Genius!!

OK — it’s time to stop pouting about my lost blog, and just suck it up!!  So here goes!!!    I woke up early this morning thinking about the blog I was going to write, and the most logical thing to write about is how awesome a GPS is!!!!  OMG, everyone should have one!! (Oh wait, I think everyone does!!) LOL   Anyway, I could go on and on about it, but I guess most of you probably already know, so I will just say:  Thank you Kevin, Maggie, and kids for getting us that sweet toy!!

So, here is the Genius idea.    While I was laying awake in bed this a.m. my mind was wandering around as usual.  And all of a sudden I figured it out:

Dear President Obama,

We all know how you have been struggling with the Health Care Plan, and you have received much criticism for your ideas.  Well I for one will never be able to read the million pages that are in your proposal, but I just wanted to let you know that there is a much simpler way to handle this problem.  

There are many things in this world that cause people to get sick and need health care besides being hit by a bus.    Some of these items are:  cigarettes, alcohol, fast food, and junk food.   And don’t even get me started on how the meat companies are pumping up the animals with steroids, hormones and antibiotics which cause a whole other set of problems, like e-coli, mad cow, and humans building up a resistance to antibiotics!!!   And that is just the beginning!!!

Are you ready for the genius part yet??   here goes:   I think you should put an extra tax on all of the above items.   If everyone that bought cigarettes, alcohol, candy, potato chips, big macs, contaminated meat, etc. . . would pay an additional tax on those items, the money could be used  to help pay for Health Care.  Also, you better put fish on the list of things to be taxed, since we all know about the problems pollution is causing in our lakes and oceans!!!    

You see, even poor people who are unemployed, and jobless, somehow find enough money to buy their smokes and drink their  booze, even if they are using food stamps (which I think can’t be used on those items, and if they can, that law ought to be changed too!!!   Unless those people are stealing those items, and that is a whole other problem that needs to be solved– but I can’t do it all!!!!)     Anyway, then the big complaint that the rich have to pay for the health care of the poor, would be balanced,  cus the poor would also be paying tax on the things that are a direct cause of many health problems.  

I think this makes perfect sense.   Do I want the cost of my tequila to go up??  Of course not, but if paying a little bit more for it will help pay for my  health care — well then — I will once again, suck it up, and just do it!   I rest my case.

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