White House Pension: Fat people should be jailed

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I was browsing petitions.whitehouse.gov and discovered this.

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https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petiti ... thy-weight

Apparently this is a petition site open to the public and all you have to do is provide the usual name and email to make one. Maybe I will create an account and start a petition that people who make stupid petitions should be jailed.

Yes, I am aware it's open to the public. Just thought it was odd, I am sure it was made as a joke. I doubt the person who made it was serious... Seems like the White House would screen them a bit.

I didn't know what it was at first. Must be a joke, looks real, has a dot gov address, what the heck is this...oh okay now I get it.

That was a good find. I wonder if there's another site where you can look up the weirdest petitions.

Well, if it was real, I'd be behind bars in no time.

No,it would be a burden on the state to feed them all.You'd need to lock up about half of America.Plus our rotund 'lil POTUS.

What's ironic, here -- If you're really, honestly doing physically-demanding kinds of hobbies, if you charter or own your means of transportation, if you cover your own medical treatments at private expense, and feed yourself, you are unlikely ever to see a morbidly obese person, in real life. Where was the naughty, fat person causing such problems, for the petitioner, at his own dinner table?

The (probably-too-frequent) complainer does not exist in a meritocracy and is, himself, a squeaky wheel. He wants preferential treatment, in public, on the public dollar.

What figures of speech do we use -- largess, top heavy, pork, pork barrel, fat cats, too-big-too fail, too-big-to-jail, big government.

They are improvident. They cannot feed themselves, leading up to a mathematically-irreconcilable, national debt, no more competitive than someone who cannot get out of bed. Big govt is the same basic concept, as some powerless, immobile person, who needs enablers, to do all the work.

If you're not taking it out of my mouth or not causing a problem, for me, personally, I don't care how you live. There's still a word for that. But, it's not my problem -- not the govt's problem. You are not the fashion police.You are not Robin Hood.

I actually think a fat tax has been debated in Australia as a way of reducing obesity rates...what might be more constructive is a tax on sugar and fat rich foods

Yes he'd have to give up the McDonalds and KFC

I was remembering "Dot and the Kangaroo", last night. When we're talking about sugar and fat and food, my mind draws an association, with those men characters, dressed in old-fashioned working clothes -- working to raise the food.

In the mentality of those times, food was "nutritious", when it kept you from wasting. We would call it fattening.

Quit subsidizing it, and most Westerners would become scrawny. Quit cooking it for people, like in the convenient, frozen boxes. Most of us would go hungry, if all the raw ingredients were delivered to our door steps, free of charge, and all we had to do is prepare it.

There is something incredibly-redundant, in a bureaucracy, paying people to grow the food, importing labor at public expense, then penalizing production, penalizing the customer. There seems to be several steps, that could be removed.

Except, the only purpose, in this futile discussion, is to cultivate a bureaucracy, not to empower the individual.

Authoritarians are required to jail fat people, and accept petitions for doing so, and to run the whole Rube Goldberg device, which is production.

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I thought the thread would be something about putting fat people in jail for their own good before they put themselves into a coffin.

Did you vote, to put them in jail?

And his nightly two bowls of ice cream.

It's incredibly sad there there are people out there who look at me and see nothing but someone who is fat and not an actual person who is much more than that, with positive traits and feelings, just like people who see those of different races or genders or sexuality or with disabilities the same way.

I'm female so it's about 50 times worse. How often are heavy women on TV and movies and the internet ever shown in a positive way? Hardly ever. No wonder women hate their bodies and starve themselves. Of course, guys are being fat-shamed more than ever now, but still not nearly as much.

I'm sick of this diet-crazed society we live in. I'm sick of everything about society, but seeing ads like the ones for Special K diet products, where the always female person avoids "the temptation" to eat something she thinks is bad and says "I'm good" when she eats a cereal bar, implying that people who eat a piece of cake instead are evil and going to hell or something, is making me go insane.

My mother is right. I shouldn't be going on WP anymore.

I'm up for, a break, on news and politics, etc, this week.

I think most WP users (although I can't speak for everyone) would never fat shame anybody. I myself am only having a go at Donald Trump because he is a serial offender in attacking women for their size...