Are You Kidding Me?

Meet the Chawner family from Blackburn, England. Philip, his wife Audrey, and their 2 daughters weigh in at a mere 1,160 combined pounds.
This lovely family has recently found themselves in the news and the subject of much ridicule. There is a good reason for this.
The problem here is not that they are all obese, but rather that they all claim that they are too fat to work. Even better is that they are receiving more than $30,000 per year in government funding because of this absurd claim. Not only that but they are asking the government for a raise now. Apparently, eating 3,000 calories each per day is getting too expensive and they might have to cut back. We can’t have that. Also, according to Philip, fruits and vegetables are too costly and besides, they don’t like the taste.

According to Philip, they all got the ‘fat’ gene and are powerless against it. There is simply nothing they can to to stop it! Do you see a problem here?
Philip has developed type 2 diabetes because of his weight and his wife now has asthma and epilepsy. They also have government funded health care.

The best part is that they spend ALL day watching television and sleeping. Philip says that when they get too bored with watching tv, they have to take a nap for a reprieve. Emma, 19, is a college student who claims she does not have the time for exercise and has no idea how to lose the weight. How about getting off the couch and moving!

It’s only a matter of time before stories similar to this one start popping up in this country. The sheer laziness and ignorance of these people just add to the many fundamental sociological problems this world faces.