Obesity? This is a job for Supernanny(neo soviet barf alert)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-2330255,00.html ^ | 8 27 06 | Minette Marrin

[meandog]

add me to libertarian list please

[Froufrou]

<:-O

[maryz]

Fresh produce and meat costs far less than the prepackaged frozen stuff..

Produce (even though it's August) and meat (even hamburger) cost a fortune around here. Pasta, potatoes and bread are cheap. And you'll get fat on them. Stouffer's frozen stuff is expensive, but Banquet frozen dinners go for $1 apiece; their potpies are $.69.

[Froufrou]

That's the truth! Many Hispanic children have to have sealants because mama doesn't listen when Doc tells her not to put baby down with a milk bottle! And, they are rotund in the extreme, as well!

[Froufrou]

Banquet is probably more caloric-correct than tortillas and frijoles.

[steve-b]

It takes about five minutes of actual work -- as long as you use a microwave (so you don't have to worry about it burning to the bottom of the pot) and take some basic precautions against boiling over (don't fill it too high or put the lid on tight), it can be left unattended to simmer.

[meandog]

Actually, if the liberals are right, poor people should be thin--as in starved! Next time you go to the grocery store, get behind someone using a food stamp card and take a gander at what he/she puts on the conveyor belt. Betcha a paycheck there's plenty of expensive high caloric and starchy items and very few vegetables and fruit.

[ArrogantBustard]

No ... the essential foodgroups are coffee, beer, peanuts, and beef jerky.

[freepatriot32]

ok your added tot he libertarian list now

[Hazcat]

Absolutely! Government money (after all they print it!) and regulation are the answer to ALL things! (/sarc)

[Xenalyte]

You know you're in redneck country when you watch Mama fill up the baby's bottle with Dr Pepper.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

In these circumstances even the most swivel-eyed libertarian would probably agree, for once, that something must be done and even perhaps by the government. Curiously enough, however, in one of the few areas where our ever-intrusive government might for once justifiably intrude, new Labour does almost nothing.

Obesity, one of the trials of affluence, can be solved only, if at all, by the kind of interventionism that has been discredited by the failure of socialism. Liberty is indivisible; it belongs to the ignorant and the low paid just as much as to anyone else. Perhaps obesity is one of the many prices of liberty.

So which is it? Something must be done by government, or government should do nothing?

The author just wanted to write an article in which she got to call people fatass deadbeat ignoramuses.

[Tijeras_Slim]

You know you're in redneck country when you watch Mama fill up the baby's bottle with Dr Pepper.

Lightweights, Momma Slim started me on RC Cola, and I teethed on Moon Pies.

[najida]

I always thought they were
Chocolate, butter, sugar and salt!

[Xenalyte]

For belching contests, NOTHING tops RC.

(Although Monster Lo-Carb came pretty close for me, over the weekend. Several guys high-fived me.)

[najida]

HiC around 'here.

[elmer fudd]

OTOH, it has everything to do with the insurance industry. There are already employers who refuse to hire the overweight and/or smokers. It's more expensive to insure them than 'healthy' people.

Sounds like a pretty good solution to me. Companies have a financial interest in having healthy productive employees, so it only makes good sense to hire people who are likely to remain healthy and productive in the long term and those who don't like it can either find work somewhere else or change their lifestyles.

[xpertskir]

It doesn’t come well from the consumers of steamed organic asparagus and free-range ducks’ breasts to criticise those who can manage only frozen reconstituted chicken nuggets and sugary baked beans.

Organic foods and free range chickens, I guess this author is a lib. My favorite thing to do to these organic only people is to explain that by not eating GMO's they are helping to ensure starvation around the globe. Because GMO's grow in places where normal vegetables cannot and produce higher yields per amount of water, fertilizer, and general plant care. Talk about making a liberal squirm, I have seen heads explode.

[mysterio]

Fat people had no foresight and didn't stand up for smokers. In fact, some of the most psychotic antismoking zealots were fat people. So now they get to enjoy the machine they created.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Frostie Root Beer is another good bet.