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.....you are fooling yourself if you think that obesity doesn't cause health problems. I don't care how overweight you want to be. Just don't make me pay, through the national healtcare plan, for the consequences that come from it.
Right on. No one will ever tell you being fat is healthy. I believe people have the right to chose to live however they want. Don't hunker me down with PC b.s. when the airlines makes them buy an extra seat and don't make me pay for their health care. If I'm free of those two obstacles, then have at it, the world is yours, you'll never hear a peep from me!
Articles about obesity have been flooding the media. I can't turn on CNN lately without them going on and on about the deleterious effects fat people are having on our insurance rates.
People are actually suggesting the obese be refused certain kinds of foods at restaurants...imagine that...are we going to have to have cards with our daily BMI listed before can be seated by the maitre d'? Will my wife and I have to step on a scale before we are allowed into a restaurant? What kind of society are we turning into?
And the wave of disdain being unleashed on the obese is staggering. News shows love to depict fat tummies and rears walking by, and suggestions are made that Congress has to step in.
I don't give a damn is someone wants to pudge out, and I'm sure as hell not worried about health costs because of fat people. If Congress really wanted to help the public they would put the screws to the lawyers and come up with strict limits on malpractice lawsuits. My $85 annual medical checkup in 1995 is now $450 in 2009. That's to pay for all the people my doctor had to hire for his backoffice paperwork and his malpractice insurance.
It doesn't have a damn thing to do with obese people and health insurance premiums...that's a red herring folks, and we are being told it's okay to hate fat people because it's all their fault.
This is evil, vile stuff that this country is being sold.
This is a tired old ploy used by liberals, and the sheeple in the Democratic Party fall for it every time.
Hmmm. I might say you were right, but you're wrong. Actually, I hear this all the time from the conservatives who are complaining about cigarette taxes. This & the evils of alcohol. It's always the conservatives I hear it from. Sorry, you're wrong.
When Did it Become Okay to Start Hating the Obese?
Right after it became okay to hate smokers.
Never forget the process of incrementalism in government. One, slow step at a time, they'll be coming for YOU and something YOU like to do, unless you stand up NOW and stop it.
I don't hate them - but I do get a bit disgusted when I see a morbidly obese person stuffing their face with high-caloric, yummy food.
I get really disgusted when I see two grossly obese parents and obese children. They are destined for a life of misery.
A life of misery? Aren't you melodramatic. If they diet & exercise, there goes that theory. Now, here's a life of misery for you: I met a girl named.....Bertha. What parent in their right mind would give their daughter that name? THAT is a life of misery for you.
A life of misery? Aren't you melodramatic. If they diet & exercise, there goes that theory.
Yes, a life of misery.
Why would you expect them to diet and exercise when they are not raised that way?
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