Either/or

As either New York or California goes, so goes America to hell in a handbasket. The New York Health Dept. claims that by labeling the calorie content of fast foods, the city will reduce by 150,000 the number of obese individuals over 5 years and prevent 30,000 cases of diabetes. Numbers plucked from thin air. What price tag hangs on this inefficient method of saving taxpayer dollars which forfeits the God- given principle of free will. Do the math. How many people live in the environs of New York? Millions? What’s the ratio of slim downs or shorts cuts to diabetes to the population of a major metropolis? California is bankrupt; New York is bankrupt of common sense.