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Being fat is a disability?

I just read that there is a bill before congress that would give disability benefits to obese people. Evidently the severly obese cannot work because they are bed ridden. Other obese people are in pain from standing all day and say they cannot work. The weight of their own body is just too much for them. So let me get this straight, my tax dollars have to pay for the irresponsible behavior of a person who cannot stop eating? There are injured soldiers who are back at work with one leg, one eye, and post traumatic stress of fighting war. There are cancer survivors running marathons. Yet, these fat people want to be paid to sit home all day stuffing their faces.

On the news was a report that by next year half of Americans, HALF, will be obese. How can we be a successful country with half of our citizens OBESE? How can we defend ourselves if these people can’t get off their asses? How can we have a strong army when half our male poplulation cannot make it through boot camp? And let me ask you this, why should the skinny, thin, and responsible poplulation carry the obese?

It is not a medical dilemma. It is bad choices. I would love to eat potato chips and dip each day. I don’t. I would love to eat french fries. I don’t any more. I hate to work out. But I do it.

My children are thin because I cook them homemade, nutritious meals. I have fresh fruit and salads for them daily. I don’t buy soda or candy. Soda is a treat. Candy is a treat.

Fat parents make fat children. Babies are not born fat. It is their parents driving through McDonalds for happy meals and buying the Fritos. The other day I saw a baby, a baby, in a stroller sucking down coca cola.

Have you seen the shows on TLC. The Half Ton Teen and other shows about the obese? This teen is 700 pounds and his mother is frying burgers for him and giving him 2 liter sodas for lunch. What about a salad mom? When your son was 40 pounds overwieght why didn’t you start giving him salads, turkey, water, and fruit?

How do you let it get so far out of control? And why should I pay for your mistake?

I supported the soda tax. What happened to that? Please bring it back. And I would like to introduce a “Snack Tax.” If you want to eat chips, doodles, cookies, candy, cake, you should pay more for it.”

Give a break on fresh fruits, fish, turkey, and orange juice. What if you got a break on those items? Tax the junk, and reduce the good stuff.

But that won’t happen. If you stay fat, you get diabetes, cancer, heart attacks, and you keep the pharmaceuticals, and doctors, in business. We don’t make anything in America anymore. Our only industry now is illness.

I don’t feel sorry for you. Not one bit. Take control of yourself and your family. Start walking, stop eating crap, and get fit. You do not have a disability. You have the ability to change. You just have to have the will to do it.