When governments get into the business of health-care, whether preventative or otherwise … watch out!! Your freedoms will disappear faster than the government will try to shrink your waistline.
Now I’m not against a trim waistline. I usually exercise four to five times per week. I run a few miles then lift some weights or do pushups or whatever I’m in the mood for. And I strongly agree that quality eating and exercise habits correlate to lower health-care costs. I just don’t think it’s any business of the government what kinds of foods I eat or what kinds of exercises I need to do. And as part of America is striving for nationalized health-care I think it’s time for America as a whole to look around the world to educate itself on what this could mean.
In Brazil the government has put its hands into the medical field. And in Brazil there is a law trying to be passed that would ban McDonalds from including toys with their Happy Meals. They think by marketing children’s meals with children’s toys that the children in the country won’t be able to help but to develop bad eating habits.
Instead, perhaps they should just pass a law against parents who take their children to McDonalds more than five days per week. And then they can set up a new branch of government to regulate how often people go to McDonalds; because with enough government and enough regulation maybe the ignorant populaces of the world will learn how to take care of themselves.
Or maybe we should just be aloud to live without anyone else telling us how.
In America the FDA is jumping into the tobacco industry. They assume with more regulation there will be lower future health-care costs. I assume if they stayed out of the health-care business this wouldn’t be their problem. Is there anyone in America that really needs the government to tell them that smoking isn’t a healthy activity for them?
President Obama has admitted to being a smoker for years. But at the same time he thinks he deserves the capacity to regulate your nicotine intake. Does that make sense to anybody?
And if we have to regulate one-hundred percent of society because less than one-half of a percent cannot comprehend simple health issues then our society’s freedoms will all but disappear.
I can imagine that before long you won’t be able to get buttered popcorn when you go to the movie theater. Or if you get Milk-Duds to eat or a soda to drink then a government agent will be there to make sure that you do sit-ups or jumping-jacks or else you’ll get a ticket and a fine.
With freedom comes responsibility. Eat however you want. Exercise as little as you want.
Then pay the price or receive the dividends for your own choices.
And let the government concentrate on what it’s best at … nothing.
kenneth w.
www.BibleRhymes.com
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