Reply to a comment  Reply to this comment  Kilgore_trout writes:
in response to littleb:  So what? Why should I care if the rest
of the world is laughing at us? Why do you care? Are you still
in jr. high school?  And no, someone doesn't need to tell people
to take it upon themselves not to be "gluttons". If someone
chooses to eat unhealthy they will likely pay the consequences
of it later in life, but that's THEIR CHOICE. They pay the
consequences, not me, not you, etc. And spare me the "my
taxpayer dollars" bologna. The reason people don't like fat
people is aesthetics, not financial. If it was financial than
their would be equal outrage every time someone on government
assistance got hurt playing a pick-up basketball game, came down
with the flu if they didn't take their flu shot, etc.  Why
should we care? Because everyone clammoring government is
destroying our country rarely looks at their own personal
habits. Namely, we have changed from a nation of hard-working
innovators to lazy, "gimme gimme" consume