“Disabled” Fat People Demand More
March 20, 2009 / 8:18 am • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierI can’t believe that Rachel Lucas hasn’t smacked this English bottom, but since she’s hasn’t and is instead focusing on Obama’s military aspirations, I will (smack the English, fat bottom).
Americans are fat and unhappy these days, but in Britain, that gets you government help:
The family from Blackburn claim £22,508 a year in benefits, equivalent to the take-home pay from a £30,000 salary.
The Chawners, haven’t worked in 11 years, claim their weight is a hereditary condition and the money they receive is insufficient to live on.
Mr Chawner said: “What we get barely covers the bills and puts food on the table. It’s not our fault we can’t work. We deserve more.”
The family claim to spend £50 a week on food and consume 3,000 calories each a day. The recommended maximum intake is 2,000 for women and 2,500 for men.
“We have cereal for breakfast, bacon butties for lunch and microwave pies with mashed potato or chips for dinner,” Mrs Chawner told Closer magazine.
“All that healthy food, like fruit and veg, is too expensive. We’re fat because it’s in our genes. Our whole family is overweight,” she added.
That’s approximately $43,448.78 American, take home, for sitting around with “bad genetics” and eating.
Well, hell. I need to move to England. Curse my Scottish, squat genes. Curse my proclivity to sit on my sorry rear behind a computer all day. Curse my desire for Coca-Cola. I can’t help it! I need to be bailed out.
This entitlement impulse is what keeps Barack Obama as popular as he is right now. We are at a tipping point here in America: the scales are moving in favor of hands out and me-first-and-more-than-my-fair-share. And why not? Where is the incentive to work and be self-sufficient when you can sit at home and eat all day, morally justified to boot.
H/T Tom Elia and reader Lorne
7 Responses to ““Disabled” Fat People Demand More”
March 20 2009 / 11:51 am
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So “fruit and veg” are too expensive but bacon and microwave-ready convenience foods are cheap and affordable?
With reasoning like that, no wonder the youngest daughter says they all want to lose weight but “we don’t know how.”
March 20 2009 / 12:40 pm
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Rachel’s been pretty busy trying to get broadband, and laughing at the road signs and canned goods…pretty funny stuff!
March 20 2009 / 10:19 pm
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Jeepers. Change the hair color of the one on the right, and that could be me. I’m not disabled. I’m fat because I take in more calories than I burn off. My family was shamed to have to get an emergency food stamp allotment last year. We spent $80 and a month of our lives trying to get a $127 “emergency benefit.” We had to sell some of our personal possessions just to pay the bills.
Maybe I need to move to England, too.
March 22 2009 / 9:07 am
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This is not that amazing a story, in any walmart parking lot, you watch a few ‘handicapped’ people get out of their cars and you can’t help but think ‘when did morbid obesity become a handicap? These folks need to walk the parking lot. I don’t.’
March 25 2009 / 3:32 pm
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“So “fruit and veg” are too expensive but bacon and microwave-ready convenience foods are cheap and affordable?”
I don’t know about the bacon, but if the “pies” they are referring to are like Pot Pies, they can be had VERY cheaply.
On the other hand, $43,000 is nearly my GROSS salary, on the take-home from which I support MY family of 4, as well as having to drive to work every day and maintain the car I drive. I’d like to know what their other bills are like, and why, because I could make quite an easy living on that kind of money and not having to work.
March 31 2009 / 3:10 am
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Wayne–
That $43,000 is a good $16,000 more than my family gets, and we manage to keep going on that. (I mean gross, too, and the mortgage and car payment, but I concede there are only three of us.)
I don’t know what’s gotten into people. Or maybe I do know, and I just don’t want to admit it.
April 5 2009 / 3:49 pm
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Re: fat people at Walmart…
Yea, I’m one of those fat people with a handicap plate. Both of my knees were wrecked while in the Marine Corps 32 years ago. I occasionally run into one of the dumb-ass omniscients that ‘know’ what’s wrong with me and just have to tell me about it.
It’s good to know that the two years of recovery and decades of daily pain would go away if I just exercised some self control. Thanks buddy!