I think you should be nice to people right up until they start trying to take your property or your natural rights. Race, sex, weight, height, faith, you know, the demographic drill. Even liking all the wrong sports teams makes no difference. Be nice. At the very least, be neutral. Agree to disagree. Don’t call them a threat to Democracy, then act innocent when someone tries to shoot them.
That goes for medical professionals as well. Why did we know the jab was bad and didn’t work, but y’all were like the glee club pushing tickets to the prom? Sure, some of you were under immense pressure to ignore what you were seeing – job-ending pressure – but that’s no excuse. First, do no harm to your patients, not your career. And some of you are still doing that. Neither is it okay to pretend that obesity is a lifestyle choice and not immensely unhealthy or that most affordable food makes it worse.
Be nice. It’s not personal. But the current amount of you you are carrying around is putting unnecessary stress on your heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, knees, hips, everything. It is shortening your life. A beautiful heart is more important for happiness than tiptoeing around excessive weight.
You’ve even got an out. Ozempic and its like are helping people drop significant amounts of tonnage, which you should not (by the way) do without medical supervision unless it’s natural, such as through changes to exercise and diet. And much like overweight governments, the person losing the weight is going to put it back on without a lifestyle change. They might need some assistance or direction. A coach, an honest friend, an advocate, and some dietary guidance.
Do not advocate indulgence, a rule that applies to governments as well. Stop looking for ways to spend other people’s money, especially in this economy. You’ve spent too much already. Looking for ways to take more is glutenous. Former Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig, for example, who is running for governor (and this is a problem party-wide), is ignoring how well New Hampshire has done after reducing business taxes. Democrats want to raise them as if there is evidence that more tax revenue in their hands will do more than make the government fatter.
Democrats are unwilling to see how eliminating the interest and dividend tax in NH costs very little while benefitting people on fixed incomes. Joyce wants it back, as do her colleagues, without even waiting to see if we can continue to run the state by making it more efficient and less bulky.
Looking at long-run Democrat states shows us that raising taxes and regulations does not improve health, safety, infrastructure, or business climate. In most cases, these things get worse. The weight of too much government stresses the system, but there’s no Ozempic for that. From bloated local school budgets to the national debt, voters must recognize that the government is good at robbing you but not much else, and the only cure is to take responsibility for your government by taking responsibility for yourselves.
The alternative is a political health crisis that ends with less in your pocket and even less to show for it. Don’t make excuses for your obese government. It needs to go on a diet, and being nice hasn’t gotten us anywhere. America needs an intervention. Our “leaders” are more responsive to what costs us money and deprives us of liberty than what is good and right.
No one can change the direction of your town, county, state, or nation than you.
