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Originally Posted by Joe
McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, KFC - They're profiting off contributing to heart disease and diabetes while not offering health care to most of their employees. This is where many of the 50 million without health care are working. The uninsured eventually get sick and the taxpayers pick up the bill. The profits and the jobs are outweighed by the social liabilities they incur. So F-them - they're one click above tobacco companies.
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I'm not going to defend fast food joints, but what does the employee without health insurance have to do with the customer eating the unhealthy food?
Don't most people who eat a lot of fast food know the health risks associated with it? Smokers know that what they do is most likely going to eventually kill them. The fat guy chowing down on a 6,000 calorie meal at McD's probably realizes that it's not so good for him when he's breaking a sweat while tring to button his pants.
If people took responsibility for their own actions instead of blaming the companies that provide the products, there wouldn't be so many health problems. As a society, we've given people too many excuses and they feel like they can do whatever they want and blame someone else.
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