The Obama Administration is about to unload yet another attempted takeover of the private sector in the form of “Universal Healthcare.” There are several groups that want the government to pass universal health care. The first group is the elderly and the fat and lazy. They want socialized medicine so they can eliminate one more responsibility that they won’t have to worry about anymore.

The second group of is big business that will no longer have to pay for health insurance for their employees. This will save corporate America billions in employee overhead.

The only problem with this idea is how it will be funded. The Obama administration and democrats intend to fund this new entitlement with a new tax on gasoline. There are some enormous problems with this idea. First, poor people don’t drive. They use public transportation. Second, the vast majority of Americans live in big cities and don’t own cars but do use health care.

This is completely unfair to the working middle class that own cars and will be forced to subsidize the health care for everyone else that does not own a motor vehicle. How is this fair? It’s yet again an attempt by democrats to redistribute the wealth of America for the fat and the lazy.

My prediction is that like the Clinton administration, universal health care will go down in a flaming defeat. It will also cost the democrats the house and the senate in 2010.

So why the picture of the fat guy on the scooter? Out here is Los Angeles we have these great commercials from a company called “The Scooter Store.” This wonderful company tells people that the government will pay up to $10,000.00 for a “power chair” so they can get around easier. Now I ask you, do you think that the obese man pictured above is a working, productive member of society? Most people see a fat guy riding a power chair. I see a fat guy riding around on my wallet.

Here is the problem I have with The Scooter Store. They get these chairs paid for by the taxpayer and give them to fat people when what they should be giving these people is a treadmill ! For those of you that have jumped on the “anti-smoking” bandwagon, for every one person in the hospital for cigarette smoking related illness, there are nine people in the hospital for obesity related illness. Some food for thought when it comes to socialized medicine and the burden on our health care system. JD