At any rate, it will be interesting to see what his approach might be. He has already been accussed of hypocrisy, of deviating from the Republican, conservative party stance that advocates non-interference in private choices, in personal repsonsibilty, in freedom from regualation of business.
Of course, I personally think his approach might be a somewhat different one than litigation through class action lawsuits aimed at raking in billions of dollars from the fast food industry, enforcing excessively oppressive regulations, enforced inclusions of health alternatives while penalizing what is deemed non-healthy with greater and greater taxes, etc., and all the other nonsense that has been perpetrated on the tobacco industry-and smokers- over the last decade.
I could come up wth a few ideas myself that might be as good or better than anything the Democrats or Republicans might envision. For example, why not put up a fucking weight scale right in front of the counter of every fast food joint? This would be accompanied by a height indicator, and a computer averaging tabulator. Any customer that went into the place would be obliged to stand on the scales. For every pound over what the computer suggests shoud be his or her average, an extra quarter per dollar, per extra pound, would be added to the price.
In the case of a real super fat ass, discounts could be offerred for healthy alternative choices.
The weight computer could be made to make noises. Razz beries, chortles, derisive laughter of various sorts, or simply the agonizing cry, “helllllllp, get this fat fuckhead off of me.”
Naturally, this would meet with objection by the fast food industry. After all, many will opt not to suffer this embarrassment, and thus will take their business elsewhere. But at least their beleaquered, overworked employees would get a few jollies out of it.
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Ah, they all say that they support individual freedoms. For Democrats, that means abortion and sex rights, but not the right to have cigarettes and guns. For the Republicans, it means that you can keep the guns and smokes, but you'd better have sex the way good Christians do.
As for the fat thing, I don't know what the answer is. I almost never see fat people in Canada, and I haven't seen one fat person in France. But, every time I'm home in the states, I see these big beefy walking mounds of hamburger with clothes on everywhere I go.
As much as anything, that post was an excuse to post that picture. Did you check her out? Note the belly button. Unfortunately the picture doesn't show up as good on Blogger as it did in my in-box when my aunt sent it to me from a joke web-site. But, it appears to be real. But yes, it is definitely a problem here in the states. I think for the most part it has to do with an enforced sedentary lifestyle in combination with not only fast foods, but the very real fact that good, healthy food is simply unnaffordable to the average American working person or unemployed, and so they have to opt for the fatty, starchy foods.
And it's ridiculous too because the healthy stuff generally isn't more expensive to produce. I mean, a lot of times, it's just a matter of not frying something in oil. But, we charge extra for the fact that the food isn't unhealthy. It's crazy.
The picture is pretty incredible. You wonder how she got to the bench in the first place.
I never even considered how she got there, all I could wonder about is WHY she got there. Think about it, if you were that obese, would you want to be out in public? Especially if you were a woman? And dressed like THAT, and all of that showing?
Oh, now I'm depressed.
Just enlarge the phote and meditate on her belly button. When it gets to be too much to bear, stop and meditate on yours, and thank your lucky stars.
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