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I think kids that are obese under the age of 8 is child
abuse.  I think the parents should go to jail.  The child’s diet is
100% up to the parent when that young.  The parents are feeding their kids
junk.  The parents are not forcing their kids to eat good healthy
food.  My mom says that everything in moderation is ok, and I truly believe
that.  If you want to go to McDonalds once and a while than ok, kids love McDonalds! 
It’s fun!  Ordering a pizza and watching a movie with the family is
great!  That’s great bonding.  But doing stuff like this all the time
is what kills these kids.  Makes these kids fat and lazy.  Not only
does eating bad at a young age make you fat, but it goes much further than
that, it effects your drive, motivation, confidence, making friends, getting
girls and so forth.  It’s not only physically abusive to the kids but emotionally
abusive.  When parents are feeding their kids, cheap, easy, bad for you
food it kills the kids self esteem, and self esteem at that young of age is so important. 
When you are 8 and under you don’t decide what you are having for dinner, you
have no money to buy the food you want or any control over what mom is buying,
and for the most part the kids are so young that don’t know what bad food
is!  They don’t understand that it makes you fat, and unhealthy!  It’s
a crying shame these parents.  Now don’t get me wrong I think once the kid
gets older and understands exercise and eating right, then it’s up to them to
get there ass eating better and exercising, playing sports or whatever
activities they want to do. I feel bad for the kids, but I do not feel bad for
the fat adults, or the teenagers, it’s their fault.  I do not believe in
this whole talk about people being fat because of genetics, bullshit, where was
all the fat people in the cave man days, or the 1800’s  or even 50 years ago!
  America is getting lazier and lazier.  Losing weight is very
simple, if you burn more than you take in you WILL lose weight, that’s
it.  The way to get rid of the weight is to eat better and more
importantly exercise, and when I see a fat person I think to myself that person
does not want to do either of those, but he or she will be the first one to
bitch and complain about their weight, and of COURSE ITS NOT THERE FAULT! 
America is getting away from its core values, whatever happened to sit down
dinners with the family’s talking to the family about your day, working on your
table manners and eating a good healthy meal that is going to make you strong
and healthy for all the years in front of you.  I see less and less of
this and it’s sad, this is how I was raised and I am strong as shit.  I am
healthy as can be, and I was taught at a very young age how to be motivated and
to go after what you want in life.  That same speech seems to be dying
off, maybe it’s just me, but everybody is blaming everything and everybody
else, everybody is bitching, everybody has an excuse and it makes me
sick.  I think this way of thinking starts with how you EAT when you are a
young kid.  Feed your kids healthy food, have sit down dinners and get them
motivated in something.  This is how we stop obese people, this is how we
need to teach the kids, so the kids can teach their kids and so forth.  This is how we stop people bitching and
complaining.  Get off your fat asses and
go do something about it, I am tired of hearing about it, and parents wake up
or you are going to jail.

Are they too fat?

No I think those ones are okay. Jon is talking about REALLY fat kids

Those poor kids…

The sad thing is that a lot of these parents don’t know what they are doing wrong. They look just as bad as their kids do because that is the way that their family eats, and they honestly couldn’t tell you anything about how unhealthy their diets are.

Dr. Robert Lustig from the WATCH program at UCSF Medical Center talks about how he meets these parents and explains to them what they are doing wrong, and they really have no idea. They are devastated by the news that they are causing this to their children by feeding them this way, but they didn’t know they were doing anything wrong.

I think jail is a little excessive, but their definitely needs to be some sort of nationwide intervention and a real effort to educate parents about how to feed their kids correctly.

Yeah, it’s hard to educate parents when there is so much misinformation out there too. There’s misleading marketing from the food industry. You’ve got things like the government’s food pyramid which is upside down. It’s just so tough! Something definitely needs to be done cause the kids are the ones that are suffering… This is the first generation that isn’t expected to outlive their parents for heaven’s sake!

Yea but even still its a pretty easy connection to make.
Eat too much=get fat.

People should start by putting down the food.

 
I thought about this as I was eating Taco’s tonight.  You are right, people should not eat so much.

Glenn i’ve seen you eat tacos and your far from eating too much.

