No, You Don’t Give Poor Fat People More Money for Food.

Ok, hold on a minute.

Ontario already has a program by which people who are on welfare, who are overweight, are given more money for food to support their obesity?

And now they want to give them even more money because and extra $20 isn’t enough?

1.  The treatment fat people need to deal with their fatness because obesity is a health problem, is less food!

2.  Therefore giving them more money to spend on food is like buying heroin for addicts giving a stipend to welfare smokers to support their habit.

3.  If they need more money for food they can work for it.  There are thousands of jobs that people can do that require minimal training and minimal physical activity (thought if they are obese they could probably do with more physical activity, but I am willing to grant that some obese welfare recipients may be obese because of physical problems that inhibit them getting proper exercise).

4.  If someone can’t work and the government is supporting them, then they have agreed to accept that the government will act as their caregiver and steward.  As such, this means that Welfare will act in the interests of the person’s welfare.  Which means they will take such steps as to maintain the person’s optimal health given their situation.  Which means we should not be giving them more money for food when they are already fat!

5.  If a person doesn’t want the government telling them how to eat, then they should quit accepting the government’s money for food and make their own choices about what to, or not to eat!

End rant.  Hat tip to FFoF and Halls of Macadamia.