I think if our country was a sitcom, it could accurately be called, "Fat people having kids." Maybe they could get Kelly Clarkson to do the theme song (I bet she'd do it for a life time supply of KFC). Anyway, I don't mean to suggest that everyone is fat and irresponsible, but lets face it, a ass load of people are, and most of them fall into that category--fat, and having children. This may rub some people the wrong way, but the newest addition to this group are our freindly flu spreading neighbors to the south. Hispanics are having kids like I order cocktails on Fridays, and most of them aren't skinny.
So where am I going with this? Nowhere really, I mean just because someone is fat and/or has children doesn't mean they are a bad person, but it is a hell of a good start. First of all, fat people require a great deal more medical care than healthy people, because they are more likely to get sick, and more likely to have heart disease or develop cancer. Pregnant people and children also require a great deal of care...that's not good for the most expensive health care system in the world.
Second, being an obese, childblasting nation is symbolic, if not symtomatic of our problems. Fatness is lazyness, and having tons of kids is irresponsible, and that's exactly what we are as a nation: lazy and irresponsible. Not only that, we are gullible and paranoid. This whole swine flu pandemic reveals that--our media spends all this time talking about the swine flu, and people start freaking out about it, when hardly anyone has died, and there are many other dangers we are much more likely to die from, such as bad driving, which is rampant from what I can tell.
I guess I am just sick and tired of people being stupid and making horrible choices. We've got some real problems in this country...we've got to shut down the border, we've got to fix health care and education.
But moreover, we've got to stop being so goddamn lazy and settling for a life without challenges. Marrying a schmuck, sleeping all the time, eating poorly, and watching an ass load of television is no way to live our lives. We have fallen behind other nations, perhaps in part due to poor education or lack of opportunity, but mostly, because our country is lazy, fat, and perpetually pregnant with more mouths to feed and a growing population needing jobs, housing, education, and health care. My solution is to euthanize everyone over the age of 14 who has seen either Beverly Hills Chihuahua--if you have any solutions, let me know.
FYI: I had a ninny come right into my dugout while I was coaching the other day, and when she said I needed to calm down, I told her she needed to get out! Ninnies are the worst...
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