[SkyPilot]

First of all, the article is full of lies. Poor people are not obese simply because eating healthier cost more. What a crock. You can buy sacks of brown rice and apples for pennies on the dollar of what a trip with the family for burgers and fries will cost you.

You can buy 50 lbs of this high grade rice for $32.00.

Secondly, the answer isn't Billions for "Nutrition Education" either. The reason a poor person becomes obese is the same for anyone else: eating garbage, not exercising, and then eating some more.

Third, the reason there are less grocery stores in urban black areas is not because businesses do not wish to make money or to locate there. There are less stores there because they get robbed blind by their customers.

Take on that issue Moochelle!

I remember working in a "welfare" strip mall when I was in high school. It was incredible how much theft and attempted theft was going on 24/7 by the patrons. We used to have to tape the butter packages closed with heavy duty strapping tape, because they would switch the sticks of butter in margarine packages on a daily basis.

With Trillions spent on Food Stamps and every kind of welfare, no one is going hungry. On the contrary, we are the only generation in human history to have "fat poor people."

Finally, can you believe Moochelle! She wants $200 Million to start this ridiculous program, when we are $14400000000000 in debt?

This is what poverty looked like during the Great Depression:

This is what poverty looks like under Obama:

I suspect the reason Moochelle is so into the "obesity" cause is because the single group that is the most obese is black women, and blacks as a race are the most obese. The Obamas are race obsessed, but also government money obsessed, so this is a match made in Marxist heaven.

How obesity has become a part of black culture

[freekitty]

Hopefully soon, Wookie Wide Loads credit card will be cancelled.

[Westbrook]

> Moochelle Want Million$ for Urban Stores

Let the wookie open its own check book.

WAAAGGGHHH!

[forgotten man]

Grocery store chains don’t operate in ghetto areas because of the shoplifting problems. Pure and simple reason.

[GeronL]

We already passed this a couple years ago! Something like a half billion program. Whatever happened to that??

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

I hate these democrat catch phrases... they go on and on:

Food deserts
Redlining
Big Oil
Net neutrality
Global warming/climate change
Right to choose

[PGR88]

Yes, it is a problem!

[ctdonath2]

This from the A Buck A Plate blog. (http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/):

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Once we’ve driven the cost of a decent mundane meal under $1, we may wonder what the bottom limit is: how low can we go?

One SWAG at this is to assume a typical adult needs about 2000 calories per day to function. (1200 is the bottom limit for do-nothing metabolism, and we’re not considering lost-at-sea survival scenarios here.) If we ignore nutrition and focus on just filling a belly and having enough energy to keep going, we may choose a cheap grain - rice - and look at what that works out to cost wise.

A 50 lb sack of rice from Costco is about $26. Nutrition data on rice pegs it at 104 calories per dry ounce, requiring 1.2 lbs per day, and working out to $0.208 per meal.

It’s not enjoyable, but in a grind and not looking hard for solutions, looks like at minimum we’ll be shelling out $0.21 per plate just to get by. On the bright side, that’s at least $0.79 to spend on adding flavor & nutrition to that plate: 1/5th basic sustenance, 4/5ths luxuries.

[Figment]

I live in one of these “food deserts” and the picture painted is pure BS. The ones suffering the most from the situation are old people. Mostly old black people.The only time their younger relatives have anything to do with them is on SS check day when they come to mooch or rob them. The grocery stores left this area for good reason

[silverleaf]

Moochelle launched a $200 MILLION partnership to set up farmer's markets in the inner city?

From where? Pigford farms??

Can you say “corruption, fraud, affirmative action and slush money?”

[rdcbn]

Aside from the obvious fact that the article is full of lies, for those with the interest to actually open up the LA Times article they will find a “related article” printed on the same LA Times on July 17 2011 in the side bar titled

“Access to grocers doesn't improve diets, study finds”

This article published in the Times last week quotes a legitimate study that directly disproves and contradicts every bit of the rational for Michelle Obama’s food initiative

The text of the original article is at the following URL

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/17/health/la-he-food-deserts-20110712

Somehow, I find this quite humorous and quite disturbing at the same time. You just can't make this stuff up. Nice to see that rigorous fact checking is alive and well at the Times Editorial Board.

[Mike Darancette]

I see many more contributions to “The Girls of Wal*Mart” calendar.

[cranked]

Further proof that personal traits do rub off on one’s partner....now we have two occupants in the White House , one of which is solely responsible for running this country, stuck on stupid. =.=

[arrogantsob]

The biggest problem in the “food deserts” are the people that live there. Where ignorance is proud of its ignorance and thieves are proud of their thievery not many stores are going to be available.

I feel for the decent people who feel that they have to live in these hellholes.

[cquiggy]

Changing people’s eating habits is difficult, in other words. One reason is money. Healthful foods such as fruits and vegetables, whole grains, lean meats and dairy, can often be pricey. For the cost of a couple of peaches, a person can get a full meal on the dollar menu at a fast-food outlet.

What is pricey? The life long food stamp recipients Moochelle is trying to look out for dont care about the price as long as the store has enough ribs and steaks. They have never earned an honest dime anyway. It sounds like they have a lot in common with Barack Hussein who never held a real job either. But never fear even if the debt ceiling isnt raised Barack will make sure the welfare and food stamp checks get out to his voters.

[Ken H]

Which section of the Constitution authorizes such a program?

[FlyVet]

Just as easily, she could be a real First Lady. She could go to those communities, off-camera, and say "Hey, if you want stores in your community, you gotta stop rippin' them off!"

Positive effect? Like Bill Cosby?

But, no, she chooses to go with the demagoguery.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I betcha the potato chip isle and the the soda pop isle will be sold out before the “healthy foods” are even touched.

[Ken H]

She better not get between Adam Richman and his dessert...

'How about a nice pie, Mrs. O? Just a little closer now...'

[eaglestar]

Urban Stores = Flash Mobs

[mriguy67]

http://www.wimp.com/danceanymore/

this from 1973, I think mandatory dancing in schools would be cheaper