wonderer84

Hi lapbandtalk community,

I was banded yesterday (3-25-2010) in Tijuana, Mexico. I've been looking through these forums for about three months but did not want to start posting until after I got banded.

I have been battling obesity since age 5. I lost nearly 80 lbs at around 19-20 years old and gained it all back within two years.

I remember slowly watching my weight surge past 200 lbs to 300 lbs and up to 317 as of my liquid pre-op diet.

I'm 25 years old, I knew that unless I did something a little more drastic it would not be long before my watched my weight approach 400 lbs or higher.

I decided to get banded because I wanted to take my weight into my own hands.

I look forward to participating on this forum.

Wonderer I think you're right about one thing. Money rules everything in this country including our politicians. So how do we hope to fix it?

Regulation - not deregulation that the Republicans have always favored.

Other than replacing the current free market, for-profit Capitalist economy with a cooperative, non-profit Socialist economy, I do not know.

As long as things are the way they are, politicians will never be able to pass a law without having the stamp of approval from the elite of this country. (Regardless of what the people want.)

:tt1:

We are now socialist, one step away from communism, the red menace.

You can't be serious. Obama is as capitalist as they come and would not have gotten the nomination of one of the two pro-business parties had he been otherwise.

Obama is No Socialist

I am a card carrying Socialist BTW. So I do not view the label "Socialist" or "Communist" as an insult.

First off. Obama didn't crash the country. Bush SR. crashed the country. It will take many more presidents to pull us out of this hole then just Obama. I am not sorry at all that I voted for Obama. What I am sorry for is having to watch the tears and listen to the complaints of those that voted for both the Bush's because as I said then and I will say now, "You will be sorry". And now everyone is paying for it. And it's NOT because of Obama.

QFT.

If we really want to take an honest look at things. This all started even further back than Bush Sr.

Real wages for working class people in this country (USA) had risen every decade from 1820 until the 1970s. It's been stagnant ever since.

Why blame the government or US presidents? Big business runs this country regardless of who is sitting in the Oval Office or which party controls congress.