He may — MAY — have a point.
Nanny State PING!
These nanny staters are insane.
Not even in the top 100 federal issues AFAIC
That's absolutely correct people. If the government decides you're overweight (fat) then you should be arrested for treason because you're not in shape to serve your country. The Federal Government owns you, your family, your children, your property and your life. Your only purpose in life is to serve the federal government and whichever of the two tyrannical political parties is in power. If you're not properly physically fit then the federal government should put you on work farms where you can do hard slave labor for Democrats/Republicans until you get into such a state that the federal government can use you for cannon fodder in some never ending conflict in the Middle East in order to defend Saudi oil fields or poor oppressed Muslims.
Aside from the fact of us being “too fat to fight”, do we still have the manufacturing/production capacity to fight another WWII should the need arise? I tend to doubt it.
Oh carp! Now I’m a National Security threat!
Before the gov’t goes after families over fat kids - oh wait, too late...
If the gov’t - and the First Lady Food Dictator in Chief (I have still to see her credentials on the subject) - are serious about American’s health, let them do what we can’t: Go after the big chemical companies that put HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup - in most all soda, fruit drinks, prepared foods,) grow GMO crops and plump up beef and chickens with Growth Hormones - that kids get in milk, cheeses and meats - unless the family goes all organic, which many cannot afford.
HFCS, growth hormones, GMO crops - are banned in many countries - in Europe and even Mexico. For example, all Coca Cola sodas in America are made with HFCS - and in aluminum cans. try finding it made with cane sugar and in glass.
Yet - they make Coca Cola with cane sugar and in glass - for Mexico, Canada and other countries -
This only way these companies will stop pushing these poison on he public is for people to get educated and STOP BUYING these FRankenfoods. If we count of the FDA/gov’t to protect is, we will die waiting - their hands are in the pockets of the big chemical companies.
“the American consumer sits on their collective asses that is being fattened by high fructose corn syrup while companies like ADM convince congress theyve done the best thing for the people.
High Fructose Corn Syrup is banned in Europe as part of a long list of genetically modified foods made in the US, and Mexico is just beginning to allow the flow of HFCS across its border as part of the NAFTA agreements.”
(Both the corn hybrid that is used to make HFCS and the GMO foods are a product of the behemoth chemical co., Monsanto...who means to control the production/ownership of our foods.)
http://hfcs.wordpress.com/about/
But some people are waking up -
Quick, shoot the fat people?
When you’re fat, you can’t outrun the enemy?
In event of an actual all out war the troops weight is going to be the least of this nations worries. Basic Training can eliminate a majority of weight issues. The problem is we would not have enough equipment and no factories to build more. Thanks of course to Poppy, Clinton, Smirks, Obama and the one party congress for the past 22 years.
Say China ole buddy ole pals can you build us a {insert critical defense need here}. Frist {thank goodness he is out of office} was like many in DC who never really was in touch with realities of the real world.
Not nearly as much as chronic stupidity - and that latter is epidemic, especially in congress and the White House.
So 10,000 potential recruits a year don’t have the discipline to reach a military level of fitness. In a nation of 300+ million, I don’t see that as a major problem.
(The cost to us in terms of near-nationalized healthcare is another issue.)
Good Lord. Limp-wristed Frist back in the news! Go away!!
Yes. He has a point. The finger should point back at the government. Thanks for turning us into a carb based society. What could go wrong? Metabolic Syndrome. This one sits at McGovern’s feet and the food pyramid. Our government is going to produce more deaths and suffering than all of histories mass murderers combined.
Uh, that’ll be solved in no time when they enter boot camp.