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The Nation's Pulse
Fat and Fatuous
Must Big Brother get bigger for Americans to get smaller?
America is riddled with disease, and your child is probably infected. You may already know this. After all, much like leprosy and acne, obesity can be detected from a few yards away, and the opportunities to observe it are everywhere.
In the United States, potbellies and thunder thighs are the look that never goes out of fashion. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that 17 percent of children and adolescents are now obese. As for adults, 30 percent were obese in 2000, as compared to 13 percent in 1960. Despite its growing prevalence, obesity is a trend without a friend. People lose their patience with love handles the more of them they find.
If you forget about the glut of oversized guts, the government will remind you. September was America’s first-ever Childhood Obesity Awareness Month — the same month, as it happens, that kids go back to school and resume their bullying and teasing of each other. Increasingly, though, it is adults doing the finger-pointing.
It starts with the first family. In February, Michelle Obama announced an initiative called “Let’s Move!” — a scheme for “solving” childhood obesity “within a generation” and for giving the first lady something to do with her time. On the same day, President Obama created the first-ever White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity, which no one noticed and therefore everyone endorsed. As always, trivial pursuits by the government escape ridicule by escaping attention.
The first lady put this to the test on September 25, when she went on Nickelodeon and told viewers to “to shut down your computers, put down your cell phones and turn off your TVs.” Nickelodeon and its three sister networks (Nicktoons, Nick Jr., TeenNick) not only permitted her request but also advanced it, by going off the air for the next three hours (noon-3:00 p.m.). This was all part of the “Worldwide Day of Play,” which involves boring kids to the point of making them go outside, run around, and burn calories.
Why should kids do this? Because being young and fat is terrible, say a bunch of people whose main physical activity is running around and annoying everybody else.
Take MeMe Roth, a mother of two and the president of National Action Against Obesity, who accused the Girl Scouts of “using girls as a front to push millions of cookies onto an already bloated population.” Her complaints about school food were so exhausting that a P.T.A. member sent her an email saying, “Please, consider moving.” Ms. Roth, who has described herself as being “mad, like crazy,” believes that obesity is “the most pressing health crisis of our time.”
Few in the Obama administration or the Obama family would disagree. After launching “Let’s Move!” Mrs. Obama said, “We have to decide as a nation that physical activity and nutrition and all that stuff is just as important as test scores and good grades, textbooks and everything else we make the trade-off for.” If we don’t, she warned, we “can kill our kids” (interesting words from a woman whose husband promised to end the politics of fear).
But there is always hope with the Obamas in charge. “With everyone working together,” Mrs. Obama said, “it [childhood obesity] can be solved.” That’s comforting, or at least it’s supposed to be. Children can be slenderized, we are told, but only with everyone working together — a hint, perhaps, that taxpaying adults will be financing the weight loss of people who were just born.
And why not? “Our kids didn’t do this to themselves,” as the first lady pointed out, thereby raising the question of who did. Naturally, “society” must have.
Obesity is being rebranded accordingly. A few years ago, officials at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service began to push the idea of a “nature-deficit disorder” as a cause of childhood obesity. Nature-deficit disorder is nothing new. It used to be called “being inside too much.” Its new name is part of a larger trend, which is the formalization of everything obesity-related into official-sounding jargon.
Anti-fat activists often describe obesity as an “epidemic.” Given that an epidemic is an infectious disease, it is hard to see how double chins qualify. MeMe Roth and others say obesity is “socially contagious,” which explains less than it obscures. You can’t “catch” obesity the same way you catch the flu. Also unlike the flu, you will not recover from obesity simply by lying in bed for a few days.
There is no doubt that obesity is socially rampant and little doubt it will disappear soon. If current trends continue, according to a 2008 study in the journal Obesity, 86 percent of American adults will be overweight by 2028, and 51 percent will be obese, making fat people a public majority and public enemy No. 1 at the same time. Even grimmer was a report in September by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which predicted that three in four Americans will be overweight or obese in 10 years.
Preventing this outcome, many people contend, requires collective measures. Two obesity gurus, Tom Farley and Deborah Cohen, put it simply: “If fat people and their doctors can’t cure obesity, as a nation we ought to prevent it.”
As troubling as widespread obesity is, widespread obesity prevention sounds much worse. Even at the state level, such efforts irritate more people than they trim. In May, a 10-year-old girl at a Texas elementary school was given a week of detention for the offense of possessing a Jolly Rancher. School officials explained that they were merely following a state guideline banning “minimal nutrition” foods.
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Windsor Mann is a writer living in Washington, D.C., and the editor of The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism.
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drudge ette obama| 11.17.10 @ 6:13AM
Tina Schen, Michelle Obama's new chief of staff (reportedly) better watch her intake - Michelle should clean her own house first before lunging after our fatty children.
http://www.theblaze.com/storie.....onfidante/
Booger | 11.17.10 @ 6:52AM
From the desk of First Lady Michelle Obama:
Dear Fatties,
I have tried, really and genuinely, to be proud of this pathetic country. For one brief moment, when you finally woke up from you sugar induced coma long enough to do something smart for once you elected Barry. But ever since then you've been right back to your old ways. I can't stand it I tell you, I just can't stand it.
Do you have any idea what it's like having to explain to my friends in Paris that yes, I really am from America, that place with all the fat red-neck slobs? Do you have any idea how it makes me feel to have to admit that I actually live around you people? How is that fair to me?
Look, I work out, I dress great, and I look GOOD! Why can't the rest of you be more like me? Even my own kids are selling me out. The two little fatties are all the time stuffing their faces, and both complain about their daily Pilates. I tell you being a parent in this culture of obesity is a nightmare!
So wake up America, and put down the Twinkies! Do you all want to look like a bunch of bloated Rush Limbaugh clones? You're fat, you're ugly and you're stupid, and until you're willing to admit it there's no way I can help you make the changes you need. I tell you it's enough to make me forget that I was ever proud of this place at all.
Honestly, this whole thing has left me so depressed that I'm just going to have to get out of town for a while to clear my head. I hear the Riviera is nice this time of year. I'll just have to have the Secret Service make sure there aren't any fatties uglying up the beach before I get there. In the meantime, I suggest you all ditch the red meat, stock up on arugula, and hit the stair climbers. Elsewise I am never going to be able to put up with the sight of you again.