I agree with madmax on this one, everyone in the whole wide world knows that eating to much mcdonalds makes you fat. Parents know that eating fast food is unhealthy.  You dont need to read a food pyramid to understand that fast food is bad for you, its simple.  The parents with obese kids are fat and lazy themselves, they know right from wrong, salad is better than a cheeseburger, ham sandwitch is better than pizza, please stop taking the blame from these abusive parents!  Its common sense and know ones fault but there own.  I dont want my tax dallors going to a nationwide intervention!  If this program is not goverment run than great!  But I still think this “o I wasn’t informed” shit is getting out of control.  These parents know they are doing wrong but seem to not care,   and the kids are paying the price!  Isn’t it funny that if you starve your kids and dont feed them, you will be arrested and your kids will be taken from you, but if you feed them to much and they get so fat they are faceing death, nothin happens!   O,  but I forgot that, its not the parents fault, they were just not informed!  Its crazy talk!  Everyone knows a tuna sandwitch, (by the way is very cheap and easy to make) , is better for you and your kid than a hot pocket.  And if you are a parent that can not tell the difference than you should not be able to have kids, your an idiot.  

(Donny) Two things I have seen. Far too many children don’t eat what their parents prepare for them. The parent in turn allows them to eat what they want which tends to be garbage. Far too many young adults have not watched there parents cook good meals, as a result they don’t know how to cook for themselves. In the end the art of cooking has been lost. Cooking is a virtuous activity which places value on yourself. If you deny yourself this basic principle then idleness sets in. Once this idleness has set in between the ages of 15 and 25 (the most important years to establish your values) that person has become incapable of providing for themselves a healthy meal or just simply “incapable.”

 
So true!!!

People don’t realize that thier children learn from watching thier parents…not from listening and being told.

I could tell a child a million times to not do something like smoke cigaretts but then if I go ahead and smoke then bam! there it is.

Same thing with food you eat like crap and don’t take care of yourself your kids do the same.

 
 
So true!!!
People don’t realize that thier children learn from watching thier parents…not from listening and being told.
I could tell a child a million times to not do something like smoke cigaretts but then if I go ahead and smoke then bam! there it is.
Same thing with food you eat like crap and don’t take care of yourself your kids do the same.[/QUOTE]



Ok, so….  I am always telling William to not be fat and lazy, and, to stay away from the Gin.

But I guess your saying that I am pretty much fucked, regardless.  Or, he is.

Am i right?  or is their any hope?

Well how much Gin?
Its not a 100% kind of thing obviosly. Kids do learn from being told especially if its followed be some form of physical discipline.


Church and MS help a lot too.

Child hood obesity is getting out of control… The sad thing is that child hood obesity is more prevalent with low income families.
 
Usually both parents are working and to tired/lazy to cook or prepare healthy food. It is much easier to pop something in the toaster, microwave or pick up fast food.  They usually go to the store with the intentions of buying things on sale, NOT what’s healthy which is a shame.
 
 Instead of providing educational interventions for healthy eating they should give more healthy food options on sale rather then sugar filled cereals, cookies and chocolate bars. 
 
 
Even processed “healthy food” are more expensive… I don’t think it is only lack of knowledge; it is more about convenience and money.  Higher income neighborhoods have a lower rate of obesity… i don’t think this has only to do with educating children in schools.  To be honest with you i don’t remember learning about healthy foods when i was in school.  I basically ate what my parents made me…
 
The government should come up with a solution to make healthy convenient food more readily available for lower income families…

Your telling me that Tuna sandwitches are spendy?  eggs?  veggies?  salad?  fruit?  oatmeal?  yogurt?  are you for real!!  This is only a little example of foods that are good for you and that are cheap, the list goes on and on and on.  AND ANYBODY WITH HALF A brain knows that an apple with a ham sanwitch is better for you than microwaved pizza and cheese sticks, with or without big brother telling them so.  wow is this a day and age where the Goverment really has to everything??  Now the Goverment has to run around telling parents what to feed there kids and what not to feed there kids?!  How about people and parents learning on there own.  Asking qeustions, getting on the internet, and if they are to broke for the interent, READ A BOOK!  Why do we give these abuseive parents so many excuses!?  this is why they dont change, becuase everybody tells them its not there fault, its the goverment fault for not informing them!   These parents have kids, that is a big responsability, and they need to take responability for themselves, not other people “informing them”  

Yea but how do you really feel Jon?  just kidding.

I think your right on with the responsibility thing. Making good choices about food is just that, making choices.

 
Yes, of course.  The government should intervene.  Immedietly.  Because obviously this is a problem that the government could, and should, solve.

so what should the goverment do then? 

 

Jon, if the government cant provide people with healthy and tasty food, and, make sure that they do make bad dietary choices, then why even have a government?

