On 8/30/06, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "I think you might then say that the obesity crisis could be the fault > of government, liberal government. Food stamps, all thoseyou know, > I'm gonna tell you people a story. Ijust, well, the government, you > could say, is killing these people because we know obesity kills, and > the government's killing the poor."
The article that he is commenting on can be found here: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060829/D8JQ4JQG1.html He's taking several points that are both very valid and tying them together: 1. Obesity is a problem in America today. 2. People gain weight when they eat foods that are high in saturated fats, carbs, calories, sugars or whatever else you want to attribute "fat content" to. 3. Food pantries, food stamp programs and "free government food" is typically low cost, generic quality food that is not dispensed based on health metrics or fat content. 4. Liberals push a welfare "nanny" state that includes the welfare and food assistance programs that push the items listed in #3. 5. Obesity is a problem that can cause a large number of medical problems. Therefore those who live "on the dole" are more prone to be obese because the only food they can get is high in fat or other "bad" things that cause obesity. I've grabbed the acutal transcript of the section from Rush's site (yes, as I've said before I am a member and am proud of it). The snippet that you quoted Gruss is heavilly edited to take out the story he tells and includes more on his opinion. <cf_quote source="Rush Limbaugh"> I don't think this survey goes far enough. You can't just break this down by states, although it is interesting, is it not, that more people in poverty are obese than people who are not in poverty are obese. I think you might then say that the obesity crisis could be the fault of government, liberal government. Food stamps? I'm going to tell you people a story. (interruption) Well, the government, you could say, is killing these people, because we know obesity kills, and the government's killing the poor. The Bush administration is killing the poor with too much food. I remember when I was not even ten, maybe ten or 11 years old, living in our humble little abode on Sunset in Cape Girardeau, Missouri -- and my father, a powerful man in a small town, a lawyer, he had contacts. One day (and I've forgotten how he got it), he got some welfare butter. He brought it home, he had a lot of friends who were farmers, and I think they were somehow in on the deal, maybe they were producing it for the government. But he brought home this big jar, silver tin of butter, butter that the government was using for -- back then it was called "relief" -- welfare or what have you, and we used it. It was the best butter! I was ten years old, I couldn't know the difference, but my mom and dad were raving and raving and raving. This was just the best butter they'd ever had, and they asked their farmer buddies and found out that the crême de la crême of the butter made by farmers was going to welfare recipients first, and what you bought in the stores was not the crême de la crême. It was okay stuff, don't misunderstand, but it was sort of like Allen Brothers. Allen Brothers has the best prime steaks in the country, only two and a half percent of it, of beef is actually prime, despite what all these advertisements that you see in stores say. There's just not that much of it, and that's why. There's no question when you taste it. It's incomparable to anything else that you buy in the grocery store. Apparently this butter was the same way. And so now we find out that there's obesity and all this amongst the poor, more than amongst those who are not poor. It's sort of a textbook case of what happens when we let liberals have their way. I mean, for decades all over the world we've been beat about the head that there are hungry people out there , that there are starving kids. UNICEF? How many of you have trick-or-treated for UNICEF? Did you trick-or-treat for UNICEF, Brian? Did you? We all trick-or-treated. It's one of the biggest scams on the face of the earth. The scam was to get everybody loving the United Nations. The scam was to get everybody thinking the United Nations is feeding poor people. Remember all these stories "A dime a day will feed 20 kids" in some outward place around the world, or 25 cents a day? Audrey Hepburn, Sally Strothers, all these people did it. I love Sam Kinison's bit on all this. Sam Kinison did a riff on Sally Strothers, and she's over there standing next to these poor kids in Africa with flies buzzing all around them, and they're starving. You can see it by their appearance, and Sally Strothers is looking into the camera. "Won't you help? Don't you care? Can't you just make one phone call, a dollar a day will feed X numbers of hundreds of thousands of these people," and Sam Kinison says, "You're not sitting there hungry. I can see it looking at you. I know you're not starving over there. You've probably got a picnic basket! Give that kid your sandwich; feed that kid! That kid is starving." I laughed myself silly because it was classic. Here are these liberals right next to all these starving people doing television shows telling people thousands of miles away that they don't care. "Can't you help? Won't you help?" You know, the underlying thought was: You slothful, lazy, cold-hearted bum! Won't you get off the couch and at least make a phone call? Well, it's what happens when you let the left run things. We've been beat on the head. There are hungry people everywhere; UNICEF got it all started. We've seen the babies with the extended tummies, the walking skeletons, told that kids can't learn unless they're fed. We've been guilted into pouring resources on the problem, and now the latest crisis is that there is obesity among those who are impoverished because we are sympathetic; we are compassionate people; we've responded by letting our government literally feed these people to the point of obesity, at least here in America. We didn't teach them how to fish. We gave them the fish. We didn't teach them how to slaughter the cow to get the butter. We gave them the butter. The real bloat here as we know is in government. Now, what with this new Survivor show, do you think it might be fair -- we really want to solve the problem, we got an obesity crisis out there. We've got an obesity problem among poor people. We know there are more white poor people than black, because there are simply more, white population's larger than the black population. So don't misunderstand this. But I think just dividing people by state will not give us a great enough read, an accurate enough depiction of the problem. Should we not break down poverty, not just by state, but by race? Would that not help us, ladies and gentlemen, to further analyze the problem and further thus be able to solve it, and, if the results turn out the way the left likes, they could then blame somebody for whatever results. If we're going to do TV shows and have competitions to find out who can survive in the Cook Islands better than anybody else based on race, why not finally get to the bottom of the poverty leading to obesity crisis by breaking this down according to race? 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