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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The average obese person costs society more than $7,000 a year in lost productivity

How much productivity does the average lawyer cost society?


2 posted on 04/29/2011 5:30:03 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: freedomfiter2

Well if they cost 7k more per year, but die early, isn’t that a wash?


10 posted on 04/29/2011 5:35:45 PM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: freedomfiter2

“The average obese person costs society more than $7,000 a year in lost productivity”

Yeah, but think of what they net for everyone else in Social Security. Just sayin’...maybe we should put a tax on any food that is NOT one of the following: broccoli, cauliflower, or yogurt, proportional to it’s unhealthiness (yes, I know that the camel’s nose is already in the tent on this one).

So, where does this type of cold calculation end?


26 posted on 04/29/2011 6:03:29 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: freedomfiter2
How much productivity does the average lawyer cost society?

Or how much productivity does the average liberal congresscritter cost society?

27 posted on 04/29/2011 6:03:52 PM PDT by YellowRoseofTx
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To: freedomfiter2

I always wonder where these guys actually get these statistics.


35 posted on 04/29/2011 6:40:34 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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