I read an inspirational but otherwise seemingly benign article today, accompanied by some comments that called into question the very society we live in.
ABCNews Blogs did a puff piece about a 9 year old girl named Breanna Bond who lost 66 pounds to go from a very obese little girl to one that looks very normal and healthy. The article HERE, also included a video showing a very overweight younger toddler, presumably Breanna, playing on a jungle-gym while the audio in the background was Breanna talking of herself getting "bullied."
Hidden between the lines of this article are some of the root causes of obesity in millions of American kids.
The anchor starts off with the usual liberal plays of branding her a victim:
"Struggling with obesity," is what he called it. The article also points out that she was overweight since the day she was born, and so it constantly hints at her "struggle" also known to liberals as a "condition." They want you to think its a disease that she was so unlucky to catch, or be born with.
The problem arises when the article goes on to contradict this stealthy premise by pointing out that the girl had no medical problems and was able to shed the weight by eating less and exercising more.
The victimization is just starting. Next the article talks about the bullying:
"The California girl soon became a target for bullies. "Everybody at school would call me names," she said. "They would call me fatty, they would call me fat head."
Ok, ok. We get it. We get that this kind of bullying is wrong. It's mean. It doesn't subscribe to the old saying, "Treat other as you would want them to treat you (assuming you don't want to be treated that way)." Nor does it subscribe to, "If you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything at all."
But there is a major problem with this Political Correctness. This falls under the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Their family pediatrician told them their 100 pound kindergartener will "grow into her body." The parents eventually "fired" this doctor by getting a second opinion, but the REAL true irony of this is that the commenters representing the public at large piled on!
A commenter named Michelle wrote, "The pediatrician said a 100 pound kindergartner would "grow into" her body? What kind of crazy doctor is that?"
Her comment got 1354 thumbs up to only 23 thumbs down at the time of this writing. Out of 84 replies to her comment, a majority of them echoed her sentiments. They called him a quack, and irresponsible jerk, and said he should have been the first one to go. Some of them envisioned that the doctor must also be overweight to have said something like that.
I believe that our society of political correctness is to blame, and this doctor was too weak minded to overcome it. Why are we blaming the doctor for what ended up being a diagnosis of "parents need to step up?" Our PC society demands that everyone embrace many bad things including obesity. Isn't it a very fine line between a doctor saying that an otherwise healthy girl needs to lose weight and a "bully" making fun of her for being fat?
Even Breanna's dad said, "Don't be afraid to do the tough love." I'm willing to bet the Doctor, fearing for his job and possible public scrutiny just said she'll just grow into her body, knowing full well that the truth is that her parents needed to make her lose weight, but was too afraid to say it. The doctor didn't want to be branded a "Bully."
A big problem with liberalism is that you can't ever hurt anyone's feelings or else you are a bully. The truth hurts sometimes. In a liberal America, you need to either lie, keep your mouth shut, or just embrace your title as "Bully." The problem is that nobody wants to fall victim of the PC police and get branded the Bully. The big question is whether or not an America without her Bullies is a better America or not. I guess it depends on whether or not you believe America needs a healthy dose of HONEST "tough love" or not ...
Showing posts with label greed. Show all posts
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Sick Minded Corporate Greed
Greed is defined as by Wikipedia as: " As a secular psychological concept, greed is, similarly, an inordinate desire
to acquire or possess more than one needs. It is typically used to
criticize those who seek excessive material wealth, although it may
apply to the need to feel more excessively moral, social, or otherwise better than someone else."
First part of the definition, ask yourself who decides where the cut off point of "more than one needs" ? Who is telling me I cant make more than X dollars or Im being Greedy ? If you ask me that statement sounds like a union boss or a liberal because, the restrictions would be placed upon you by regulations and taxes which unions, democrats and liberals love to implement. In the first week following obamas reelection he imposed over 6,500 new regulations. Unions donated over $300 million dollars in 2008 to elect obama regardless if the union members wanted to vote a different way.
