Posted on 06/10/2009 7:19:27 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
President Barack Obama eats his vegetables and exercises every day — and he really wants you to do the same.
From the White House garden to his picks for top health jobs, Obama is telling America’s McDonald’s-loving, couch-dwelling, doctor-phobic populace that things are about to change.
Don’t be fooled by the presidential burger runs. Obama and Congress are moving across several fronts to give government a central role in making America healthier — raising expectations among public health experts of a new era of activism unlike any before.
Any health care reform plan that Obama signs is almost certain to call for nutrition counseling, obesity screenings and wellness programs at workplaces and community centers. He wants more time in the school day for physical fitness, more nutritious school lunches and more bike paths, walking paths and grocery stores in underserved areas.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Grocery stores in the ghetto? Who gets to pay for the billions they lose to shoplifters every year?
There is a freaking reason they aren't there!
Hmm, he smokes and his wife is gaining a lb a day. Lead by example BO.
“Oh yea, I can see how this can destroy society alright. Many employers are pushing many of these things at the urging of their insurance companies. Get a grip folks.”
It’s destructive because you don’t have a CHOICE.
CHOICE=FREEDOM
NEVER, I HOPE.
In fact, we should send him a carton of Camels every week.
Real soon, the ordinary people will be eating "Soylent Green"
He must mean the country. When I lived in the ghetto I had a grocery store, meat market, huge farmers market, 4 corner stores (2 with hot food) a sub shop, a pizza place, 2 fast food places and a freakin' bakery within a 20 minute walk. I never ate so good, so cheap, or so easy.
Private sector. Public sector.
New government diet includes at least one 100 buck a pound Kobi steak every week.
Hey Prez gimme a Kool
You can grow your own for next to nothing. It's relatively expensive to get started (soil, soil amendments, seeds, etc.) but after that, you just plant, maintain, harvest & re-plant.
I've grown tomatoes, cucumbers, kentucky wonder beans, pinto beans, red beans, yellow squash, zuchinni, cantelopes, honey dew melons, watermelons and strawberries this year. I'm looking forward to a crop of citris later this year/early next year and avocados.
Don’t give him any ideas!
I can just see—every American deserves as good a gym as Congress has...
You do realize that there is a difference between employers doing this by choice and a government mandate?
Is this why you're always "tired" and "worn out"?
“You do realize that there is a difference between employers doing this by choice and a government mandate?”
I don’t remember getting a choice.
DUmocrats have proven time and time again since 1794 that they are either a). America-hating domestic enemy, or b.) an enthusiastic enabler of our enemy. Take your pick.
You of all people should talk.. You go around telling people that we should only buy American.. Comrade...
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