Looking out for your best interests,
First Lady Michelle Obama
lilo| 11.17.10 @ 9:14AM
Love your letters and comments , Booger. Why do you not post at "Lucianne". Whenever I am lucky enough to find one of your posts, I wish I was compter literate enough to save it.
DONAL| 11.17.10 @ 8:22PM
I'm not sure what browser you use Internet Explorer?
Click on 'files' at the top tab.
Click on 'Desktop'
Open 'My Documents'
Click 'Save or Save As..' and type in a title that gives a clue what's in it.
To read it again, go to your Windows 'Sart Menu', click on 'Documents' click on 'My Documents' and it should be there.
jeff| 11.17.10 @ 12:41PM
So how does the National Association For The Advancement Of Fat Acceptance feel about all this?
Barbara| 11.17.10 @ 9:50PM
Can we please stop with the Michelle is chic thing? She is a frump. Want to see chic? http://RDujour.com for some insane fashionistas.
wriggles | 11.19.10 @ 2:14PM
As black women are supposed to be the fattest of all, if MO was attacking anyone it would hardly be white men.
Son Of Sam| 11.17.10 @ 9:28AM
spot on! And while we're at, let's not so gently mock "Nick Jr" for trying to "do its part" by being off the air from noon to 3pm, when virtually ALL the children older than 5 are STILL IN SCHOOL!!!
seriously, who the hell do they think they're kidding?
Slim and Trim| 11.17.10 @ 9:48AM
"All we have to do is do nothing. Is that too much to ask?"
Hell yes, that's too much to ask.
The government should get more invovled in forcing companies to lower sodium and sugar content of their products.
Last night I made a delicious vegetable soup with Low Sodium V8 Juice (2/3 less sodium), and it was delicious--too delicious and too healthy.
Because of government pressure, Campbell Soups are now much lower in sodium. Government enforcement is what it takes. And that's what I want. When I go to the grocery store, I look for low-sodium, low-sugar products. I want the government invovled in forcing food companies to make HEALTHIER products.
Windsor Mann must be a fat ass. This little sausage of a post is not worth reading. What a waste of time. And by the way, I am anything but fat. I am six-feet tall and weigh 160 pounds. My age? 58 and first rate!
And another thing: Fat people are disgusting to me. Their excess blubber reflects a moral weakness, a character flaw. They're gluttons.
And for all you Fundamentalist Christians that populate AmSpec's readership, gluttony is a sin.
It's a sin, sinners. On your knees now! (yeah, sure) Fatties make me sick, sick, sick. Enough said.
dc| 11.17.10 @ 10:21AM
Unless this is poorly written satire, please refer to Appleby's comment below, and mind your own effing business.
If you're resume-posting for the job of Concentration Camp guard, though, you're on the right track. I'm sure the Praetorian health commisars that Il Duce Negro and his racist wife want to unleash upon us will enjoy your enthusiastic leadership.
Suggestions in addition to Appleby's: what's disgusting to you ("fat" people, however you define them, you narcissistic puke) isn't relevant as a matter of national policy; nobody gives a crap what you eat or how much you weigh or how much you love yourself. What disgusts me is pin-dick totalitarians like yourself who believe that they deserve to rule the rest of us. A gentle reminder: beautiful as you may believe yourself to be, wonderfully "lite" and healthy as you think you are, you'll be hard pressed to stop a hail of bullets--which is what you'll ultimately get right through your six pack abs if your Praetorians and commisars attempt to enforce your brilliant vision on the rest of us.
Slim and Trim| 11.17.10 @ 10:50AM
Off your medications again, dc?
And your "hail of bullets" hysteria! Shock treatment is what I recommend for your deluded and paranoid mind.
Fat people and their fat-related diseases are running up the price of our health care.
By the tone of your little rant, I suspect you're one of the fatties (gluttons) I was condemning in my earlier post. Righto, hippo?
Missy Mastication| 11.17.10 @ 10:53AM
I KNOW THAT FROM MY EATING HABITS THAT I HAVE A SPIRIT OF GLUTTONY. PLEASE PRAY FOR FOR ME THAT JESUS SETS ME FREE FOR I NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT ...
Slim and Trim| 11.17.10 @ 10:56AM
Gluttony is one of the SEVEN DEADLY SINS that Christian fundies ignore. Not only do they ignore it, they repute it.
Time for all of you fundies to do the Special K pinch! Pinch it and winch.
Proud Fat Ass| 11.17.10 @ 12:57PM
"Slim and Trim:" Man I bet you are one hell of a good time at random social gatherings. Why don't you pull that cork out of your arse and lighten up a bit? What an insuferable a-hole you must be.....
David W| 11.17.10 @ 7:32PM
Good thing that Pride isn't one of the deadly sins. Oh wait, it is. Strike one. Good thing Wrath (anger, rage) isn't a deadly sin. Oh wait, the way you talk about overweight people (and Christians) sounds like you have a lot of anger and rage. Darn, two strikes. Good thing Vanity (you know, boasting) isn't a sin. Oh wait, it is too. Darn, that's three strikes. Hmm, my thoughts go to that evil person who said "he who is without sin cast the first stone." So, Slim and Trim, welcome to the Seven Deadly Sin club. We could make you President in Whining.
Consuela Gonzales| 11.17.10 @ 11:02AM
I went to several churches in America last year and saw luxury cars parked outside, fat people eating at church dinners like pigs (gluttony in the Church!) while billions are starving. What kind of Christian's are these? They are false Christians who live for gluttony, avarice, and vanity.
Sheila| 11.17.10 @ 1:04PM
Thanks for the heads up, Consuela. Meanwhile, all the mestizos infesting my county are slim, trim, and six feet tall!
JKS| 11.17.10 @ 1:18PM
No, they are Christians who don't buy into poverty theology like you. FYI, poverty theology is not Christianity. It is a false religion.
beebop| 11.18.10 @ 6:00AM
This isn't anything like, say, folks in charge of public education sending their kids to private school in the city with the WORST school system evah? No. Can't possibly be, right?
Why is it it feels like we as a nation are being lectured and berated because the fat kid Barack was probably the butt of alot of teasing? I personally can't wait for the cartharsis of the Obamas to retreat to the private arena. But that's just me.
dc| 11.17.10 @ 11:39AM
Wouldn't you love to know whether I'm on meds, what they might be, how much they cost, etc., so you can ration those just as you'd like to ration my and other "undesirable" Americans' food?
