Hmmm.
If the majority of Americans are overweight, then that's the norm. Hope they got good airconditioning in that windowless room.
:)
Here's a novel idea. How about instead of punishing obesity, the slim-and-trim are rewarded.
Perhaps declaring that those that keep themselves physically fit are exempted from the 3,000 new laws and regulations politicians and bureaucrats create and implement each year. Forget for the moment that each year's 3,000 new laws and regulations are "must have" laws. That is, that people and society couldn't live without them. Forget for the moment that people and society have survived and prospered for years and decades prior to each year's 3,000 new laws and regulations.
Opps, this isn't working out as I planned. Time to switch gears. Don't reward those that are thin-and-trim, instead, punish obesity by not having each years 3,000 new laws apply to overweight people. In other words, if a person is overweight they don't get the protection off all those new laws.
Darn it, that isn't going to work either. Because as soon as somebody points out that the fat person on the elevator doesn't respect the law that person will be labeled as fat-profiling. Not to mention that a lot of people would chose to be overweight in order to be exempt from each year's 3,000 new laws. Obesity would probably increase, not decrease.
Where does most lawlessness emanate from?
"Each year politicians and bureaucrats pass and implement about 3,000 new laws and regulations, and that number also increases on average year over year. That's how the long list of alphabet agencies came into existence. They tell us that these are must have laws and regulations that people and society can't live without.
"Question: how have people and society survived and even prospered for years and decades prior to the plethora of new, must have laws created each year? Are we to believe that people and society would run headlong into destruction without those law? Would they have us believe that man's nature is so perverse as to harm his fellow man so frequently that thousands of new laws need be created each year? And what about their nature-- the nature of politicians and bureaucrats? Are they not of the same nature as all other in the human species? Accordingly, they too would be so perverse that they would harm their fellow man. Perhaps by imposing destructive laws and regulations.
"Despite parasitical elites usurpations and harms, individuals and society prosper. For it is the creators and producers of products and services that enable and encourage man and society via science and business to survive and flourish.
"The only people that need 3,000 new laws and regulations each year are the politicians and bureaucrats."
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." - Atlas Shrugged
It would be for the children.