Too fat to fight: Pentagon grapples with obesity epidemic

Parents are almost the main factor in the tone of the school. When parents care, the kids care and the teachers care. When the parents are absent, the kids are animals which means the teachers lives are hell and the state of the school is crap.

 

The schools in your country may be different from schools in America

 

I know, I was a jock for years before I joined so it wasn't hard, but guys that were not jocks had a hard time...They tended to whine and cry a lot..

 

The vast majority you say? I'm going to guess you've never been homeless your entire life. It's so easy to stereotype an entire population because it helps with the narrative of ,"screw them they're disposable human beings," and that's what it's all about.

As far I know people that support higher wages in this country isn't about paying people do nothing nor should it be.

 

I agree rhat the Army could run the fat off them if liberals will allow it

 

If you can't afford to do any activities outside of your residence that will become the end result.

"Why don't they go to the gym, work out, and lift man?" Because they can barely afford electricity to keep the lights on.

 

Not anymore. The parent’s job is to butt out and let the state have it’s wicked way with the children.

 

I agree that the poor are their own worst enemies

 

Who are you referencing?

 

Take a look in peoples shopping carts. There was junk food when I was a kid but my parents didn’t buy it. The only hand to mouth food I had as a kid came out of the vegetable drawer in the fridge. Everything else was a home cooked meal that you ate at a set table with linen napkins.
The crap I see people buy today is astounding.

 

I didn't say that, you did.

 

As a guy who will remain nameless so others won’t reject this out of hand says, and I paraphrase:

You only have to do 3 things to not be poor in the US. Graduate high school, get a job instead of going on welfare, and don’t have children out of wedlock.

All you have to do to have activity outside the home is walk out the door. Doesn’t cost a thing. Want money? Get a job, or two or three. And don’t do stupid stuff.

 

In the worst global economy of the world, yeah that makes sense.

 

All of these people who mock, criticize, and denigrate the hopeless or destitute is pretty funny because when things go sour real fast which they inevitably will many of you will get to experience all that unpleasantness firsthand.

Until then, it's just more conversations of , "screw the poor", and "Let's sterilize the poor or homeless.", as the old saying goes it's always funny until it happens to you and your loved ones.

 

The parent's pay for it, what's the difference. Oh you want them to leave work and bring them lunch, yea that makes a lot of sense.

 

Blaming everything on nutrition or poverty is an easy cop out that helps people to not look at other underlying causes of society. We must forbid anyone from actually taking a critical look at the overall problems of society or the United States, no we can't have that. There will be no serious adult conversations present because that would bring up to many inconvenient realities to the forefront of public discourse.

 

I’ve lived on every side of this debate Carl. I’m not spouting catch phrases or repeating what others say to fill up space on a forum. It’s truth I’ve not just seen with my eyes, I’ve lived it!

Yep, I agree with you things will likely get bad for all of us one day. But I’m prepared as well as I can be and if I go hungry it won’t be the first time.

 

I don't say anything needlessly either, I've lived an entire life of poverty and it isn't because of a lack of trying I'll tell you that right now.

From my experience people with money have this sort of arrogance of superiority about them where they look at everybody else under them as sub-human, there's so much of this attitude in the United States prevailing right now where if the United States economically collapses tomorrow I almost view it as a sort of chaotic poetic justice.

 

What? I think you need to understand this subject a little better before making statements like this. I’m not trying to be offensive, but I’m paying for it. In more ways than one.

 

Ok...…….

 

We all pay for it, but every kid that eats school lunch isn't eating for free you do know their are parents that do pay for their kid's school lunch.

 

Seems more realistic to encourage healthier behaviors.

 

Yes it depends on income of parents but nobody is paying what it costs.

 

Which doesn't work with a population where an increasing segment of the population lives in poverty, that is the real elephant in the room.

 

Lol how absurd. Only in America are the poor obese.