How can you not see the correlation between low and high income families???
 
Obesity is far more prevalent in low income communities.  Besides taking responsibility don’t you see other issues…?
 
Yeah canned tuna fish is cheap but how many “kids” like tuna?  Vegetables and produce are far more expensive then chips and garbage processed food.  Also… have you ever walked into an urban low income grocery store?   Most of their produce is rotten and last no more then 1-2 days!!!
 
Some families do not have the time, money, or transportation to travel to other grocery stores for fresh produce that will last longer then 4-5 days in the fridge…
 
This is more then just taking responsibly and action as a parent.  In many cases feeding their children what’s available is a necessity.  
 
This issue is what the government should look into. 
 
I am not saying child hood obesity is “not” the parents fault but there are other issues besides education and pure laziness…

The reason that sugary processed foods are cheap is because the government subsidizes corn out the whazoo and so they pump high fructose corn syrup into everything.

In the early 70s, President Nixon adopted a platform of “no food shortage” and charged his economic advisor, Earl Butts, to find a solution. Corn subsidies resulted and we haven’t stopped.

It is a huge misnomer that processed foods are cheaper in a grocery store though. If you are eating out then yes, McDonald’s is cheaper than going to a nice quality restaurant, but you can buy whole produce, vegetables, dairy and meats and feed your family for only a couple bucks a person. Even the time commitment is over-exaggerated sicne you can whip up a nice healthy meal in minutes (or at least throw everything on the stove and take care of something else while it’s preparing itself).

I agree that the government isn’t responsible and surely is in no position to provide education for all these families, but something needs to be done to show them that they are poisoning their kids. There are a lot of non-profits and programs out there trying to accomplish this but they’re fighting an uphill battle.

Another thing to add!!
 
There is a fast food restaurant on every corner you turn.  Not just mc Donald’s but Wendy’s, burger king, taco bell, checkers, dominos, Dunkin Donuts, KFC ect… There is more then one mc Donald’s in my town alone!!!!!!!!!
 
No wonder why people “with no self control” are tempted to eat like crap… What about all the commercials and ads displaying big juicy burgers and fries.
 
 
What gets me are major sporting events and the OLYMIPCS (for god sakes) sponsors these fast food chains!! What message is America displaying?? …
 
Wow i am getting fired up!
 
When I have kids i think i will be more paranoid to feed them all organic non processed food then my own self… How could these lazy parents do that to their own children!!!!
 
If you could afford to feed your own children healthy food DO IT!!!
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__HZmDsYK7Q

Shit, I’m gonna go grab a burger.

 
hahah.. I am not even into girls and that makes me even want a burger .. the funny thing is is that i dont even like burgers …
 
See what advertising does!!!!!!!!!!!

 
Well, just so long as the folks that subsidise the corn industry to help put wonderful high fructose corn syrup in every other product at the grocery store, and gave us the food pyramid can somehow start to tell me what I can feed my kid, then I think all will be well.

After all, government does so many things so well, I really think they should be in control of our diet.

And you know, it probably is true that fat and lazy unemployed bastards who come from 3-4 generations of welfare recipients and have to go  back to great grandpa to find anyone in the family who has ever had steady work, but still pump out baby after baby for ME to pay for, well, yeah, I think education, EDUCATION is the key for these folks.  I mean, maybe they just dont know tht watching 12 hours of TV a day while you eat chips and drink cool-aid is not healthy?  I mean, maybe no one ever told them! 

 
I think you just solved the problem!! 
  
You should knock on all these cool-aid drinking, chip eating, welfare abusing, TV watching, baby popping fools and teach them a few olympic lifts and feed them some BACON!!
 
I think this is the answer the government has been looking for.. You really should think about getting into politics…
 
It seems that you have all the answers!! Obesity has nothing to do with poverty right?
 
 
 
 
 

Obesity has nothing to do with poverty right?

I think you missed my point somehow.  Being a lazy worthless bastard has a lot to do with being a fat lazy worthless bastard, IMO.

