Comments on: Fat Spells Foster Care

By: Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:56:35 +0000

Interesting about childhood obesity, is that about two years ago I saw a bus ad addressing the problem–in San Francisco–where there are not that many families who choose to raise children, but there are a lot of people engaged in behaviors that may ultimately promote the need for long term care, beginning at relatively young ages.

Folks need to realize that not all genetic tendencies or diseases are equal in the government’s sight; some are politically protected. Only solution is to get government out of the health care mess.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:20:58 +0000

The implications of this ghoulish Brave New World are frightening. Yes, fat people live shorter lives than thin people – and Blacks live shorter lives than Whites/Orientals – and tall people / smart people make more money than short people / dumb people…. – the state could have a eugenics Department of Involuntary Sterilization in the name of controlling health care costs since “everyone pays” for the “less fit”. In other words, we are ALL SLAVES to the state — creating / raising a family is subject to the whims of the Nanny state.

By the way, while I was losing over 250 pounds, my (Chinese adopted) daughter Anna HAS NOT MISSED ONE DAY OF SCHOOL IN FOUR YEARS DUE TO ILLNESS and is of average weight. Nevertheless, the state could have removed her from my home – and possibly from the home of my intelligent, compassionate social worker wife who came from a family with a propensity for breast cancer.

Amazing how Londonistan considers fat people and Geert Wilders to be THREATS to their “civilization” while that same government protects wacky hatemongering imams:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article730019.ece

And encourages them to foist sharia law with governmental blessing on their bigoted followers.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:09:14 +0000

If you don’t want to pay the doctor bill for something like eating too much or raising children to eat too much. The sensible thing to do is say. “I ain’t gonna pay the bill.” Taking the kids to foster care, means you have to pay the bill for the kid before it gets fat in the first place and that don’t mean that the kid won’t still get fat. Besides I know too many healthy fat people and skinny people in heart rehab to buy that nonsense anyway.

By: Michel Cloutier

Michel Cloutier — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:14 +0000

So readers think obesity just might be genetic, such as stupidity? What I will venture here is that obesity has a direct link to lower IQ. Hey, don’t get all worked up, we’re talking about averages here, not specific individuals. I don’t mind people making ‘individual choices’ as they are fond to say, as long as they don’t make them while living in countries where their laziness and capacity for self-delusion will have their health-care costs foisted on the rest of us.

By: Brenda Alexander

Brenda Alexander — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:03:38 +0000

CPS is getting more and more corrupt and out of control every single day. As an avid parental rights advocate, I find this article horrifying. CPS is coming up with new and improved reasons for removing children from their homes. Obesity can be genetic. So freaking what. So is stupidity. If you doubt this, just look to your nearest social worker to find out that they inherited the "stupidity" gene from at least ONE of their parents! I have yet to meet one that's both intelligent AND compassionate. I find most of them to be true sociopaths. To remove a newborn from its mother is like ripping out your heart. But to be honest, it's like that no matter how old the child is. Once it's yours, it's yours and just because they're older doesn't make the pain any less. I know because I've been there. These people are out of control and until America wakes up and stops it, the next child they take might be your own!

By: M. B. Moon

M. B. Moon — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:59:22 +0000

“Maybe instead of penalizing obesity, we should stop subsidizing corn, so that corn syrup (which is the basis for practically every kind of junk food) is no longer artificially cheap?” Bob Harrison

Next, you’ll be saying that if the Fed didn’t exist we wouldn’t have depressions. You reductionist, you!

By: Bob Harrison

Bob Harrison — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:48:17 +0000

The details about the “healthy living incentives” Washington has planned for us are just starting to come out. Obama’s “behavioral economists” believe that the state should “nudge” people into making the right choices.
Once the state pays your health bill, your health becomes its business, and it feels justified in making decisions for you. Maybe instead of penalizing obesity, we should stop subsidizing corn, so that corn syrup (which is the basis for practically every kind of junk food) is no longer artificially cheap?

By: George Pal

George Pal — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:17:21 +0000

There is nothing that makes authoritarianism more brutally merciless than “good intentions”. Nothing.

By: Roy Bleckert

Roy Bleckert — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:34:31 +0000

Ben Franklin says:

“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.”

Are you going to stand for Liberty or are you going to accept Tyranny?

By: robert

robert — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:09:16 +0000

NUTS!!

But once you start down the road of “The State Always Knows Best” it is hard to stop the slide. As Myron predicts, it will get worse before it gets better.