IT SEEMS AMAZING, ironic, and somehow appropiate that there is simultaneously an obesity epidemic, and a hunger epidemic, in the united states of america, and around the world. both are growing steadily; it should be interesting to see which, in the long run, prevails. perhaps half the world population will grow corpulant, and half will starve.
that sounds better than one percent porking out, and ninety nine percent starving. who knows what the final ratio will be.
this might be the ultimate expression of cutthroat corporate capitalism, half the world rich, half the world poor, nobody in the middle. or will it be one and ninety nine? our corporate masters still allow many among the peasants to put on extra weight, for the time being.
if only we could average it out! none too rich, none too poor. none too fat, none too hungry.
in america, one third of the people are obese, and one fourth have hunger issues: a regular struggle getting enough to eat. in other words, they live in poverty. strangely enough, there appears to be a bit of crossover effect; some of the obese folks are also impoverished. exactly how this works remains a mystery.
government welfare programs keep people out of desperate, hungry poverty, confine them to low income stability, which permits enough extra food to permit obesity. welcome to america, the land of the corpulant poor.
long live the middle class!
Bb
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