Saying No. Panda Bear gets it.
As an American, I'm telling you right now, you need to find a way to make yourself healthy. Stop eating McDonald's. Stop smoking. Exercise as much as you can. Get that blood flowing and the good chemicals traveling through your blood vessels. Lose the central fat weighing you down. No more excuses. And whatever you do, get rid of the diabetes. As we move further toward the centralized government's delivery of health care, we move closer to economic failure. Ye who owns the money owns the power. And ye will decide who lives and who dies, unless you have the cash to make your own decisions.
Ye will have to say no to something, eventually. And you sad smoker or indulger in the Big Mac are going to pay the price with your life. We are over 10 trillion dollars in the hole as it stands now with only 50 million Medicare beneficiaries. Imagine how many trillions more if we try and apply government care to 300 million people.
If you don't make yourself better, the government will eventually put you out of your misery.
Ok, fine Happy... so I used to workout daily... school/clinical/study screwed that up since January, plus I messed something up medially in my knee on the ice then. Too cheap/pissed to go to an ortho... treated it myself, clinicals in a jointed knee brace is interesting. I think I have just been chicken shit to get on the treadmill again as I think I could have with care, a month ago. Hopped on today, and though out of breath, I was OK. Cold turkey on the junk food that got me thru this semester (4.0 BTW). I can eat like a pig and carry it well as I am tall and of small frame. But I know that I wouldn't let you near me with an EKG or BG or lipids right now! Lets talk in 2 months!
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-Second career nursing student
Happy, you're seriously tempting the Karma Gods here...Pistol Pete Maravich ran Super Marathons, didn't smoke or drink, staunch vegetarian, drops dead at age 40 cause he got gyped when God passed out the coronary arteries... and what are these "Good Chemicals" you're talkin about??? Lactic Acid?? I'm grateful for sick people, pays the bills...
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well, they are getting ready to start the increased taxed to cigarettes which will be about a dollar more a pack, the tax as far as I understand will be applied to health care funding. I guess if people can't afford insurance, or possibly even food (food stamps), they can at least help by paying extra by way of increased taxes on cigarettes to help the ease the tax payer burden, even if they don't pay taxes themselves, if unemployed. I know a lot of people ar sadley unemployed right now, but for those who place their priorities in the wrong places, will pay for it now.
ReplyDeleteI believe canada has a similar tax in place, but for both alcohol and cigarattes. Helps pay for the goverment health care.
ReplyDeleteMassachusetts had already added hefty $$ taxes to cigarettes, stating the money was for smoking cessation programs, so all the taxpayers agreed, voted these taxes in to save those who smoked and then the money mysteriously disappeared and went into the hole in the ozone, which I can assume will happen if the money is supposed to be used for health care funding. A lot of typical political rhetoric!
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