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calendar   Thursday - July 22, 2004

While We’re on the Subject of Health Care

I got this from The Best of the Web a couple of days ago.

It is about obesity in the US.

A Whale of a Problem

Obesity is a big problem, we tellya. A big problem. (How big is it?)

It's so big, it has smaller big problems in orbit around it!

Agence France-Presse reports that obesity in the U.S. is an "epidemic." It's "endemic" in Bulgaria (Sofia News Agency) and "pandemic" in Jamaica, where it's known as "globesity" (Jamaica Observer).

How does this sickness spread? Through television (London Daily Telegraph) and tap water (Sunday Mercury, Birmingham, England). Apparently not, however, through food. Britain's Press Association reports Tony Blair's government may fight childhood obesity by encouraging kids to eat more: The free school lunch scheme should be extended to include breakfast and more pupils should be offered free fruit to combat "a mass outbreak of obesity," the Government was urged today.

You know, we're feeling lazy today. We don't want to work; we'd rather just plop down on the couch and "recline there, watching TV, . . . with, say, a bag of Doritos or a large pizza" (Washington Post magazine).

Well, boy do we feel empowered. Now that obesity is a disease, we don't have to work. All we have to do is call in fat!

So...........now that obesity is declared a "disease" (Jesus, what a bunch of shit!) it looks like Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer will start paying for Jenny Craig, Atkins and a host of other diet plans to help the fatsoes in this country who are so lazy they can't practice moderation and fail to exercise, control what they eat, how much they eat, and when they eat. Now these fat bastards can sit their fat asses on their barco-loungers, surf their 500 channels of cable TV, eat cheetos, snarf down twinkies, inhale bags of potato chips and guzzle beer to their hearts' content confident that Uncle Sam will now pay for them to lose weight.

And if that fails, they rest comfortably knowing the taxpayer will get stuck with the bill for stapling the stomachs of these fat fucks who fail to exercise self control.

And you think health care is expensive now? Just wait til Jack Sprat and his fat wife start getting tummy tucks.

For more about this, read Jane Chastain's thoughts on where we are headed. How about this: ugliness will be a disease next. And then we can go crying to our doctors to make us pretty. What the hell? Why not? Tax the fuck out of the rich and we'll have a bunch of pretty, but poor, morons running around. Kinda re-defines that song, "Live fast, die young, look pretty." Except it will be on your dime.

Are you as incredulous about this as I am? The fact that we take a program like Medicare, already programmed to go bust in the near future and burden it with even more requirements to take care of the stupid people who refuse to take responsibility for their own health? Just what will we end up with? Nope, sorry, the answer is NOT a failed program. That's right! Government won't allow that to happen. So for all of you still working, busting your asses to pay the mortgage, put food on the table, keeping your car running, and raising your kids---just go ahead, bend over and spread 'em cuz you're gonna take it again and this time Uncle Sam ain't usin' the vaseline!
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Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler   United States  on 07/22/2004 at 05:07 PM   
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