I’m beginning to understand what it takes to be considered one of the worst people in America by the “enlightened” thinkers: an obese Wall Street executive with wrinkles.
That’s right, fatso. According to a new study published in Health Affairs, you and all your obese buddies are costing us plenty, as in $1400 a year more than someone of normal weight and 9.1% of all medical spending for obesity-related conditions. I like that “related” part because it opens up a whole new vista of potential government coercion when ObamaCare takes hold. When medical treatments are rationed, who do think is going to the back of the line, big boy?
As for those wrinkles, (or a tummy tuck for the “front porch”), how does a ten percent surtax on botox and cosmetic surgery sound? Congress is tossing around this “fat-n-ugly tax” idea as a way of paying for the aforementioned ObamaCare–which is the way it oughta be, since you whales with crow’s feet are screwing things up for everyone else. Well maybe you, old people, pregnant women, smokers, drinkers, drug abusers and a lot of other just plain sick folk. But I’m sure once we get the government totally involved, all of you “neer-do-wells” are going to be forced to do whatever it takes to “reduce healthcare costs”–or else.
For the “greater good” of course.
But we’re not done yet. The “incomparable” House Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) wants to give the government “unprecedented power” over how Wall Street executives are compensated. It seems that Barney, one of the principal government architects of the housing meltdown, feels that he and his fellow Congressmen should be able to take this “free enterprise thing” and toss it onto the ash heap of history. And why not? A Congress which has rung up over ten trillion dollars in IOUs–even as THEIR pay gets continuously raised–certainly knows more about who should get what than a bunch of “greedy” business types. With any “luck,” Barney’s idea can eventually be expanded to include everybody’s paycheck.
In the interest of “fairness.”
That’s the gist of it. Americans’ day of reckoning is upon us, and it’s about time. Personal privacy and freedom are anachronisms, especially when we have so many brilliant bureaucrats more than willing to tell us how to live our miserable, misdirected lives. These “experts” are positive that the only thing standing between us and Social Utopia is the implementation of their grandiosity. A few more unelected, unaccountable czars should get us over the hump.
Hope and change, you fat, wrinkly, broker/banker, you. Hope and change.
atahlert@comcast
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