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Photos From A "Fixed" Greece
Greece may have a new government that is the same as the old government, but what is important is that it is "fixed".
From the Daily Mail: "Starving Greeks queue for food in their thousands as debt-wracked country finally forms a coalition government":
Starving Greeks queued around the block for free food handouts yesterday as the country's politicians managed to end a crippling stalemate to form a coalition government.
Young children as well as the elderly waited in line in Athens to collect the parcels of fruit and vegetables donated by farmers from Crete to help ease the devastating austerity faced by many Greeks.
Lifeline: Hundreds of poverty-stricken Greeks are queuing for free vegetable handouts as politicians finally agree to form a coalition government
Desperate: An elderly lady, left, and a woman, accompanied by her son, carries a box of vegetables as thousands of Greeks and foreign immigrants line up during a free vegetables giveaway
Despair: Pensioners joined the lengthy queues behind barriers in Athens where people were waiting for a free food handout
Hungry: Greeks line up for the food handouts, donated by Crete's farmers
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sickening
looks like Union Sq. The sad(er) thing is, those are vine-ripened tomatoes and cold pressed olive oil...better than the food Americans pay for to eat.
Most americans cant even afford fresh fruit at the grocery store. Things a looking brighter no?
Those just look like American free speech zones, with snacks.
Except that the people aren't 50-200 lbs overweight. If so, then it might look like America.
I forgot to add....and dressed like slobs with belly fat bulging from between their shirt and pants and their ass-crack showing.
The American Dream
We miss you George. RIP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
~ George Carlin May 2, 1937 - June 22, 2008
Go Back to Sleep - Perfect Circle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-DksxM8KrU
Hmm. They look pretty healthy to me -- better than average people in many parts of Africa and Asia. Maybe similar forced dieting may just be what the doctor should be ordering for us Americans.
I wonder what the lines will be like in LA, SF, Phoenix, Chi, St. Louis, Detroit, NYC, Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Dallas, Miami, etc.....?
"I wonder what the lines will be like in LA, SF, Phoenix, Chi, St. Louis, Detroit, NYC, Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Dallas, Miami, etc.....?"
They better not try to hand out fruits and vegetables.
They will surrounded by machinegun toting jack-booted thugs. The 'security' will cost more than the food.
When the banksters are in that line, we'll know were on the road to recovery. Don't see any in those photos, though. You can tell 'em by the blood around their lips from sucking the blood out of the masses...
http://thespiritoftruth.blogspot.com/
Only if the line of banksters leads to a choice between the guillotine or the gallows
Don't forget the bankster's bitches, politicians.
Tis true, for every 1,000 ordinary person standing in line, is one banker who is raking it in. This is what a legal transfer of wealth looks like. Its legal because the government allows it to continue but trust me, it really isnt.
My thought, as well, Mr. Magician.
They don't look like a "starving" population. Try Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean for real starvation.
These Greeks look healthy, well clothed, and with 1st world infrastructure around them.
How "1st world" arrogant it is to be entitled.
It takes YEARS to starve. If you don't eat for a week, you'll still LOOK healthy.
The average well-fed schlub can fast almost a month before any real trouble begins.
These Greeks look "good" because they wash and iron their clothese, bathe, keep themselves in reasonable shape and generally look after themselves: things that do not require money.
Slobs look more pathetic, which every conniving panhandler knows.
Hmmm... In my neck of the woods clothes cost money, unless you go to a river with some rocks a laundry machine costs money to own or use, electricity costs money, water costs money, soap costs money, an iron costs money. My guess is you live at home with mommy and daddy or are in college where all that stuff just shows up for free and it doesn't occur to you that they actually do cost money. A lot more people like this showing up on ZH lately.
you do realize, the security at your gated community will not hold back the rioters, right?
Agreed. These pictures aren't exactly like those of emaciated people waiting in bread lines during the 1930's.
