Legislation Includes Provisions For Healthy Lifestyle Infrastructure

Tax dollars wasted big time.

"Sweeping healthcare legislation in Congress includes money for walking paths, streetlights, jungle gyms, and even farmers' markets. While supporters cite their importance for preventative health, critics see the billions of dollars for such provisions in the Senate and House versions as pure pork.

The Boston Globe reports: 'Critics argue the provision is a thinly disguised effort to insert pork-barrel spending into a bill that has been widely portrayed to the public as dealing with expanding health coverage and cutting medical costs. ... But advocates, including Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, defend the proposed spending as a necessary way to promote healthier lives and, in the long run, cut medical costs.'"

Pork or not is debatable.

Stupid move is not.

Face it. If the fat wanted to do more "exercise" and "eat better" (according to conventional thinking) they would walk more around their homes, eat fewer Calories or consume more fruits and vegetables already.

There is not a single bar preventing any fatso from doing these things.

All excuses, such as unsafe neighborhoods, can be overcome (assuming they exist as a reason for overfatness - which they do not) simply as suggested above.

And although obesity leads to poverty - poveresity - if you are an imbecile who believes it is the other way around, then go visit a farmer's market and check out the prices there vis-a-vis grocery store prices.

A huge waste, a stupid idea.

Perfectly consistent with sick care reform.