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11-19-2009
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Prez. BO Speaks
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Subject: Get Off Your Butts and Volunteer
Maybe he listened to Mr. Twentyman from
Australia, of maybe all geniuses simply think alike, but Obama is going
to solve America's child obesity problem one "volunteer" at a time. As
reported in USA Today in an article titled,
President tackling kids' obesity, public service on White House
lawn:
President Obama is exercising executive privilege to get
youngsters off their butts, and to urge all Americans to
volunteer for community service.
[...]
The 90-second public service announcement is a joint effort
between the NFL's Play 60 campaign to fight childhood obesity
and the president's United We Serve public-service effort.
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Of course, once the government controls all aspects of health care,
then obesity will no longer be a personal problem, but a "public
epidemic" with direct costs being born by the taxpayers. Therefore,
the government will have every "justification" to step in and
make sure that this problem — and its associated costs —
are eliminated. Obesity will become a "crime against the state" and
"terrorist eating" will no longer be allowed. Caloric intake might
be rationed and monitored. Twinkies might be declared a "biological
pollutant" and outlawed. Mandatory national service might consist of
"forced labor" for your own health. Whatever the "solution", it is
at that point that we will find out what the real definition of
"voluntary" was.
Of course, by then it will be too late to do anything about it.
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