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June 04, 2003
Health Care in these United States (Part 2)

The continued history of health sayth by TOG

They're all real happy because their representing the little guy and lots of people are glad to help, and those that didn't want to pay somebody else bills get guilt tripped into acting like they want to so that they don't get stoned to death and they families kittens set ablaze and thrown through their kitchen window.
All's well on the face of things until somebody checks the numbers. Keeping the sickliest of the sicklies alive apparently cost real money, not the fake political promises money, because doctors can't deposit that in the back or use it to buy bread and milk at the grocery store. Then the guy who got elected by promising to keep everybody alive comes to the realization that he doesn't have the foggiest idea how to do it. So he's tripping hard-core one day because he knows he's screwed so what's the point, when he has a brain fart, which he mistakes for an idea. "Let's prevent people from getting all sickly like in the first place" he exclaims, nobody realizes what their getting into and he gets re-elected, using it as a "mandate from the masses" and sets out to cure the social ills that are people are killing themselves with.

So we pickup with the friendly neighborhood public official,
"First on the agenda, Dinosaurs. Oh, okay I guess they're already gone, good riddance, now they can't bite off any more legs or discharge any more foulness. Next on the agenda, Smoking. All right, tobacco companies make cigarettes, people that smoke cigarettes get sick, and we are forced to take care of them. Sue them, never mind the fact that nobody forced the people to smoke, or that we volunteered to distribute the wealth of the nation to these tobacco-ridden sicklies. People need somebody to blame, why not tobacco companies? They're just companies, nobody gets hurt, well except for the thousands of employee they can no longer afford to pay. Hey, will take care of them through unemployment benefits. Damn, somebody's got to pay for that too, You-who...Mr. productive citizen you can spare some wealth can't you, I thought so." You can see where this is going really fast, and we don't even get the frilly little hand basket. Anyway, back to the gov't official
"Ha ha, got those punks, now who else is performing actions responding to a consumer that I can misconstrue and a public enemy hell bent on killing each and every one of us? Ah-ha! Food! People who eat get fat, and fat people can become obese sickly people, down with the fast food menace! No, I don't care that food is required to live, or that people willing give up their $4.83 to sample a tasty Big Mac uber-huge fries and a Diet Coke. They should advertise so much, or make there food so easy to get, or so yummy for that matter. It’s unfair that we’re forced to pay the doctors’ bills of these homegrown fatties”

Posted by Kyle at 01:21 PM | Category: Political Sundries


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