A nice desciption of our modern world. Song with lyrics in description below it:
Pet - A Perfect Circle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrEP3RPgEao
The album:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000TETLPC/ref=sr_1_album_1_rd?ie=UTF8&child=B000TDYS6K&qid=1340378485&sr=1-1
Leaders of Men - Joy Division http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtpyAVzdXVw
http://www.lyricsdepot.com/joy-division/leaders-of-men.html
Best band ever ever.
I guess Greece won't be rappin much these days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzspsovNvII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o64Fz-KW1Dk
Note that most of them except the old man, (even he could be Albanian) are non-Greeks. they are illegal immigrants who can no longer find jobs. Feed them or face the prospect of crime.
+1
swingin to the rhythm of the NWO
Speaking of dressed - notice the freshly laundered and pressed clothing, the style of the clothes, etc. Poverty has taken a whole new look, either that or its just a bunch of folks with lots of time on their hands getting something for nothing. Nahh, couldn't be that....
You know back in the day poor folk here had dignity. They might have only one suit, that they washed and pressed everyday that they wore to school/work.
Asshole, this is how quickly things can get ugly.
A.k.a. the "Vanishing Middle Class.
exactly sir. the person being snide about their clothes is either not paying attention, or just likes to feel glee at the plight of poor people.
When you are unemployed one thing you have plenty of is time. Time to sweep, iron, wash, read.
"Time to sweep, iron, wash, read." Well, they might be reading, but it's not the internet... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/45-greeks-have-never-used-internet
You could queue up a line of people in Beverly Hills if you give something away for free. "Starving" people? Maybe in a year.
Having clean clothes cost little but time and soap, keeping a suit nice is only a matter of effort and proper storage.
If you follow function instead of fashion as a man, a suit style can literally last decades. Name a decade when a double breasted suit doesn't look good if you have the body to carry one? Or a the single button down with cuffed pants?. Polo shirt with khaki's? Some basic get ups that don't cost a fortune and look good on any guy on the planet.
When people have time on their hands they take care of their things. Can't afford new, then you take care of what you have. And this is europe we are talking about. People dress up to go for coffee because it's public. People do the same thing in the US and Canada unless it's going to the pub to see friends. I would hardly go for nice dinner with my wife dressed in jeans. At minimum, pressed khaki's and a nice shirt.
Contrary to the peopleofwalmart most people do care when they go out in public, even with photo evidence to the contrary on the photobomb sites. Even the poorest in the congregation shows up in their sunday best and clean. Even if it's not your style, the poorer folks, like everyone else, is in public without judgement.
You are biased by subjective perception of like and dislike. Worse, you are basing it on the ideas of fashion police. Much to learn grasshopper.
I choose to accept those around me because of personal value.
I choose to accept those around me because of their clothing value.
All individual perception is subjective. It is the purest definition of free will and makes our daily choices based on the individuals choices of rationalization. Choice, style, fashion is subjective.
Wearing clean bits of tailored cloth to avoid accidentally swinging your junk on someone while in close quarter like an elevator, that's objective, as in the objective is to avoid your sweaty junk sticking to the guys ass in front of you while you hit "6".
Skateboarder doesn't dress to impress, and his clothing is oft worn and torn, but he gots style for days.
Our culture has been trained to look down at those poorer than ourselves and scrutinize them more closely for such infractions on the slave work ethic. That way we aren't looking higher up the ladder to see who is defecating on us. It's a nice trick that works well for the owners and their minions.
Greece ain't got shit on the bread lines of the US. Imagine 46 million plus standing in a line for some form of GMO corn that has been mashed into a color and shape of something resembling food. Of course, no need to stand in line when JP Morgan the government hides the line behind a trendy debit card. Our government wouldn't want to rest of the natives to see what is really going on in this country.
Picture FEMA trucks tossing 5lb bags of rice and beans to the mobs.
Ohhh but it's all raw! How do we cook dis here?
oh SNAP!
I'm not really understanding how cutting your government budget by 10 percent or so results in thousands of people without food.
Austerity: You're Doing It Wrong.
