Years ago, in the fifties I would say, a country and western singer, name of Faron Young sang a most prophetic little ditty, and in the first line it said: ” I’m gonna live fast, love hard and die young and have a beautiful memory.” This could well be the formula for life in the very near future if our new President-elect and his Demopublican Majority have health care their way.
Then somewhere along in the eighties, on the British comedy, “Yes, Prime Minister, Nigel Hawthorne, the British Minister of Health, said to Paul Eddington, the Prime Minister, not a direct quote but to the effect, “Oh no Mr. Prime Minister, you have it all wrong. We do not need to ban smoking for good health care, we need to promote it. For if you do not smoke, you will live a long life and that will cost the government more money.
Then along comes today, December 11, 2008 and on Fox News, Charles Krauthammer says basically the same thing, if O’Bama wants a national health care plan, and is also promoting good health habits, the two will not work together and we will bankrupt the system. Basically what Charles said was, if you want to be a good citizen, then have a heart attack at fifty, and you will save the government money.
So my posted blog today says basically the following: 1. LIVE FAST: Smoke three packs a day, drink a fifth a day, smoke 20 or more cigars, eat all the fattening fried spam that you can stomach, and chase all that down with a dozen diet cokes for the aspertame affect. 2. LOVE HARD: Have all the sex you want, get your doctor to prescribe viagra, tell him you lost it and get another script. Take double doses, and make sure you have five or six girlfriends, preferably one or two with AIDS, to add to your shortness of life, and breath for that matter!! 3. DIE YOUNG: By the time you accomplish numbers 1 and 2, (if you ask the teacher permission first) you won’t have to worry about number 3, it will just occur automatically. If we will all just adhere to this proven and steadfast plan, there will be no need for a national health care plan, and our government and our youth will benifit. We will be off the government social security rolls, and the young won’t have to put up with our old indogent @zz’s. Of course there was Benjamin Franklin, who did mostly all of the above, with the exception of AIDS which had not yet been invented, but yet lived to the ripe old age of 84 and 3 months. Go figure????????