Richer/poorer, thinner/fatter in 2006 USA...what's the correlation?

Question

I've seen promos for the movie The Devil Wears Prada, in which a character says, "0 is the new 2, 2 is the new 4...and 6 is the new 14". Meanwhile, I've read reports about America getting fatter, and how fast foods are making us fat, and that fast food joints attract poor and working-class people who don't have the money nor the time to buy and plan healthier meals. And we know that these days we have tax cuts for the rich and outsourcing for the poor. Therefore, here's my thesis: There's a correlation in the USA in the early 2000s between "the rich get richer while the poor get poorer" and "the thin get thinner while the fat get fatter". What do you think? Can anyone of you make clearer what this correlation is?

By "correlation" I don't necessarily mean "conspiracy". I mean cause-and-effect.

Answer 1

I have no money and do not worry about it, I have always had more than enough, I eat as well as possible and try to eat healthy. There is no conspiracy out there to disrupt the lives of people except the conspiracy to divide people based on wealth and the haves vs have nots. Quit looking for correlations and start being part of the solution to the imagined problems that you see,

Answer 2

Hell I don't look to society to tell me what I should look like or what I should be. I am me. If we were all ment to be the same we would be. I don't listen to the all the hype. Each of us are truly beautiful in our own way. You can do anything you want to as far as being rich or poor and then there are people who are not being helped and don't have a chance to better themselves and they are getting poorer. Then again you look at inflation and cost of living there are few wages that are keeping up. That's where the saying goes the rich get richer and the poor working class get poorer. In reality mostly all people want to give there families a good life.

Answer 3

If you are an average working mother of 2 with a budget of $50 for 1 week worth of food, what kinds of meals can you feed your kids? Healthy food like vegetables, fish and lean meats are very expensive. Not all, but many lower and middle class families can only afford to purchase unhealthy instant meals, such as mac n' cheese, frozen pizza, peanut butter sandwhiches and plain pasta dishes.

I do not have kids, I just live with my boyfriend. Our budget allows us to have very healthy meals - I probably have 1 year's worth of seafood in my freezer. I would rather cut my clothing budget by 50% so I can have healthy meals.

Answer 4

Ahem, I am "working class" and I plan healthy meals for my family, and I don't sell crack or meth to make the money to buy the food, I work for it. We seldom eat "fast food". Having said that, wealthy people have always been given breaks by the governments under which they live, and it's not going to change.

People overeat because they want to. People starve themselves for fashion (or whatever) because they want to. Leave them to their own devices,

as for your correlation, it has more to do with bad parenting and poor choices than it has to do with money.