Trickle up poverty.
10% of a reduction in government spending crashes any economy no matter where. Government is the single largest employer directly and inderectly. Take 10% away from that budget and you would feel the pinch too no matter how safe you think your job may be today.
The people do not look like they are terribly "wanting". Women with painted toe nails, nice clothing, etc....
Austerity sucks?
these people had a sort of funcitonal economy not too long ago. they still have clothes etc. Keeping them clean and neat and giving a shit doesn't cost anything but one's time, and that's one thing people have a lot of in greece (and many other places) now.
One sad truth here is that a lot of the food being handed out across greece is donated by farmers, the same farmers who themselves are probably near bankruptcy because, thanks to
strangulation by the state (red tape and taxes) and a few cartels with connections, they are better off donating the produce to be given away, than they would be trying to sell it!
An old Balkan saying : Though you live in poverty, don't be dirty!
The saying goes like this, "No money for food, buy Adidas Shackle pumps and iPADs bitchez"
There is one woman with gold earrings on.
How about sell the earrings and buy your own food?
Nah, she's entitled to receive everything paid for by hardworking Dutch and Germans.
And just how do you know those ear rings are real gold? Could just as easily be 99 cent Chinese junk.
There is one woman with gold earrings on.
How about sell the earrings and buy your own food?
Nah, she's entitled to receive everything paid for by hardworking Dutch and Germans.
I guess we have to use cameras from the 30's to make people look poor again
It will not be long before Americans lose that fat.
That's wishful thinking, but I think the trend is still moving the other way.
I wonder what the food handouts in the US are gonna look like? Elephants on stampede?
Accept it won't be fresh fruit and veggies, it will be a supersized bigmac meal with a jumbo soda.
Hey! I'm not too fat; I'm just too short!....besides, it's a 'hormone problem'.......
Stop eating food with hormones in it.
or just "big-boned"
Denis Leary puts it best "dinosaurs were big-boned, you're too fucking fat"
Just Youtube "Black Friday Stampede" and you'll see it.
30K line up in Atlanta for Section 8 housing applications:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epr8Otfstr4&feature=related
It'll be cordoned off with advertising hordings; "this crisis was brought to you courtesy of Rothschild and Bilderberg, and is sponsored by Halliburton.." then Fox will make a reality tv show out if it..
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.George Orwell
in New York it will be an 8 ounce soda
American's won't line up for veggies.
well, for a really close and personal look... just head to walmart at any time. We have perfected the food lines via SNAP cards... the Greeks are simply unsophisticated.
And the only stampede is going to be from fat people (too fat to walk) in motorized carts... if you find yourself in the middle of a stamped, you have only a few options: throw something into their spokes or open candy and throw it into the air like setting a dove free.
Pulled out of grocery store parling lot yesterday, there were two 300lb+ women with hungry please help signs!!
Here they like to use dogs as props because you might be able to drive past a hungry guy but a cute little hungry puppy? Some here would say eat the dog and then ask for a handout. New twist on dog food. I feel bad for these people but I am on a "fixed" income, I can't afford to hand money out my car window every time I pass a panhandler, I would be one of them by the end of the day. Another issue is that half the people panhandling are not even broke, they found out that some beggars were hauling down $1200-2000 per day in key panhandling spots and decided that is more than they make working so why not. Then you have people getting SSD and SSI or a vet disability and they are not allowed to work or they will be cut off, this is a way to get totally unreported income.
It blows my mind what some people will do for money. I have been homeless, more than two years after the fire in 2001, I once went more than 5 days without anything by mouth but water while in college, I never picked up a piece of cardboard to beg, I surely would have died first.
So, you sound like a bootstrapping man or women. Why then the username?
I was approached in a Jewel parking lot (Chicago) by two hungry heifer's begging for money (while eating McDonald's no less) DRIVING A FUCKING CAR!!
No crap - they were trolling the parking lots in a car, eating food, begging for money.
Only in America.
