$500 million Obama anti-obesity effort fails to accomplish anything

$500 million Obama anti-obesity effort fails to accomplish anything. “Obama” and “fail”, how often do you hear those two words together in a sentence? Just about every day: “Adding supermarkets to areas with short supplies of fresh produce does not lead to improvements in residents’ diets or health outcomes…” In other words, if you build it, they still won’t come.

This post was last modified on January 26, 2021

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  • The real problem will be explained to us soon. It will point out that it was not nearly enough money and that they meant to spend one half TRILLION dollars on the failure, not a mere half billion.

  • Do you think it failed because the spokes-wookie has an ass the size of Kansas? I'm so tired of seeing the First Camel Toe I could puke. You NEVER saw Laura Bush looking anything less than perfectly turned out in clothes that FIT her properly--she is the epitome of style and class. The current First "Lady" needs to invest in some bigger clothes because she's packed on a solid 50-75 pounds and she needs to start using those famous biceps to push her huge ass away from the table because aerobic chewing isn't doing the job for her (not to mention decimating the world's lobster population). I remember when the Surgeon General was a smoker, so having a fat pig in charge of childhood obesity is sending the wrong message.

    • so well put on so many levels Teri-these misnathropic miscreants occupying illegally, the people's house, set an example that is akin to that of george and wheezie in their first few episodes. We gettin ours-and the rest of the world be damned. You save money serfs, while we eat lobster, ribs, and stuff our faces with grease and sugar. ....the fact she has servants tend "her garden" is exemplary of what kind of losers these two are. Both disbarred for fraud/felonies. Both America hating nihilists who have no business being anywhere in my country!
      The Crack-head and chief and moochelle antoinette need to be exiled to an island somewhere where we never have to hear the screech of their names again!

    • I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome you back, Teri. I hope you'll grace us with your charming wit and pretty smile more often in the future.

    • She's packing in the good foods now, because that gravy train will be coming to an end in a couple more years, then they'll have to pay for their own stuff, and she'll be on a budget, maybe eating Gravy Train!

  • It damn sure didn't do the Wookie's fat ass any favors, except maybe make it even bigger.

  • Between this and the almost $500 mil they are spending to determine why gays in Peru, that's how much they want to take from the commissaries. And why do we have to take COLA away from Disabled vets if we can afford this shit?

    • Strina, I just got a letter from the VA yesterday telling me that they requested records from my previous civilian doctor, but they were destroyed. Problem with that is, I uploaded them to my VA claim file a month ago! These idiots don't read the stuff we submit! I also updated my direct deposit info, but they are still asking me to provide them with that info!
      The blind leading the retarded.

  • If you notice the study says the new healthier supermarkets need to be paired with education, so all this does is give Michelle an excuse to spend more money. It wasn't the program that failed - it was inadequate implementation.