Obama Issues Executive Order Advocating Behavior Modification

[Danube]

Why does the US need another health body - namely the “National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council”? Obama created this by executive order a few days ago.

The council would "promote" behavior modification:

"The President’s desired lifestyle behavior modifications detailed in Sec. 6 (c) focus on:

• smoking cessation;
• proper nutrition;
• appropriate exercise;
• mental health;
• behavioral health;
• sedentary behavior (see Sec. 3 [c]);
• substance-use disorder; and
• domestic violence screenings."

Another provision calls for:

e) establish processes for continual public input, including input from State, regional, and local leadership communities and other relevant stakeholders, including Indian tribes and tribal organizations

"Local support" is how ACORN etc was allowed to use CRE against banks and how the FCC diversity czar wants to impose control over media.


Obama Issues Executive Order Obama Issues Executive Order Mandating ''Lifestyle Behavior Modification''

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/77/3...andating_Lifestyle_Behavior_Modification.html

 

[JSt0rm]

your world is very very strange.

 

[Throckmorton]

What exactly don't you like about this? Let me guess, you're one of those stoners who complains constantly about the drug war.

Last I checked everything on that list is a significant problem for this country. When China invades, we are going to lose because we can't get off our fat, drunk, smoking, wife beating asses much less hide in the bushes and shoot a gun.

 

[Danube]

Last I checked everything on that list is a significant problem for this country.

And there are already agencies up the kazoo to handle them. We need another health group like we need another ACORN

 

[Infohawk]

If this is true, we don't really need another organization. It also just plays into the paranoid delusions of people like the OP.

 

[Throckmorton]

And there are already agencies up the kazoo to handle them. We need another health group like we need another ACORN

WTF does ACORN have to do with anything?

 

[Genx87]

What exactly don't you like about this? Let me guess, you're one of those stoners who complains constantly about the drug war.

Last I checked everything on that list is a significant problem for this country. When China invades, we are going to lose because we can't get off our fat, drunk, smoking, wife beating asses much less hide in the bushes and shoot a gun.

Right, now back to reality.

 

[Danube]

WTF does ACORN have to do with anything?

"Local leadership communities" never means anything good where our community organizer in chief is concerned.

The Community Reinvestment Act gave ACORN and local groups like it a role in overseeing banks. Obama's FCC "diversity czar" wrote a book about being able to control talk radio by using local groups to push "diversity" regulations as a way to undercut talk radio market.

Obama and Michelle never do anything that's not political and this whole lifestyle thing of theirs is a gimmick.

 

[CLite]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press...prevention-health-promotion-and-public-health

One of the purposes is addressing the sedentary behavior of Americans. What a shocking case of Obama's goal to mind control Americans.........

Danube, you continue to amaze me with the ability to type coherent English considering the complete vacuum of logic and intelligence in any of your posts.

Sec. 3. Purposes and Duties. The Council shall:

(a) provide coordination and leadership at the Federal level, and among all executive departments and agencies, with respect to prevention, wellness, and health promotion practices, the public health system, and integrative health care in the United States;

(b) develop, after obtaining input from relevant stakeholders, a national prevention, health promotion, public health, and integrative health-care strategy that incorporates the most effective and achievable means of improving the health status of Americans and reducing the incidence of preventable illness and disability in the United States, as further described in section 5 of this order;

(c) provide recommendations to the President and the Congress concerning the most pressing health issues confronting the United States and changes in Federal policy to achieve national wellness, health promotion, and public health goals, including the reduction of tobacco use, sedentary behavior, and poor nutrition;

(d) consider and propose evidence-based models, policies, and innovative approaches for the promotion of transformative models of prevention, integrative health, and public health on individual and community levels across the United States;

(e) establish processes for continual public input, including input from State, regional, and local leadership communities and other relevant stakeholders, including Indian tribes and tribal organizations;

(f) submit the reports required by section 6 of this order; and

(g) carry out such other activities as are determined appropriate by the President.

 

[BoberFett]

Eh, we've got money to burn. Might as well set up even more agencies.

 

[Jaskalas]

Last I checked everything on that list is a significant problem for this country. When China invades, we are going to lose because we can't get off our fat, drunk, smoking, wife beating asses much less hide in the bushes and shoot a gun.

Hell, that's news. Supporting the second amendment now?

May I remind you that correcting those "significant problem" is none of your god damn business.

 

[Danube]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press...prevention-health-promotion-and-public-health


Danube, you continue to amaze me with the ability to type coherent English considering the complete vacuum of logic and intelligence in any of your posts.

It's readily observable that Obama breaks everything he touches and does virtually everything with a political end in view. Obama has created something we don't need. The issues may be real (not sure what "behavioral health" will mean to the maniacs that proliferate this admin) but the need for another group (and with Homeland Security on board) is suspect.

The opportunists always use little innocent sounding things to slip in and make a mess. Obama does not by means warrant trust in any measure.

 

[Babbles]

Doesn't the Surgeon General do much of this? Also there is the President's Council on Physical Fitness. USDA does nutritional stuff, correct?

I sorta gotta agree with the OP in regards I don't think yet another council to do more of the same thing is really needed.

 

[CLite]

It's readily observable that Obama breaks everything he touches and does virtually everything with a political end in view. Obama has created something we don't need. The issues may be real (not sure what "behavioral health" will mean to the maniacs that proliferate this admin) but the need for another group (and with Homeland Security on board) is suspect.

