Lawmakers want Californians to keep saying ‘no’
By Jeremy B. White, Sacramento Bee
Extinguish your filtered cigarettes, ditch the plastic bags to carry your groceries, toss your micro-beaded facial scrub and cancel those plans to catch an orca show at SeaWorld.
Each of those things would be prohibited under a package of bills circulating in Sacramento. Seeking to address such issues as pollution, animal cruelty and tobacco use, lawmakers have advanced measures to ban or limit the availability of various consumer products and activities.
The items facing potential prohibition join a growing list of products legislators have banned in recent years, like lead ammunition, foie gras, eggs from tightly caged chickens and edible shark fins. Those bills drew protests from specific groups saying they were being unfairly penalized – hunters decrying the loss of lead bullets, Chinese Americans who eat shark fin soup mourning the loss of a cherished tradition.
This is what happens when a single party controls the entire state. A bunch of busy bodies get to decide how everybody else is going to live, regardless of whether or not it makes any sense, or for that matter, whether or not it makes a lick of difference. They accuse the right wing of being moralists??? 90% of the rules they’re making for us are MORAL judgements, not scientific ones.
Do y’all LIKE being treated like a bunch of 5 year olds? AND paying through the nose for the privilege?
Dog, if the shoe fits…
Its one thing after another, I cant wait for more to come ,bring it on ,so stupid this article is ,just stupid ,it takes one to know one ,and there one for all ,how stupid can you feel ? really,stupid says stupid does ,How many would live this way ? duh ,,,,,,,
Kathy…is it your mind or your keyboard that is on drugs?
Dog-tell us what you know about the scientific method. Please.
To me it seems like we are saying YES….Yes we want there to be sharks in the ocean in 100 years, yes we want to see nature without bags on the ground that won’t biodegrade for 1000 years,yes we want to keep from poisoning wildlife and water with lead when there are other alternatives that work just as well, yes we want to breath clean air and drink clean water. I guess it is all your perspective.
Lisa, well said! I like that.