Today the Los Angeles City Communists, er, council, officially passed a law that would ban fast food restaurants from opening for at least a year in South Los Angeles.
"I believe this is a victory for the people of south and southeast Los Angeles, for them to have greater food options," she said.
The ban covers a 32-square-mile area with about 500,000 residents for one year, with two possible six-month extensions.
A report released last year by the county's Department of Public Health found 30 percent of children in south Los Angeles were obese, compared with 25 percent of all children in the city.
Still, several fast-food workers argued that fast-food establishments provide residents with job opportunities and, in recent years, nutritious menu options.
Yes, closing markets always equals more choices. That was sarcasm, by the way. There are a couple reasons that fast food restaurants dominate LA's ghettos, like most cities' ghettos.
One is that they thrive there. The consumers like it. But screw the consumers, say the council, they don't know enough to choose for themselves what to eat. But we do, we're the government, and we know how to run your life better than you do. And you'll do it our way, like it or not.
The second reason is that sit-down restaurants are unprofitable in these areas. The high crime rates prevent establishments that may serve healthier choices from wanting to set up shop, as do the high insurance costs.
But Los Angeles has decided that freedom of choice is desirable only in choosing whether or not to kill your unborn child, or whether you would rather be a citizen of the US or Mexico, or whether or not you would prefer to marry someone of the same sex or of the opposite sex.
Interesting times we are living in.
Does you support these measures to take away individual and corporate freedom, or has the nanny state finally gone to far?
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