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Metaphor For America: Starving 4 Pound Baby Dies In Car While Parents Eat At Golden Corral<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
By Michael Snyder, on December 31st, 2014<\/div>\n
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\"Golden<\/a>What should be done to parents that stuffed themselves full of food at a Golden Corral while their starving four pound baby girl died in their car outside?\u00a0 This actually just happened\u00a0down in Florida<\/a>, and it is a crime that is shocking the entire nation.\u00a0 Sadly, it is also a perfect metaphor for what is happening to the country as a whole.\u00a0 We have become an exceedingly selfish and self-centered society that seems to care very little that we are literally destroying the future of America.\u00a0 We are\u00a0stealing trillions of dollars<\/a>\u00a0from future generations and destroying what was once the greatest economy in the history of the world just to make ourselves a little bit more comfortable in the present.\u00a0 We stand by and do nothing while our politicians flush the U.S. Constitution down the toilet and construct a\u00a0Big Brother police state<\/a>\u00a0all around us.\u00a0 We have become a nation of \u201csheeple<\/a>\u201d and \u201czombies<\/a>\u201d that are so addicted to entertainment that we can\u2019t even see how our society is rotting and decaying in thousands of different ways all around us.\u00a0 So yes, the parents that starved their precious little baby girl to death are guilty and should be punished.\u00a0 But what about the millions of Americans that are doing nothing while America slowly circles the toilet on the way to oblivion?<\/p>\n

There are very few news stories that affect me deeply on an emotional level.\u00a0 But when I read about\u00a0the starvation of this precious little baby girl down in Florida<\/a>, I was quite upset\u2026<\/p>\n

A baby girl named Betsey died, having being starved to death while strapped in her car seat as her parents ate a Florida Golden Corral restaurant.<\/p>\n

The parents of the 22-day-old baby have been charged with first-degree murder, police said on Tuesday, accusing them of neglecting the suffering infant.<\/p>\n

Ruby Stephens, 23, and Roy Stephens, 48, of Indiana, were visiting relatives in central Florida on December 23 when they called 911 after discovering the baby was unresponsive in their car, according to Lakeland Police.<\/p>\n

Betsey Kee Stephens was declared dead at the hospital.<\/p>\n

\u2018She suffered tremendously over the 22 days that she was alive,\u2019 Mike Link, assistant chief of Lakeland Police, told a news conference.<\/p>\n

He called photographs of the baby \u2018absolutely horrible.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How cold-hearted do you have to be in order to do such a thing?<\/p>\n

How could anyone neglect such a precious baby girl like that?<\/p>\n

Inside the Golden Corral, her parents had access to an endless buffet.\u00a0 But they didn\u2019t even bring Betsey inside with them.\u00a0 She sat outside strapped in her car seat as she died from starvation.<\/p>\n

But like I said, this is such a perfect metaphor for where we are as a nation.<\/p>\n

We have become a selfish, greedy, gluttonous nation that doesn\u2019t care about others and that always wants more for ourselves.<\/p>\n

For example, in 1962\u00a0only 13 percent<\/a>\u00a0of all Americans were obese.\u00a0 But today,\u00a035.7 percent<\/a>\u00a0of all Americans are obese, and it is being projected that\u00a042 percent<\/a>\u00a0of all Americans could be obese by the year 2030.<\/p>\n

And of course it goes far beyond just being physically gluttonous.\u00a0 Much worse is\u2026 (to continued reading\u00a0http:\/\/endoftheamericandream.com\/archives\/metaphor-for-america-starving-4-pound-baby-dies-in-car-while-parents-eat-at-golden-corral<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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