It's your fault

In this Fox News article a 275 pound 5-ft. woman by the name of Carolyn Ragan was told to go to the Kansas City Zoo to get an MRI because she was too big for the hospital's MRI machine. The article seems a bit cruel at first until further reading reveals that, "She was too heavy for the table and too wide to slide through the opening." So she was literally too big for the MRI machine at the hospital.

This brings to mind three thoughts. First, how could someone let themselves get that big. I know that calories in versus calories out either makes a person gain weight or lose weight depending on which which is greater, "in" or "out." A healthy BMI for a 5-ft. individual is 128 pounds at most. Which makes her 150 +/- pounds overweight. How come she never made much effort to stop gaining weight?

Second, what perspective does she have of her weight? When reading her response to the hospital not having an MRI machine capable of accepting her massive body, she stated "They should have machines that fit most everybody." Her statement is crazy. Why should hospitals be forced to buy bigger MRI machines to accept fatter people? This also answers the last question in my previous paragraph, which brings me to my third thought.

She at the least, our society at worst, has succumbed to selfishness. She could go on a diet and decrease her "calories in." She could go to the gym and do an hour of cardio with her heartbeat at 65% max and thus increase "calories out." She could do both and do a double whammy on her morbid obesity. But she doesn't, she wants others to accommodate her. She probably wants bigger gurneys, wider airplane seats, larger booths at restaurants and more oak on her chairs.

This lack of personal responsibility is upsetting. She allowed herself to get that fat. She made the decision to eat copious amounts of food. I think this mindset permeates our society when we ponder the notion that people affix blame to something other than themselves. When a person murders, it's not their fault, it's their upbringing. When someone doesn't receive good grades in schools, the school failed them (or sometimes a white person suppressed their success). When Illegal Immigrants break our Immigration laws, it's because they're lured by the job opportunities to "provide for their family." When Republicans win Elections, it's because they "stole" it. When Democrats receive more votes than Registered Voters (like in the Minnesota Senate race) it's because Norm Coleman is attempting to win the Election (reread what happens when Republicans win Elections again for a laugh). When the hospital MRI machine is too small, they should buy a bigger one.

When Obama was running for President, he promised a Middle Class Tax Cut for anyone making less than a "quarter million bucks," promised to help Main Street because of the greed on Wall Street (ha, as if sub-prime borrowers weren't greedy when they applied for loans they could never afford to repay), talked about providing health care for all Americans, talked about ending the War in Iraq and going after bin Laden in Pakistan, etc. Right now he's proposed $800 billion in spending (Public Works projects, extending welfare and unemployment benefits, small stimulation checks to spur spending) to jump start the Economy, and this is in combination with our projected $1.2 trillion deficit. I'm just waiting for him to turn water into wine, cure cancer with his tears, and create a seven year peace treaty in the Middle East. Then I'll know for sure the 'end' has come. Until then, I'll continue trash talking fat people that want to be accommodated rather than lose weight and other selfish individuals who are to apathetic about their own circumstances to even bother investigating what role they play in it.