Most disturbing, Ritter said, was that Colorado is now 23rd for its percentage of obese children — 14.2 percent, according to a survey of parents.The evidence is that they are not hungry enough**.
"That's just not tolerable," he said. "There are kids who are obese in this state who are going to school hungry."
I'm reminded of one time when I entered the kitchen and announced to the lovely and gracious Rogue that I needed to get to the fridge, as I was starving. She put her hands on her hips, looked me up and down, and said, "You don't look like you're starving to me."
However I felt about it, I have to admit she had the evidence on her side. Of course, if I was a Democratic governor, perhaps I could have convinced her that I'm not heavy for my height, I'm merely short for my weight. And underfunded as well.
* Technically, they are slogans, but who ever heard of mixed slogans?
** Not that evidence is itself enough to make a politician to forgo familiar talking points.
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Welcome to the topsy-turvy, Alice in Wonderland world of liberal/statist cognitive dissonance....where fat kids are hungry, cooling temperatures point to global warming, and success is failure.
"That's just not tolerable," he said. "There are kids who are obese in this state who are going to school hungry."
Classic. I love it.
Hmmm.
It is not tolerable that there are obese kids in Colorado, and it is also not tolerable that there are also kids in Colorado who go hungry.
I wonder what Ritter'll propose as a solution? Taking food from the fatties and giving it to the skinnies?
Seeing a kid like that at a Cici's Pizza nearly made me lose my appetite. I'm 6" and a grown man with a very robust build and he, a squat, rolly polly 9 year old, was eating as much or more as I was...
a kid like that
He has cankles for wrists.
I didn't think that was possible.
Kids like that have two paths in life:
1) They're the ones that need the wall of the bedroom cut out so the forklift can remove them and usher them on to the hospital/mortuary.
2) They loose a massive amount of weight in their teens/early adulthood and develop either a) anorexia b) a reality television show on NBC or c) succumb to massive coronary failure due to the rapid physiological changes and die.
All for want of a flippin' piece of brocolli every now and again...
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