This was part of a joke I heard a long, long time ago and I will not entertain you with it now. I read just the other day of a company out in the Pacific Northwest that tested their employees to see if they smoked. If they did, they got fired. In mid-stream, the owner of the company said he was tired of paying high health insurance costs to people who abused their health.

It would seem to me that there is no need for this man to stop at smokers. Hell, we all abuse our health everyday simply by living. Let’s fire all the fat people and then move on to the ugly looking ones. After that we can target anyone with any kind of learning disorder. I’m sure testing could prove whether or not you ate that “Quarter Pounder” last night.

So tell me, where in this brief list did you get canned? Ain’t we a bizarre breed of cat? Americans are notorious for attacking problems from the wrong direction.

American Idol Rueben Studdard is fat. Let’s fire him from his job. Dean Martin was a smoker. He should have been fired. President Bush stumbles over his words. By doing so he is probably causing some kind of chemical reaction from the stress which in turn makes his health care cost rise. In the words of Donald Trump, “Your fired!”

The list can go on forever. John Kerry looks like Lurch and statistics show that people who look that way, have greater risk of being run over by speeding dump trucks – “Your Fired!” Anna Nicole Smith! We all know what happens when someone has big…..”She’s Fired!”

Jay Leno has a chin that protrudes beyond his wood shed. He must fear getting it clipped off while riding his Harley. Sorry, Jay, your a health risk -”Your Fired!”

If this idiot who owns this company would spend more effort to improve the working environment by giving his employees a chance to LAUGH, their health costs would drop drastically.