At 8:00 this morning I was seating in my car driving to campus for my first class of the day. I had chosen to grab an extra 30 minutes of sleep as usually so I was unable to eat breakfast before leaving my house. So I grabbed a breakfast bar and a cup of milk on my way out the dour. I turned on my radio to listen to the Heather and DC show on Alice like every morning. Today the topic was dieting and one of the things brought up on the show was how a woman had decided to sue McDonalds for $5,000,000 claiming the fast food chain had made her fat. So here I was eating my nutria-grain bar thinking to myself “I need to stop eating this and go pick up a McDouble because I could use a little extra money for tuition.” Now how ridicules is it that this woman had decided to sue McDonalds because she chose to throw back a few to many Quarter Pounders? Is it McDonalds fault that she decided to not workout? Is it McDonalds fault that this woman is apparently incapable of choosing healthier foods that don’t contain excessive amounts of grease and fat? Absolutely not! Now have we as a society told corporations like McDonalds that we care more about taste than health? Probably, but we still can control what we put into our own bodies.
People like this woman are a perfect example of how far we as a nation have fallen. Where you want the world placed on a silver platter but don’t want to do anymore work than absolutely necessary and if something goes wrong blame the other guy. We were once much better than that! In the coming years we will have to remember where we came from if we wish to remain the super power that we are.
