Remember… When people get fat, it is the fault of the federal government and not the individual who refuses to take responsibility for his or her own health, as well as the health of dependents (i.e.: children)… well, at least that’s what the Washington Post thinks:

The problem at first was that the problem was ignored: For almost two decades, young people in the United States got fatter and fatter — ate more, sat more — and nobody seemed to notice. Not parents or schools, not medical groups or the government.

But since the alarm was finally sounded in the late 1990s, the problem has been the country’s reaction: a fragmented, inchoate response that critics say has suffered particularly from inadequate direction and dollars at the federal level.

It is the responsibility of families and individuals to control their weight and be healthy.  The obesity of our federal government is already a much more dire predicament…