Hostess Bakery was told by the union that a delivery drive will not carry both Hostess made Wonder bread and Twinkies in the same truck. They also told Hostess that they will not pay for their own retirement nor their own health care. "The company cited the high cost of pensions and outstanding debt as the reasons for that filing. In October 2012, the company filed a plan with the federal bankruptcy court in New York. It called for an 8 percent cut to employees' wages, a reduction in health benefits, and a freeze in pension plan payments for over two years. In return, unionized employees would get a 25 percent equity stake in the company, two seats on its board of directors, and an interest-bearing note worth $100 million. The 8 percent wage cut was part of a five-year deal that included a 3 percent wage increase in the next three years and a 1 percent raise in the final year." Scout.com
Second part of the definition states that Greed is "Typically used to Criticize those who seek excessive material or wealth". Who in the world would criticize a man or woman that invents an amazing product that revolutionizes modern day life ? Take for example the wealthiest sports player ever, he didnt start out wealthy and didn't become wealthy because of his ability to win in his sport, he became wealthy beyond belief when he created and invention that swept the nation of America and then the world. This little invention was a bit pricy but the benefits it provided was obviously well worth it and the public agreed by purchasing over 100,000,000 million units since its conception in 1994. If the man I speak of made a profit of $1 per unit sold he would have $100,000,000 million dollars in the bank and critics would say that's too much. Why would a critic say this ? Answer: Jealousy and GREED. Seriously, who would not be proud of George Foreman and the Foreman Grill ? We all are because he invented a product, took risk to bring it to market which created jobs for millions of people and helped Americans eat a little healthier. This is the Capitalist that I know and love.
Who would have a "need to be excessively moral"? Certainly not George Foreman.
Lastly, Humans for some reason find the need to constantly project their true feeling upon other people for example if you have a companion that constantly accuses you of cheating but you know in your heart and mind thats its it completely false and you honestly havent, the reason why they are doing this is because they are the ones who are doing the dirty deed of cheating.
For hundreds of years Greedy bastards like union thugs and democrats have used these tactics. When they call a person a Corporate Fat Cat they say this because they have no clue how wealth is created. They believe that to "Get" more money you have to take it from someone else and Capitalist know for a fact that its the opposite you have to give your ideas to the world in order to receive their praise and thanks which will arrive in the form of money. If it doesn't you need to go back to the drawing board and find out what they do want. This is Capitalism at its most basic form.
Rush Limbaugh is correct when saying that Liberalism is a disease of the mind because of one simple thing, "GREED".
First part of the definition, ask yourself who decides where the cut off point of "more than one needs" ? Who is telling me I cant make more than X dollars or Im being Greedy ? If you ask me that statement sounds like a union boss or a liberal because, the restrictions would be placed upon you by regulations and taxes which unions, democrats and liberals love to implement. In the first week following obamas reelection he imposed over 6,500 new regulations. Unions donated over $300 million dollars in 2008 to elect obama regardless if the union members wanted to vote a different way.
Hostess Bakery was told by the union that a delivery drive will not carry both Hostess made Wonder bread and Twinkies in the same truck. They also told Hostess that they will not pay for their own retirement nor their own health care. "The company cited the high cost of pensions and outstanding debt as the reasons for that filing. In October 2012, the company filed a plan with the federal bankruptcy court in New York. It called for an 8 percent cut to employees' wages, a reduction in health benefits, and a freeze in pension plan payments for over two years. In return, unionized employees would get a 25 percent equity stake in the company, two seats on its board of directors, and an interest-bearing note worth $100 million. The 8 percent wage cut was part of a five-year deal that included a 3 percent wage increase in the next three years and a 1 percent raise in the final year." Scout.com
Second part of the definition states that Greed is "Typically used to Criticize those who seek excessive material or wealth". Who in the world would criticize a man or woman that invents an amazing product that revolutionizes modern day life ? Take for example the wealthiest sports player ever, he didnt start out wealthy and didn't become wealthy because of his ability to win in his sport, he became wealthy beyond belief when he created and invention that swept the nation of America and then the world. This little invention was a bit pricy but the benefits it provided was obviously well worth it and the public agreed by purchasing over 100,000,000 million units since its conception in 1994. If the man I speak of made a profit of $1 per unit sold he would have $100,000,000 million dollars in the bank and critics would say that's too much. Why would a critic say this ? Answer: Jealousy and GREED. Seriously, who would not be proud of George Foreman and the Foreman Grill ? We all are because he invented a product, took risk to bring it to market which created jobs for millions of people and helped Americans eat a little healthier. This is the Capitalist that I know and love.
Who would have a "need to be excessively moral"? Certainly not George Foreman.
Lastly, Humans for some reason find the need to constantly project their true feeling upon other people for example if you have a companion that constantly accuses you of cheating but you know in your heart and mind thats its it completely false and you honestly havent, the reason why they are doing this is because they are the ones who are doing the dirty deed of cheating.
For hundreds of years Greedy bastards like union thugs and democrats have used these tactics. When they call a person a Corporate Fat Cat they say this because they have no clue how wealth is created. They believe that to "Get" more money you have to take it from someone else and Capitalist know for a fact that its the opposite you have to give your ideas to the world in order to receive their praise and thanks which will arrive in the form of money. If it doesn't you need to go back to the drawing board and find out what they do want. This is Capitalism at its most basic form.
Rush Limbaugh is correct when saying that Liberalism is a disease of the mind because of one simple thing, "GREED".
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