny-staters are at it again. Sometime later this month, the Los Angeles City Council is expected to pass a ban on plastic carryout bags. Not surprisingly, San Francisco was the first U.S. city to impose a plastic bag ban and California accounts for almost two-thirds of the 74 plastic-related bans in the U.S.

The merits of the bans are, at best, questionable. Recent studies have shown that the unintended consequences of the bans often outweigh their benefits. For instance, an audit found that bag litter has accounted for a higher percentage of San Francisco’s litter in the years since the city banned plastic bags than it did in the years before. But that won’t stop Los Angeles from imposing a similar prohibition, just as it didn’t stop Watsonville from becoming the first city in California’s Santa Cruz County to ban single-use plastic bags. After all, it is about saving the planet.

In California, it is always about saving the planet. Or saving the children. Or saving the animals. Or saving ________. You get the picture.

That’s why California is constantly banning things. Just this week, the Corona City Council approved a ban on clothing donation drop-off boxes because they “were becoming an eyesore.” California’s chefs are currently rallying against the state’s soon-to-take-effect foie gras ban. Children in Santa Clara County will no longer get a toy with their restaurant meals due to a ban, while weekend warriors in Glendale may no longer use synthetic turf in their front yards. If you enjoy an occasional caffeinated beer, shark fin soup or “Kosher for Passover” Coca-Cola, you are now out of luck in California, as statewide bans have taken effect this year. California also recently became the first state to ban indoor tanning for minors, even with parental permission. A State Senate-passed bill to ban foam takeout containers did not pass the State Assembly last year, but the assault on Styrofoam, which makes serving containers inexpensive and reusable, is far from over. While the state-wide Senate measure is still eligible to be voted upon this year, city councils in San Jose and Hermosa Beach are proceeding with their own local bans.

As with the plastic bag bans, many of these measures, while undoubtedly well-intentioned on some level, are fraught with problems and unintended consequences.

The indoor tanning prohibition for minors, for example, gives California the dubious distinction of being the first state in which “a 12-year-old girl can decide to get an abortion without informing her parents, but a 17-...
Read more: California is leading the nanny-state trend | The Daily Caller

If a 12 year old girl is pregnant, usually one of her parents is involved.

 

[Ernie S.]

Care to back that up, Old Crock?

 

[The T]

Care to back that up, Old Crock?

Sick, isn't it?

 

[Old Rocks]

So, what are you two objecting to? The termination of the pregnancy of a 12 year old girl? The fact that most of this age that end up pregnant have a relitive involved? Or that someone is publically stating that fact?

 

[Trajan]

So, what are you two objecting to? The termination of the pregnancy of a 12 year old girl? The fact that most of this age that end up pregnant have a relitive involved? Or that someone is publically stating that fact?

thats not what ernie asked you, links please.

 

[The T]

So, what are you two objecting to? The termination of the pregnancy of a 12 year old girl? The fact that most of this age that end up pregnant have a relitive involved? Or that someone is publically stating that fact?

Obfuscate much?

 

[Katzndogz]

So, what are you two objecting to? The termination of the pregnancy of a 12 year old girl? The fact that most of this age that end up pregnant have a relitive involved? Or that someone is publically stating that fact?

It's a deflection. If you are against a plastic bag ban, you are for 12 year old girls getting impregnated by a relative. It's a old saw of libs.

According to environmental activists who hate plastic bags, illness and death caused by reusable grocery bags is acceptable. Reusable bags carry the deadly norovirus, use at your own risk.

Investigators Discover Deadly Virus in Reusable Grocery Bags; MyCleaningProducts.com Shares Tips on How to Prevent Contracting the Pathogen

We got plastic bags because paper bags killed trees. We got reusable bags because plastic bags weren't sensitive enough. But, you can either, clean your reusable bags in an environmentally correct and responsible manner, or use them once. It's a financial boon for the makers of resuable bags and an unnecessary expense for the consumer.

The best solution is to get rid of the environmental wackos.

 

[Misty]

California is ruled regulated and taxed to death yet it is bankrupt no jobs filled with illegals, homeless, gangs, we have the worst schools, and it's been run by democrats for over 40 years.

You want to see the damage of liberalism, come to Los Angeles. Oh Lordy it's ugly.

 

[The T]

California is ruled regulated and taxed to death yet it is bankrupt no jobs filled with illegals, homeless, gangs, we have the worst schools, and it's been run by democrats for over 40 years.

You want to see the damage of liberalism, come to Los Angeles. Oh Lordy it's ugly.

And an Inept Governor...who stated that Facebook Came from his state...


The Delusional Governor Moonbeam

From an interview with Charlie Rose...

BROWN: On the November ballot will be a proposal to raise income taxes on the very affluent in a slight quarter cent tax --

BROWN: -- on everybody else. This will be built into my budget that I hope to be able to sign by the end of June, and that will be something called trigger cuts. So the people either vote to bring in somewhere between eight to ten billion in new taxes, principally from the most affluent people or --


BROWN: There's an old Latin phrase, nemo dat (quod) non habet, "no man gives what he does not have." California doesn't have the money that people are expecting it to spend. If you live an unbalanced life, you pay. We're very entrepreneurial, very innovative and people are still coming here. This is where they invented Facebook. Not in Texas. Not in Arizona. Not in Manhattan. And certainly not under the -- you know, the White House, or the Congress. This is still the Wild West and we're going to prove to the rest of the country and the world that we know how to do it.

