Culture of Corpulence
Look around anywhere in America and the reality assaults you: we are simply too big. Nowhere is the evidence for this more striking than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's color-coded obesity map. Between 1990 and 2008 the country morphs from a sea of pleasant blue, representing an obese population of less than 19 percent, to an alarming patchwork of tan, orange, and maroon, where the stats range from 21 percent obese in Connecticut to 32.8 percent in Mississippi.
What is everyone getting upset about?
For many decades the all the politicians have been telling us that "bigger is better". And true to their word, they have all been working very hard at growing the size of the government as much as they can, as quick as they can. So that today, we have a government so obese, that all it is barely capable of raising the taxes and splurging on whatever shiny bauble that the politicians happen to see. Accountability and functionality ceased being of any concern to any politician or government official a long time ago.
What we are seeing now, is that individuals have finally stopped fighting the government and accepted the lie that "bigger is better" mantra. And the individuals are now applying the bigger is better axiom to themselves. Look at all the benefits you get once you become obese. You are considered unfit to work, thus all your expenses are now paid for by the government. You are singled out for special care by the government. So until our bigger is better federal government becomes so obese it can't do any work either, you now have a free ride on the gravy train.
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