More Liberal Fascism: LA hot dog vendor sentenced to jail for selling bacon
Posted on April 27, 2008
This is what you get when Democrats are in charge. Bacon is a “dangerous” food.
Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.
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Excuse me?
How are you blaming this on liberals? This is a garden-variety health code. Hot dogs come fully cooked and thus have little chance of being a health risk. Not the case with bacon.
Don’t get me wrong, I oppose this sort of regulation in favor of free market self-policing and I do like some of the things Carey has done on Reason.tv, but this is not a big deal and its certainly attributable to either party in particular.
I don’t recall anyone in either party ever opposing health codes for food preparers.
How to blame it on modern liberals?
Liberals = big government
Liberals = protect the individual from himself
It’s a shame because there was a time long ago when “liberal” meant someone who supported freedom.
I have noticed that brick and mortar restaraunt chains such as Wendy’s and Burger King are both using bacon in their hamburgers.
As always, liberals are not above removing the lower rungs on the ladder to the American Dream.
They also spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on kitchen equipment. If you had watched the whole video you would have seen that the there was a high-end cart available that were up to code for things like bacon.
In case you haven’t noticed, the national debt has doubled under the Bush administration. Unfunded liabilities have also jump. Bush was the first president to preside over a $2 trillion budget. He is also the first to propose a $3 trillion budget.
Conservatives = big government, too.
This is “protecting the individual from himself.” I thought that’s what it was too, when i first saw the title. But this isn’t about bacon dogs being extremely unhealthy or anything. This is about sanitary food preparation.
Again, I don’t really think that’s something the government should necessarily be involved in, but it’s something that we’ve accepted for over a century now.
People, we have serious problems in this country. We have strayed a long ways from the vision of our founders.
We can’t even begin to set things right until we learn to resist the kneejerk blaming of the other party; we need to realize that both parties have steadily expanded the size and scope of government and every such expansion is also a reduction in individual freedom.
Grr. I miss the editing feature.
“that [are] up to code”
“have also jump[ed]”
“This is[n't] ‘protecting the individual from himself.’”
Well said, Jeff, and don’t worry about grammar errors.
Agreed that government has recently gotten bigger under both parties. But one of the fundamental beliefs of a good conservative is small government, and that a person should take some measure of responsibility for himself. How someone like New York Mayor Bloomberg can call himself a Republican and ban transfats is amazing to me.
I can look at a piece of bacon and the street vendor selling it and make a reasonable determination of whether I should eat it or not. Yes, some people will get sick, but we don’t need big brother interfering in every aspect of our life and regulating us to death. I once saw a can of peanuts, appropriately labeled “Peanuts”. Underneath it said “Caution: May contain peanuts” because some do-gooder felt a need to protect the ignorant.
I confess that I’m a bit ticked off about all this, because of a recent ticket I got for not wearing my seatbelt. Whose business is it if I don’t wear my seatbelt? I can afford the $45 ticket, but I think about the poor guy who earns minimum wage who got the same ticket as me. How can the government better for that guy’s long-term interests? Forcing him to wear the seatbelt, or letting him keep his $45? And if I show that mountain climbing or hang gliding is more dangerous than going seatbelt-free, will the government start ticketing them too?
Not recently, ALWAYS. I don’t believe there has ever been an administration that left us with a government as small as the one it inherited. Even the Gipper himself didn’t come close to abiding his rhetoric.
The two party system makes it too easy to play the blame game long enough and loud enough to avoid any real determination of blame. We eat it up without ever realizing that both are to blame.
Like I said above, I agree that government probably shouldn’t even be in the food inspection business; it’s just so unbelievably minor compared to all of the other ways that we’ve over-grown government.
I also agree about the seatbelts. The peanut warnings, on the other hand, are voluntary. You may question the company’s decision to add such an obvious warning label, but it is exactly the sort of free market solution that we advocate.
Jeff, are you liberal.
I mean, you support hot dog vendors being held accountable for selling bacon.
I don’t. I’m Conservative.
I’m not for babies dying, I’m for government getting the hell out of the Hot Dog vendor business.
Obviously you are liberal.
What I don’t get is why you liberals are afraid to admit what you are.
I’ll give you an example.
You (a liberal) felt you needed to defend liberals and say Republicans are for big government too. Republicans are not Conservatives these days within government. But more to the point is that you AGREE with Hot Dog vendors being jailed and make a case even citing Wendy’s spending mega-bucks on equipement. You are clearly a liberal.
How much equipment does it take to cook bacon. How much regulation? And if you haven’t shopped in a while, you can buy bacon fully cooked at ANY supermarket.
But I’m amused at you as a liberal not just acknowledging, that “YES I am a a liberal, and I’m here to save you from Illegal bacon salesmen”
Why are you afraid of what you are?
This is not about liberal vs. conservative. It’s about proper food preparation…
Extending the argument, what if a vendor couldnt afford tongs and served food with his hands? And the health department cited him for a violation? And eventually took him to court? It’s the SAME argument. It’s about food preparation, NOT big government infringing on the peoples’ rights.. .sheesh.
The same people complaining about the ‘right’ to serve food in an unsanitary manner will be the first to complain about the Health Department when they fall ill at some restaurant.
Point number 3,456,982 proving:
Scratch a liberal (modern connotation) find a fascist.
You can buy pre-cooked bacon,just like the kind the fast food places use,they sell it at the supermarket.
JLP