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Originally Posted by Willravel
The Happy Meal toy ban wasn't voted on by the general public. It was decided by a very small group of people. The decision is very unpopular among most liberals here, including Lt. Governor Newsom and Governor Brown.
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This is a bigger picture issue and I believe there is an agenda consistent with Cimarron's point but perhaps even deeper:
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Last Wednesday, in the wake of an expiring two-year moratorium, City Council signed off on an amendment prohibiting new fast-food joints in certain parts of the city. The zoning ban focuses on neighborhoods in South Los Angeles, where approximately 71% of all restaurants are of a corporate-owned, quick-service ilk, 30% more than neighborhoods located west of Beverly Hills.
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The South Central Fast-Food "Ban": Free Enterprise vs. Free Radicals - Los Angeles Restaurants and Dining - Squid Ink
The mindset that first creates an onerous amount of red-tape for a restaurant to be open, then goes on a crusade against the one type of restaurant (large corporate, with the advantage of economy of scale, at a low cost point - especially in low income areas) that can be profitable in some areas given the increased costs of regulations and the demographics, baffles the hell out of me. One day they want to protect the "character" of old neighborhoods, then its livable wages, then it is "for the children", etc. etc. etc. - what is it? What are they really afraid of? Why?