Its not like that anymore. I'm serious. After just a little bit of research you will see that this bullshit has become a career for many. Did you know that disability spending alone is up over two hundred billion dollars since 2010?
I wonder why people are getting fatter. Could I be lack of access to nutritious food? Sedentary life style? Lack of education?
Why since 2010? Economy? Lack of opportunity. Supply and demand?
What are you taaaaaaaalking about, McJ? Eeeeeeeverybody in 'Merica has access to affordable AND nutritious food, has lots of opportunity and ability to exercise, and get a wooonnddderrffullll education! Those fat bastards on disability are fat because they LIIIKKEEEEE being fat! In fact, I think they gain weight ENTIRELY to be offensive!
Its not hard to get off the couch and go for simple walks now and again. Goddamn. Have you seen how lazy most people are?
And indeed you have a point. It is hard to get out from under the man, but check this out.
has access to affordable AND nutritious food
The food might be half poison these days, but there is WAY too much of it. People are fucking hogs elle. Don't deny it.
has lots of opportunity and ability to exercise
Yeah actually. They do. There are free gyms EVERYWHERE, and you don't even need to go to the gym. Just a little walk a day will maintain a reasonable shape. People don't even want to move, elle. America has become a country filled with Hutts. Filthy disgusting selfish human waste everywhere you look, in the physical shape of Jabba the Hutt.
Those fat bastards on disability are fat because they LIIIKKEEEEE being fat
There may be a small fraction of the obese in America with genuine medical problems. Most of them don't. This isn't to say those lazy fucks LIKE being fat either, they just don't really care. The fact that they are fat is like a dull nagging in the back of their head as the days blurr together. Accept it, Elle. Why defend this bullshit?
All the vast majority of these fatasses would have to do to get back in reasonable shape is do move their disgusting bulk around more often than it takes to eat or shit. That's ALL.
OK, rage. To start, I'll just quote my previous reply on this issue.
The specific issue I'll additionally address is that the notion that gyms are universally accessible and affordable is bullshit. People also don't always have safe places to go out walking- or FEEL safe. Depending on where you live, there may be months at a time where going out walking isn't really a reasonable expectation because of extremity of cold and/or snow accumulation making sidewalks inaccessible.
re: Who does and does not have medical problems: How do you know the percentage of people with "legitimate" medical problems, Rage? Can you quote me statistics on this? Can you cite credible sources? You have the good luck to, apparently, be reasonably healthy, young, and free of disabling pain. That doesn't mean everyone else is the same way.
Yes, there's lots of food available. Good-quality food, no. It's harder to access and it's more expensive and takes more effort. If you assume limited access to good-quality food, then you get into the issues that come with only having access to poor-quality food. It's not simply an issue of eating less of it. There's also the havoc shitty food (AS WELL as inadequate nutrition- and these can be tandem problems) can wreak on your body, and on your head.
Also, not the most scientific thing ever, but, 'food' for thought:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_MeI'm told being morbidly obese is a disability. IMO those lazy pigs should be killed and harvested for their blubber.
As someone who is morbidly obese I agree that it is a disability. It can be a form of OCD or a response to another emotional disorder. It does limit my life and while I try to lose weight, it's not as simple as turning off a switch. Although I don't have any statistics on hand to cite, I believe the success rate in losing and keeping off weight is smaller than the success rate for stopping a drug addiction.
It's also often a result of the side effects of medication that one is on. Think how freaking medicated America is. It can also be the result of other medical issues. Or something that happens as the result of injury and/or chronic pain- which then becomes an unfortunate trap with things like back pain and joint pain.
There's other factors, obviously: More sedentary lives, less free time, etc. Also the less money you have, the harder it is to eat healthy, and the harder it is to get access to things like gyms or good exercise equipment. For some people who've been victimized, it makes them feel *safer* to be heavier. And for some people, food is about the only pleasure or comfort they have in their lives.
But hey, why think about the issues. It's much easier to just ay "Those fat fucks should eat less and move around more." Same as "The fucking hoboes should all go get fucking jobs."