Not yet, jerkoff--though I know you'll keep trying. What's pathetic is that your response shows just how fundamentally totalitarian you are, nicely making my point. Your syncophants below also help make things clear, that only you and they will decide what constitutes appropriate "Christian" practice; only you and they will decide whether and what churchgoers are allowed to eat in their church, especially if you don't like their appearance. Again, excellent auditioning for Concentration Camp guard, but mighty unpersuasive to anyone who believes in individual freedom and responsibility.
To re-emphasize: what I eat, what meds I take or don't take, where I go to church, what I eat in church, how "Christian" I am--none of this is your or the government's business. The assertion that "fat" people cost the government money--there's an easy solution to that, but not one that your tiny tinpot dictator mind can begin to entertain.
To put a finer point on my comment that your lovely, fit and trim self wouldn't stop a bullet--I wouldn't need bullets anyway. Come over and try policing what I eat, and I'll end up feeding your guts to stray dogs within 10 minutes, you can choose how I go about it, as you'd be powerless to stop it. Bring your Praetorians, and then I'll decide how to eliminate them as well.
Stop pretending that you're not already dreaming of eliminating those Americans that you find offensive...unfortunately, not even your Dear Leader has the resources or balls to attempt it (yet).
Slim and Trim| 11.17.10 @ 12:35PM
What does the "dc" stand for dc, Dog Chow?
Why doncha put a P in front of it? A "P" for Purina?
Are you snacking on dog chow as you type your paranoid and delusional posts?
Wouldn't surprise me at all.
dc| 11.17.10 @ 12:56PM
Wow, hilarious. How long does it take your protein-starved half-brain to come up with really, really funny things like this?
Naturally, you don't refute any of the substance of what I said, or deny your totalitarian motivations. You can't and won't give up the dream of a self-appointed elite regulating and rationing the rest of us to death, if that's what you judge good, right and proper.
I'll be happily paranoid unless and until I judge that human feces-eaters like you are no longer a mortal threat to me and my family, or this country and its Constitution.
Keep trying to make asinine jokes about all of this, but I know it's no joke, and so do you (though you won't admit it).
Final question, as you are well beyond wasting my time at this point: is there any area of human activity or consumption (other than gay sex and recreational illegal drug use, which I assume you're ok with) that you do not think elite, beautiful people like you should NOT regulate, tax, and ration?
dc| 11.17.10 @ 1:00PM
My fault, should have deleted the final "NOT" there. Not that it matters, as I expect nothing more than another snarky insult. Maybe that's all that you and Alan Brooks, below, can come up with after your all night totalitarian queer love sessions. Do you worship little paper mache statues of Lenin and Il Duce Negro before or after you violate each other?
JKS| 11.17.10 @ 1:19PM
You are what is wrong with this country. You do not believe in freedom. Please leave.
NavyBrat | 11.17.10 @ 10:54AM
Get bent & mind your own damned business. If I want to eat a frozen meal for lunch (I don't anymore b/c most of them taste like chemicals), I don't want it tasting like freaking hospital food. And when I go out, I don't need to have The Man telling the chef preparing my risotto not to use too much cream, butter, cheese, etc. Nor do I need The Man regulating the amount of salt that goes into my food. I work out for an hr a day, 6 days a week. And I eat whatever the hell I want. And I don't need tofu gobblers like YOU telling me that your fellow veggie maulers in the gub-ment know what's best.
Besides, define irony. The very person pushing this anti obesity crap is none other than our First Fatty, Angela Davis Jr. (Michelle Obama). Sure, Slimey Trimmings. Take your dietary advice from some chick with a tuchus 6 ax handles wide. THAT makes you look smart!
Slim and Trim| 11.17.10 @ 11:09AM
NavyBrat, have you tried Xanax?
This med might help with your anger control.
Just trying to be helpful.
Tim*| 11.17.10 @ 11:33AM
Hey S &T Leave Navy Brat Alone. He Likes My Jokes.
Aaaand, If It Wasn't For Your Anorexia & Bulimia & Xanax Addiction You'd Still Be Known As The Honkey Beach Whale.
BURRRPPP !
BAAAARRRUUUMMPPP !
Slim and Trim| 11.17.10 @ 12:46PM
BURRRPPP !
BAAAARRRUUUMMPPP!
Is this the sound of your Hoveround's wheels wheeling over your filthy, sticky kitchen linoleum.
You're so obese that you have to use a Hoveround for mobility, pig.
Tim*| 11.17.10 @ 12:50PM
Hey, S & T, leave old Tim* alone. He's in a Hoveround because he's a triple amputee. He's also shackled with bipolar disorder and chronic flatulance.
Tim*| 11.17.10 @ 12:52PM
I sometimes speak in third person because of my bipolar condition.
PHAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRTTTTTT.
Scuse me.
77onTime| 11.17.10 @ 12:54PM
You need to be gassed! (no pun intended)
Slim and Trim| 11.17.10 @ 12:57PM
With the exception of Alan Brooks and me, every poster on this page has chronic flatulance. That's why AmSpec smells so shitty.
JKS| 11.17.10 @ 1:22PM
I think you have sadomasochistic tendencies. Why else would you come here and abuse yourself?
Moose| 11.17.10 @ 1:29PM
Looks to me like it's Slim and Trim who is abusing us, JKS. Something wrong with your mind?
beebop| 11.18.10 @ 6:07AM
Perhaps you and Alan would be happier in a circle jerk with those of a similar self righteous persuasion? I know that I personally come to read how the rest jerk your little hemp leash. It gratifies me no end.
Sound Engineer| 11.17.10 @ 1:33PM
Please! I beg you!
Can we have these posts delivered in SurroundSound?
Tim*| 11.17.10 @ 2:27PM
Posseur Pussy Fraud Is Upset With The Real Tim*
Come And Get Me Posseur Pussy.
Tim*| 11.17.10 @ 2:25PM
Hey Posseur Pussy Fraud, Imitation of Me Means I'm Gettin' To Ya.
I'm Movin' Iron in My Gym. Come On Over & Sign A Waiver & I'll Give Ya Free Boxing Lessons & An Attitude Adjustment, At The Same Time.
You're Up Cupcake .
Slim and Trim| 11.17.10 @ 2:57PM
Alright, I admit it. I'm A Fat Assed Joisey Broad from Hoboken, sittin' here at a scratched linoleum kitchen table, in my curlers, fuzzy slippers and my mumu. in my parents' row house.
