Marxist Bill Dictates How Tortillas Are Made

Marxist Democrats:

"Shut the fuck up and eat what the Hell we tell you to eat."

California famously became the first state to ban foie gras in 2004. Now, the Golden State is targeting another culinary tradition: the handmade tortilla. A new bill in Sacramento, if passed, would mandate adding folic acid to corn masa flour. Pushed under the auspices of public health, the costs of this well-intentioned idea—as always—will disproportionately fall on small businesses.

Assembly Bill 1830, introduced by Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula (D–Fresno), would require all masa manufacturers to fortify their products with folic acid. This will affect producers of tortillas, as well as producers of pupusas, tamales, and taco shells, to name just a few.

The rationale is based on research showing that the ingestion of folic acid by women of reproductive age can reduce neural tube birth defects, such as spina bifida and anencephaly.

The costs of government mandates always fall most heavily on small businesses and entrepreneurs. Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano reports that small-batch tortilla makers—like La Princesita Tortilleria in East Los Angeles—are starting to panic. La Princesita uses the nixtamalization method (involving only corn masa, water, and lime), a culinary heritage that dates back millennia.

Arellano, who likens the taste of mass-produced corn tortillas found in most grocery stores to "the lickable part of an envelope," conducted a blind taste test of La Princesita's traditional tortillas alongside the same tortillas with folic acid. He immediately tasted the difference, with the folic acid version having a distinct but unidentifiable lingering taste, as well as a more rubbery texture while being chewed. La Princesita ran the same test with its employees, who concurred in the inferior taste—not to mention color—of the folic acid version.

"The danger is that tortilla makers who make it the traditional way lose their market advantage over others," Arellano wrote in an email exchange. "That would definitely have an impact on their bottom line, but even worse is the cultural impact. Imagine you practice a foodways that goes back thousands of years, then [are] told by the government you can't do it anymore? Cultural imperialism at its worst!"

California's Tortilla Bill Threatens To Flatten Small Businesses (msn.com)

Now Democrats Ban Mark Twain

 

“'Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. '”

George Orwell, 1984

(KNX)  -  A debate is brewing about teaching anti-racism in the Burbank Unified School District, with a handful of classic books being removed from intstruction.

Teachers have been told to stop using the books such as Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” until further notice.

The novels are under review after being challenged by some parents over concerns about racial content.

Nora Pelizzari with the National Coalition Against Censorship says the books in question tell anti-racist stories.

The organization has written a letter urging the district to keep the books in their curriculum and allow teachers to teach them during the review process…

The other novels included in the potential banning are “Of Mice and Men,” “The Cay,” and “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry”.

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Food Nazis Take Charge of California

Democrats:

"Eat what the fuck we tell you to eat."

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A new state bill would give kids two options with their meals at restaurants—water or milk.

Senate Bill 1192 would make water or milk the default drink for kids meals in a push to reduce obesity and access to sugary drinks for children.

The bill passed the Assembly and is on its way to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk. If he signs it, California would be the first state in the nation to have such a law.

No one gets in the way of Isaiah Palacios and his soda.

“I need my root beer, I need my Fanta, I need my Sprite,” he said.

But California lawmakers could make that sugary fix harder to get as a new effort to impact the eating habits of children gains momentum at the state Capitol.

“Cancer is fought in the halls of government, not just in the halls of the hospital,” said Stephanie Winn with the American Cancer Society.

Her group is one of many supporting the bill that would force restaurants to automatically serve water or milk with kids meals instead of juice or soda. She argues children’s meals shouldn’t come with a side order of diseases.

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Democrats push a new soda tax

Bend Over for More Democrat Taxes

Taxes on top of taxes on top of taxes on top of taxes

and they always need more.

Leftist Loon Democrat San Francisco officials again are trying to raise money for government coffers by taxing soda and other sweetened drinks, an effort that’s previously failed to gain traction locally and in other U.S. cities.

Four city lawmakers announced Saturday that they are introducing legislation that would impose a 2 cent-per-ounce tax on soft drinks, sports drinks and energy drinks. If passed by the full 11-member Board of Supervisors, the measure would go before local voters for approval or rejection in November.

The tax would be levied on beverage distributors and retailers who obtain their products directly from manufacturers. Democrat officials estimate it could generate as much as $31 million a year reports CBS News.

Under the proposal set to be introduced Tuesday, the Democrats claim the money would have to be used to fund recreation and nutrition programs in schools and at recreation centers, public bottle-filling and drinking fountains, healthy food services and dental health initiatives.

