A Nevada Congressman recently tied an early withdrawal of troops from Iraq to $9 gasoline here in the States. Good! Let there be $9 gasoline! I actually celebrated this news.
The first thing that came to my mind after reading this news was that Americans would be forced to be active. Here we are running around worrying about increasing gasoline prices when in fact we should be worrying about ballooning medical costs, largely due to Americans' sedentary ways.
Certainly for insureds (those that are lucky enough not to pay a premium), they're not thinking about what it costs to fill their varying number (usually high) of prescriptions used to treat diseases caused by their ever-expanding waistlines, they're thinking about the expenses that hit their pockets directly. Such as? Well, GASOLINE!
This is why I can't help siding with insurance companies.
Priorities priorities priorities.
Do I sound like a liberal or just a young idealist (is there a difference?)?
3 comments:
Um, I thought this was a running blog.
No. It's a health/fitness/awareness blog. I'd like it to be a running blog but there isn't much being said about running, so I thought I'd stir it up with a political post with a spin in the direction of the purpose of this blog.
I'm all for stirring things up!
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