I'm Eatin' A Triple Decker Pork Sandwich slathered with mayonnaise , a bag of Doritos, a six pack of Colt 45 Malt Liquer and a jar of pickles.
BUUUURRRRPPPP !
BAAARRRRUUUUMMMMPPPPP !
Albert| 11.17.10 @ 11:46AM
Actually Mr. Trim, you are not trying to be helpful. You are trying to be provocative. You are not very good at it. No one is questioning the wisdom of good, balanced nutrition and the health problems associated with obesity. So, your provocations are rather silly. The simple truth is, nutrition and health are personal responsibilities. They are not the reponsibility of the US Government and indeed the US Government is Constitutionally (e.g. legally) prohibited from regulating your personal health and eating habits. The problem clearly is that self-righteous fools such as youself seriously want the US Government to be intimately in control of everyone's daily life, from sleeping to eating to working to whatever. The US Government has absolutely zero legal authority to do these things, including regulating and paying for health care or health insurance. So naturally, when the US Government tries to stick its big nose in people's personal business, people object instinctively and reasonably. So, grow up little boy, and stop sticking your little finger in people's faces and crying "the government's gonna make you do what I want!" In playgrounds of previous decades, little brats such as yourself would brag about how your mommies would make someone do something. Now you use the US Government as your surrogate mommy, but your bratish, infantile behavior is the same.
Franklin| 11.18.10 @ 4:07AM
Thank you, Albert!!
NavyBrat | 11.17.10 @ 11:57AM
Here's an idea. You eat YOUR shitty, flavorless food, & I'll eat my gourmet meals whenever the hell I want. Leave your Fatass First Lady & our government the hell outta what goes on my plate.
I cooked in fine dinning for 8 years. Good luck regulating what guys like Anthony Bourdain, Gordon Ramsay, Eric Ripert, or Mario Batali put in their dishes. And last I checked, most chefs weren't conservatives. But start f-ing with their food. See how far THAT gets you.
"Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold.
Oh, I'll accomodate them, I'll rummage around for something to feed them, for a 'vegetarian plate', if called on to do so. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine."
— Anthony Bourdain
You live YOUR miserable, pathetic tofu sucking existence, & we'll live ours the way we want to. How hard is that, Slimey Trim?
Slim and Trim| 11.17.10 @ 12:42PM
"I cooked in fine dinning for 8 years."
Fine Dinning? Where is is? I can't find it on my map.
NavyBrat | 11.17.10 @ 1:01PM
How unsurprising. Someone with the palate of a camel's asshole doesn't know what fine dining is. Maybe if you stopped eating cardboard & tofu, you'd know what good food is. No wonder you're such a miserable prick. If I ate shitty food my whole life, I suppose I'd be another miserable rube just like you.
Now go stick that carrot up your ass.
Slim and Trim| 11.17.10 @ 1:35PM
If I did, you'd want to eat it.
Slim and Trim| 11.17.10 @ 3:06PM
Never mind . I'll eat it myself.
Ohhhh ! It's Barney Frank's Carrot.
Silly Boy, A Carrot & Fruit, all at once. !
Thank You !
NavyBrat | 11.17.10 @ 1:03PM
I also LOVE the fact that since you have no reasonable refutation for what I said, you chose to pounce on a typo. The mark of a true looser.
Slim and Trim| 11.17.10 @ 1:25PM
Surely you mean "loser", Mr. NavyCrap, not "looser," which means . . . oh, never mind . . .
Auggo Effyourself| 11.17.10 @ 1:50PM
Yet you still have to cling to typos & mis-spellings, like the man said. Lame. Really lame.
Slim and Trim| 11.17.10 @ 3:02PM
I'm in an abandoned car near the Lincoln Tunnel.
I pretend I got my license back after my fifth DUI & I make believe I can still drive.
Baaaarrrrruuuuummmmmm !
Beeeep ! Beeeeep ! I'm drivin' here !
Weeeeeeee ! Weeeeeee !
Edward White| 11.17.10 @ 1:56PM
These juvenile postings are typical of the kind of mentality that actually reads American Spectator.
Bratty boys hurling insults.
This blog should not be the playground of adolescent taunting and bullying.
A moderator should delete these foolish postings. Nearly every time I try to read this blog I am sickened by the tone of bratty boys hurling taunts at each other.
As I have said before, this site needs a moderator, a censor. We should be able to flag these vulgar provocateurs, and have their posts deleted.
Jean H.| 11.17.10 @ 3:19PM
How right you are, Mr. White.
The attempts at humor are sophomoric and puerile (meaningless words to the above posters).
Tim*, Slim and Trim, NavyBrat, and dc are most obnoxious, and Tim* is the most repulsive of the lot.
AmSpec should identify these posters' computer addresses, and deny them access.
NavyBrat | 11.17.10 @ 4:13PM
Jean H.
I've been posting here on Am Spec for quite some time. I ususally don't resort to the kitchen/sailor humor/vernacular that I have today, but clowns like Slim & Grim really ache my craw. Of ALL the things that I DON'T wanna be lectured about, food & my health is at the top of the list. I KNOW how to cook for myself & my wife in any manner imagineable. Healthy, fat-filled, or somewhere in between, it doesn't matter. We both work out on a regular basis. And we don't need busybodies like Slim & Grim or The Man, or Michelle Obama (Angela Davis Jr) to tell us what's best for us.
Again, sorry if my kitchen/son of a sailor humor upset you. I just get worked up about this particular subject.
Barack| 11.17.10 @ 5:15PM
We Must Censor These Ragamuffins & Ruffians.
They're Probably All Those Great Unwashed Rebels From That Goddamned Tea Party .
I Can Get Them Audited by The IRS and I'll Have My Stealth Moneyman George Soros Pay Off You Trolls to Call For Their Censoring.
beebop| 11.18.10 @ 6:12AM
Please. Isn't there enough that is censored? God forbid you actually come into contact with "foolish" or "bratty boys." I'm sure you've heard this before .... don't like it? No one nailing your feet to the floor!
Albert| 11.17.10 @ 12:35PM
"Last night I made a delicious vegetable soup with Low Sodium V8 Juice (2/3 less sodium), and it was delicious--too delicious and too healthy."
I can make a delicious vegetable soup with fresh vegetables and I add little or no sodium. I do not need the US Government to tell me to do this and if the US Government tried to tell me to do this I would object vehemently. Such things are not delegated powers to the US Government and any attempt to exercise such powers is a usurpation. By the way, you will henceforth not be known as "Slim and Trim." Your new nominal designation is "SAT-1117" and your new biometric ID card will be delivered shortly.
