If you like to drive through Chicago talking on your cell phone, and eating goose liver pate,  the city of Chicago wants you to know that they’re coming after you!
If you’re a cell phone-using, goose liver-eating, cigarette-smoking, fast food-loving person, Chicago might not be your kind of town.
In this city that once winked at Prohibition, members of the City Council are trying to crack down on things they deem unhealthy, immoral or just plain annoying.
A proposal that would restrict fast-food chains from cooking with artery-clogging trans fat oils got a public airing last week, and in the past year alone aldermen have banned smoking in nearly all public places and the use of cell phones while driving.
In April, Chicago became the first U.S. city to outlaw the sale of foie gras, a goose liver delicacy that is decried by animal-rights activists because it is created by force-feeding birds to fatten up their livers.
Obviously, the city government has solved all of Chicago’s more pressing problems, if they can waste the taxpayer’s money on crap like this. Even Mayor Daley, one of the worst big city mayors in the country is ticked off.
“We have children getting killed by gang leaders and dope dealers,” an angry Mayor Richard M. Daley said earlier this year. “We have real issues here in this city. And we’re dealing with foie gras? Let’s get some priorities.”
Well put, I’d say.
