Our 'Porky' PM

Recently, CJME 980 AM posted an online poll asking whether Steven Harper, our new PM should set an example for all us peons by undertaking to lose some weight and get in shape, or whether he should be able to carry on as he likes... the poll resounding voted that we should just let him be. After all, who are we to tell anyone what they should or shouldn't do?

Well, as usual I gave this some serious thought, and then voted accordingly...

So here is how I rationalized my voting choice...

I voted that he SHOULD set an example, and my reasons for that are as follows.

We have recently heard a lot of talk about making people pay more and be responsible for their life choices (or not exactly choices, addictions that I guess usually began as 'choices') such as obesity, smoking, drinking, lack of exercise, etc., which can lead to higher health care costs, and therefore they should either:

a.) be denied service (ie. the fellow down east whose surgeon refused him vascular surgery because he smoked)

b.) be forced to pay their own health care costs, or higher health care premiums

or

c.) comply with the 'accepted standards' ie, no smoking, no drinking, heart healthy eating, exercise... in short, for some, a complete 'makeover' of their lives...

So, if they are actually contemplating making these changes, it only makes sense to me that our leaders 'set the example' for us peons to follow....

Take Ralph Klein, as an example... who is supposed to be leaving soon (I hope - he is SUCH a BUFFOON!)

How he managed to be so cruel to those homeless people (at Christmas! no less!) and then was 'excused' because he was DRUNK, is way beyond my ken..

and then made a BIG DEAL about how he was quitting his alcohol habit, and never did...

Yeah, our great leaders SHOULD set the example, or just shut up, leave us alone, and quit threatening us because we aren't "perfect".

Neither are they.

Just my thoughts for the day...

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