obesity and pensions…no longer important apparently
Remember the obesity crisis? I do. Medical doom merchants telling us month after month that obesity would kill millions in the years to come, and the costs of treating those fat, self-indulgent fuckers that weren’t killed by their gluttonous overeating would cripple the NHS? Ring any bells?
And remember the pensions crisis? Financial doom merchants whingeing about how irresponsible the British public are in not saving for their future? I do (with a great big smile, as I think pensions are a complete waste of time…I had one once…with Equitable Life…and what a shower of incompetant bastards they were…)
I loved the juxtaposition of these simultaneous crises. I figured that if the government stopped trying to solve the obesity crisis, a wave of Mr Creasote style deaths would sweep the nation within 20 years and the pensions crisis would solve itself.
The brilliant thing now is…the govt has stopped trying to fix the obesity crisis…(probably because this global meltdown thing is keeping them busy, and they probably figure Jamie Oliver is holding the fort on the fat front.)
So if there is an economy left after all these multi-billion bailouts, skinny people with no pension will probably be ok.
Because if obesity is an illness and an addiction, people will keep eating, take out loans to fund their habit and die. Though probably in a tracksuit…rather than a dinner suit.
