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Did you ever noticed on those old programmes like Cops etc that the folks that the police often had to deal with were fat? In the old days being fat was considered wealthy and attractive because it meant that the person could afford to eat. Painters in the Renaissance particularly painted large “Junoesque” women with heavy white voluptuous breasts and large milky white bottoms. This was the ideal in attractiveness…large and corpulent. Scrawny and thin was seen as impoverished in most cases.
But the years passed on into decades and then centuries and we began to understand that thin was not only attractive but thin was in! Thin was the new elite and while there are poor and rich thin people, there does seem to be an awful lot of fatties on welfare aren’t there?
Now someone is bound to say that folks on welfare cannot afford to buy decent food and the calories that they load up on are probably the worst one can. Fair enough but I have to tell you that I was a student once on a very limited budget and I did not get fat and ate a lot of the same kinds of crap. There was another fellow who tended towards being beefy and he did not get fat either. We literally lived off peanut butter and white bread and macaroni and powdered cheese…cans of soup loaded with salt. We didn’t get fat because we worked and exercised. We both volunteered with building our chapel, went to school and then walked around as much as possible to save our pence.
The real reason a lot of welfare recipients are fat is because they are lazy! I think the criteria for giving welfare should be based on a person’s appearance. If a man or a woman goes into the welfare office looking for money or assistance, then the financial aid worker or social worker should look at the person and note whether they are fat or not. A thin person may indeed be down on their luck but their thinness might prove that they are active and likely to get back into the swing of things once their bad luck is over. The worker should be alert to iv drug abuse though as well. Some thin people are dope fiend slackers! And while they are not as unappetisingly unattractive as fat slobs, they are still a poor risk factor.
A fat person though….whoa…slow down Miss Social Worker…don’t be too willing to hand over that monthly cheque. Look at the slob in front of you…Do you see them rushing off to find a job anytime soon? Noooooooooo….they just want to get home in time to watch Springer (for our British guests-Springer is an American phenomenon which created “trash telly”). Miss Social Worker, your numpty bint heart is in the right place but giving money to a lazy unambitious slob is just plain foolish!
But the years passed on into decades and then centuries and we began to understand that thin was not only attractive but thin was in! Thin was the new elite and while there are poor and rich thin people, there does seem to be an awful lot of fatties on welfare aren’t there?
Now someone is bound to say that folks on welfare cannot afford to buy decent food and the calories that they load up on are probably the worst one can. Fair enough but I have to tell you that I was a student once on a very limited budget and I did not get fat and ate a lot of the same kinds of crap. There was another fellow who tended towards being beefy and he did not get fat either. We literally lived off peanut butter and white bread and macaroni and powdered cheese…cans of soup loaded with salt. We didn’t get fat because we worked and exercised. We both volunteered with building our chapel, went to school and then walked around as much as possible to save our pence.
The real reason a lot of welfare recipients are fat is because they are lazy! I think the criteria for giving welfare should be based on a person’s appearance. If a man or a woman goes into the welfare office looking for money or assistance, then the financial aid worker or social worker should look at the person and note whether they are fat or not. A thin person may indeed be down on their luck but their thinness might prove that they are active and likely to get back into the swing of things once their bad luck is over. The worker should be alert to iv drug abuse though as well. Some thin people are dope fiend slackers! And while they are not as unappetisingly unattractive as fat slobs, they are still a poor risk factor.
A fat person though….whoa…slow down Miss Social Worker…don’t be too willing to hand over that monthly cheque. Look at the slob in front of you…Do you see them rushing off to find a job anytime soon? Noooooooooo….they just want to get home in time to watch Springer (for our British guests-Springer is an American phenomenon which created “trash telly”). Miss Social Worker, your numpty bint heart is in the right place but giving money to a lazy unambitious slob is just plain foolish!
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