ROSE: Facebook was invented in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

BROWN: Well, whatever it was invented, this is where they are.

New York Post: California Screaming. Spending its Way to Oblivion

Washington Post: California Grown? Gov. Jerry Brown Mistakenly Touts

Golden State as Facebook’s Birthplace

 

[DontBeStupid]

Pauli, I remember you cheering when California voters banned marriages. Something about "we the people". Does that only apply when voters ban something you hate?

 

[The T]

Pauli, I remember you cheering when California voters banned marriages. Something about "we the people". Does that only apply when voters ban something you hate?

They didn't "Ban Marriages"...there is a WORD you forgot...

Those people spoke thier mind...Democracy...you know? Until the COURT told the people Hell no...

California should Amend thier Constitution as 30+ others have.

 

[DontBeStupid]

Pauli, I remember you cheering when California voters banned marriages. Something about "we the people". Does that only apply when voters ban something you hate?

They didn't "Ban Marriages"...there is a WORD you forgot...

Those people spoke thier mind...Democracy...you know? Until the COURT told the people Hell no...

California should Amend thier Constitution as 30+ others have.

Oh. So Democracy and voters speaking their mind only works when banning something you hate?

Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[xmisterlane]

Massachusetts is essentially the same way and yet we call these States, the most Liberal... I thought Liberalism was about "total freedom" from the government in some fashion? Every time I hear somebody say "Liberals" when referring to the Democrats, I cringed.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

California has some of the highest taxes in the US, is 16B in the hole, and still wants to raise taxes even more. So, they'll raise taxes even more, their irresponsible state government will spend more and in a couple of years will be 20B in the hole. It's total twilight zone insanity out there.

 

[The T]

California has some of the highest taxes in the US, is 16B in the hole, and still wants to raise taxes even more. So, they'll raise taxes even more, their irresponsible state government will spend more and in a couple of years will be 20B in the hole. It's total twilight zone insanity out there.

And they...as Greece and other EU Failures will come to the other States demanding a bailout.

Let them figure out thier own failures...and I would state that to ANY state that is fiscally irresponsible.

 

[DontBeStupid]

California has some of the highest taxes in the US, is 16B in the hole, and still wants to raise taxes even more. So, they'll raise taxes even more, their irresponsible state government will spend more and in a couple of years will be 20B in the hole. It's total twilight zone insanity out there.

And they...as Greece and other EU Failures will come to the other States demanding a bailout.

Let them figure out thier own failures...and I would state that to ANY state that is fiscally irresponsible.

Before you start crying over California being fiscally irresponsible, you might want to read up on Prop 13.

 

[The T]

California has some of the highest taxes in the US, is 16B in the hole, and still wants to raise taxes even more. So, they'll raise taxes even more, their irresponsible state government will spend more and in a couple of years will be 20B in the hole. It's total twilight zone insanity out there.

And they...as Greece and other EU Failures will come to the other States demanding a bailout.

Let them figure out thier own failures...and I would state that to ANY state that is fiscally irresponsible.

Before you start crying over California being fiscally irresponsible, you might want to read up on Prop 13.

 

[bodecea]

Interesting article by Sandra Fabry


California nanny-staters are at it again. Sometime later this month, the Los Angeles City Council is expected to pass a ban on plastic carryout bags. Not surprisingly, San Francisco was the first U.S. city to impose a plastic bag ban and California accounts for almost two-thirds of the 74 plastic-related bans in the U.S.

The merits of the bans are, at best, questionable. Recent studies have shown that the unintended consequences of the bans often outweigh their benefits. For instance, an audit found that bag litter has accounted for a higher percentage of San Francisco’s litter in the years since the city banned plastic bags than it did in the years before. But that won’t stop Los Angeles from imposing a similar prohibition, just as it didn’t stop Watsonville from becoming the first city in California’s Santa Cruz County to ban single-use plastic bags. After all, it is about saving the planet.

In California, it is always about saving the planet. Or saving the children. Or saving the animals. Or saving ________. You get the picture.

That’s why California is constantly banning things. Just this week, the Corona City Council approved a ban on clothing donation drop-off boxes because they “were becoming an eyesore.” California’s chefs are currently rallying against the state’s soon-to-take-effect foie gras ban. Children in Santa Clara County will no longer get a toy with their restaurant meals due to a ban, while weekend warriors in Glendale may no longer use synthetic turf in their front yards. If you enjoy an occasional caffeinated beer, shark fin soup or “Kosher for Passover” Coca-Cola, you are now out of luck in California, as statewide bans have taken effect this year. California also recently became the first state to ban indoor tanning for minors, even with parental permission. A State Senate-passed bill to ban foam takeout containers did not pass the State Assembly last year, but the assault on Styrofoam, which makes serving containers inexpensive and reusable, is far from over. While the state-wide Senate measure is still eligible to be voted upon this year, city councils in San Jose and Hermosa Beach are proceeding with their own local bans.

As with the plastic bag bans, many of these measures, while undoubtedly well-intentioned on some level, are fraught with problems and unintended consequences.

The indoor tanning prohibition for minors, for example, gives California the dubious distinction of being the first state in which “a 12-year-old girl can decide to get an abortion without informing her parents, but a 17-...
Read more: California is leading the nanny-state trend | The Daily Caller

If a 12 year old girl is pregnant, usually one of her parents is involved.

That is the percentages, yes.

 

[Mr Natural]

You fly-over people would give your right nut to live in California.