Insanity is a dish best served microwaved

Okay, I’m up at my IMPACT camp.  Day 1 is complete and everything went well.  I need to come up with a more entertaining evening for the first night.  I’m thinking about doing a movie instead next year.  I’m gearing up for tomorrow which is the long haul day.  It should be a good day full of energy and hopefully no lawsuits.  But here’s what has been brewing on my mind lately:

Bluetooths in a Restaurants

Dude, no one cares enough for you to have yours on in a restaurant.  Not only do you look like a prick, but you look like a stupid prick because you’re not talking to anyone.  Face it.  You’re not cool and by doing that you’re advertising to the rest of the world that you’re not cool.  So do you’re self a favor and put your phone on vibrate and when if that glorious day arrives when someone calls you, you can answer it and then be that guy/girl that is rude and talks on their cell phone in a restaurant.

Health Care

Shut up!  Enough about complaining that it’s a socialist way of doing medicine.  I’m sorry, but the last time I checked most of us went to a public school that was paid for by taxpayers.  Most people drive to work or ride transportation that was pay for by the taxpayers.   Our food is subsidized.  Our banks have been rescued by our government.  Face it sweetheart, we’re living in a world that is subsidized by our government one way or another.  Is it socialist?  Perhaps.  No, not really.  It’s ensuring our way of life is preserved.   I bet people complained about FDR when his administration began to pitch social security.  Well that so far has worked out well–until it goes bankrupt, but that wasn’t FDR’s fault.  Was it meant to replace people saving their money for retirement?  Absolutely not.  The title of the program implies its intention “SOCIAL SECURITY.”  It is to provide a minimum for people to live after they are too old to be in the work force.  The same holds true about universal health care.

If you still love Dr. Quaker who will give you your weekly Botox shot, you can still have it.  Just keep paying your private insurance.  But for that family that is struggling to get by on minimum wage jobs, this is for you.  It’s to help you from staying out of the ER because you didn’t go see the doctor when you had a mild cough that turned into something more serious.  We are doing ourselves a huge favor but doing more preventive health care to save us billions later down the road.  If health care is eating up 20% of our GDP, how can you expect our economy to recover.    We need to step in and dictate to drug industry some cost changing structures.  Then I don’t have to worry about our elderly eating cat food because that’s all they can afford to pay for their medication.  It’s wrong in a nation that is a wealthy of ours to expect people to live so poorly in their golden years.

Mid-day Traffic

I have a sweet job.  I’ve told people that many times before.  But seriously, not everyone else has a job like mine.  How can you be at the gym at 10 A.M. on a Monday?  Also, bumper to bumper traffic at 11A?  Come on… be like all the rest of the miserable people in the world and go to work.   The world is my paradise… during the mid day.