We have gotten so wrapped around the axle about postponing the eventual end we are all going to meet that we are now obsessed about things like smoking, trans-fats, alcohol, sugars and a hundred other things that hurry us along to that final sunset. What few seem to realize is that we are insuring that Social Security and Medicare will go bankrupt that much sooner because everyone is hanging around into their eighties. We'd be a lot better off if we accepted two truths that we USED to accept, but now deny: 1. Your health and healthcare is your responsibility and business, not the government's. 2. If you want to smoke, drink, and live on a diet of pizza and chocolate, it's your right abd the governemnt shouldn't care. This nation is headed toward financial collapse because we now thing the government is here to be your mommy and give you an allowance. You smoke, you get lung cancer, you pay for the treatment or you die. It should have nothing to do with the government.