San Francisco also has visited the issue before. Former Mayor Gavin Newsom floated the idea in 2009 of charging large retailers a fee on the sugary drinks they sold. He abandoned the plan a year later, citing opposition from the business community. In 2012, voters in two other California communities, Richmond and El Monte, rejected a penny-per-ounce tax on business that sold sugary drinks.

A new anti-tax campaign advocacy group funded by the American Beverage Association, called Coalition for an Affordable City, already has a website urging San Francisco residents to lobby against the proposal.

“This is not just a tax on soda. This is a tax on juice drinks, ice teas, powdered drinks, sports drinks, and hundreds of other beverages,” the site states. “The last thing we need is a tax that makes it even more expensive to live and work in San Francisco.”

The Food Police want to raise your taxes

Food Police
Big Brother wants to raise taxes on your soda to finance government unions
and and overpaid administrators.

Soda Taxes  -  The Food Police want your wallet to finance Big Government

• Now the Democrat city of El Monte wants to tax soda.
• The idiot El Monte mayor uses your "health" as the reason for more taxes, not his overspending on city employees.
• The Democrat answer to everything in the world is more taxes.

The moronic leaders of the city of El Monte plan to consider declaring a fiscal emergency and asking voters to tax sugar-sweetened beverages.  This new tax would re-distribute the wealth from taxpayers to the treasury.  It could raise $7 million a year.

After having given away the city treasury to public employees they now seek a tax on sugary beverages sold within the city to balance the books reports the Los Angeles Times.

The moves come as the city attempts to stave off the financial problems facing a number of cities across California. So far this summer, three cities — Stockton, San Bernardino and Mammoth Lakes — have moved to seek bankruptcy protection, and Compton officials announced the city could run out of cash in a matter of months.
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El Monte officials said they are not at the edge of bankruptcy but need the sugary drinks tax revenue as a protection against insolvency down the road.

Your Tax Dollars at Work  -  El Monte has also awarded generous benefits to some of its top employees.

Former Police Chief Thomas Armstrong, who retired in May 2011, collected nearly $430,000 in his final year with the city through a combination of salary and payouts for unused time off. Armstrong and two other former police chiefs now receive yearly CalPERS pensions of more than $200,000.
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"We're paying for the sins of our fathers," Mayor Andre Quintero said in a recent interview. "For years we just did not manage our contracts well. We were giving away the store."

"These drinks have a similar secondary impact; it may not be to the lungs, but it will be obesity and diabetes and dental decay," Quintero said.

The sugary drinks tax would fill that funding gap, Quintero said.

To Democrats Leftists the answer to all questions on earth is more taxes. . . . . or to put it better, the Socialist re-distribution of the wealth to those with "needs".
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(Los Angeles Times)

Food Police crackdown on mobile food trucks

Step away from the burger and no one gets hurt.
The Socialist Democrats of California are now looking to crush even more small private businesses.  This time  Socialism is acting in the name of healthy eating and saving children.

Leftist Moron wants to ban food trucks and carts from daring to come near schools and selling their horrible fatty food to the children

• Ban all food trucks and pushcarts from coming within 1,500 feet of schools.
• The law says pot stores need only be 600 feet from schools.
• "Think of the Children"  -  The new Big Brother battle cry.
• And the idiot voters keep re-electing these Socialist Democrat morons.

The Food Nazis have their knives out to crush small businessmen and tighten their Big Brother noose around the throats of the people.
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A new law has been proposed here in the People's Republic of California to further crackdown on Freedom.  Socialist Democrats Assemblyman William Monning of Carmel has introduced a bill to significantly limit where mobile lunch wagons can operate.
  

In this sick Leftist Fuck's wet-dream he wants to keep the lunch wagons even farther away from schools than marijuana dispensaries reports the Los Angeles Times.


This Big Brother bastard wants to ban all food trucks and pushcarts from within 1,500 feet of elementary, middle and high schools from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on school days.  Pot stores need only be 600 feet from schools.  Food truck operators say the restrictions would put large swaths of their market — as much as 80% of streets in some places — out of reach.
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Kill Freedom before it can infect people  -  His legislation could put many of the mobile kitchens out of business just as the industry is surging with creativity.
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Los Angeles County has about 2,650 trucks the Southern California Mobile Food Vendors Assn.  No food trucks are licensed to operate in Monning's snooty posh hometown of Carmel-by-the-Sea, according to Mayor Sue McCloud.

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(Los Angeles Times)

Socialist California Democrats live in fear that somehow, someway a small businessman might make a living for himself while creating jobs and wealth in the community.