Posted on 11/12/2015 7:42:41 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Obesity is still rising among American adults, despite more than a decade of public-awareness campaigns and other efforts to get people to watch their weight, and women have now overtaken men in the obese category, new government research shows.
For the past several years, experts thought the nation's alarming, decades-long rise in obesity had leveled off. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report Thursday that the obesity rate has climbed to nearly 38 percent of adults, up from 32 percent about a decade earlier.
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“Why should a tax hit the fat and rich more heavily?”
Because that’s just how “Progressiveness” works. Soak the rich for whatever the reasons de jure are, destroy the middle-class, and foster ever greater supplies of the poor.
They call themselves BBW (big beautiful women) these days.
Meanwhile there is no such term for men (at least in the straight world) and liberal women still want to fat shame men.
You Can Call a Man Fat But You Can’t Fat-Shame Him(By Kat Stoeffel April 16, 2014)
You sound just right to me - Velvet man!
I agree, and I like your attitude!
Morbidly Obese Barbie - You made me laugh tonight. I think I shall now call it a night on that one ;)
No. I’ want to tax the hell out of fat, stupid and lazy people. I am none of the above. I’m used to smoke. I enjoyed smoking. Then the fat, lazy and stupid people transferred their shame on smokers and taxed the hell out of it. Then the governments of the fat, lazy and stupid sued the Tabacco companies to line the fat cats pocket. The stupid and lazy were just too stupid and lazy to not seeing the slippery slope.
Now I’m a lean, smart and industrious person who doesn’t want to give the F, L & S 6+ dollars a pack to subsidize other pet programs.
I say we go after fatties by making them stand out in the rain, snow, heat, cold to eat their super sized double quarterpounder with cheese. I say we make diabetics stand out in the rain, snow, heat, cold to take their blood sugar and insulin until it’s normal and I can’t smell either the fat sweet or the McDonald’s breat or alchol wipes or the sweet smell diabetics slowly dying. I can give type 1 a break. Now the stupid. I would just replace all doors opening in with pull to open signs and the doors opening out with push to open signs. They should either start learning or die fairly quickly.
Then tax the hell out all them and shame them and mock them. Run commercials about how pathetic they are for being free but not our kind of free.
You all know I’m being sarcastic to prove a point. But dont get me started on old or oriental driver - they really do need to be taxed and shunned. Or was it women who wear perfume? Maybe it’s was the people with no kids, selfish little bastards - they need extra taxing. No, I remember it’s all those people who can’t do just 1 pull up or was it people who fart all the time or have bad breath. Well now I have a bigger list so I have solved all state budget problems with 1,497,653,997 new taxes. Damn I’m good. I am so smart, smug and controlling I should be a lawmaker to help all you breathers contribute your fair share,
If you supported tobacco taxes and the state/federal extortion your at the least in one group of the F, l, & S subgroup. I’m guessing all 3 but definitely 1.
Like I told my fat, sick, out of shape anti-smoking friend of my fathers - I can quit smoking he couldn’t stop being a prick. I did stop. He is in bad shape physically and still a prick.
Its really true. I was there at the mall with my wife. This huge obese woman was moving my way . I grabbed my wife and said “OH MY GOD ,SHE IS MOVING TOWARDS ME!!!”
What a great rant even if you were being sarcastic. I am not obese or stupid. I am retired now, so I do admit to some amount of periodic laziness. The anti-smoking campaign devolved into a horrific demonization, which I predicted would target the fatties next. It’s all about control and collecting more of our money and transfer it to the Black Hole known as our Fascist Govt. If you want to smoke, smoke. If you don’t, don’t. I support you in your decision. If a business wants to allow smoking on the premises, that business should be allowed to do so. CUSTOMERS/EMPLOYEES BEWARE - DON’T SUE, DON’T BITCH WHEN YOU CAME IN ON YOUR FREE WILL.
I know all addictions are hard to quit, but it can be done. To the ones who need the Nanny State to solve your problems, I feel very sorry for you... naw, actually you really are stupid and lazy.
I was definitely being sarcastic. I hate all social engineering via government. The unintended and second/third order impacts always overshadow the desired goals.
Tax tabacco to decrease use but tax income, savings to spur economic growth? WTF?
I do think states have the power to do such but the federal government does not!
Isn't Maui sometimes referred to as the "Millionaire's Playground" of the State of Hawaii?
You know, I rarely see any fat, ugly women shopping in the high-priced stores of 5th Avenue in NY, crowded around the high-rollers at the roulette tables in Monaco, nor strolling along the sandy beaches of expensive tropical get-aways. It's as though only willowy catwalk models populate the pricey venues in life.
I wonder: Why is that? /s
Regards,
Of course there are tons of wealthy tourists here in Maui but I’m talking the regular denizens who kind of seem like Island hippies.
Maui needs those tourists. They are the main industry and the only other one is a sugar cane refinery.
In fact, my own family needs the tourists as they buy the Maui Woodys my son-in-law makes (native wood framed sunglasses)
Big Island snowbird here. Local haoles (at least in Puna) tend to cluster in three categories:
1) Older newcomers (middle class retirees from MN or WI) upon whose weight the move to HI has no real influence;
2) younger folks (especially men) drawn to HI by the year-round sporting activities (surfing, diving, hunting, etc.) that keep them slim and trim; and
3) druggies (who are often quite emaciated) - these might be your "hippies."
(And that's just my immediate family.)
But if by "brown" you mean "native" - there, I can't offer an explanation.
Regards,
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