Actually they have been going on for some time in my community. A couple of years at least. All the ones I have seen are in the neighborhood churches that in the areas hit the hardest. There are two in my neighborhood. Many of them are conducted on a weekly basis. Much of the food is donated by farmers and distributors. I talked to a man two weeks ago, who was active in a neighborhood youth program. He said he was an organizer for his church's weekly food give away.
I suspect that if any national programs were done it would be more along the lines of paper pushing and giving out paper chits to buy food at McDonald's or something like that.
If government largess doesn't somehow make it into corporate pockets, it's socialism. Of course, when the money has filled those same corporate pockets and what's left is only debt, it's evil government.
Must. feed. corporate. overlords.
:D
Elephants in the drive-through maybe.
Food support will be provided on the corporate altar, like almost everything else.
MCD will take the gov't transfer payment directly, for a small profit, and provide logistical structure for efficient distribution of just enough food to sustain a person. Not enough energy to throw stones and run from riot police.
Stay on the lookout for that mythical creature the "hungry libertarian" they usually appear with a white unicorn.
I believe hippos would represent a better visual picture
Most americans wouldn't know how to cook or fix fresh fruits and vegetables because they only eat things that come in a box or is covered in a thick layer of grease. I noticed how few fat people were in the line, which is what i would intuitively expect, hungry people with not enough food to eat would be skinny people. Of course in america that people queing for food handouts are the fattest people on the planet.
We went to America a couple of years ago for 4 weeks, and I was amazed how expensive the fresh food was and how cheap the processed stuff was compared to the UK. It was cheaper to buy ready-made food than to make stuff ourselves from the ingredients.
When we got back home at the first meal the kids asked for second helpings of vegetables which has never happened before - they must have been craving vitamins.
High fructose corn syrup added to GMO corn and soy that are cooked in hydrogenated oils and made into "food" helps accelerate the slow-kill of the useless eaters.
Eating US processed food will result in obesity, cancer and/or diabetes.
The US is so brainwashed over food that I have had people refuse to eat wild elk, rabbit, bear etc. that I killed because it was from the woods and "dirty"... When in actuality it is the cleanest organic meat one can eat. And they think meat from CAFO's is "clean"...
Not to mention that Big Pharma makes huge $$$ from treating cancer and diabetes.
So the useless eaters eat faux food, get raped by the sick-care system - and die penniless.
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/06/21/400-pound-woman-arrested-for-wearin...
400 lb homeless woman. Only in Amerka!
You need to stop going to US cities to make your observations. Come out here in the sticks where the rednecks live... all y'all are welcome.
"all y'all are welcome." Nice sentiment, but I doubt it: the first few batches of arrivals may be welcome, but soon enough, you'll realize it's just zombie apocalypse.
Well, not after they pay their cellphone and cable bills.
Most Americans don't want fresh fruit. They want fruit rollups loaded with sugar or Doritos or Pizza Hut delivered to their door so they don't have to get up out of their Laz-y-boy chairs
a pound of bing cherries
in alaska ...8.99 lb
2.99 in MI . . . but wild salmon and crab is a whole nuther matter.
I guess the Greek government doesn't understand the concept of a Food Stamp card. That way you can make poverty invisible like in the U.S.....
I think it's fair to say that no nation's PR machine is as well greased as the one running Americans.
Looks like the que at any BAC branch, except instead of veggies you get a box of "Shut up and keep the line moving Pikers!", a sachel of "So what if our EPS is -0.16, We drink your milkshake!", and a handful of "Downgrade Shmowngrade...Muahahahaha!!".
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you. Ahhh, give it a year or two.
Ahhh, give it a month or two. - There, fixed that for ya!
Year or two? It is happening now. Go drive by a food bank distribution sight.
Yes these photos are sickening and sad, but let us ask ourselves how much uglier things would look in the USA if food stamps were to be replaced by queues at certain places in each city.
Food stamps may afford the recipients some dignity and might also make things look better than they are but at the end of the day both Greece and the USA are faced with serious challenges.
