I Feel The Need to Rant

So, here goes. I've been reading a lot of MD blogs lately. I find them to be a refreshing insight into the life of a physician, one that I currently hope to live someday. Amongst the many issues that they typically blog about is the one on universal health care. I've also grown weary of the issue in the media, etc. Especially amongst my peers at the collegiate level. When did everything in this world become a "right" and/or entitlement? I'm sick of it. Why can no one accept responsibility for their own actions. Why can't people realize that if they only gave up their smokes, booze, cable tv, cell phones, new cars, big houses, name brand clothes, yadda yadda yadda, and expect some personal responsibility at some point in their lives? Is it too much to ask? I also wish that they would give up the expectation for me to pay for their errant ways. I'm adult, and therefore I should be able to make logical and informed decisions. I simply don't want more government interference in my personal life. I don't want to have to pay the government more taxes to run a program that they will screw up. I don't want to have to pay for other people's bad habits. If I want to eat and McDonald's everyday, then fine. I'll at least have the decency to pay for my own health care when the time comes. And why in the world did Al Gore win the Noble Peace Prize? The reason, whatever it may be, is far beyond my own personal level of understanding. I thought that the majority of Nobel Prize winners didn't receive said prize until YEARS AND YEARS after their research, ideas, and actions, and making an actual contribution to society in general. Yet, for some reason, Al Gore can win it after peddling around the world in his private jet while given speeches on why he isn't a hypocrite. There, I've said it. I'm done.