Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Because they have chronic disease.
They have asthma.
They have diabetes.
They have, you know, they're obese.
One of those.
But when my uncle was president, I was a 10-year-old kid.
We spent zero on chronic disease in this country, zero.
Today we spend $4.3 trillion a year.
And it's about 40 cents out of every tax dollar that is paid by you to the federal government is now going to treat chronic disease.
And it's unsustainable and it's getting worse every year.
I mean, individuals have a responsibility, but the obesity, when I was a kid, 5% of children were obese.
Yeah, you had one kind of fat kid in your class.
And today it's, you know, 15% is going.
Overweight is 40%.
Adults, it's even higher.
We should just have a thick military then, I think.
But people did not get, Americans did not get obese because they're indolent or lazy or they don't want to do exercise.
They got that way because they're being mass poisoned.
And they're being mass poisoned because the government lied to them and it lied about the food.