Tim*| 11.17.10 @ 2:00PM
About that soup. Do you blow your nose in it? If so, send me a bowl.
Albert| 11.17.10 @ 2:05PM
Tim*, you are one sick hog.
Tim*| 11.17.10 @ 2:34PM
That Guy's A Posseur using my name look up the thread further And read the posts.
You owe me an apology Albert.
Albert| 11.17.10 @ 2:48PM
That was not me. I think "Slim and Trim" is also known as "Teacher." The writing "style" and the insults are similar, as is the propensity for writing under other people's names. But I didn't write that post.
Tim*| 11.17.10 @ 3:11PM
Sorry Albert, I was punked by this Cupcake.
Then I owe You an Apology Albert.
Never Fear, What Goes Around, Comes Around.
I'll Deal With This Pussy.
Margie| 11.17.10 @ 3:22PM
Tim* frequently masquerades under someone else's handle, including mine.
He uses Slim and Trim's name on this page.
Victor| 11.17.10 @ 4:25PM
I Like Tim.
He's Funny.
Slim and Trim| 11.17.10 @ 3:19PM
I Blow More Than Noses.
Why Just Yesterday I Did All The Boys In The County Lock Up, including Guards, Inmates &The; Cooking Staff.
Do You Think I Can Put It On My Resume' ?
Hmmmmm ?
Huuuuummm ! Huuuummm !
Negro X| 11.17.10 @ 5:38PM
Slim and Trim Troll,
How can you be healthy subsisting a on diet of obama's feces?
Alan Brooks| 11.17.10 @ 11:43AM
If parents feed their children junk, they don't care very much about them except as extensions of themselves.
Adults can eat what they want, but not children.
Albert| 11.17.10 @ 11:56AM
So what's your point? That the US Government should intervene and "save" children whose parents don't meet Federal criteria for feeding them? Children are not "wards" of the State. Get the US Government out of such things. It is not competent in such matters and has no legal authority to dictate how parents should feed their children. Or perhaps you think Washington should just napalm resistive parents "with extreme prejudice" and put their children in the custody of the Dept. HHS?
Alan Brooks| 11.17.10 @ 12:01PM
If most libertarians weren't reptiles, more would pay attention to them.
JKS| 11.17.10 @ 1:30PM
As usual you don't answer his questions. Your picture is next to the term 'jack wagon' in the dictionary.
Commenter Etiquette| 11.17.10 @ 5:34PM
The comment threads on this blog are rude and immature. Civility, even in disagreement, should be a first principle when making comments.
American Spectator should require its commenters to respect the following rule no matter what their political views:
Insults, baiting, vulgarity, harassment or abuse directed toward other commenters will not be tolerated.
Is there no mederator on AmSpec? Does anything go? So many of the posters are hateful, immature men who have nothing to do but vent their anger all day long.
Their vulgar postings should not be tolerated. They make all conservatives look like idiots.
No wonder liberals say we're dumb and uneducated. The commenters on this page prove their opinion of us.
Appleby| 11.17.10 @ 6:38AM
Of course the Marching Mommies could do what they did to cigarettes -- forbid the advertising of food, slap a huge tax on food, forbid selling food to children or eating food in any location where a child could see them, no more eating at the beach, food nazis searching all picnic baskets and police checkpoints with sniffer dogs seeking any food item in the car and laws impounding the car and putting all children in care of the State if even a crumb is found.
If the majority of people are *obese* -- as the Marching Mommies shriek that 98% of all families are *dysfunctional* then perhaps the parameters are incorrect, and the shrieking busybodies are in fact the ones that need to be brought up to speed.
Or at the very least, told to shut up and mind their own business.
Sheila| 11.17.10 @ 10:46AM
Excellent coinage - "Marching Mommies."
Tim*| 11.17.10 @ 6:49AM
Michelle Obama, " Get My Secret Service Men,There's Somebody Following Me!"
Secret Service Agent," No M'am That's Just Your FAT ASSSSSS ! "
NavyBrat | 11.17.10 @ 8:50AM
I just spewed Sprite all over my monitor!
I guess the most dangerous place for the Barry to be is between Angela Davis Jr. & a tub of ice cream. Or a plate of Kobe beef. She's starting to look like one of those Wagyu beef steers.
Tim*| 11.17.10 @ 2:36PM
Now This post Was Mine Albert. Learn The Difference Between My Posts And Posseur Frauds,Who Post With My name.
You still owe an Apology.
Intelligent Design| 11.17.10 @ 7:35AM
At any given moment, more than half of those receiving medical care are doing so due to self-inflicted problems caused by poor diet, alcohol, cigarettes, drug abuse, and lack of exercise. If people accepted responsibility for themselves, taking one small dose of common sense per day, then nationwide medical care expenses would drop by hundreds of billions per year. But public policy, such as Obamacare, continues to reassure people that the government (taxpayers) will take care of their lung cancer, diabetes treatment, and heart surgery. People are not penalized for being irresponsible; in fact, they are encouraged to abuse themselves with the promise that medical care will be "free". Well guess what? There will never be enough taxpayers.
Brother John| 11.17.10 @ 7:36AM
So this week on the radio and elsewhere I'm hearing about programs and campaigns to "Feed America" and other such nonsense wailing and gnashing teeth about the poor starving people in this country.
First of all, I don't really believe anyone in this country is that hungry; those that might be are most likely misallocating their scarce resources to cigarettes and beer before food. Not my problem.
Secondly, which is it? You worthless leftist control-freak nanny-state lunatics can't have it both ways. If we're all so damn hungry, how the hell did everyone get so fat? I'm really tired of this.
And thirdly, to bitch and wail about "starving" Americans or "overabundant food supply" is ridiculous, stupid, and is a detestable insult to those around the world who actually ARE starving, and whose every effort goes into the acquisition of their next meal; it also encourages people in this country to further lose appreciation of the countless blessings we enjoy in this country, thus further endangering it.
These people simply need to be destroyed. Tarring and feathering, anyone?
Sam Vaughn| 11.17.10 @ 9:22AM
Thanks for saying what I was thinking...... we're either all fat or "going hungry"....
Sheila| 11.17.10 @ 10:48AM
I second Sam Vaughn. Hunger in America - oh, the shame!
