Will Michelle Obama’s war on obesity, make us more fit, more productive as a society?
Michelle Obama has laid down the glove. $10 billion in new funding for programs the republicans will try to kill. Plus, work at the local level result in taxing fat producers right out of business.
This is like the very successful smoking laws funding many gov’t health programs and other things. Who thinks universal health care will be better without fat?
No more than “the war on drugs” have made us a drug free society, or the ‘war of poverty’ has ended all poverty.
Planet 100: The Government Is Making Us Fat (3/18)
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