I loved this Human Events article I read this morning about Michelle Obama’s new crusade against obesity. The author – I can relate to her. She sort of had me at hello, really, as her first paragraph read as follows:
“I read in a Reuters news article that Michelle Obama has taken on obesity as a cause. Which I think pairs nicely with her “saving-the-world-one-out-of-work-corporate-lawyer-turned- organic-hippy-farmer-at-a-time” agenda she had last summer. And why shouldn’t the two causes work well together? Veggies have been known to cure fatness, and the world can always use one less lawyer. It’s a win-win.”
This chick and I need to be friends immediately, but that’s neither here nor there.
I’ve been a size 0, a size 8 and everywhere in between, and I’m currently the size of a “tractor-trailer,” as I’m at the final stage of growing a human being in my body at the present moment. What I’ve learned most of all in the weight game is that it’s so not about what the government can mandate for me, what Michelle Obama TELLS me to eat or not eat – it’s me deciding, day by day, meal by meal, whether or not I’m going to stick that brownie in my piehole. And whether I CHOOSE to get off my keester and go for a run. It’s a PERSONAL decision. And, it’s not something that the government – or my fellow taxpayers – should have to pay for.
You know how Obama and friends are always talking about finding savings in various programs to pay for that monstrosity of a healthcare bill? Well, “a reported $650 million in stimulus spending has gone towards the prevention of smoking and obesity.” Um, there’s a big chunk right there, geniuses. What in the holy hell is wrong with our country when we’ve all lost that sense of personal responsibility to the point where we can’t put down the KFC and keep a damn cigarette out of our mouth? This has somehow become the government’s problem? Our collective problem? What are we teaching our kids if we spout this idea that, well, you can just shove any crap into your mouth, smoke like a chimney, drink like a fish, and abuse your body with all sorts of substances, and you know what? That’s someone else’s problem. Yeah.
It’s just an extension of the whole “not my fault!” philosophy that we see waaaaay too much of these days – in every facet of American life. It’s what’s gotten us into the economic trouble we’re in right now, frankly.
Here’s a newsflash: THIS IS AMERICA. NO ONE OWES YOU ANYTHING.
Or is it?
The author goes on to say this:
Consider this for a moment; the U.S. government currently doles out about $150 billion a year to pay for complications related to obesity. That is taxpayer money going towards a problem that is almost entirely self-induced. We’ve got the Obama administration telling our military to pick and chose which life-saving weapons programs to give our warfighters because we don’t have the money and yet, people with Frito intake issues are getting hundreds of billions of dollars a year for insulin shots and wound debridement. That’s wrong.
Wrong indeed.
And then there’s the Health and Human Services Secretary under Obama who spews, “The unhealthier we are as a nation, the more our health care costs will continue to rise and the less competitive we will be globally.” Um, riiiiight. Our lack of global competitiveness lies directly on the fat laps of obese Americans. You just keep on telling yourselves that, Obama administration.
The notion that the government can solve someone’s fatness is laughable. I mean, just look at Michael Moore and how well it’s all worked out for him – and that dude LOVES the whole government-controlling-every-facet-of-his-life idea. Michelle just needs to stick to what she knows best – billing out for her legal services at a ridiculous rate and buying overpriced organic food. The rest of us shmucks can and should be able to take care of ourselves. Just a thought. And there’s 650 million of spendiddlydimulus taxpayer money saved. Oila.
To save another 650 million? Take RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOURSELF and put the Chips Ahoy bag down. How’s that for Monday morning reform?
