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Barack Obama says shape up now (Nanny State Cometh)
Politico ^
| June 10, 2009
| Carrie Budoff Brown
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 Americas McDonalds-loving, couch-dwelling, doctor-phobic populace that things are about to change.
Dont 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.
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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; democrats; fascism; fubo; healthcare; nannystate; obama
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To: mmichaels1970
New government diet includes at least one 100 buck a pound Kobi steak every week.
To: texgal
The garden growing is a little different in areas that only have 3 months of growing season.
You have fresh veggies for perhaps one month a year.
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posted on
06/10/2009 7:47:37 AM PDT
by
Beagle8U
(Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
To: Vor Lady
Why are fascists alwasy such friggin’ health nazis?
To: TonyInOhio
To: DonaldC
You do realize that there is a difference between employers doing this by choice and a government mandate? I dont remember getting a choice.
Captured and sold into slavery were ya? Seems to be happening more and more these days...
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posted on
06/10/2009 7:51:20 AM PDT
by
Dosa26
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
06/10/2009 7:51:33 AM PDT
by
odin2008
(Everything in the universe is subject to change.)
To: Beagle8U
We had a big chain make a deal with the city years ago to open a store in one of these areas you speak of. It lasted about a year. The stock usually never made it from the truck to inside the store.
They are underserved for a reason.
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posted on
06/10/2009 7:51:53 AM PDT
by
dforest
(Anyone dumb enough to have voted for him deserves what they get.. No Pity!)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
I wanna know when the Feds will come scratch my butt for me too, when it itches.
Little more to the left Barry.
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posted on
06/10/2009 7:54:27 AM PDT
by
West Texas Chuck
(US out of the UN - UN out of the US)
To: ClearCase_guy
Somewhere in a desk drawer, Obama has an outline of his grand plan. Somewhere on page 17 there is the paragraph about getting rid of the useless eaters. They'll have to scratch that one when they realize that's their constituency.
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posted on
06/10/2009 7:56:38 AM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: RasterMaster
To: DonaldC
Many employers are pushing many of these things at the urging of their insurance companies.Yep, the nagging has gotten a little more insistent at my company over the past year or two.
Fortunately, my EMail has a "Delete" function.
I particularly enjoyed the "Wellness Survey" they pushed hard for everyone to fill out - up to and including paying people $20 just for doing it. About a million questions, every one more intrusive than the next..."How many times a day do you visit the bathroom?" I'm thinking that the insurance company likely does NOT have my best interests at heart. *delete*.
Funny thing was that many of the sheeple at the office said "20 Dollars! I'm all over it!". People sell out cheap.
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posted on
06/10/2009 8:08:55 AM PDT
by
wbill
To: texgal
You can grow your own for next to nothing.It's not really next to nothing when you factor in the work required and the yield you get, and the small window in which you can yield and eat your crop. It's pretty much a waste of time.
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posted on
06/10/2009 8:17:55 AM PDT
by
Sir Gawain
("Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect" - Thoreau)
To: DonaldC
You aren't getting it. The government can use force to get people to comply. You were free to change jobs if you didn't like the new policies.
To: rightwingintelligentsia
The worm in office means nothing to me. His words fall on my deaf ears. He is a jerk of the first order. His will is not mine and I will never do his will. He is throwing the end third of my life away. I worked hard, followed the rules, and now I have no future.
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posted on
06/10/2009 8:23:10 AM PDT
by
Pilated
To: rightwingintelligentsia
I finally figured it out. This is the last piece of the puzzle. All socialism is about command economy, government control, and basically, rationing.
I’ve figured out how they were going to ration education, housing, employment, income, credit, transportation, energy and health care.
The only one missing was food; I didn’t see how they were going to ration food. Now I do. In the name of making us “healthy” we are going to be restricted in our caloric intake. With that comes restrictions on the type of foods we can consume.
Welcome to food rationing.
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posted on
06/10/2009 8:23:40 AM PDT
by
henkster
(The GOP is housebroken window-dressing displayed to portray the fiction of a Republic.)
To: Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allerious; ...
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posted on
06/10/2009 8:25:22 AM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: mmichaels1970
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posted on
06/10/2009 8:30:05 AM PDT
by
CSM
(Business is too big too fail... Government is too big to succeed... I am too small to matter...)
To: DonaldC
Get a grip folks.
Do you have children? I hope you don't take the same cavalier attitude when the state starts taking kids away from families for 'improper nutrition' and subjective 'obesity'.
They're already proposing doing such in the UK:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article4543279.ece
If you need that level of nanny-statism, I'm sorry, but there's no place for you in a freedom loving society...at least for those of us who are still do value liberty.
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posted on
06/10/2009 8:30:23 AM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: edcoil
Wasnt the whole 70s leftest movement based in part on stopping excerise in schools by the state as it was creating a generation of warriors in shape for the industrial/military complex the left hates?I hadn't heard about that one.
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posted on
06/10/2009 8:34:07 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
To: Reagan69
Mandatory 15 hours a week in the gym.
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posted on
06/10/2009 8:34:27 AM PDT
by
dragonblustar
("... and if you disagree with me, then you sir, are worse than Hitler!" - Greg Gutfeld)
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