How Fat Is Your State?

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Just to lighten things up a little...

Here we see the effect but not the ultimate cause. So I fear at this point I really must trivialize the complex and complicate the mundane. One may note that both WV and Old Miss. are indeed the poorest per capita States in the Nation and have the highest per capita rates of welfare dependency. Thus as a wise and able statesmen once said:

The lessons of history, confirmed by evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence on relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of sound policy. It is a violation of the traditions of America.

(President Franklin D. Roosevelt; 1935 State of the Union Message)

My how the apple has fallen far from that tree. In other words, someone apparently thought it was a great idea to pay some poor people to stay home, eat free food, and get 'buried in a piano box like' fat? In truth a brilliant exposé of human nature, yet I suppose if it helps to buy the votes, and the cause it is just, why not pork them plebs up?