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Florida's Senator Ronda Storms, R-Valrico and other law makers have been pushing for a ban on the purchase of sweets by food stamp recipients.
The bill would also require the state to launch a culturally sensitive campaign to educate people about the benefits of a nutritious diet. Supporters say it would help recipients follow healthy eating habits and prevent taxpayer funds from being used to purchase luxury foods like bakery cakes when they can whip up a cheaper box mix.
Do you think the government is overstepping it's bounds?
"Most individuals using public assistance dollars are using the funds to get by and to provide for their families. However, we should do what we can to prevent dollars intended to help Florida's poorest families from being spent in the wrong places," Storms said in a statement.
Trouble on the high seas:
There is more trouble and woe for cruise line operators in the wake of that last fiasco that killed passengers.
There was an outbreak of the Novo Virus on another cruise ship recently. What ever happened to adherance to he wash your hands rule after using the toilet?
Radio Active Leak happens on American Soil.
A week of problems at the San Onofre nuclear power plant has raised new safety concerns among some activists.
Officials of Southern California Edison, which operates the facility and is a majority owner, insist that the plant is perfectly safe, but others say the mishaps are one more sign of problems.
The situation is "further evidence that California should move beyond nuclear power. California should plan for the orderly phase out of ... aging nuclear power plants, including San Onofre, and shift to clean-energy alternatives like energy efficiency and renewable power," Bernadette Del Chiaro, director of clean-energy programs for the advocacy group Environment California, said in a statement.
Nuclear regulation officials said Thursday that extensive wear had been found on tubes inside a unit at the San Onofre nuclear plant.
Another unit at the plant was taken off-line after a small radiation leak earlier this week.
You have to realize that hundreds of thousands live around these plants that are scattered all around our states. When are they going to finally get regulated in the way they should? How many people have to worry about radioactive sickeness and death before the latter happens?
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Trouble on the high seas: Your own risk on international waters, imo |
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Officials of Southern California Edison, which operates the facility and is a majority owner, insist that the plant is perfectly safe, but others say the mishaps are one more sign of problems. The situation is "further evidence that California should move beyond nuclear power. California should plan for the orderly phase out of ... aging nuclear power plants, including San Onofre, and shift to clean-energy alternatives like energy efficiency and renewable power," Bernadette Del Chiaro..... If Del Chiaro is a citizen of California, she can certainly challange the safety of the Southern California Edison plant. It would be most appropriate for the local citizens to make the complaint. But Del Chiaro's suggestion of what energy should be used instead, is none of her business, unless she is the one who intends to start her own business in that field. |
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I've written posts questioning the safety of America's ageing nuclear plants and the potential for a disaster that this country has never experienced outside of of 911. If one of those plants break down and contaminate areas where there is a high population density... In any case, I am not even an anti nuclear activist. Just a concerned citizen. |
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And certainly......that is the PUPOSE of self-governing.......that those in the same geographical jurisdiction.....closest to the problem, should be collectively fighting any issue that violates their rights. |
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Unfortunately those numbers are very few and very far in between. |
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That's the beauty of self-governance. One can take care, to beware and do something about their local surroundings, or not, and enjoy the benefit or suffer the consquences. |
Do you think the government is overstepping it's bounds?
Yes, there is no Constitutional duty, power or authority for the government to provide food needs to a private citizen.