On Fox and Friends a week or so ago, it was reported that in Michelle Obama’s crusade to eliminate childhood obesity, a plan was underway to test all children in the United States for an excessive fat to muscle ratio (not sure if I got this exactly right). In other words, the government wants to determine if your child is too fat according to their standards. And if they think your child is, the child will be reported to the state, which in turn, will report you child to the feds. This is really going too far, and I think that even the staunchest supporters of the current president will step up and say no to this totalitarian measure.
So, your child gets tested and his or her “fat ratio” exceeds government standards and the child gets report to the state and then to the feds. Then, what? You have, let’s say, six months to get your child on a diet/exercise program to lose the weight. Anyone that’s ever had to loose weight and struggled with it knows that you have to want to loose the weight. In other words, you have to have the right mindset. So, if your child is not really into this, all the exercise you do with him or her at home and all the healthy meals you prepare may not do any good. If you child is school age, he or she may cheat when away from the house. Getting weight off of a child is difficult. It’s usually when a child gets to high school and wants to be attractive to the opposite sex that he or she will make an effort to get the extra weight off.
Why is the child overweight in the first place? It could be a number of reasons. Being overweight may run in the family or it may be the home environment. The parents may be overweight and live their life around the kitchen table. When I was very young, I picked at my food and tended be sick at my stomach a lot. Mama and Daddy were not pleased by my eating habits and I could sense their dissatisfaction when I didn’t want to eat. So, in an effort to please them and other family members, I started eating a lot. I can remember not really wanting to eat a lot, but did it anyway thinking it would please them. I then gained too much weight and that didn’t please anyone either. So, my environment led to my weight gain as child. When I got to high school and became interested in clothes and boys, and sure enough, I when on a diet, exercised, and took the weight off. Keeping my weight down has been a battle that has been both won and lost.
So much for drama! What do the feds plan to do about your overweight child? Let’s say they give parents six months to get the weight off, but it doesn’t happen. When they return to re-test your child and the ratio is not within their standards, could they possibly order your child to attend a weight-loss camp? Would they keep your child at the camp until he or she looses the required weight? Let’s say that after the first testing that your child loses the weight and is now acceptable with respect to government standards. Is you child branded until he or she becomes an adult. Will your child continue to be tested at regular intervals? Will all children, over weight or not, be tested at regular intervals. Under certain circumstances, could you child possibly be taken away from you because you can’t keep the weight off? Children are taken away from their homes and put in weight loss camps that also serve as government schools where the children are indoctrinated to the ways of the government. Not only will they learn to eat properly and exercise; they will be taught tolerance to all groups except southern white conservative Christians. They will also be taught to minimize their carbon footprints. If the child is white, he or she will be made to feel guilty. Because you were born white, you must undergo additional suffering to compensate for your whiteness.
Since this is such a great program, let’s extend it to everyone, not just children. Isn’t all obesity a problem? Anyone that the government considers overweight will be given some time to get the weight off, meeting standards for body size set by the government. Those who fail will be rounded up and placed in camps where they will be put on diet and exercise programs. While eating healthy and exercising, these individuals can also receive indoctrination to the ways of the government. Capitalism is evil and must be done away with. For Christians, isn’t it God that made you fat? The government is now making you thin? You will be shown film after film of polar bears drowning as the polar ice caps melt because in addition to being overweight you drove an SUV. Baby polar bears are separated from their mothers and die. Oh the horrible things that you caused by enjoying your food and driving an SUV.
But now we’ve transformed you. Now, you spit your food out if it tastes good, you spend time repenting because you were born white, and you strive to be a good comrade for the United Socialist States of America, minimizing your carbon footprint and happily working hard for the government, giving over any compensation paid to you, so that the government can give to you what it determines you should have.
Suppose I don’t meet the government standards for being fit and trim and get carted off to a “fat camp”. I’m all of the above and driving a Chevy Volt, I’m still a Chevy girl from a Chevy family. My wardrobe consists of two skirts, two pairs of pants, and four tops that I can mix and match. I’m also really excited that the government has given me a voucher so that I can buy a fourth pair of shoes. I was awarded a fourth pair of shoes because I have maintained government standard weight for a year. My hair’s salt and pepper and what color I have left is dull. But that’s okay because for many years, I spent money on my hair. Oh how shallow! I’m so thankful that the government is letting me keep my hair, instead of shaving my head. As long as I continue to cry myself to sleep because I’m white, I’m hoping they will let me keep it.
The manicures and pedicures that I used to get have become illegal acts. Our government run stores do not sell nail polish, although I’ve heard there is black market for it. But how could anyone have a desire to polish their nails or even worse, pay someone to do it. Before I evolved, I had well over twenty-five pairs of shoes, mountains of clothes, bottles containing many types of cologne, and lots of jewelry. I spent a good bit of money maintaining my thick mane of dark curly hair. I also got regular manicures and pedicures. I loved wearing different colors or eye shadow and lipstick. But not anymore! How could I possibly have spent money on such things, even though I worked very hard for the money? Now I’m thin, have salt & pepper hair that is getting more and more gray as the weeks and months go by. I have clothes to hide my nakedness and protect me from the elements, and healthy food to eat. None of this would have happened had it not been for the government of the United Socialist States of America and its current leader (I still can’t say his name), and the very lovely and svelte first lady.
Okay, okay, I guess I’ve gone a little too far or have I? Adolph Hitler’s desire was to create a master race of white people with blonde hair and blue eyes. Is it Michelle Obama’s desire to create a master race where all people are fit and thin; with fat folks as the cause of all of the world’s problems?
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