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#47742 - 08/31/09 08:42 PM Re: SHOULD obese people, like smokers, be barred from [Re: alicex4]
Mark Heyman Offline
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Did you leave out your sex life for a reason?

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#47743 - 08/31/09 09:10 PM Re: SHOULD obese people, like smokers, be barred from [Re: alicex4]
MarcC Offline
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Originally Posted By: alicex4
Actually, where in the Constitution does it enumerate the government's ability/duty to supervise my eating, reading, sleeping, and exercise?

They don't have to specifically enumerated - the Constitution enables the creation and passage of legislation, which can be regulatory in nature.

FDA & USDA, among others, most definitely supervises what you eat.

The TSA, among others from the Bush era, thinks they can regulate what you read. Consider the number of people who have been detained at airports because of their selection of reading material or the T-shirt they were wearing.

Sleeping and exercise can be encouraged by incentive legislation. And the health care industry that the American Taliban Republicans are so loath to reform already does so by rationing health care and charging penalties for undesired behavior. Ever compare life and health insurance rates between smokers and non-smokers?
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#47744 - 08/31/09 09:15 PM Re: SHOULD obese people, like smokers, be barred from [Re: Mark Heyman]
MarcC Offline
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Originally Posted By: Mark Heyman
Did you leave out your sex life for a reason?

I guess she didn't feel it necessary to mention, since the republicans have desperately been trying to increase government control of that for decades.
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#47745 - 08/31/09 11:01 PM Re: SHOULD obese people, like smokers, be barred from [Re: alicex4]
pedestrian Offline
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Originally Posted By: alicex4
Actually, where in the Constitution does it enumerate the government's ability/duty to supervise my eating, reading, sleeping, and exercise?


Have you gone completely daft? Government is doing no such thing.

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