Big, Fat and Stupid

The year I was born, 1970, the obesity rate in this country was 9.7% among the total population, the rate among teenagers was less than 5%.

Also in 1970, the United States ranked number one in math, science and reading scores. Although the data was not as complete globally as it is today its a safe bet that we were on top.

In 1970 the Americans exported more than they imported, we considered a 16 ounce Coke from McDonalds a LARGE, if you couldn't read a kid's handwriting he spent the next week practicing s's and u's and a XXXL shirt was only available at the carnival.

Now 30.6% of Americans are obese, where as most of Asia falls under 4%, 27.6% of kids are big fat asses. American students are not even in the top 20 in math science and reading scores, being betting by the likes of Poland, Ireland, Estonia and Macau. (Where the hell is Macau again...) and a 66% of all T-shirts sold in this country are at least an XL. Worst of all we are spending $147,000,000,000.00 a year on taking care of our biggest, fattest and stupidest.

What a bunch of big, fat IDIOTS we have become! We should be ashamed of ourselves, but its not our faults though.

No.

Its a plan by the Chinese to take over. Make us fat, lazy and stupid and they don't even have to launch a missile. They can just sail on over and push our big fat flabby butts into the streets. Brilliant.

Yeah, really.

Right, I mean it has to be. It can't possibly be that our "I want it all and I want it now" mentality is paying off. It couldn't be the benefit of kinder, gentler parenting, sharing and giving every one a turn. It's definitely not the result of test scores based teaching versus content based teaching.

Nope, its got to be the Chinese.

Because its never our fault.

With all due respect,

The Chief