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OT / My pet peeve *fatties*
Gilligan wrote:
Large numbers of Fatties can only exist because of excessive government regulation and socialism. Most of those fatties are on group health insurance or government run health programs. The health risks of these behemoths are pooled with non fatties. If the government would end medicare, medicaid and undo the tax benefits of non qualifying group health insurance programs and make the fatties pay for true risks and consequences of their own health problems they would see the skinny real fast. I doubt it. They would just whine louder. After all, they truly don't believe it's their own fault. We don't need to raise taxes on fast food or regulate what people eat. We simply must do less and let individuals do more for themselves. How about letting individuals be less subjected to food advertisements 24/7? How about lowering the tariff protection on sugar, so it's a bit less profitable to push the stuff into everything? The American health care system is not the problem, for it is the best in the history of the world. It is American health that is the problem which is the result of lifestyle choices and the removal of responsibility. It's also the result of the profit motive: large corporations are making lots of money convincing Americans to eat more, thus becoming larger corporally. DSK |
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