Saw a short news story on TV about how some people and some lawmakers are looking into having obesity classified as a disease and therefore people could perhaps use tax money to pay for their "treatment".

This interested me, since I myself am trying to lose about 15, 20 pounds and I am not putting the responsibility on anyone but ME.

That, I think, is the buzzword here folks. RESPONSIBILITY.

Whose fault is it that you are fat? And we know that 2 out of three Americans are overweight. That means out of every 3 people I see today, two could potentially be siphoning tax dollars in the future to help them diet. And from what I hear about the way Bush has played the budget, we don't have all that much money to spare. (okay so technically there is no money at all since we are in a perpetual deficit and debt. by the way, how exactly does the government get to do this? I certainly could not go year to year invading countries and covering up naked statues and hoping VISA would just chuckle as I racked up billions in debt.)

Anyway. So this is to all you fat people : YOU MADE YOU FAT!! Just like I almost had abs in November and then I decided to be a MORON and eat junk food for a month and half for no reason other than it tastes freaking good and now I am 20 pounds above the weight I want to be.

That's it. Period. YOU choose what goes in your greasy little mouth.

It's a brand new year so I don't care what diet you've been on before and went off, that you have not exercised since 1984, that you Used to be a high school football star and now look like George Costanza. Go see your doctor, go to the library and read up on healthy lifestyles, join a gym or buy an exercise bike or commit to just walking outside for an hour a day or so. Or get up off the couch during commercials and do leg lifts for all I care. By the end of the year you could be a whole new you. And the best part it, you will have done it YOURSELF. Wow, what a concept. Personal accountability. It used to settle frontiers and build monuments. Now it's just a cute phrase we utter while drowning ourselves in mounds of spaghetti while complaining about our rotten childhood.

---frog