Louis Jenkins| 11.17.10 @ 8:09AM
Well, here we go again. Mrs. Michelle schrieking about the food situtation. How is it that we've got so many people on food aid, and yet so many people are fat? (Eliminate the food aid and you'll most likely still have fat people.) Go to the grocery store and stand in the check out line. See who is fat and the form of payment they're using, and then maybe you'll understand. Steaks, the best cut of chicken, and so forth, and then out comes the cold hard cash to buy the beer and cigarettes, and they get in their Escalade and depart. Meanwhile I'm buying very little meat. Instead I'm buying beans and rice, and depart in my '94 import. There's an inequity here.
Melvin| 11.17.10 @ 8:21AM
The solution is simple. Remove the cell phones, X-Boxes, Laptops, cable, satellite, and helicopter parents away from their little cherubic porkers and nature will correct what technology has ruined.
If the little urchins don't have their electronic toys to sit on their fat butts with, then they have no choice but to go outside and mow the yard, wash the car, sweep the sidewalk, paint the house, and most importantly improve their social skills by playing outside with the neighborhood kids without it being organized by some overzealous rule making Nazi. Not all kids activities need to be organized by an adult with way too much time on their hands.
Oh, excuse me, I was dreaming again, because that would mean parents would have to keep on eye on what their kids where doing wouldn't they?
YeloStalyn| 11.17.10 @ 11:28AM
...but they might fall and scrape their knee or get in a fight with the neighbor kid because our kid had his feelings hurt! We can't have that!
Appleby| 11.17.10 @ 8:22PM
A very large number of us live in high-rise buildings in big cities, and our kids have no yard to mow or sidewalks to sweep or houses to paint; that is why we pay those stupid maintenance fees. And because of the 46% tax rate necessary to pay for all the Free Stuff the government tells us we are getting, we work from dark to dark every day.
And what we weigh is between us and our doctors.
Kindly butt out.
Thank you.
beebop| 11.18.10 @ 6:28AM
Oh. I get it now. Reading a book? Studying? These are good in theory and certainly its acceptable in say, China, or India to pursue education. But since we don't really need to compete in a global world, mowing the yard is just fine for a fat American kid?
You know something? There have always been fat people or smoking people or people who prefer beer to milk (Is milk still the "perfect food?" Do you have the definitive answer to that one S/T?) and we didn't need two self appointed style purveyors to pretend to be the Resident and spouse. I am sooooooo sick of them that I might start to overeat just to irritate the hell out of mememeMichelle!
JimH| 11.17.10 @ 8:25AM
Bigotry regarding excess weight is not confined to the left. I’ve noted various snide comments and a sense of moral superiority from Tyrrell and others here. There are bloggers here who think Romney’s qualification over Christie is a smaller waist measurement. By this standard Florida’s new governor elect Skeletor is well placed for 2012. And while ultimately people must take responsibility for themselves and their health, there are genetic and cultural factors which can make some people more prone to obesity than others. One important point to keep in mind is that while a smoker, junkie or drinker can swear off completely, everybody still has to eat.
Son Of Sam| 11.17.10 @ 9:36AM
Here, here! I for one am completely fed up (pun?) with this notion that some self-righteous ass gets to measure my body --or anyone elses -- and then try to tell me us we are somehow wanting. What the hell happened to "hands off my body"? Oh that's right, it only applies when you want to abort your child, or take it up the ass.
btw, for those wondering, I'm 6'1" and 190 lbs. I still believe that Christie is a freakin rock star, and would make a far better President than me, or the TelePrompter in Chief we're currently stuck with.
Petronius| 11.17.10 @ 8:27AM
Awright!
America now has the richest poor people with 2 cars , flat screens mit sattelite, i phones, and SSI. We are surrounded by ourselves being both starving and stuffed at the same time depending on whether food subsidies or public health concerns are underfunded. And the big news is 2 years gone, when our infantile electorate proved ignorant enough to outsmart themselves and refused to recognize a charlatan when they see one. So it goes with the omniscient who can't handle the truth. They live in Denial; the 58th state. Herewith, the smartest idiots everywhere you look.
Some hat trick. So should we open snack-easies or smuggle salt and cigarettes to Manhattan?
Best forget it all. Nothing will change until subsidies and entitlements are abolished. The predisposition of the population of this country with their desire to live in an unattainable idyllic fantasy world must be destroyed: mind over fatter, if you will. People will stop growing out only when they grow up.
JP| 11.17.10 @ 11:59AM
And here in the 58th State I will take my denial with a dollop of state subsidized Double Cheeseburgers - Super Size it of course. And don't forget to throw in a large side order of onion rings, and a choclate shake. And I prefer to have it all paid for with those fancy EBT cards. I mean, Obama promised me that, right?
C. S. P. Schofield| 11.17.10 @ 9:11AM
I think the problem with the kids is less the technology (I had TV, and sat on my duff and read a lot too, and I wasn't fat), but the shrieking ninnies who have sucked all the fun out of normal childhood activities. Kids used to do a lot of not-too-regimented running around. Half of it is now verboten (Let kids walk six blocks to the 7-11? My Gods, they'll be killed and sold as pork pies!), and the other half involves annoying adults and dorky "safety" equipment.
LESLIE| 11.17.10 @ 12:25PM
Great comment. I agree with you 100%. Kids can't hang anywhere anymore without someone complaining that they are "loitering". Can't play basketball at the public court cuz the lights are on and shining in someones house. Can't play ball cuz it's dusk, ride a bike, skateboard at a park, etc. And for the food, how come I don't hear about all the additives that are slipped into our foods that we do not need - ie growth hormones in milk (could be the cause of "overgrown" children), fluoride in water (toxic waste), etc. Yet adults have to be told that they can't have salt in their food, sugar in their coffee, drink a beer....
I do not want the nanny state telling me what I can or can't eat. BTW, S&T, I'm not fat, I don't take any meds of any kind, don't do a lot of exercise, my kids and grandkids are all slim (according to today's standards) and eat an array of foods from fattening cakes to salads and salmon.
leslie| 11.17.10 @ 12:28PM
I forgot to add that many parents, both parents, have to work long hours to make ends meet, kids are left to stay home alone watching t.v., playing video games.
NHBarb| 11.17.10 @ 9:31AM
Are we allowed to mention that obesity really took off when most mothers stopped cooking real food for dinner?