 
Hmmm Im two of the three worthless and lazy but not a bastard. Do I still get recognition?

by Donny Shankle

I woke up this morning at around 5am so I could make it to the
communal cafeteria line early. Usually if you don’t get their early you
end up standing in line forever freezing your ass off. I have also been
late to work 3 times this past quarter and have been forewarned if I am
late again I will lose my job. Breakfast was not bad today. The grits
had at least more water in them than last week so while they may not
have been the best tasting at least I could swallow them with ease and
get some calories in me. The fruit was half of a banana. They give a
whole one when you go through the line, but mine was so rotten towards
one end I couldn’t eat it. I asked the government cafeteria line worker
if I could trade it out with a better one but he just laughed and told
me to move along. You see if you want breakfast you have to wait in
line for your ticket the previous evening at the same cafeteria just on
the opposite side. The amount of tickets distributed determines exactly
how much food is brought out for the days communal meal. I would have
really liked a better banana but I guess that would not be fair to
everyone else. I went to a table where I could find an opening. We use
to have chairs a couple months ago but lately the government decided to
get rid of them so they could squeeze more people in at once. So now I
stand while I eat next to a table that is about waist high for my age
group section. I forgot my water ration card this morning at home so I
guess no water for me till lunch unless I want to go all the way back
home and get some. I am running out of time though, by the time we give
thanks to our president and his noble advisers on how wonderful a job
they have done solving the obesity issue in this country which involves
facing east towards Washington, DC, palms turned upward and heads bowed
as we recite

O thank you most highly elected official,

For the kindly meal you offer,

We give you praise in hopes you can lead us to becoming more social,

So I may have the wisdom to proudly suffer.

After I am done eating I drop off my tray and head to my car so I
can get to work. Traffic has doubled recently since the mandatory
communal obesity awareness meal times. Everyone leaves at the same time
now and the one’s who want to get a head start over everyone else have
to live with that decision on an empty belly. Seems to be working
because I have noticed my overweight co-workers losing weight.

I long so much for the way things use to be. I get a lot of time to
think about how it was before government decided controlling how its
people ate and when they ate. I just never could understand how a free
people in the greatest country the history of man has ever known would
want so much restriction and regulation in even the most private area’s
of their lives. The big domestic concern use to be education. Everyone
wanted government solutions to provide better education. This has only
led to a deteriorated mind in young people which can’t form basic
concepts of what is right and wrong. No wonder I see adults to the left
and right of me with retarded brains who cry for the great patriarch to
help them solve their problems. I thought our constitution says we have
the right to “pursue” happiness, we don’t have the right to be given
happiness by those whose only purpose is to provide us protection from
evil and fraud. Government protects us to take action for our life and
well-being and does not take action for us.

I don’t blame them though. These same people who went to our alleged
great universities on the stolen dollar of the working man to fund
their pitiful diploma. Where is the incentive to work and put yourself
through school, when your tax dollars will go to provide drop-outs the
chance to try again! What a loathsome existence we as a people have
chosen freely to live instead of depending upon the greatness within us
and magnificence around us to solve our own deficiencies as a people.

I guess I’m just frustrated sitting in this traffic knowing I will
be late to work again. I feel so helpless though. A friend of mine has
this picture of a girl carrying a guy on her back racing across a
finish line. The look on this guys face is exactly how I feel. “Oh
thank you for carrying me young lady, I don’t think I could have
carried your frail frame and I most certainly know I could not have
walked myself.”

So I made it to work and getting upset in my car on the way over has
worked up an appetite but the government has done away with all vending
machines. They do provide all the coffee you want though. Places like
Starbucks have gone out of business because the government has bought
all the coffee and holds a monopoly on it. Water fountains have turned
into coffee dispensers. This was done in hopes to keep people up for
long periods so they could work longer. The federal tax for this is not
so bad, I mean I figured I am just spending a dollar more a day for
coffee but it has turned out to be very convenient.

All lunches are provided by business and the cost of this is
deducted from your paycheck. Again it is required we eat together. If
your place or work does not have a cafeteria then the government builds
tents outside places of business to provide for its helpless citizens.
Its a fascinating sight really to see at 1130am an ocean of green
canvas tents in every parking lot with people moving in and out of them
like chattel. Some have complained it feels to structured but there has
been progress in the obesity epidemic. Unfortunately the rate of
suicide has gone up as well as arrests over drug use. Seems like people
are trying to escape reality, though for the life of me I cannot figure
out why.

After work I go home but first I have to stop and get my ticket for
tomorrow’s breakfast. The line for dinner looks like at least a 2 hour
wait. I go home to ask my wife if she is willing to wait. I know she is
not going to want to though. Nowadays she doesn’t like to do much of
anything. My wife and I used to make love and smile all the time but
now since she has had two miscarriages in the past year due to what the
doctors have said is a result from malnutrition she just cries at night
and can’t stand the touch of me. I love her still though and hope the
government can find a solution to bring back the life in her eyes and a
life in our arms. I keep waiting for them.