And at least in Greece, you know exactly what you're giving away - fresh vegetables. How many Americans are buying those with their SNAP cards?
I did object to one of the captions:
Many Greeks cannot afford to feed themselves as deep austerity measures imposed by Europe as part of the bailout agreement take their toll
Those Greeks couldn't afford the food before, but that fact was masked by the ability to borrow tons of money. It seems like one solution that would help ease the problem would be a 100% default on all foreign debt and use some of that money that was being sent to the German/French banks to buy food.
bright spot is people helping people and not with corporate tie-ins.Not heroes helping heroes.I am proud of the cradle of democracy though sadened for thier sufferring.They drank the koolaid and thier system rejects it.Sadly,we're addicted here in US.
I hate to say it but the Greek people r to blame for their condition...
Who is forcing them to b raped by the bankers and fucked by their political leaders?????? NO ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EITHER FIGHT THE BANKERS OR LIVE AS SLAVES.......
DEATH TO THE BANKERS, ONE AND ALL......
It is hard for me to generate much sympathy for the Greeks, because they voted to continue the status quo - which was steady, grinding impoverishment. They could have chosen a bolder path (complete default, return to the drachma) but chose not to. And don't give me the "over 50% voted against austerity". The fact is that enough people voted for the pro-bailout, pro-austerity parties for them to form a government.
Voting...The fix was in. Woman in Lamia arrested for messing with the ballot box, she's now in jail. She was stupid enough to get caught...Exit polls never came out. Tsipras concedes an hour after polls closed, then does a victory lap, big smiles and handwaving!! My wife and I noticed a teenage girl as a monitor in my polling station, and hers had only had 1 monitor. I can tell you the stations in the first election were far different--fully staffed and strictly by the book. Strange stuff. Something funny happened here...
The Greeks thoroughly enjoyed all the government benefits such as retiring at the old age of 55 among other nice things. The greek government borrowed at interest rates that did not reflect the risk of Greece not being able to pay it back and when people realised that a bunch of olive trees and beaches couldn't produce enough wealth the interest rates rose sharply, hence the bankruptcy of the entire country.
Imagine what happens in the US of A when interest rates goes up to as low as 4 per cent. Everything will be fucked.
Scary....
It's not just Greece:
April 4, 2012 Food Banks Fear They Will Fall Short in Efforts to Feed the Nation's Hungry
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/food-banks-fear-they-will-fall-short-in-efforts-to-feed-the-nations-hungry-2012-04-04
06/04/2012 Record Number Of US Households On Foodstamps
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/record-number-us-households-foodstamps
Hold the Phone! These are not "Starving Greeks"! The Farmers just started to hand out vegetables as a show of soladarity. If sombody started handing out Veggies in my town, people would take it happily. We're not "Starving". Spun out of control...
Or is everybody afraid that the co-opted term "Solidarity", which, by the way, does NOT mean eating shit while the banks fail to take THEIR losses, will get it's meaning back ant threaten the PTB the way it did in Poland?..
The Greeks WILL win the Greece/Germany game. They will lay down and borrow the goals for the win.
The most gullible love the most unbelievable propaganda. Did you know 'gullible' is not even a word. It's not in the dictionary.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/06/far-fetched_sca.html
Dictionary
gullible |?g?l?b?l|
adjective
easily persuaded to believe something; credulous : an attempt to persuade a gullible public to spend their money.
DERIVATIVES
gullibility |?g?l??bilit?| noun
gullibly |-bl?| adverb
ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from gull 2 + -ible .
THE RIGHT WORD
Some people will believe anything. Those who are truly gullible are the easiest to deceive, which is why they so often make fools of themselves.
Those who are merely credulous might be a little too quick to believe something, but they usually aren't stupid enough to act on it.
Trusting suggests the same willingness to believe (: a trusting child), but it isn't necessarily a bad way to be ( | a person so trusting he completely disarmed his enemies).
