Obesity is costing US 147B per year

[Angrycat]

Quote from Jacob Fries:

I am exactly 29 pounds overweight. I always will be. Despite exercise and eating low-fat, no-taste food, it never comes off. So fuck it. Three points of BFI don't bother me.

The title of this thread is inaccurate since it is incomplete, and leads one to assume that obesity in any American costs the taxpayer money, which is false, and growing more false daily. Obese people living on government health care are indeed costing the taxpayer money, and the OP is correct that Hussein has no intention of fixing any real social problems. He is a politician, remember? Change? LOL! Some of you actually bought that line! But the real issue of the OP should either be welfare (socialized health care) or obesity, but cannot be both.

However, in growing numbers due to layoffs, obese people, like anyone else in the population, are losing insurance and being forced to pay cash for health care, or simply do without. They bear no part of any accusation that the obese cost the taxpayer a dime.

Jacob, you're 29 pounds overweight. That's not obese! I bet you have good blood pressure and you're fit. You're not costing the insurance pool.

The fact that health insurance is still arbitrarily tied to employment is a disaster. If BHO is really about reforming health care, he'd start there.

 

[fkbsuhites]

You want to see obese lards?

go watch a republican rally.

I'll wager good money most of the obama bashers on Elitetraitor are morbidly obese.





Now over lay the lard ass demographics by voting trends






Voting trends factoring in population






And what is even more interesting


If you over lay the voting trends by County and lard ass population density, you'll find in the blue states, the lard ass population tends to vote republican.


Joe the plumber. Dumb as a rock. Fat as a toad.

Quote from Thunderdog:

Yes, you are, and I find you tiring. But then, you must get a lot of that. Let this be the end to our exchange:

http://atheism.about.com/od/bioethics/a/sellingorgans.htm

Kindly go argue with the rest of sensible society.

 

[Angrycat]

Take a look at those maps again. Looks like the fat is pretty evenly split between red and blue.

 

[fkbsuhites]

^

Fat as a toad. Dumb as a rock.


So easy to spot you people. You're a Republican. Not the wealthy I-Don't-Pay-taxes type. But a fat tea-bagger right winger type.


As long as you people are screaming like little children, I know Obama is doing the correct thing. I'll begin to worry when you pipe down.

 

[Angrycat]

Quote from fkbsuhites:

^

Fat as a toad. Dumb as a rock.


So easy to spot you people. You're a Republican. Not the wealthy I-Don't-Pay-taxes type. But a fat tea-bagger right winger type.


As long as you people are screaming like little children, I know Obama is doing the correct thing. I'll begin to worry when you pipe down.

LOL! You need to see a doctor for all that foaming at the mouth.

 

[Scataphagos]

Quote from Angrycat:

Take a look at those maps again. Looks like the fat is pretty evenly split between red and blue.

Well sort of. One group has the fat in their ass... the other in their head. I'll let you figure out which is which.

 

[sosueme]

Quote from Jacob Fries:

I am exactly 29 pounds overweight. I always will be. Despite exercise and eating low-fat, no-taste food, it never comes off. So fuck it. Three points of BFI don't bother me.

I could get the excess weight off you and you would be eating food you enjoy and be enjoying life more.

The first thing we would tackle is ...
"I always will be. "
"So fuck it. Three points of BFI don't bother me."

Until we change your self image nothing in your life is going to move on.
In three words, YOU ARE STUCK

 

[jjf]

Quote from sosueme:

I could get the excess weight off you and you would be eating food you enjoy and be enjoying life more.

The first thing we would tackle is ...
"I always will be. "
"So fuck it. Three points of BFI don't bother me."

Until we change your self image nothing in your life is going to move on.
In three words, YOU ARE STUCK

I think he likes being his own victim, after all this is ET

jjf

 

[sosueme]

some interesting comments here to the ever growing problem of fat people.

It is interesting how they have normalized their way into society as a protected species.

I don't see any solution to the problem of fat people other than private insurers denying them cover.
If medicare is going to cover all people including those who take no responsibility for them selves and their children then life in US will become very very interesting indeed.

sosueme

 

[Debaser82]

I have found the perfect solution on how to resolve the obesity problem in the US.

Let Goldman Sachs jack up the price of sugar to such extremes sugar will become unafordable for the little guy.



There you have it.

Fixed.

Thank you Free Market.

Go sugar.