I go back to the cafeteria line for dinner alone. Surprisingly I see
that nobody is their. I remember tomorrow’s a holiday so they closed
early. There are couple of bread slices and dried meat rations for sale
by criminals who have stolen from those who have waited patiently. They
triple the price of these rations but my wife and I need to eat
something so I buy from them.

At night I lay awake in bed and wonder when all of this started.
When did competition between business and  self-interest become
secondary to the needs of others who have chosen to be incapable of
pursuing a life of happiness on their own. It has to do with what I
believe is a hatred in one’s self and of human life in general. A
philosophical outlook of life that holds man at the mercy of his
enemies and which causes him to be a slave to his capricious whim. As I
lay here I can now realize why my love has lost pride in me. I didn’t
challenge that generation before me who told me the interest of nature
was before the interests of rational men. I didn’t challenge the hordes
of push-overs who told me our enemies have the right to build temples
in the face of men who willingly pit their lives against evil so they
themselves can achieve a life of individual greatness. I didn’t
challenge the politicians who destroyed before our own eyes the
profession of medicine. I didn’t challenge the government executives
who told me our nation’s interest in space exploration was a waste of
time and money. I didn’t challenge the weak who in time will be dead,
when all I had to do was get them to think so they could save
themselves.

How can I stand on the shoulders of giants, when my giants I find
out were nothing but charlatans. I don’t know how to think, eat or
provide for myself without a governmental crutch anyway. Life will go
on though.

I remember a certain group of people who asked for the government to
help solve the child-hood obesity problem in this country. In the
process of the government fixing all of yours and my concerns they have
lost they true and only purpose. I don’t see obese children at the
playgrounds anymore I just see empty playgrounds. I don’t see smiling
children any more just saddened adults who miss their children. The
sight of unhealthy people has given way to the stench of death and
feelings of depression.

I used to remember a certain group of people. I used to remember a certain way of life. I used to be…

