The U.S. government is now recognizing "being fat" as a disease, opening the door wide open for weight-loss programs subsidized at the tax-payers' expense.
Good counterpoints:
Quote:"Obesity is not a 'disease' if it can be cured by taking regular walks and eating less," Berman said. "We need to be careful not to dumb down the definition of the term disease at the expense of taxpayers."
<a href='http://www.cato.org/dailys/07-17-04-2.html' target='_blank'>
Counterpoint 1</a>
<a href='http://www.news-medical.net/?id=3381' target='_blank'>
Counterpoint 2</a>
And even the <a href='http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4028&n=1' target='_blank'>
Onion</a> is having fun at its expense.
A bit off the subject here, but this is one of many reasons why I have to laugh when some left-leaners paint Bush as an over-the-top radical conservative. Are you kidding me? Money has been flowing out of Washington for military and domestic programs like a dam that has burst. Government has expanded faster under the Bush Administration than any other previous administration. I can understand the anger over Iraq, but where's the conservativism with the domestic checkbook?
I don't get a warm n' fuzzy feeling that Kerry won't indulge in the spending as well. But will hike taxes to help cover the costs. Meanwhile, the Libertarian Party is more of a fringe AV Club of ideological purists who simply refuse to embark on a modified/moderate platform for mainstream consumption. The Greens are just Red socialists. And the Constitution and Reform parties are just out there, period.
Once again, it's another Lesser of the Evils election year... :rolleyes:
