So the nurse invites you back, asks you to slip off your 4-inch heel boots, you step on the scale, she rests the sliding bar on 261 pounds, you cheat a tiptoe to 59 inches…
Ninety minutes later (you’re starving) the doc says “Dude (young/hip doc) we need to put you on a diet!” You say “how about diet pills?” Doc says “no, I don’t like the side effects, and your heart’s not sounding so good. Let’s see how you do with just cutting calories for awhile.” You say “no way Doc! That’s not fair! If you don’t give me the pills I’m not cutting back what I eat!!” “What’r you nuts?” cries Doc, “whether or not you get the pills, assuming you wanna live, you still gotta go on a diet!!”
So our nation’s frame currently supports $2.2 trillion per year… We step on the scale and we’re at $3.7… One side says “Dudes we have to cut spending!” The other says “how about we raise taxes?” The one side says “let’s see how we do with just spending cuts first (being that the economy’s been so erratic).” The other says “that’s not fair! If you don’t give us tax increases, we’re not cutting a dime!!” You know the rest…
Our “leaders” in action…