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Ustwo · 02-04-2004, 08:42 AM

When you listen to democrats talk about America it seems to be an America filled with hungry children, starving widows, no heat, and no medicine. Score two points for emotionalism but lets discuss one fact that hasn't been altered by political bias as it wasn't thought of as political by the people involved.

America has a health crisis right now, and if you follow the news you most likely know what I'm talking about. Its not prostate cancer, heart disease or AIDS, those are so 1990's. No the crisis is now obesity. Americans are fat, and we know it. Its one of the few things Europeans have right about us. We, as a people, are bloated. We eat to much high carbohydrate (read sugar) food, and have ample protein to boot.

And here is the kicker, obesity is a bigger problem with the poor .

I am forced to wonder, WHERE are these starving people? I live in a major metropolitan area and I've never seen one. We are told they are everywhere yet are they invisible? Are they so thin that when a rich man (reads pays taxes) drives by they turn sideways and disappear? We have street people of course in Chicago and they refuse to go into shelters. They tend to be mentally ill, or in some cases just seem to like the life style, but even they are not starving. I listen to the news, yet I don't hear about starving deaths, hell I don't even hear about malnutrition. I can only conclude that people are NOT starving, and NOT suffering from malnutrition (at least not of their own doing).

Hell from what I've heard food stamps are under utilized . There are people who could get free food (well free for them, paid for by others), and they don't bother to make the effort to get it.

I think its safe to say that America has in fact WIPED OUT HUNGER in its own nation. The war on hunger in this country has been won! Now on to the war on obesity!

02-04-2004, 08:42 AM	#1 (permalink)
Ustwo Pissing in the cornflakes	Isn't it Ironic? When you listen to democrats talk about America it seems to be an America filled with hungry children, starving widows, no heat, and no medicine. Score two points for emotionalism but lets discuss one fact that hasn't been altered by political bias as it wasn't thought of as political by the people involved. America has a health crisis right now, and if you follow the news you most likely know what I'm talking about. Its not prostate cancer, heart disease or AIDS, those are so 1990's. No the crisis is now obesity. Americans are fat, and we know it. Its one of the few things Europeans have right about us. We, as a people, are bloated. We eat to much high carbohydrate (read sugar) food, and have ample protein to boot. And here is the kicker, obesity is a bigger problem with the poor . I am forced to wonder, WHERE are these starving people? I live in a major metropolitan area and I've never seen one. We are told they are everywhere yet are they invisible? Are they so thin that when a rich man (reads pays taxes) drives by they turn sideways and disappear? We have street people of course in Chicago and they refuse to go into shelters. They tend to be mentally ill, or in some cases just seem to like the life style, but even they are not starving. I listen to the news, yet I don't hear about starving deaths, hell I don't even hear about malnutrition. I can only conclude that people are NOT starving, and NOT suffering from malnutrition (at least not of their own doing). Hell from what I've heard food stamps are under utilized . There are people who could get free food (well free for them, paid for by others), and they don't bother to make the effort to get it. I think its safe to say that America has in fact WIPED OUT HUNGER in its own nation. The war on hunger in this country has been won! Now on to the war on obesity! __________________ Agents of the enemies who hold office in our own government, who attempt to eliminate our "freedoms" and our "right to know" are posting among us, I fear.....on this very forum. - host Obama - Know a Man by the friends he keeps.