Friday, September 15, 2006

Bush Cuts Exercise Spending

One in five US teenagers is headed for obesity and a consequent life of disease.  An effective advertising campaign, VERB, was dismantled by Bush administration budget cuts after it was proven to be successful!  Our government’s bland message of eating less and exercising more tends to fall on deaf ears, especially in younger people.  Ads that made exercise cool were actually turning the tide. 

Since the government money was not headed for Big Pharma and success of the program would reduce future Big Pharma profits by producing healthier Americans, it simply had to be stopped.  Meanwhile, billions of dollars in anti-psychotic drugs that make children fat and diabetic are pushed on our children to control their moods, even though they have never been approved for use in any person under the age of 18.  Our government forces taxpayers and insurance companies to foot the bill for billions of dollars in obesity-producing medication bent on mind control.  Politicians can say anything they want.  Follow the money and you understand the true priorities of government.