In Norway, they have no places to exercise due to the cold, yet they are the fittest people in the world alongside the Japanese. So there's no excuse for being overweight.
This is irrelevent and probably wrong anyway. There are a myriad ways for the body to receive exercise and not all of them or even most have to be performed outdoors. Have you ever heard of a fitness center? I bet Norway has too.
Furthermore, body fat levels and overall composition is largely dependent on diet. It's unlikely that the quantities of overly-processed but affordable packaged foods exist in Norway that exist here. People eat what's attainable, and the impoverished don't have much of a choice.
Please give me citations about the amount poor , ok otherwise it is moot.
My original quote of 60% was an obvious embellishment, but
the number of people living below viable subsistence level* in this nation is now as high as 17%, which is as high as it's been since these statistics started being quantitated.
*17% refers to overall national poverty, as opposed to the less startling "official" national poverty level that's been calculated according to the census. Note also that that article is dated and that inflation and subsistence have both continued to decline in the past year, which means that the percentage is now likely even higher. This is
nearly a quarter of our country. Does that seem right to you?
The "underprivileged" in this country are some of the laziest scum I have ever seen, especially those whom mostly abuse these social services on the backs of the hard workers and I could not give a care if that offends you because it is a fact. However I have also seen those whom legitimately are among these people that are not of the stereotype as well.
I blame more of it on welfare and social services making it easier to be dependent on the system than be self-reliant and able to get out of poverty. I only blame the people whom vote to keep these big government aspects in the government, but it was a result of other legislations as well.
I can't decide whether to laugh or boil over about this. These are obviously the words of an ignorant, nardscratching mouthbreather who catches little bits of pundit discourse on Fox News and regurgitates them all over whoever's in ear shot to rattle on about the values of hard work and American idealism. Gimme a fucking break. If I had to guess, I'd say you've never worked a day in your life.
I'm employed at a high-end restaurant with a mostly affluent clientele and very healthy business, and even some of the servers I work with are single mothers struggling to provide for young children, or are trying to support their entire immediate family due to disability or illness, or are living out of their cars and still manage to hold an enviable position. I was once asked for five dollars of gas money from a guy who works about 55 hours a week. If you had that many brain cells in your head, you'd realize the fallacy of claiming that a.) the underprivileged and impoverished are "lazy scum" that "abuse the social system," and b.) that this overtly ignorant and insensitive remark is a blatant generalization, and nowhere in the vicinity of being the "fact" you assert it to be.
I suggest you begin acquainting yourself with some of the recent statistics on poverty, subsistence, the misery index, unemployment, social security and the Obama administration's allocation of federal funds and before you run off at the mouth with this vitriolic, dehumanizing trash. For whatever reason, it seems like the biggest mouths are always attached to the smallest brains, and they're often the ones most insistent on participating in discussions of fact-sensitive topics. I'm really beginning to dislike you.