George S| 11.17.10 @ 9:32AM
This isn't about fat, it is about freedom. Who the hell cares about how fat people get? It is their business and not the state's. Once upon a time a man named Adolf decreed that the appearance of the people must coincide with the image of the country. So children had to do their exercises in the morning under the direction of a helpful drill instructor. The purpose? To wipe away any sense of individuality and mold the masses into a collective of supermen. Are we trying to do the same? Not really, but we still need to take away choice and conform with the central planner's view of what society should be. The difference between Nazi Germany and here is vast, but mandated nutrition laws are baby steps that will one day close the gap. Like... what if we just ban smoking in the first few rows of an airplane?
Bob| 11.17.10 @ 9:57AM
There are a lot of fat adults around too like the Governor of NJ, the Trenton Two Ton Governor Crisco. That man is OBESE, a wall of blubber.
beebop| 11.18.10 @ 6:32AM
A wall of blubber who makes a heck of a lot more sense than Barry!
Julie| 11.17.10 @ 10:00AM
Comment by George S is prescient. The whole FLOTUS campaign is a page out of the socialist anti-family handbook. If you can get parents to accept the idea that they are too inept to even figure out what and how to feed their own children, the family is done.
Petronius| 11.17.10 @ 1:58PM
Way behind the curve J. Too many people marry or hook up with no consideration of what kind of spouse or parent they will become down the line. The worst of the lot have been sending their sprogs to school without housebreaking them.
beebop| 11.18.10 @ 6:33AM
Not everyone hooks up with a view to being a parent .... just sayin'
MoeBlotz| 11.17.10 @ 10:04AM
The obesity epidemic coincides with increased welfare spending. Leave Governor Christie alone,he knows about his weight problem and struggles with it.
Diana| 11.17.10 @ 10:27AM
Gee, Governor Christie is rather blubbery, he needs to start snacking on carrot sticks, celery stalks and granola. Otherwise I won't vote for a chubby president. I want my president good looking and fit as a fiddle.
Chuck| 11.17.10 @ 10:49AM
Governor Christie you eat all the pork chops, cheesebugers and greasy french fries you want. I will still vote for you.
JP| 11.17.10 @ 10:58AM
I take it you would have voted for the slim, fit, and ascetic Chamberlin over the obese, cigar smoking, and boozer named Churchill?
Big Sister| 11.17.10 @ 10:04AM
If First Scold Lady M had any guts, she'd take on our horrible inner-city schools. Instead she takes on the relatively easy cause of fat kids. I say send them to fat camp, and let Oprah pay for it. She's made "enough" as Barry would say. Let's spread her wealth around.
Leslie| 11.17.10 @ 12:30PM
LOL! Yeah, I agree, Oprah needs to spread her wealth more and help these poor fatties!
JP| 11.17.10 @ 10:43AM
The whole obesity thing is one giant example of social engineering. I truly believe Nietzsche was right in sayiing that the last impulse left in Man was the Will to Power. Bereft of religious instincts and the desire to transcend, Modern (or Post Modern) Man is left with only one natural inclination - the desire to dominate others. Nietzsche wrote his ideas over 100 years ago, and he was a prophet.
From the government bureaucrat and post-modern progressive, to the lowliest subject of the State, everyone is on-board the anti-obesity campaign. You hear it from teachers, ministers, therapists, even the local utility company (on my last electric bill was an insert on how the gentle customer can lose weight).
When a society can no longer maintain even a modicum of normalcy it becomes Progressive if not fascist. We see this in the local governments; when they can no longer keep the streets clean and safe, they begin to micromanage schools, wages, and children's weight. Being divorced 3 times doesn't prevent parents from wishing to curb thier neighbors carbon footprint, or dictate the color of thier neighbor's garage.
We live in an age of insanity. And one that note, I am going to 7-11 and order a giant sausage and a 128 oz Big Gulp.
Stormzeye| 11.17.10 @ 10:45AM
The problem isn't obesity, smoking, drugs, laziness or drinking. We have the freedom and liberty to do what we like with our lives and with that comes the freedom to shorten our time on this Earth if that's what we wish. The problem is government-run health care that makes me have to pay for the consequences of your choices. The First Wookie can keep her attempt at moral instruction to herself and her family.
Ray| 11.17.10 @ 12:16PM
It's genetics, people. That's what determines "obesity." It's not an over abundance of food, too much "bad" food, or a lack of excessive, or anything else, for that matter. It's all genetic. It's all inherited traits. That's obvious.
There are plenty of "diets,"' exercise equipment, programs, ect, some of which have been around for decades, available to every man, woman, and child in America, some at little to no costs to the individual (ever hear of a public park, for example? Most have "playgrounds," you know) yet despite of this, despite of the tens of billions of dollars of yearly sales in home exercise equipment, health club memberships, diet programs, and the like, STILL 25 percent of the population is "obese," just has they were 100, 200, even 1,00 years ago. So, it can't be the food, it can't be the psychical activity (or lack thereof,) or any other "easily remedied" element in human society that is to blame. The only thing left is genetics. It's in our very genes. As I said, that's obvious.
So, people, it's our very genome that is "causing" obesity, not only here in America, but world wide. So, short of genetic manipulation, ether though eugenics or through genetic manipulation by "gene therapy" methods, there's really NOTHING we can do to "prevent" obesity.
Here's what needs to be done, just accept it as a part of our natural human existence. Yes, some people are fat. So what? They're still people. Just as with the color of someone's skin, the size of their body make no fundamental difference to who, or what, they really are. Obsessing over another's body weight is just as discriminatory, just as "racists," as obsessing over the color of their skin.
Dustoff| 11.17.10 @ 12:22PM
If the government is going to tell you how both you and your kids should eat. Then all I ask, is look at much of our Congress & Senate and tell me when was the last time "they" pushed away from the table.
MikeBee| 11.17.10 @ 12:39PM
The way I see it, the Government is the problem. By now, everyone knows that excess ingestion of high-carbohydrate foods is what causes obesity (this is the reason that higher-carb foods, like corn, are fed to cattle, which are sold based on weight). But, not too many years ago, the same food nazis who are now screaming against obesity were the ones who were pushing the turning of the food pyramid upside down -- to push the consumption of carbs as the biggest part of the American diet. Sounds like a government-caused problem to me.
Anommynous| 11.17.10 @ 1:31PM
And let's just keep taking away the kids' summer by gradually lengthening the school year!
PattyMor| 11.17.10 @ 3:29PM
I just wish that the "know it alls" in our government would just leave us alone. Stop trying to help us and stop trying to save us. Baloney all. Just rationalizations to grow gov't.
