Ban poverty, not soda

If you don't know what a quarter water is and you've never resorted to drinking one when in need of liquid & carbs because 25¢ is all you've got, or because in the environment you were brought up in quarter water (or, on rich days, Tropical Fantasy) is what you know ... please don't pontificate on the subject of inner-city dietary choices. 

Ginia Bellafante knocks it outta the park in the New York Times today: "The articulated goal should not simply be to create a population of poor people who are thin, but to create a population of poor people who are less poor. In 2010, the poverty rate in the city remained what it was 10 years earlier, 21 percent. " AMEN. (Not to mention the poverty rate in NYC of children is 30 percent. Yes. In the 2nd richest city in the world.)