No one likes to be called naive because it implies a lack of street smarts (: she's so naive she'd accept a ride from a stranger), but when applied to things other than people, it can describe a simplicity and absence of artificiality that is quite charming ( | the naive style in which nineteenth-century American portraits were often painted).
Most people would rather be thought of as ingenuous, meaning straightforward and sincere (: an ingenuous confession of the truth), because it implies the simplicity of a child without the negative overtones.
Callow, however, comes down a little more heavily on the side of immaturity and almost always goes hand-in-hand with youth.
Whether young or old, someone who is unsophisticated lacks experience in worldly and cultural matters.
Thesaurus
gullible
adjective
he was a swindler who preyed on gullible elderly widows credulous, naive, overtrusting, overtrustful, easily deceived, easily taken in, exploitable, dupable, impressionable, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary, ingenuous, innocent, inexperienced, unworldly, green; informal wet behind the ears, born yesterday. antonym suspicious.
THE RIGHT WORD
Some people will believe anything. Those who are truly gullible are the easiest to deceive, which is why they so often make fools of themselves. Those who are merely credulous might be a little too quick to believe something, but they usually aren't stupid enough to act on it. Trusting suggests the same willingness to believe (: a trusting child), but it isn't necessarily a bad way to be ( | a person so trusting he completely disarmed his enemies). No one likes to be called naïve because it implies a lack of street smarts ( | she's so naïve she'd accept a ride from a stranger), but when applied to things other than people, it can describe a simplicity and absence of artificiality that is quite charming ( | the naïve style in which nineteenth-century American portraits were often painted). Most people would rather be thought of as ingenuous, meaning straightforward and sincere ( | an ingenuous confession of the truth), because it implies the simplicity of a child without the negative overtones. Callow, however, comes down a little more heavily on the side of immaturity and almost always goes hand-in-hand with youth. Whether young or old, someone who is unsophisticated suffers because of lack of experience.
So you were gullible enough to look it up??
And to the Junkers who junked me: criticizing someone for their gullibility, as a lesson to prevent what Zappa said about it happening here, is not mutually exclusive with compassion for the people who may simply not have the expertise or understanding to know what was happening to them before it happend.
Iceland got it right. They defaulted, moved on and threw their bankers in jail.
Frank Zappa was his own brother.
Thanks for proving how gullible you are.
Did you know a magic bullet killed JFK? It's on the internet.
How come the only skinny people in the photos are the ones actually giving away the food?
That was just retarded.
Well the Daily Mail did lead its article with "Starving Greeks". I'm not implying whatsoever that the photos are faked.
lol
Skinnier people don't wait peacefully in lines like that unless there are armed guards there forcefully keeping order. In other words, we're not there yet.
yup this shit is nothing yet wait till they start behaving like zombies
queues are for suckers if there are only a 500 cartons to give out and 5000 people waiting in line.
I first misread this as "500 cartoons", and I thought, 'wow, when they run out real food, they'll start handing out pictures of food'.
I just mentioned that below . . . none of them are fat.
Look closely at the clothing. It's all a few years old and worn a bit.
It looks legit. Also, if it was somehow faked, would mothers stand in a line that big with kids if they didn't need to?
Looks legit until we get refutation.
It's all legit.
You should also see the lines forming every day for soup meals at the Churches' charity organizations. Around 250.000 people are fed every day.
We got fucked up by our leaders. We deserved it since we voted for them in the first place. But I can't understand how anyone can be ironic or cynical seeing people starving (Not you Crash, but further above).
As I've said again, watch Greece closely. You'll be viewing free glimpses of the future for the rest of the "developed world".
As was stated above...this is a political problem of the Greeks' own making.
If you don't want to be continually held hostage like this, because you failed to follow the Maastricht Treaty, then why are Greek people not pushing to get out of the Euro now? Whining does't change anaything. Take a number, because you are now in line behind Spain, Italy, Ireland, Portugal and Ireland...more important countries to the stability of Europe ( in the eyes of the Euro North).
