It's clearly a social commentary on the diet of the poor in America. The narrator has money to buy food, but his choices are limited. Pizza, fast food, processed foods. Perhaps as a result of cost compared to fresh items or perhaps as a result of bad choices/self control.
Valentine is pointing out the contradiction between the fact that they are eating, even though they are poor, but they are still killing themselves with bad food. It reminds me of college with my roommate who was a biology major. When I'd eat a lot of Ramen noodles he'd say something to the effect of "starving on a full stomach" in reference to the lack of nutrition one receives.
I'm not sure what Valentine is trying to convey with the Obama reference. Maybe it's just a technique to express that it's people on welfare, not just fat people eating badly. It might be Obama's own contradiction between his wife's fight for health eating and perhaps a lack of support for the poor? But I'm not sure.
It's clearly a social commentary on the diet of the poor in America. The narrator has money to buy food, but his choices are limited. Pizza, fast food, processed foods. Perhaps as a result of cost compared to fresh items or perhaps as a result of bad choices/self control.
Valentine is pointing out the contradiction between the fact that they are eating, even though they are poor, but they are still killing themselves with bad food. It reminds me of college with my roommate who was a biology major. When I'd eat a lot of Ramen noodles he'd say something to the effect of "starving on a full stomach" in reference to the lack of nutrition one receives.
I'm not sure what Valentine is trying to convey with the Obama reference. Maybe it's just a technique to express that it's people on welfare, not just fat people eating badly. It might be Obama's own contradiction between his wife's fight for health eating and perhaps a lack of support for the poor? But I'm not sure.