Mother of 555 pound teenager charged with neglect

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[RideTheDirt]

YouTube - Ron Paul vs. Morton Downey, Jr.'s audience 1988 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88REf0tjZHo)

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[GBurr]

Epic Pwn

[Brassmouth]

How hypocritical. The State makes it impossible for a single mother to raise her children, and then throws her in a cage, and takes money from her when they discover that her child was neglected.

Fuck the State. :mad:

[FSP-Rebel]

Fucking the state aside, and they should be fucked, but this is poor parenting - not that it should be penalized.

[swed]

Very poor parenting.

[Sean]

Its poor parenting and poor decisions by the kid. I guess the state can lock him up and make him do mandatory exercise and diet as that is the only thing that will work. I think these are bad precedents for everyone now as the state can come in at whatever weight is deemed unhealthy, which probably includes over half the kids in the nation.

[cradle2graveconservative]

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[Master]

YouTube - Ron Paul vs. Morton Downey, Jr.'s audience 1988 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88REf0tjZHo)

Such an epic video. :D

[Danke]

The State has an interest in its property.

[Bman]

The State has an interest in its property.

Well how can we have national healthcare if people are 500 pounds?

They'll die before they put more into the system then they'll take out.

[acptulsa]

The State has an interest in its property.

That's as may be. But if the kid has a glandular problem, such as a thyroid problem, the state will find itself as powerless to change the situation as the kid's own mother is.

But at least she'll still love him. They'll just look at him as proof of their inability to make the world perfect, and resent him.

[Krugerrand]

Folks, we're missing the real problem here. ADA requirements should be changed to force all businesses to widen all their doors by an extra 12 inches.

[heavenlyboy34]

folks, we're missing the real problem here. Ada requirements should be changed to force all businesses to widen all their doors by an extra 12 inches.

lmao! ;)

[cradle2graveconservative]

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[fisharmor]

How is it nobody yet has mentioned the missing person in this scenario?

The state didn't make it impossible for her to make a living (just really difficult) - but the missing person made it a lot less possible for her to care for her child.

What the state did do, however, is take several actions to make it so the missing person in this scenario had much less reason to be involved in the raising of this child.

[acptulsa]

What the state did do, however, is take several actions to make it so the missing person in this scenario had much less reason to be involved in the raising of this child.

You mean like paying the mother to tell him to go away, and setting it up so she can easily have him arrested for showing his face? Yeah, a nice father-son game of catch could do the kid wonders...

[Pepsi]

Just cannon folder for them to enact laws were you need to get a license to have children.