The opportunists always use little innocent sounding things to slip in and make a mess. Obama does not by means warrant trust in any measure.

"Behavioral health" is explicitly stated as "sedentary behavior" in the purpose section of the order.

If you had linked a more reputable source and focused on perhaps the judgment in forming agencies while under a pile of debt I might of given some consideration to such a view point. However, the article you linked is full of hysteria and it almost gave me a migraine by the time I finished plowing through all the words of paranoia.

 

[Danube]

"Behavioral health" is explicitly stated as "sedentary behavior" in the purpose section of the order.

If you had linked a more reputable source and focused on perhaps the judgment in forming agencies while under a pile of debt I might of given some consideration to such a view point. However, the article you linked is full of hysteria and it almost gave me a migraine by the time I finished plowing through all the words of paranoia.

The link has another link right to WH page which I read and screen-capped before posting.

 

[Pulsar]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press...prevention-health-promotion-and-public-health

One of the purposes is addressing the sedentary behavior of Americans. What a shocking case of Obama's goal to mind control Americans.........

Danube, you continue to amaze me with the ability to type coherent English considering the complete vacuum of logic and intelligence in any of your posts.

So, do you deny that there are already probably a dozen different government "committees" that could handle this issue, rather than creating yet another pool of politicism and stupidity to appoint friends?

You know what I'd like to see out of this government? I'd like to see a web page with drill down menus showing every government agency, with a list of their responsibilities. I'd also like to see a list of employees with every one of those agencies.

That, however, would make it far to easy to see all the insanity.

 

[bfdd]

So, do you deny that there are already probably a dozen different government "committees" that could handle this issue, rather than creating yet another pool of politicism and stupidity to appoint friends?

You know what I'd like to see out of this government? I'd like to see a web page with drill down menus showing every government agency, with a list of their responsibilities. I'd also like to see a list of employees with every one of those agencies.

That, however, would make it far to easy to see all the insanity.

That site would be AWESOME! To bad it'd be impossible to make, you'd create to many infinite loops and one is bad enough.

 

[Sclamoz]

Doesn't the Surgeon General do much of this? Also there is the President's Council on Physical Fitness. USDA does nutritional stuff, correct?

I sorta gotta agree with the OP in regards I don't think yet another council to do more of the same thing is really needed.

The Surgeon General is the Chair of the Council, according to the order the council is made up of

Sec. 2. Membership.

(a) The Surgeon General shall serve as the Chair of the Council, which shall be composed of:

(1) the Secretary of Agriculture;
(2) the Secretary of Labor;
(3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services;
(4) the Secretary of Transportation;
(5) the Secretary of Education;
(6) the Secretary of Homeland Security;
(7) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency;
(8) the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission;
(9) the Director of National Drug Control Policy;
(10) the Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council;
(11) the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs;
(12) the Chairman of the Corporation for National and Community Service; and
(13) the head of any other executive department or agency that the Chair may, from time to time, determine is appropriate.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press...prevention-health-promotion-and-public-health

The best part of the order is the last:

(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

 

[irishScott]

So how much money are we printing to cover this? Seriously, I can understand the economic theory of spending to revive the economy, but in the middle of a recession with a ridiculous deficit you do not unnecessarily increase the deficit. Why is this such a hard concept?

Every President before being considered a candidate, should be required to spend one year on a 50k budget with taxes. They should be required to purchase everything they need from that 50k. They'll learn the importance of saving money quickly enough.

 

[CLite]

I actually didn't fully read the executive order but this is a nice part to it too

[QUOTE="Section 7(c)]
(c) Members of the Advisory Group shall serve without compensation, but shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law for persons serving intermittently in Government service (5 U.S.C. 5701-5707), consistent with the availability of funds.[/QUOTE]

*edit* @ IrishScott, read above.

 

[irishScott]

I actually didn't fully read the executive order but this is a nice part to it too



*edit* @ IrishScott, read above.

Great, so we're only slightly unnecessarily increasing the deficit with yet another federal body that probably won't have any real effect on anything anyway. Other than adding red tape to whatever they see fit, which will cost even more money.

 

[StageLeft]

your world is very very strange.

hehe

 

[woolfe9999]

If this is true, we don't really need another organization. It also just plays into the paranoid delusions of people like the OP.

To be perfectly clear, this is not a new federal agency. It isn't a regulatory body. It's an advisory counsel which consists of people already in appointed positions. It's kind of like the President's Economic Advisory Board, but for healthcare. Presidents establish boards, commissions and counsels all the time to provide recommendations and advice.

Cup of rage, indeed.

- wolf

 

[irishScott]

To be perfectly clear, this is not a new federal agency. It isn't a regulatory body. It's an advisory counsel which consists of people already in appointed positions. It's kind of like the President's Economic Advisory Board, but for healthcare. Presidents establish boards, commissions and counsels all the time to provide recommendations and advice.

Cup of rage, indeed.

- wolf

Well if that's all this is then fine, but IMO this is about the least important of the many issues Obama could be tackling right now. The Biggest Loser has probably done more to encourage healthy lifestyles than Washington ever could.

 

[Moonbeam]

Da noob has created another idiot thread. Oh boy!