Targeting Obesity Alongside Hunger (Obamas get tough on Fatties)

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[jessduntno]

"Tom Vilsack, President-elect Barack Obama's choice for agriculture secretary, said he would put "nutrition at the center of all food assistance programs,"

Maybe he can get some tips from the Obama family - if he can get him to stop smoking and knock her off the chuck wagon...

[CindyDawg]

Ask Houston about what the Katrina “victims” wanted to eat and thumbed their noses up at? He’s gonna make a lot of people on food assistance mad.

[GailA]

Food stamp users have the same choices at the grocery store every one else does...it is their fault if they chose chips, pop, cookies, and candy over food that will fuel the body properly i.e. fruit, nuts, veggies, meats, and breads/cereals/grains are available in every grocery store.......unless you are doing your shopping at the local handimart/gas station that is.

Put restrictions on what food stamps can purchase could be done...in other words eliminate the pop, cookies, candy, chips....make them pay for it out of their pockets if they want garbage food.

[WayneS]

Maybe the hungry could feast on slabs of flab sliced off the obese? Kill two birds with one stone, as they say.

[austingirl]

The socialists are out for total control- even ones’s daily diet. They asked for it and it’s coming.

[RichInOC]

Feed the obese to the starving.

[raptor29]

I’m thinking Oprah might be rethinking her endorsement right about now...................

[rusureitflies?]

I wonder who has the MOST fat people.... Democrats or Republicans...?

[Erik Latranyi]

Put restrictions on what food stamps can purchase could be done...in other words eliminate the pop, cookies, candy, chips....make them pay for it out of their pockets if they want garbage food.

I agree. However, we both know what will happen.

Minorities will sue claiming certain foods are part of their ethnicity, hence denying them chips and soda is racist.

[hoe_cake]

“The number of Americans on food stamps topped 31.5 million in September, a record high. Obesity, too, is at epidemic levels... .”

Why is it that I see so many overweight folks buying food with food stamps?

And while I’m on a roll, why is it these folks can buy the best brands on the government’s dole, while I buy the cheap stuff with money I worked hard to earn?

[Erik Latranyi]

Re-reading this, I was caught by this line in the story:

“In many areas where lots of people receive aid, good, nutritious food can be scarce. The District’s Ward 8 went nine years without a full-service grocer.”

First, we know why there are no grocery stores in Ward 8....crime.

Second, this opens the door to gov’t-run grocery stores...the only place you can spend your food stamps.

Coming to a neighborhood near you.

[Dr. Ursus]

Tax KFC-Budget Balanced!

[CindyDawg]

Everyone should have choices but tax payers shouldn’t have to foot the bill. Cut food assistance to staples. Flour, sugar, potatoes etc. They can make their own chips and sweets if they want. Limiting what can be bought works well with WIC.

[hoe_cake]

“chips and soda is racist.”

The woman was asked if she goes to churches.

She said “naw, I’z only goes to Kentucky Fried Chicken and Poppi’s.”

[CindyDawg]

The only hungry in America are those that choose to be.

[Army Air Corps]

Let them eat arugula.

Another constituency of Obambi gets a slap in the face...

[RaceBannon]

Tax Michelle’s MOB
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(Mother of all butts)

[mountainlion]

Too bad Ted Kennedy and John Murhta you are out of style.

[WayneS]

Well SURE, what with all the "fats'-backs" that're going to be available soon.

Save a Life, Donate a Slice...of Yourself

[WayneS]

No great loss. They’re too old and putrid to be any good anyway.