Taking Responsibility

      I wasn't going to write this blog, but after the events of this last week.  I felt compelled to.  It covers many different things, so if you're interested you might want to read it entirely.  It's not all pleasant so  you might want to prepare yourself.

Two years ago in February I started a new job.  A job I really liked and because of that I was forced to take a long hard look at my life and lifestyle.  I weighed 360#,  I was hypertensive, had high cholesterol, and was borderline diabetic.  I liked this job and I could not perform my duties well if I was a lardass.  I was a Lardass.  I made the conscious decision to get in better shape.  First I started eating less and found that I could eat less than half what I was eating before and I became more active.  12 months later I had lost 130lbs.  The difference in how I felt and could enjoy life was more than I could possibly imagine.  The secondary and direct effect to my health was my blood pressure is now normal or below like it was when I was young.  My cholesterol has dropped from 220 to 162 and my blood sugar is back to normal again.   This last February I had to start going to the gym to maintain my weight loss and not go back to gaining again.  Again I had to modify how I eat changing to lots of poultry and vegetables.  Eating mainly at home, and having leftovers for lunch a lot instead of eating fast food.  Once again I am starting to tighten up and loose whats left of my belly.  This brings me to the main reason of this post.  Taking Responsibility for my health.

     We have an "accountability" problem in the United States.  We dont take responsibility for our own actions.  We expect the government to supply us with quality health care no matter what kind of shape we are in.  When I was in college I had a health insurance policy that cost me $25.00 per month.  by age 45 it was up to $235. and if I have to pay on the exchange at this point its close to $600/month with a 12K deductible and 80/20 copays and a prescription drug plan that is totally worthless.  There is nothing affordable about the Affordable Care Act.  If you are employed and can pay your bills you cannot afford to pay for your health care.  I blame the pre-existing issues coverage for this.  You see.  When you take pain pills out of the equation,  Blood pressure, cholesterol, and diabetes due to obesity are the main medications prescribed today.  We all know a certain population of Americans who eat like hogs.  Refuse to go to the gym,  live the fast food life.  They don't take responsibility for raising their children and they sit around.  Play video games and end up looking like a bunch of Miss Piggys.  I'm sorry, go out to dinner and watch how some people let their kids eat. It's not the kids fault they are lazy fat asses.  Its the direct result of parents not being parents.  We dont encourage sports because little Billy might get whacked in the head and 50 years from now it might make his life expectancy go down.  But it's ok for Billy to weigh 250# in the 6th grade and wear gym shorts and oversize T shirts to school every day because nothing fits him.  The girls are the same way.  And dont try and blame lack of gym, lack of after school programs, lack of inter-mural sports programs.  They are all out there and government funded if you get up off the couch and look for them.  I go to the gym 5 times a week. The place is busy every day.  Whenever I go.  There are millions of Americans every day who are dedicated to living a healthier lifestyle.  Should they be made to pay for the ones who dont take their own lives into their hands and take care of their own health.  Dont tell my your too fat, it hurts your knees or your back,  of course it does you pussy and you ate yourself into that position so take responsibility for it.  Just look at the poor example on t.v. Extreme Weight Loss. on ABC.  Look at the weight those people lose.  Its not a great program but if those lard asses can do it.  You can too.  Oh and by the way.  I dont remember any headlines about any of them dropping dead during the program.  I have a pre existing condition.  Ive had back surgery over 10 years ago and every single insurance policy asks about it and tries not to cover anything.  Another reason for me to keep the weight off my fat ass.  Dont tell me you have been heavy since you were a kid.  So was I, The Dr told my parents to put me on a diet when I was in elementary school.  I remember that conversation with my parents at the dinner table.  I remember making the smart ass comment that the Dr. was an idiot and I also remember my dad rapping me on top of the head with a teaspoon and leaving a lump that lasted two days.  Just another example of learning to respect others.  The Dr. was correct by the way I was fat.

     So as far as I'm concerned,  If you have high blood pressure, you have diabetes, you have high cholesterol, and your knees and back hurt.  Guess what.  I dont give a fuck.  I also dont intend to continue to pay for your health care.  You got that way,  you need to pay more.  Keep eating and enjoy your shortened life.

    The next thing that pisses me off is people who complain about the cost of Aids medicine.  If I remember correctly they figured out in the early 80's that is was a sexually transmitted disease,  If you wore a condom you could drop your chances of having sex and contracting the disease by 99%,  Well guess what people.  That was 30 plus years ago.  Condoms are cheap compared with the cost of aids medicine, not to mention you are totally in control of making the decision to have safe sex or not.  Take responsibility for your own life put a rubber on your dick  and live.  I dont want my tax dollars to pay for your aids meds either.  We are all adults and we are not animals who come in heat and cant control ourselves and have to breed to reproduce.  Every time you choose to have unprotected sex thats exactly what it is, a choice.

     Finally. Trump.  Congratulations America,  Especially you liberals.  Trump started as a Liberal and somewhere along the way you let him get away and he became a Republican.  I think the far left is who created this man.  Especially Hollywood.  Lets validate his behavior, coin a phrase of his from his t.v. show the Apprentice,  "you're fired".  and glorify his ego and his personality.  He is a DIRECT product of what America can produce today.  He has money.  His lawyers know how to use our laws and legal system to make him more money.  By the way those laws are the same ones that our elected officials have written and put on the books.  We have rap and hip hop music that talks about rape and calls women bitches and whores and each other niggers and people buy it by the millions but when he uses the same language you say its not appropriate.  I especially like those of you on the left that say he objectifies women.  Professional athletes and movie stars do it every day and nobody cares.  He is a product of his environment and congratulations you get to enjoy the mess you created.  I especially like those of you that say he is not your president.  You didnt vote for him so he is not your president.  You have no voice.  Well guess what.  Now you know how some of the rest of us have felt for the last 8 years.  I hope it makes you physically sick to your stomach.  You've earned that too.  I am sick and tired of hearing you say my opinion and beliefs are wrong but you force yours on me like its some kind of religion.  You are just as bad as the far right.  There is no intelligent discussion with you.  You turn vulgar and insulting the instant someone disagrees with you.  I watched the twitter feed during his inauguration.  Both sides left and right should be ashamed of themselves.  Calling for his assassination.  Really I remember when you thought that was terrible and you were horrified when people said that about Obama.  I dont know what the next 4 years are going to bring.  I like what I've seen so far.  He is exactly correct our elected congress and senate are lazy worthless self centered human beings.  Not one of them is there to get anything done.  I hope he shakes things up. Pisses off people on both sides of the aisle if they wont work with him or come together to bring this country back to the level that it deserves to be, that will be the true example of just how worthless our elected officials are.

   I dont expect any of you to agree with me.  I dont care anymore, but I will tell you this.  I will be as critical of Donald Trump as I was Barack Obama and I goddamn guarantee none of you will call me a racist and a bigot.  Can you say that about yourselves?