Do your sit-ups

Your federal government wants you to be healthy! Don’t you feel better already?

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58T7IU20091001?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

This paragraph from the above article describes the new plan:

• The Senate Finance Committee voted for an amendment offered by Republican Senator John Ensign and Democrat Thomas Carper that would allow health plans to provide financial incentives for people to quit smoking, exercise more, and engage in other healthy activities.

Will we be able to earn $5.00 for every mile that we jog, or how about $0.10 per push up? And who will be our fitness czar? It’s too late to name Teddy Kennedy to this important post.

Is there any better of example of a government that is out of control? The same people that have no self control over any impulse that brings them personal gain will now set up a system of rewards to encourage us to live a “healthy lifestyle”!