Iceland is the classic example of how escaping the shackles can lead to a better standard of living, if you are hardworking and act responsibly.
Or is it because Greeks are only looking to get something for nothing that they are still in the Euro ?
I can't wait to see the photos from Spain and Italy once they are "fixed".
But GeneMarchbanks says "Europe is fine", and that the Euro will be "reserve status" soon.
All you people better listen to the Answer Man. He's never wrong.
soon to be starving billionaires
Hard to feel sorry for people that just voted for their own continued debt slavery.
Nothing like voting for the exact same political parties that fucked your country over in the first place.
not funny .... USSA will do likewise.
The alternative was worse than that.
Short term probably, but long term Greece just voted itself to Disneyland status. I don't want to hear another word about how the banks are fucking over Greece after this election. They voted for it.
So are you giving up your right to bitch about what is going on in the USSA?
Because we voted for all of that too.
I didn't.
I would have declared fake and bogus except that vegetables are cheap and none of those people look fat. Nor all that well-dressed.
Looks legit.
Unlike here in the US, somehow a homeless woman manages to weigh in at 400 pounds...
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/06/21/400-pound-woman-arrested-for-wearing-birthday-suit-on-bus-bench/
It's the carbs in 'cheap' food that cause long term insulin resistance, causing the need for more of an insulin response to increased blood sugar. Increased insulin causes more fat storage. Adiposity 101.
its not that hard to understand, 10th grade biology where i come from
Idk why they ignore the most basic rules of human anatomy. mandatory 5miles running/day for anyone that has a BMI of 24+
and ban all those fucking supplements, fad diets, whatever the fuck gives a person the idea that it's ok to be a fucking hippo and not go to the gym that very second
Authoritarian fantasies say a lot about a person's real philosophy and emotional health.
Hold on to your loathing when the years catch up with you, pal.
One big reason people are so obese in the U.S. is that people generally don't have to take any financial responsiblity for their poor health habits. Your typical land whale, once he or she inevitably gets diabetes, simply waddles down to their doctor and gets expensive diabetes pills and treatment equipment for a $20 co-pay. Same thing when their hips and knees wear out from carrying an extra 100-200 lbs around for 20 years. They get the replacements either for free or for very minimal financial contributions on their part.
The problem for all the fat-asses is that our health care system is in the process of collapsing. Costs are going up 9% a year which means they double every 8 years. Problem is we can't really take another doubling without things breaking down. The real SHTF moment is the fat-assess get cut off from their unlimited, cheap healthcare.
That's bullshit. People are so obese in the US because they eat too much crap and don't exercise enough.
There are plenty of thin people in the US who smoke cigarettes, drink too much, ride motorcycles, climb mountains, scuba-dive, and engage in other really hazardous activities, but you never hear people bitching about them costing so much.
Guess why that may be.
Well, she may be homeless, but she is definitely not FOODLESS.
I said we fixed the glitch, not that we solved the problem...
Solidarity bitchez...
We need to stay in the Euro because life is so much better. We will sell what ever possession we have left to the bankers including our dignity. We will be your slaves for life just give us a few scraps of food.
a testament to the power of propaganda...and televisions...
ThingamaJIGS...
I see quite a few 'useless eaters' in those photos.
Speaking of useless eaters, where is Venezelos? Don't see him in any of the pics.
Useless eaters are those who devour resources without contributing to the society. Such as investment bankers, crooked politicians, lawyers, unscrupulous accountants, militarized cops, etc.
USEFUL eaters would be those who have an actual job, no matter how crappy, helping civilization to continue to function. People who manufacture useful goods, farmers, fruit pickers, homebuilders, garbage collectors. Add to that utility line maintainers, truckers, road builders, store clerks, teachers, fire fighters, paramedics, secretaries, mothers, butchers, bakers, candlestick makers. Everyday people who just do something USEFUL.
And FUCK HENRY KISSINGER and the prison ship he rode in on for popularizing such a stupid phrase.