And international class bigots like Fowler dare to insult those same Americans? For the past 65 years, Europeans have enjoyed longer life expectancies and higher living standards on the dime of poor working class American’s tax dollars that benefited everyone else — except Americans.

It was the tax dollars of working class Americans that funded the financial aid package to rebuild European nations after WW II. Who does that smug prick think paid for the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan, which made social benefits and socialized medicine affordable for Britain and France? The Tooth Fairy?

Every day, 122 poor uninsured Americans die for lack of access to healthcare, 1 in 5 foreclosures are due to unaffordable medical bills, 1 in 4 bankruptcies are due to unaffordable medical bills and extremely high prices on medicine.
Stephen Fowler and the rest of Britain enjoy generous social programs and safety nets, made possible because of poor working class Americans whose taxes funded Europe’s economic recovery post-war. And for this, we are put down for our weight problems, our inability to afford university educations, healthy foods, and being “militaristic” and “fascist.”

If it wasn’t for our military and tax dollars off the backs of our poorer people who have been deprived of educations, travel opportunity, and healthcare while our taxes funded the rebuilding of Britain; Stephen Fowler would not have had the luxury of growing up with access to low-cost high quality medical and dental care so that his advanced education and opportunity to achieve economic success would have been possible.

His parents would not have had a nice middle class life due to the security that comes with having access to health and dental care so that he could go to a prestigious university. And it would be Stephen Fowler, instead of struggling Americans, living in a “podunk town” with nothing. Britain would have remained a pile of rubble and ended up as Hitler’s outhouse.

Fowler owes ALL Americans more than just a self-serving apology…he can do his part as a “world citizen” by repaying his fair share of the US taxes paid by working class Americans which helped him have a better life that would not have been made possible without the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.

I have read so many responses from people who feel the necessity to point out how high their IQ is and their many qualifications in often failed attempts to prove that they are not like the Fowler family but end up before their responses are complete they expose themselves as being very similar to them. I am not suggesting that all educated and affluent people behave exactly as the Fowler’s do but I am saying that far to many do have this attitude and if I had a nickel for every time I have heard people get on TV and make some redneck or comment about the lack of education of people from the south I would be a wealthy woman. It is usually acceptable conversation and embraced as fact somehow

I will add this:

Mr. Fowler’s behaviors, mannerisms, heightened linguistic proclivity and deadened reactions manifest very much like my Aspergars’ Syndrome students; though I beg their forgiveness, as all of them are far kinder.

It is my sincere & professional sense that he is not JUST the “Asshole” that many of you are calling him; I suspect there may be huge synaptic gulfs in his mental processing. That level of obsessiveness, redundancy & insensitivity are hallmarks of the syndrome. If so, he can’t be blamed for some of his approach, as it’s psychobiological. If his wife is in fact demanding he get treatment, and if the practitioner has a shred of ability, s/he will be able to identify the Syndrome & it’s symptoms.

More troubling to me was his wife’s willingness to remain in his orbit. I too know something about NLP, and her body language and eye movement in the Table Meeting gave away a great deal about her sense of him.

Bottom line: who in their right mind would pay for or heed “Life Direction” advice from a woman who doesn’t have the sense and strength to leave this very unfit husband and father?

And if it turns out that he is just blatantly cruel, one has to hope CPS gets involved. While some might not agree with or understand the way they choose to raise their kids, that doesn’t make them the first parents to put overly large demands on their kids; many survive it and go on to be very capable and contributory citizens, and it can be a productive thing. But living in a home where belittling and cruelty is the order of the day is a FAR more unhealthy & dangerous foundation than paint-balling & some extra pounds!

Does anyone know if he has apologized yet? I know editing played a part in just how bad he looked on the show, but he sure gave them a lot of footy to choose from.