| The Politics Of Greedy Gluttony |
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JSABD
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Posted: 26 Jan 2012 01:15 am |
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I am here to help people but there are some people who are so greedy, dishonest and gluttonous that I would rather see see then eat themselves to death. I recently took someone who posts here to task for his/her BS. If I didn't care about this person I would not have bothered. This person has some stinking thinking and fattitude going on so this person received a stern dressing down and a measured dose of ridicule. I hope it has a positive effect.
There are some people who frankly I would like to see drop dead and it's not because they are fat. Most of them are not fat. Think of it like this. Drug addicts suck but many of them are worth saving. Fatlings are disgusting but most of them are worth saving. I try to save them from themselves. While it is true that their greedy gluttony and lack of self control harms others mostly their vulgar behaviors harm them. The behavior of fatlings is somewhere between a venial and mortal sin.
Fatlings have plenty of help getting fat, greedy and gluttonous and being weak-willed to begin with it doesn't take much to prime the fattitude pump. Some obesogenic foods and some slick advertising is all it takes to assure fatlings will get fatter and fatter with no end in sight.
I have been accused of hating fatlings. This is totally untrue. This is the Tough Love forum and it's not always pretty here. A lot of anti weightloss fat acceptance troll come here to sabotage the sincere efforts of fatlings trying to reform and in spite of that I still reach out to them via PM.
There are some people too evil to reform. I'm not referring to the fat acceptance loons. They are just morons and most people know they are stupid and dishonest. The slime to which I am referring are Republicans and their corporate masters.
Please read the following article and after reading it if you still think I am the bad guy then please eat a pound or lard every day and smoke 5 packs a day.
 Republicans Court the Fat Vote ?óÔé¼ÔÇØBy Stephanie Mencimer
Thu Jun. 2, 2011 8:54 AM PDT
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/06/republicans-courting-fat-vote
There isn't much dispute in the public health world that Americans are too fat. A quarter of all Americans living in 39 states are clinically obese, numbers that have expanded dramatically over the past 20 years. So you'd think that when the Obama administration tries to actually do something to address the obesity epidemic, most everyone would be on board. With the current crop of Republicans in Congress, though, you'd be mistaken.
The Washington Post reports that House Republicans have decided to slash away at public health measures designed to combat obesity, especially those aimed at children. On Tuesday, a House appropriations committee decided to do away with the first new upgrade of federal nutritional standards for public school meals in 15 years. Making the meals lower in fat and sugar and adding in more fruits and veggies, they concluded, simply cost too much. And those regulations passed last year that would require fast-food outlets to post the calorie information of their fattening offerings? Well, House Republicans want to exempt 7-Elevens, grocery stores, and other businesses from those rules. Americans apparently don't need to know that the Double Gulp they're about the buy contains a whopping 600 calories. Children, who are assaulted daily with advertising for horrible, fatty, sugar-laden food will get no relief from Republicans, who have told the Department of Agriculture to back away from crafting even voluntary guidelines for companies that pitch food to kids.
Clearly, Republicans are pandering to their big-ag and corporate food processing donors here. But by doing so, it sure looks like they are giving new meaning to the party's "big tent." They aren't setting a particularly good example, at least, when it comes to taking obesity seriously. But perhaps they don't care that much. One of the party's leading lights, the heavyset New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, once told Don Imus, "I am setting an example Don. We have to spur our economy. Dunkin Donuts, International House of Pancakes, those people need to work too.?óÔé¼?Ø Christie this week took a state helicopter to his kid's baseball game, got in a black sedan that drove him 100 yards to the baseball diamond and then back to the helicopter. Apparently walking was just out of the question. Republicans are trying desperately to get Christie to run for president.
Last edited on 26 Jan 2012 01:17 am by JSABD
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