{"id":1500109,"date":"2022-06-01T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500109"},"modified":"2022-06-01T16:00:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:00:38","slug":"obese-stroke-survivor-john-fetterman-thinks-he-knows-whats-best-for-your-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obese-stroke-survivor-john-fetterman-thinks-he-knows-whats-best-for-your-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Obese Stroke Survivor John Fetterman Thinks He Knows What\u2019s Best for Your Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobese-stroke-survivor-john-fetterman-thinks-he-knows-whats-best-for-your-health%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500109&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Why the rich Harvard grad in cargo shorts wants to punish poor people<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 June 1, 2022 3:50 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>John Fetterman, the overweight 52-year-old man who suffered a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/dems-pick-hospitalized-fetterman-in-crucial-pennsylvania-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stroke<\/a> just days before winning the Democratic nomination for Senate in Pennsylvania, thinks politicians ought to punish poor people who don&#8217;t make healthy choices.<\/p>\n<p>The massive Democrat, whom some doctors believe is\u00a0at risk of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/sudden-cardiac-death-doctors-raise-concerns-about-fettermans-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sudden cardiac death<\/a>&#8221; following his mysterious stroke, supports punitive soda taxes like the one enacted by the Philadelphia city council in 2016. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), the self-avowed socialist, denounced the tax as a &#8220;regressive&#8221; policy that would harm &#8220;low income and working people.&#8221; Fetterman disagreed, explaining in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillymag.com\/citified\/2016\/06\/08\/john-fetterman-soda-tax-op-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">op-ed<\/a> for <em>Philadelphia<\/em> magazine that the tax was not &#8220;regressive&#8221; if it increased the cost of soda so much that poor people could no longer afford it.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman argued that anyone who opposed the soda tax &#8220;doesn&#8217;t understand poverty.&#8221; The results of a Drexel University <a href=\"https:\/\/philadelphia.cbslocal.com\/2020\/02\/27\/soda-tax-had-little-impact-on-what-philadelphians-are-drinking-drexel-university-researchers-find\/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwnNyUBhCZARIsAI9AYlH9tXtwnnZ_Dld7S6rEp0lzD8jI_AqmvQqBr8coyz4JHNkulQjl3UkaAvU5EALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> published in 2020 suggest that Fetterman, the Harvard-educated son of a wealthy insurance magnate, might not have the best understanding of the issue. The study found\u00a0&#8220;no major overall impact of the tax on general population-level consumption of sugar-sweetened or diet beverages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City and perhaps the most prominent advocate for punishing poor people for their so-called unhealthy choices,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-beverages-sodatax-bloomberg\/bloomberg-looks-west-after-bankrolling-philadelphia-soda-tax-win-idUSKCN0Z3275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spent<\/a> about $1.6 million backing the campaign to tax soda sales in Philadelphia. The Democratic-controlled state legislature in Vermont recently approved a <a href=\"https:\/\/legislature.vermont.gov\/Documents\/2022\/Docs\/BILLS\/S-0100\/S-0100%20As%20Passed%20by%20Both%20House%20and%20Senate%20Official.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plan<\/a> to study the economic impact of a soda tax.<\/p>\n<p>White progressives love Fetterman because they identify with his wealthy upbringing and fancy college degrees. They also love the fact that he looks like a strip club bouncer, wears cargo shorts, and sends campaign emails with subject lines such as, &#8220;I wanted to send yinz a quick note.&#8221; So authentic! The <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/john-fetterman-racism-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described<\/a> him as &#8220;a walking folk hero, half Pete Seeger, half Metallica. The kind of anti-politician a Democratic wizard might conjure to grab the dispossessed Americans who tipped the 2016 election to President Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania&#8217;s black voters, meanwhile, were <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/fetterman-racist-gun-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">less enthusiastic<\/a> about the prospect of nominating Fetterman, who in 2013 detained an innocent black jogger near his home by pointing a shotgun at him. The Democrat has refused to apologize for the racially charged incident.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Why the rich Harvard grad in cargo shorts wants to punish poor people  Andrew Stiles \u2022 June 1, 2022 3:50 pm John Fetterman, the overweight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}