Posted on 10/24/2009 10:48:28 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Hennepin County has been highly successful in winning federal stimulus money, receiving $40 million for a dozen projects such as rebuilding the Lowry Avenue Bridge, adding crime lab scientists to process DNA and retraining laid-off workers for new jobs.
Now the county is hoping for federal money to stem the tide of burger joints and to subsidize bike helmets and sneakers for commuters.
As part of its campaign to fight obesity, the board last week directed staffers to seek $10 million in stimulus money from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to improve nutrition and encourage biking and walking in the suburbs.
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Try riding your bikes when it's -30 and there are three feet of snow on the ground. The lard-asses stay home and wait for the government to come shovel them out so they can waddle to the local pump-and-munch for their weekly allotment of government-sponsored food stamp chips and sodas........
But the road salt ate the chain. No more biking for me until spring.
Cheers!
AFAIK....
You’re not a welfare whore.
lol, how could anybody not bump THAT thread title!
Excellent work!
You might want to check some of my posts (or this one) just to make sure.
Cheers!
By the way, did you ever go to City Hall (any city hall) at lunchtime and watch the giant obese slobs sit at their stations and scarf down huge troughs of spaghetti?
Can I have a pogo-stick?
I think the money should go to reducing the fatheads in the Minnesota governments at many levels. Not only would we get a lot of fatheads out of office, but it would reduce the political crap level a lot.
Let’s recycle fathead politicians, as “Soylent Green.”
Now, that’s a “green” program I could support. - Charles Heston
We are freaking doomed. The liberals remove God from the classroom to teach Darwin and evolution, and yet they don’t practice it in the real world. Our species will die out thanks to the libs allowing the weak genes to prosper.
They spent money to give them free food (apparently more than they need) and now are spending money to help them burn off the excess free food they gave them.
Why not just give them less food money? Because then we would be “starving” them, I guess.
But I guess this article is aimed more at suburbanites than welfare folks.
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