Dem Press Targets Hillbilly Health

Remember how America had no homeless people until uncaring conservatives elected that evil Ronald Reagan? Then, when The Man From Hope was elected, homelessness magically disappeared. These are the silly gyrations the press goes through during White House transitions.

Well, the agenda this time is health care and the focus is on (Republican) rural West Virginia and its benighted country folk:

Huntington's economy has withered, its poverty rate is worse than the national average, and vagrants haunt a downtown riverfront park. But this city's financial woes are not nearly as bad as its health.

Nearly half the adults in Huntington's five-county metropolitan area are obese — an astounding percentage, far bigger than the national average in a country with a well-known weight problem.

Huntington leads in a half-dozen other illness measures, too, including heart disease and diabetes. It's even tops in the percentage of elderly people who have lost all their teeth (half of them have).

Now that the Democrats have the inner-city poor permanently corralled, their next step is to socialize those ignorant, slack-jawed yokels who cling to guns and religion. And all this unhealthiness calls for more nanny state restrictions on fatty foods, smoking, drinking, number of pizza parlors per square mile, etc...

Expect more focus on poor, rural America and it's unenlightened ways...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081116/ap_on_he_me/med_unhealthiest_city_1