Someone had to say it.

We are the fattest nation on earth. Almost 3/4s of us are overweight and about 40% of us are just plain fat. 

As I write this during the Great Government Shutdown of 2025 I'm listening to people piss and moan about the fact that the SNAP program isn't being funded. In the overwhelming majority of cases this should be no big deal. we're fat enough without getting any fatter.

Currently the average woman that is not on SNAP weighs 170 pounds. The average woman on SNAP runs about 212 pounds. 

What in the Wide, wide world of sports is a-going on around here?  

If you need food, you need food. That's what the program is there for. But most of the people screeching about people starving are sitting at their keyboards on asses that are four axe-handles wide.

Currently a lot of people are screeching that the program is going to be hurt with the shutdown and that's probably true. What annoys me to no end is the overly dramatic screeching that children are going to starve. I have a hard time believing that parents will let their children starve. They may have to cut back a bit like my parents did from time to time while I was growing up. 

I also see where the food banks, churches and other food sources are gearing up and are feeding people. 

I see little real hunger in this country. This is what REAL hunger looks like:

It ain't pretty.

Thank God it doesn't happen here.

I'm sure that nobody is going to starve during the shutdown.

FWIW the photographer that took that picture shot himself shortly after.

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