Question of the Week: Should the Government Do Something about Obesity?

Townhall.com ^ | July 7, 2013 | Daniel J. Mitchell

[vetvetdoug]

A fat bloated government telling us what to eat and what to look like.....sure.

[a fool in paradise]

IF the government can’t do anything to thwart homosexuality then it has no business attacking the obese.

[knarf]

First of all, TownHall .. it's a silly subject to talk about.

How about;

Should the government be so overloaded with sodomites?

or

Should the government be involved with parties and vacations for government sanctioned welfare recipients .. (yes .. the mulatto obozo family)

But I'll play your silly game, without reading your text and simply answering the question ..

no.

[IbJensen]

Yes. The government should do something about obesity.

Stone all fat people to death and sell Cristie to a circus.

[Fzob]

Not too worry after eights years of Zero the economy will collapse and obesity will be a non issue.

[oh8eleven]

Should the Government Do Something about Obesity?
What do you think Øbama Care is all about?
Won't be long and the gov't will be "doing something" about every aspect of our lives.

[keats5]

The government has to do less. Stop subsidizing lazy behavior and irresponsible breeding, and get out of the way of job creation.

[Kenton]

The government should go on a diet.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

no, not just no but hell no

[IbJensen]

Just see what too much Popeye's fried chicken and too much television can do to a person:

[MissMagnolia]

H.E.double hockey sticks NO. If you are really interested in how the government has already mucked up nutrition and in fact, ignored scientific evidence to the contrary to achieve their version of nutrition (similar to global warming - ignoring the science), which has exacerbated if not caused the current obesity epidemic, check out this .... and watch the video. It will be well worth your time:

Evidence and the Ethics of Dietary Guidelines

“We must admit that our opponents in this argument have a marked advantage over us. They need only a few words to set forth a half-truth; whereas, in order to show that it is a half-truth, we have to resort to long and arid dissertations.” (Frederic Bastiat)

[EEGator]

“Should the government do something about obesity?”

Yes, mind its own damned business.

[stevem]

Question of the Week: Should the Government Do Something about Obesity?

This must be a trick question. We would ALL be so much better off if these clowns would all crawl back into their clown cars and drive into the ocean.

A week ago I received a letter from HHS saying I had been selected at random to have an interviewer ask me about the state of things in several areas. When the interviewer came I said to write down that I wasn't interested in participating.

She said they just wanted my opinion on several issues.

I said she really didn't want to hear mine.

I had to tell her I wasn't interested, but the day after the Federal Government stops treating American citizens like scum, she was welcome back, and I would talk to her.

We need the government telling ANY of us what is the proper body shape like we need additional holes in our heads.

[MulberryDraw]

Big government reduces all of us to the status of children.

and children don't support themselves or the "family". Therefore, at some point the system implodes.

[grania]

Abolish food stamps. Stop it with the free breakfasts and lunches in schools. No more subsidized fat-buster surgeries. Want to help people figure out how to eat well? Give them a book to read. Don't let obese people have residency in the US.

I'm not kidding.

[RaceBannon]

This is why I am taking ISAGENIX products
no soy - which is 75% gmo now, no gmo protein, no high fructose corn syrup, no artificial sweetners

[goodwithagun]

1. The government needs to get the @&$# out of the medical field. This includes their unhealthy food pyramid, insurance, medical research subsidies/grants, and Big Pharma’s a$$. But we at FR already know that.
2. The article mentions nothing about the obesity rates among those receiving my tax dollars for a living. The poorest in our country are the most obese. End welfare, end the obesity epidemic. Notice I used epidemic. Obesity will still occur but not at the rates it is occurring now.

[SampleMan]

A fat bloated government telling us what to eat and what to look like.....sure.

Precisely, no one is more morbidly obese than the federal government.

[PLD]

The government can do is keep out of peoples business..yes people are bigger but the government has fat butts in Washington..Look at Michelle Obama rear now they need to do something about that.After all isn't she suppose to be a figure people look up to..While they are at it make her change her attitude toward whites..