[ETERNAL WARMING]

Lookout taxpayers! This is the argument the money grabbers used on the Smoking Issue. It was only a way to sell it to the public so they could justify persecuting smokers with obscene levels of taxation.

[Flyer]

The obvious solution is to end taxpayer funded healthcare.

[Ff--150]

Just curious: Whatever happended to the hordes of militias in boots and field jackets of fanatical right-wing extremists who were gonna force their "version" of the Constitution and religion down everyone's throat only a few years ago? Remember, the media informed us that those zealots, along with AIDS were going to kill us all, in particular our children?

With this scheme to tax fast food and no doubt steaks and hamburgers on our grill--just wondering what happened to that militia threat, who would seemingly jump right in on this obtrusive plan of the socialists?

[SheLion]

From the RAND Report:

OBESITY LINKED TO HIGHER RATES OF CHRONIC ILLNESS AND WORSE PHYSICAL QUALITY OF LIFE THAN SMOKING, DRINKING OR POVERTY THREE OF FIVE ADULT AMERICANS ARE OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE

[mtbopfuyn]

Disgusting. Next, it will be all red heads or those with brown eyes.

[CSM]

Well, we better institute punitive taxes on any food not approved by the state. That is clearly the only solution!

BWWWWWWWAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHAAAAAAA!

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Seems to me that they're just throwing a lot of sh!t into the "obesity" pot.

If a fat man sees his doctor because he dropped a hammer on his toe, is that considered an "obesity" case?

Kind of like how the French were counting any death during their "heat-wave" as a "heat-related death".

[metesky]

Here's a good link from the other obesity thread going on now.

[Chad Fairbanks]

"Sadly, everything can't be funded."

"Thankfully, everything can't be funded."

[swarthyguy]

Smaller portions for same price in restaurants.

The End of an American Institution - the doggie bag.

I think airline tickets should be priced by weight.

[searchandrecovery]

I predict the next move will be (you heard it here first)....warning labels on food. Something like: "Warning: Eating this food may cause illegal weight gain."

IMHO, after a certain tipping point, governments only get bigger. The size of the Federal Government will never decrease until a MASSIVE problem. Take a lesson from CA - a bankrupt state can't even make cuts. Pathological. Sad.

[talleyman]

Obesity fight hits taxpayers

Politicians think our wallets are too fat.

[Lancey Howard]

I saw this on the Comcast homepage yesterday.
Here come the scumbag lawyers looking for a few deep pockets and a hunk of "jackpot justice".