Thats why there is only one Donny Shankle…

TO THOSE WHO CRY FOR GOVERNMENT
(In response to a thread on muscledog.com)
by Donny Shankle
I woke up this morning at around 5am so I could make it to the
communal cafeteria line early. Usually if you don’t get their early
you end up standing in line forever freezing your ass off. I have
also been late to work 3 times this past quarter and have been
forewarned if I am late again I will lose my job.
Breakfast was not bad today. The grits had at least more water in
them than last week so while they may not have been the best tasting
at least I could swallow them with ease and get some calories in me.
The fruit was half of a banana. They give a whole one when you go
through the line, but mine was so rotten towards one end I couldn’t
eat it. I asked the government cafeteria line worker if I could trade
it out with a better one but he just laughed and told me to move
along. You see if you want breakfast you have to wait in line for
your ticket the previous evening at the same cafeteria just on the
opposite side. The amount of tickets distributed determines exactly
how much food is brought out for the days communal meal. I would have
really liked a better banana but I guess that would not be fair to
everyone else.
I went to a table where I could find an opening. We use to have
chairs a couple months ago but lately the government decided to get
rid of them so they could squeeze more people in at once. So now I
stand while I eat next to a table that is about waist high for my age
group section. I forgot my water ration card this morning at home so
I guess no water for me till lunch unless I want to go all the way
back home and get some. I am running out of time though, by the time
we give thanks to our president and his noble advisers on how
wonderful a job they have done solving the obesity issue in this
country which involves facing east towards Washington, DC, palms
turned upward and heads bowed as we recite
O thank you most highly elected official,
For the kindly meal you offer,
We give you praise in hopes you can lead us to becoming more
social,
So I may have the wisdom to proudly suffer.
After I am done eating I drop off my tray and head to my car so I
can get to work. Traffic has doubled recently since the mandatory
communal obesity awareness meal times. Everyone leaves at the same
time now and the one’s who want to get a head start over everyone
else have to live with that decision on an empty belly. Seems to be
working because I have noticed my overweight co-workers losing
weight.
I long so much for the way things use to be. I get a lot of time
to think about how it was before government decided controlling how
its people ate and when they ate. I just never could understand how a
free people in the greatest country the history of man has ever known
would want so much restriction and regulation in even the most
private area’s of their lives. The big domestic concern use to be
education. Everyone wanted government solutions to provide better
education. This has only led to a deteriorated mind in young people
which can’t form basic concepts of what is right and wrong. No
wonder I see adults to the left and right of me with retarded brains
who cry for the great patriarch to help them solve their problems. I
thought our constitution says we have the right to “pursue”
happiness, we don’t have the right to be given happiness by those
whose only purpose is to provide us protection from evil and fraud.
Government protects us to take action for our life and well-being and
does not take action for us.
I don’t blame them though. These same people who went to our
alleged great universities on the stolen dollar of the working man to
fund their pitiful diploma. Where is the incentive to work and put
yourself through school, when your tax dollars will go to provide
drop-outs the chance to try again! What a loathsome existence we as a
people have chosen freely to live instead of depending upon the
greatness within us and magnificence around us to solve our own
deficiencies as a people.
I guess I’m just frustrated sitting in this traffic knowing I
will be late to work again. I feel so helpless though. A friend of
mine has this picture of a girl carrying a guy on her back racing
across a finish line. The look on this guys face is exactly how I
feel. “Oh thank you for carrying me young lady, I don’t think I
could have carried your frail frame and I most certainly know I could
not have walked myself.”
So I made it to work and getting upset in my car on the way over
has worked up an appetite but the government has done away with all
vending machines. They do provide all the coffee you want though.
Places like Starbucks have gone out of business because the
government has bought all the coffee and holds a monopoly on it.
Water fountains have turned into coffee dispensers. This was done in
hopes to keep people up for long periods so they could work longer.
The federal tax for this is not so bad, I mean I figured I am just
spending a dollar more a day for coffee but it has turned out to be
very convenient.
All lunches are provided by business and the cost of this is
deducted from your paycheck. Again it is required we eat together. If
your place or work does not have a cafeteria then the government
builds tents outside places of business to provide for its helpless
citizens. Its a fascinating sight really to see at 1130am an ocean of
green canvas tents in every parking lot with people moving in and out
of them like chattel. Some have complained it feels to structured but
there has been progress in the obesity epidemic. Unfortunately the
rate of suicide has gone up as well as arrests over drug use. Seems
like people are trying to escape reality, though for the life of me I
cannot figure out why.
After work I go home but first I have to stop and get my ticket
for tomorrow’s breakfast. The line for dinner looks like at least a
2 hour wait. I go home to ask my wife if she is willing to wait. I
know she is not going to want to though. Nowadays she doesn’t like
to do much of anything. My wife and I used to make love and smile all
the time but now since she has had two miscarriages in the past year
due to what the doctors have said is a result from malnutrition she
just cries at night and can’t stand the touch of me. I love her
still though and hope the government can find a solution to bring
back the life in her eyes and a life in our arms. I keep waiting for
them.
I go back to the cafeteria line for dinner alone. Surprisingly I
see that nobody is their. I remember tomorrow’s a holiday so they
closed early. There are a couple of bread slices and dried meat
rations for sale by criminals who have stolen from those who have
waited patiently. They triple the price of these rations but my wife
and I need to eat something so I buy from them.
At night I lay awake in bed and wonder when all of this started.
When did competition between business and  self-interest become
secondary to the needs of others who have chosen to be incapable of
pursuing a life of happiness on their own. It has to do with what I
believe is a hatred in one’s self and of human life in general. A
philosophical outlook of life that holds man at the mercy of his
enemies and which causes him to be a slave to his capricious whim. As
I lay here I can now realize why my love has lost pride in me. I
didn’t challenge that generation before me who told me the interest
of nature was before the interests of rational men. I didn’t
challenge the hordes of push-overs who told me our enemies have the
right to build temples in the face of men who willingly pit their
lives against evil, so they themselves can achieve a life of
individual greatness. I didn’t challenge the politicians who
destroyed before our own eyes the profession of medicine. I didn’t
challenge the government executives who told me our nation’s
interest in space exploration was a waste of time and money. I didn’t
challenge the weak who in time will be dead, when all I had to do was
get them to think so they could save themselves.
How can I stand on the shoulders of giants, when my giants I find
out were nothing but charlatans. I don’t know how to think, eat or
provide for myself without a governmental crutch anyway. Life will go
on though.
I remember a certain group of people who asked for the government
to help solve the child-hood obesity problem in this country. In the
process of the government fixing all of yours and my concerns they
have lost their true and only purpose. I don’t see obese children
at the playgrounds anymore I just see empty playgrounds. I don’t
see smiling children any more just saddened adults who miss their
children. The sight of unhealthy people has given way to the stench
of death and feelings of depression.
I used to remember a certain group of people. I used to remember a
certain way of life. I used to be…