Ludwig…Need I say more?

It seems that there is nothing a state needs more than to take care of a hundred thousand fat kids.  Hearing what Heir Ludwig and his Gaelic Navigator friend want to do,they make it seem as if parents are at fault.  As if the teachers are to blame for a child's inability to progress in school.  People!  It’s a village that raises a child, not a state.

When I think about what they want to do, all I see is that scene in Schindler’s List, where the children are being trucked away from their half naked parents.  Sad imagery, to say the least, but it got me thinking.  I started thinking, “What could possibly happen if this request was taken seriously”.

Race Vs. Obesity

I went online and found some statistics by the CDC that ranks the states with high adult obesity.  In 2009, the CDC found that the states with 30% or higher BMI were:  West Virginia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Alabama and Arkansas.  Being a Texan, I checked where Texas stood and was not surprised to see that Texas is on the cusp of ranking along with these other states averaging at 28% BMI.  These states seem to cluster around the United States’ southeastern area, the majority of the states being old Confederate states.  Well, that put a damper on my day, realizing that if children were going to be taken away from their families, it was going to hit southern families the hardest.

Now that we know where the people are that stand to loss the most, I wanted to know the race of people to loss the most.  I used Texas, well, because I’m Texan.  White Texans average at 20-24% BMI.  Hispanics average at 30-34% BMI.  Blacks average at and over 35%.

This is a scare tactic, plain and simple, but don’t take my warning lightly.  Alabama and Mississippi have White and Hispanic’s have the same BMI while Blacks have the highest BMI.  I didn’t want you to think I was just using the information to scare you.  I am.  I really am.  But I’m also not lying about the statistics.

I don’t know why we are getting fatter in this country.  For all I know, it’s the same thing that was happening in Rome before the fall, or any other epoch in human history.  In our comfort, we become passive and static; stationary while the struggling world fights on to survive.  But at the end of the day, if the state takes our children simply because they are over-weight, what keeps them from taking our rights away simply because they feel they can do a better job.