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![]() Seriously, only absolutely paranoid Obama haters could construe this:
(c) contains a list of national priorities on health promotion and disease prevention to address lifestyle behavior modification (including smoking cessation, proper nutrition, appropriate exercise, mental health, behavioral health, substance-use disorder, and domestic violence screenings) and the prevention measures for the five leading disease killers in the United States; as some kind of tell that there is a forthcoming storm of soldiers knocking at your door to check if you're smoking or drinking and what you're eating. Considering that "behavior modification" is what has people foaming at the mouth here, I see you have a good point -- they're actually going to make a LIST of things that would make Americans healthier like exercise and eating well and not beating your wife and not abusing drugs, and they're going to put it an annual report to Congress. Whoa -- a list in a yearly report. Board up your houses and get your guns ready, guys, this one is for real! This is the one where our rights start to get trampled, when people make lists of healthy things and present them to Congress. I knew it was going to happen! Yikes -- a very, very threatening list that just stinks of a socialist takeover and random government checks and enforcement on my eating habits. Get a grip, people. This is why nobody takes the threads that actually might have some merit seriously, because a reaction to something like this just shows that this is not about actual concerns...but about weird paranoia that's not at all based in reality about Obama and his plans for the country. It would border on comedy if it weren't so sad. |
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![]() To bitch about this and then to bitch about our pathetic health care system is hypocrisy at it's finest.
Pun intended..you can't have your cake and eat it too |
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![]() We can for now. It is still America.
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![]() In Obama's America, you can have cake that someone else paid for...the sucker who paid for it gets less.
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Luckily I've never had a taste for cake or government cheese. ![]()
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![]() Then get angry at R-Richard Nixon, and all the Presidents since. Oh - and many before.
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And if its all cool with you then maybe you should offer yourself up as the first person who would like to have their behaviors modified. ![]()
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The other thing I have a problem with is that you somehow managed to get forced government behavior modification from that term being used in conjunction with a list being presented to Congress. Not even close. When Obama's folks knock on your door to check if you're exercising or smoking, then come back here and let me know, and I'll defend you 'til I'm blue in the face. Because it's not happening, it's not going to happen, and nothing at all in the words you posted above could even remotely, reasonably be construed as anything close to that. |
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Horses are like strawberries....they can go bad overnight. Charlie Whittingham |
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![]() There are some areas where I have no problem with the government getting involved. In some states, the government is forcing restaurants to stop using dangerous oils in their foods. I believe that in California that McDonalds was forced to use a healthier oil for their french fries. I personally think that's a good thing.
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts |