Posted on 07/16/2014 7:52:08 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I was in a health care meeting at work last week. It was announced that every employee will have blood drawn on the premises to determine nicotine levels. It was also announced that premiums would triple for those who had nicotine in their blood. One twenty something woman said’I smoke and I don’t think it is the company’s business if I want to smoke’. And I’m thinking ‘those who wanted the government to be in charge of their health care must not have realized that the government would be dictating their behaviors now’. I fear it’s too late to return to our Best Medical Care in the World.
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Simply the first steps in telling us what to eat, and how we should eat. After all, Since the government has a vested interest in our overall health, it’s only natural that they approve of what and how we eat.
I agree. Separation of school and state should solve some of the crap.
I’d be ok with SNAP regulation that says welfare can only be spent on raw unprocessed foods: fruits vegetables nuts meat milk eggs fish rice beans flour sugar and salt. Maybe dried pastas and loaves of bread, coffee and tea. Beyond that what does one need to live for food?
It won't sell and the balance of the shelf space will be emptied frequently while the recommended stuff goes to waste. Cooling the additional product destined to be wasted will cost as much as cooling what sells, stocking and restocking the stuff that doesn't sell will require nearly as many man hours as stocking and restocking what sells, so costs go up and waste is deliberately introduced into what is now a self-correcting efficient allocation of resources.
Before you know it there will be recommendations for reducing the size of stores because they waste energy based on how much energy is used per item sold with promotions all around for discovering this massive waste of energy. How very, very, Soviet of them.
Just what's it going to take to get the numb skulls in this country to finally say, "enough is enough"?
I smoke, skydive, race motorcycles, climb mountains, shoot heroin, have unprotected sex, drink to excess and pass out in the subway, and I don’t think it is the company’s business if I want to smoke, skydive, race motorcycles, climb mountains, shoot heroin, have unprotected sex, drink to excess and pass out in the subway.
well now there you go using COMMON SENSE again.
Unless Congress passes a law to compel these “suggestions”, then any other approach to force privately owned grocery stores to bend to these “suggestions” is simply more raw fascism on the part of the Obammunists.
Of course unlimited underwriting makes perfect sense if clean-living healthy people, get a significant premium cut.
Excuse me, but I don't recall her being elected to any position that would require Americans to follow her agenda.
The flip-side of the talking “MyCart grocery cart” coin is the “MyChair” talking toilet.
That is one of the most powerful prayers I have heard.
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This is ridiculous!
ENOUGH is ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why don’t they ban all junk food? Halloween? Those ladies who shove junk food samples in your hands as you walk by?
Maybe they can put sugar behind the pharmacy counter like they do Sudafed. And marshmallows. And Little Debbie Snack Cakes. And when you want to purchase such, you have to sign a piece of paper and give the pharmacy your drivers license number and social security number so they can put it in the sugar database.
That sort of thing has not reached here downunda yet. I
I must say I think it crosses a line that has nothing to do with your employment - to me it’s almost tantamount to assault!
Neonicotinoids are in the seeds of genetically modified vegetables, corn and soy being the top two, then neonicotinoids as an insecticide are sprayed on those crops and they are sold as a package with a contract to farmers..it is supposedly designed to make crops resistant to certain pests of the insect variety. Since you are a high tech and I am not, perhaps you could look into it on your own?
well there was specificity in there for highlighting the health food with mercury filled uber lights! LOL
Amen!
What a colossal waste of money! The wide-load sitting on the electric cart because she is too large to waddle down the aisle unassisted is not going to pay attention to a talking cart anymore than would her two little roly-poly cherubs with a snack cake in one hand and a soda in the other. Any yes, I see this at Wallyworld all the time. Scope it out for an hour or two on the day the Eagle flies.
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