I think you totally missed the point, which is odd since it's your argument against min wage increases.
You can teach a person to fish and they'll be active and support themselves, or you can give them free fish sticks and they'll sit on the couch and get fat. On 8/30/06, Gruss Gott wrote: > Well, my point was the irony of a fat guy, who's also an avid liberal > basher, blaming obesity on liberals. But let's talk about the points > you bring up: > > (1.) As I understand it, food stamps can be used to buy food - any food. > > (2.) More importantly, even if they only buy potato chips Limbaugh > claims to push a conservative philosophy, a major tenant of which is > personal responsibility. He should be blaming the people, therefore, > not the government. To a real conservative (and he's only a fake one) > it's the people's fault, not the government's. > > The reason for this is simple: obesity is caused by more calories in > than calories out. Even if all of your calories are from food stamp > potato chips, that doesn't mean you have to be obese; that's a choice. > > We can talk about macro-nutrients, nutrient timing, etc but if someone > doesn't know and/or care about that then even if the liberal > government provides any and all foods, they'll still get fat and be > unhealthy. > > For example, fish contains Omega-3 fatty acids which humans should get > in at least a 4:1 proportion with Omega-6, but very few do or even > know this. And, of course, fish also contains mercury. (BTW, I > recommend FlameOut to get this important nutrient) > > So it's about choices. That is, personal responsibility. If > anything, Limbaugh should be criticizing education, but for a > conservative he should be criticizing people. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:214637 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
