Amurica is he only country in the world in with it's poor and downtrodden own 2 TV's and are fatter than hell.
Some years ago in a story on immigration, legal or otherwise, I believe it was Jonah Goldberg, found an actual (approved) application for naturalization from an Indian applicant. On the line, “Why do you want to live in America?”, this fellow forthrightly answered, “I have always dreamed of living in a country where the poor people could be fat”.
For 99% of human history, it could be assumed that anyone with the disposable income to BE fat was, if not rich, better off than his/her neighbors. Ask any resident of Darfur. Only in America could people with NO income require a (publically-funded, no doubt) forklift for the sheer mechanics of a publically funded burial.