The coming massive inflation will soon take care of the overeating. Prices are going up fast. Those at the edge will no longer afford all the food they are accustomed to eating.
Perusha The Offender| 11.17.10 @ 3:40PM
We live in a material world.
That means, as material beings, we humans “have” a body of trillions of atomic elements, to wit---matter, which is just, a la Einstein, another form of energy.
We also certainly are a “body” of our space-time, so these days in America, with a super abundance of “food”, at cheap prices, the still-free market guarantees that “bodies” must expand. The trend is your friend.
In my considered judgment, no one has to be anything but as healthy as they---CHOOSE.
However, one of the Pavlovian implications of the freedom to choose is that advertising is allowed to go to whatever limits possible, to sell = program people, and the “food” industry is massively---dare I say it, obesely---successful.
Advertising WORKS!
Hypnosis WORKS!
Here’s a completely simple thought experiment that gets to the essence of the food intake matter---
Just as there is a scale from minus infinity to plus infinity, including all the numbers on the number line, there is a scale with, say poison on the left, a drop of which would kill you, and super food on the right, which would keep the body as healthy as ever. And, all the various “foods” in between.
So, you can picture this scale, and where would junk food sit? I think we can all agree that it’s very sub-optimal, when compared to the best possible PROVEN foods. And, therefore, since practically all the foods nowadays eaten in the fattening Western world are processed and otherwise less than super, it’s easy to understand the downward sloping bodily health.
Anyone who wants to stay super healthy would aim to under-eat ONLY super nutritious whole foods. And, to do regular fresh juice and broth fast every year or so, to remove all the accumulated crap.
Also, here’s a radical thought---people who have an excess of fat, as well of other deposits of deleterious chemicals, like food preservatives, et al, deposited in their trillions of cells, are actually---STARVING.
Yes, fatsos are starving---THEMSELVES!
Man is supposed to eat for nutrition---to replace worn out matter and to get fuel, for energy.
However, when one sticks junk “food” in the mouth, which is wanting in nutritive value, the SMART body realizes it is lacking proper input, and thus feels the need to eat---MORE!
Put pure gas developed for a car into it, and it purrs as it should. Add some salt, say, to the gas, and it sputters, and add other non-gas, and----well, you get the picture.
Also, fat people have chosen to accumulate “bad” matter, that is meant to be expelled, in short---waste products.
Thus, what we have is an “epidemic” of walking OUTHOUSES. Waste containers, unto an earlier than necessary death---freely, advertising programmed: death.
Actually, given that majority rules, I predict that in the near future, slim vegans such as yours truly will wisely keep their mouths shut, lest some angry fat person sits on them!
And yet---as a slim-jim super healthy 68 year-old at 5’ 11’ and 135 pounds, who hasn’t seen a doctor since getting tonsils out as a kid, I do enjoy sometimes toying with tubbies.
At the YMCA hot therapy pool, a couple of fat old ladies were disturbing my peace, going on and on about eating out here and there, and I couldn’t resist spreading the FAT wealth, telling them that in ten years ¾ of America will be fat!
It was so sweet to see them squirm, guilt ridden, as they knew they were ultimately responsible for their sorry condition.
As for those who admittedly live to eat, instead of eat to live, let all the above be True food---for thought.
There is SO MUCH more to human life than eating material STUFF!
tdiinva| 11.17.10 @ 3:51PM
Memo to the nannies:
Since you believe that the government should step in when the citizenery engages in behaviors that have a social cost associated with them do you also support a ban on male homosexual sex. These practices increase medical costs when they spread a myriad of sexually transmitted diseases costing the medical system billions of dollars that could be spent on the poor and the elderly?
cvs| 11.17.10 @ 4:29PM
Most fatties are in the south, so leth them eat themselves to death. No great loss.
DaveS| 11.17.10 @ 6:46PM
Lumpy Rutherford, in 1962, was 'fat' yet today he seems svelte.
Ban Halloween candy, Easter bunny chocolate and beer. Then sit back and get creamed.
No wonder everyone hates nanny government - except the nanny governesses.
Led Display | 11.17.10 @ 8:40PM
So what do you believe? Who would you like to see as president? What legislation would you like to see passed, and which bills would you like to see defeated? What do you think the gummint should and should not be able to do? Do you think gummint and its influence in every aspect of our lives is too large, or not large enough?
REB| 11.18.10 @ 12:36AM
Since they suspended the constitution back in the 30s they now own us,leastwise they think they do,and if you are owned then you are property and if you are property you can be bought and sold or told what to eat and where to live ect...see where barry is coming from?The commies are looking at us under corporate law and we are still trying to operate under constitutional common law,seems we have two systems operating inside America,hows about we kill off the commie slave masters and set the people free again?
They wont stop till we stop the system they operate under!
Roll Forming Machine | 11.18.10 @ 1:09AM
Roll Forming Machine
Roll Forming Machine | 11.18.10 @ 1:09AM
Roll Forming Machineon law,seems we have two systems operating inside America,hows about we kill off the commie slave masters and set the people free again?
They wont stop till we sto
Kim Kardashian| 11.18.10 @ 1:39AM
Look, it's this simple. Forget the argument about food, government intervention, etc.
This is how it works:
ME-Chelle Obama is leading the charge about 'obesity' - the new CRISIS.
Local, State and Federal Liberal-backed governments suddenly find that they need to get on board and help us all. They start banning foods. Happy meals, salt, sugar, potatoes, etc.
Once enough food has been banned, and a CRISIS is declared, the government steps in at the federal level to help take control of food entirely - from growing to production to distribution to actual serving.
With government in control, the food industry workers become... government workers.
Now that they are government workers, they can unionize under SEIU and VOILA! A portion of every sale and paycheck goes to SEIU and thus, the DNC.
Simple? Get it? Now fight it!
REB| 11.18.10 @ 10:04PM
KIM, you got it right,only they have been doing it for several decades now.
SB 510 now up for a vote will give them(monsanto/fedgov) almost total control over our food,NAIS(animalID) is included in 510 even though we fought USDA and beat them back on this issue...monsantos exCEO is now barrys food czar and USDA/FDA have been taken over by ex monsanto employees,we are set to be screwed! As a farmer and woodsman I have been an outlaw to them for years,this will only make it more so,I wont comply and I wont quit farming,rebellion is our final savior and option!