I agree with some of this , and dissagree with some as well.
• Restrict the use of artery-clogging trans fat, common in fried and baked foods and linked to heart disease, in restaurants and school cafeterias.
- I agree with it being restricted in our schools or even elemenated all together, we have enough obeese and ill children do to eating dissorders, and poor diets. Granted some of this is there parents fault.
- I forsee the next law telling me I can no longer deep fry a Turkey in my own back yard.
• Bar smoking at state parks and beaches, and in cars carrying children.
- Its a state park and I pay my taxxes, so let me smoke as long as it isnt arround someone thats being offened by it, or Im at least far enough away from them that they dont go and inhail my second hand smoke.
- No smokeing in cars with kids...are there still people that are that stupid in the world? They are kids, dont force this stuff on them!!!
• Open a savings account, seeded with $500, for every newborn Californian to use at 18 for college, a first home purchase or an investment for retirement.
- This makes me laugh because I know adults in there 60 and beyond that think Social Security will save them. They dont even have a saveings, and ignorned any 401k plan that was offered to them. This will lead to more abortions and children being forced to be put up for addoption, not to mention even more stress on new parents and families that are just trying to stay together.
• Fine dog and cat owners who don't spay or neuter their pets by 4 months of age.
- Who pays for this? How many puppies and kittens will be left in all those smoke free parks for tax payers to take care of? How many 13 year old's have kids these days, maybe we should all go on some type of manditory birth control as well.
• Require chain restaurants to list calorie, saturated fat and sodium content on menus.
- Agree to a point...at the least have the list at hand so customers can view it.
• Phase out the sale of incandescent light bulbs, which are less energy-efficient than compact fluorescent bulbs.
- Solar power anyone? Have we given up on that? How about spending some of the money that it took to figure out how much money we would save on light bulbs and put that toward finding an alternative power source?
Just my .0002 worth.
Dont shoot me.
Trav.
