The Burger Queen
"Ain't nobody gonna take away my bottomless soda!"
"Looky here! Who knows better than just plain folk how to eat good and stay healthy?"
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The Nanny State is a big mother.
But compared to the dimwits who parasitize it, she's a featherweight.
To sustain Medicare in future, Americans must abandon license for liberty.
If we remain unmitigatedly voracious, Medicare goes bust.
http://www.obesityinamerica.org/understandingObesity/diseases.cfm
http://www.collegenews.com/article/us_obesity_rates_predicted_to_soar
If, however, we discipline ourselves to eat right and exercise daily, not only will we enjoy much better health, we will enjoy Medicare in perpetuity.
The "aggressively ignorant" do not believe in self-discipline or individual responsibility.
They believe in "pills" and heroic medical procedures.
With knowledge aforethought they damage themselves and leave "repairs" for someone else.
It is hard to imagine anyone more self-indulgent than an uneducated Bible Belter.
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Here's lookin' at you kid!
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"NYT: Critics of Welfare State Rely on Welfare"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/nyt-critics-of-welfare-state-rely-on.html
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"How Losing Weight Could Help Save Us Billions"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-losing-weight-could-help-save-us.html
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"Red State Moocher Links"
http://paxonbothhouses. blogspot.com/2013/07/red- state-moocher-links.html
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Don't miss this 2004 critique of The Bible Belt.
"Fuck the South"
http://fuckthesouth.com/
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Historians will record that Red Staters really did cling to their guns and bad religion.
"Any Religion That Needs Fear To Thrive Is Bad Religion"
"Bad Religion: A Compendium"
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"Personal Irresponsibility In Red States: Healthcare Implications"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/05/personal-irresponsibility-in-red-states.html
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http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-losing-weight-could-help-save-us.html
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"Red State Moocher Links"
http://paxonbothhouses.
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Don't miss this 2004 critique of The Bible Belt.
"Fuck the South"
http://fuckthesouth.com/
***
Historians will record that Red Staters really did cling to their guns and bad religion.
***
"Personal Irresponsibility In Red States: Healthcare Implications"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/05/personal-irresponsibility-in-red-states.html
***
Historians will record that Red Staters really did cling to their guns and bad religion.
"Any Religion That Needs Fear To Thrive Is Bad Religion"
"Bad Religion: A Compendium"
***
"Personal Irresponsibility In Red States: Healthcare Implications"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/05/personal-irresponsibility-in-red-states.html
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NYT: Critics of the Welfare State Who Rely on Welfare
The New York Times has an article today about all the rural red-state conservatives who criticize the welfare state while relying on government benefits. Although the article does not say so directly, it implies a level of hypocrisy from someone who advocates changes to these programs while also accepting payments from them.
[Gulbranson] says that too many Americans lean on taxpayers rather than living within their means. He supports politicians who promise to cut government spending. In 2010, he printed T-shirts for the Tea Party campaign of a neighbor, Chip Cravaack, who ousted this region’s long-serving Democratic congressman.Yet this year, as in each of the past three years, Mr. Gulbranson, 57, is counting on a payment of several thousand dollars from the federal government, a subsidy for working families called the earned-income tax credit. He has signed up his three school-age children to eat free breakfast and lunch at federal expense. And Medicare paid for his mother, 88, to have hip surgery twice.There is little poverty here in Chicago County, northeast of Minneapolis, where cheap housing for commuters is gradually replacing farmland. But Mr. Gulbranson and many other residents who describe themselves as self-sufficient members of the American middle class and as opponents of government largess are drawing more deeply on that government with each passing year.
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