[NautiNurse]

More fuel for fast food lawsuits

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Paging Dr. Atkins...

[Fudd]

The American Obesity Association says the cost of obesity to public health systems across the nation is $100 billion a year.

I say let's sue fat people. If they're using that much of a PUBLIC resource by their irresponsible behavior, they should be the ones ponying up.

Really. Two teenagers suing McD/Wendys/BK/KFC for their obesity? What were their parents doing to control the kids' diets?

[WindMinstrel]

here's a thought: how 'bout a law that seeks to reduce stupidity? That way we'd be free of laws (and wastes of tax money) like this.

[Lion's Cub]

It's time to call a spade a spade. The people behind this kind of legislation are out to destroy the country. This is not "nanny" legislation, folks. It's a deliberate attack on our free enterprise capitalistic system, our industries, our freedoms, and our way of life. Laugh it off at the cost of all you hold dear.

[Skwidd]

Yes! Enacting more laws has done a great job in curing society's ills so far. Why stop now?

[freeeee]

'Smith!' screamed the shrewish voice from the telescreen. '6079 Smith W.! Yes, you! Bend lower, please! You can do better than that. You're not trying. Lower, please! That's better, comrade. Now stand at ease, the whole squad, and watch me.'

A sudden hot sweat had broken out all over Winston's body. His face remained completely inscrutable. Never show dismay! Never show resentment! A single flicker of the eyes could give you away. He stood watching while the instructress raised her arms above her head and -- one could not say gracefully, but with remarkable neatness and efficiency -- bent over and tucked the first joint of her fingers under her toes.

'There, comrades! That's how I want to see you doing it. Watch me again. I'm thirty-nine and I've had four children. Now look.' She bent over again. 'You see my knees aren't bent. You can all do it if you want to,' she added as she straightened herself up. 'Anyone under forty-five is perfectly capable of touching his toes. We don't all have the privilege of fighting in the front line, but at least we can all keep fit. Remember our boys on the Malabar front! And the sailors in the Floating Fortresses! Just think what they have to put up with. Now try again. That's better, comrade, that's much better,' she added encouragingly as Winston, with a violent lunge, succeeded in touching his toes with knees unbent, for the first time in several years.

- "1984", Chapter 3

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

Create a sin tax for junk food and ban fat people from eating inside public buildings...make them eat their lunches in alleyways & have "Fat" sections in restaurants...put up billboards that villianize fat people and teach kids in school that fat people are bad.

[BulletBrasDotNet]

This week, the governor signed the Obesity Prevention Act into law.

This HAS to be a joke. Fat people are fat because they eat food!

[DWSUWF]

I can visualize where this is heading...

The year, 2007

The place, a fast food restaurant on the 'watch list'.

A young, blonde, thin FG (Fattengruppen) officer strides up and down the aisle, occasionally stopping and curtly snapping his fingers in the face of a diner.

Those diners promptly hand over their DFRC's, (Daily Food Record Cards) which the FG officer examines and returns.

Until he arrives at a table occupied by a pudgy housewife, who takes a moment too long to hide the fries...

Seizing the fries, our young officer follows up with a vicious slashing attack on the Rotund Roxanne using his riding crop.

He mashes the fries against a menu, smearing them in a circle until the fat they contain renders the thin paper transparent.

Holding the menu between his eyes and the sobbing woman's eyes he mocks her, "It vould appear that you haff been eating zumthing forbidden, yes?"

As the emaciated guards take her in charge there's a sudden crashing noise at the door...

In rush three bloated, middle-aged men wearing pullover shirts with horizontal stripes and berets, armed with Sten guns.

The restaurant is demolished afterward, yes.

But Fattengruppen Uberweasel Schmidt is not alive to see the bulldozers do their work.

[mhking]

the Obesity Prevention Act

This has got to be out of "The Onion."

There's no way that this could even be remotely close to being true...

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Can the Commerce Clause be used to outlaw any food product with a fat content over a certain percentage?

[martin_fierro]

Meet the Ideal.

[Cicero]

The cost benefits of attacking smoking and obesity are a bunch of eye-wash. It costs just as much to hospitalize someone who dies at 70 as someone who dies at 40 or 50. It's unfortunate for them, but it doesn't necessarily add to the cost of everyone's insurance or taxes.

If someone is prevented from dying of lung cancer, then they'll die a little later of something else. Or maybe they'll contract something really expensive, like kidney failure or AIDS.

So, there may be arguments for good health, but public health costs isn't a legitimate one.

Liberals hate to admit it, but in the end, everyone dies. So far, at least.

[tcostell]

If they are going to make being obese illegal I'm going to start lobbying for a law to ban idiocy.

My guess is the irony will be utterly wasted on the NYS legislature.

[BluesDuke]

How about New York instead passing a law banning obesity in the state's government? For that matter, how about Washington passing a law banning obesity in the federal government? I do believe the proper dietary coordinates are found in the Constitution...

Oops! Forgot. Government's allowed to get as fat as it damn well pleases. And we're allowed to shut up and deal with it.

The road to Damnocratic hell is paved with Republican't good intentions...

[breakem]

Video Cameras everywhere

More and more people wanting government reparations

Governmental attacks on personal vices

Politispeak

Need a sequel to 1984, 2004

[FourtySeven]

Wow, what a shock that the same state that has the same city that wants to ban all smoking is now going after fat people.

Will the shocking wonders never cease? < sarcasm >

I wonder how many FReepers who deride and mock the "smoking" FReepers for getting all worked up about the anti-smoking laws are laughing at this?

Maybe some are; maybe they're thin too, so they don't care about this either. Well.........whatever....< sigh>....I guess some are comfortable with the RINO title.

[CIB-173RDABN]

If the justification for this is because it "cost" the government money in health, I have a simpler suggestion.

The government should not be taxing one person to pay for the health cost of another, so get the government out of providing health care.