Sunday, December 29, 2019

All You Can Eat! Health Care


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I worked with a guy a while back, and we went down south to a plant and the town had a farmers market in which was an All You Can Eat! restaurant.

Rocky was a tall thin guy and when he went to the buffet for the third time, I asked the waitress to tell him he had hit his limit.
That was all he could eat.
She did.
He had such a perplexed look on his face, and then he got it and turned to look at me and grinned.
It was perfect.

I wonder if our nation's obesity problem is aggravated by Golden Corral, The Sweden House and every Hampton Inn (and other hotels) in the country.

But I digress.

I just got back from vacation.
The hotels had  breakfast bars.
The Christmas meal was a buffet.
All I could eat.
Not almost all.
All.
I met the challenge.
I ate more than I would if I had ordered a la carte.
At least I cleaned my plate.
Others, not so much.
Plates of food and cups of drink abandoned on vacated tables.

Now imagine all these people getting free health care.
See the problem?

6 comments:

  1. Free stuff makes you into a glutton. And though it's never free, the feeling that it is somehow elevates one's capacity for whatever. It's like going to a whorehouse with somebody else's credit card (which is how USGOV sees tax money).

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    1. Trumps Tax Cut are causing a revenue deficit!
      There may have to be cutbacks!
      I think that's a feature, not a bug.

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  2. Yep, in a nutshell that is it...

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  3. Good analogy Ed..... self control can be a stubborn thing for one.

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  4. now I'm starving! There goes the resolution. Thanks, Ed!!

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    1. Unintended consequences.
      But I think it also illustrates my point. :)

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