CBS:
Because federal tax dollars are free, of course, the CBS story covers what Medicare beneficiaries will pay ($50/month) and doesn’t mention what it will cost the young taxpayers who are being hit to pay for keeping Boomers alive forever (ChatGPT says $6 billion/year would be easy to hit since the drug companies are getting a lot more than $50/month).
The federal government starting paying for a lot of the calories that made today’s older Americans fat when it created the food stamp program, now “SNAP”, in the 1960s. By paying for weight loss drugs, therefore, we have a complete SNAP-to-GLP-1 circle of life. What about rewriting the Disney classic song to fit the current situation? ChatGPT refuses to do this, claiming that it would be a violation of Disney’s copyright to create some new lyrics for their existing melody. Grok apparently doesn’t care.
Circle of Life (SNAP Edition)
(Zulu-style chant, sung with dramatic flair)
Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba
Sithi uhmm… SNAP-onyama!
Here comes the benefit, father
Oh yes, it’s the EBT card
A feast we’re gonna fund here
A burger, a soda, a leopard… wait, that’s just the spots on the fries
Verse 1
From the day we arrive on the planet
And blinking, step into the store
There’s more to eat than can ever be eaten
More to buy than can ever be bought
There’s far too much junk food to take in here
More calories than can ever be burned
But the government check rolling high
Through the welfare sky
Keeps the great and small on the endless round
Chorus
It’s the Circle of Life
And it moves us all
Taxpayers fund the snacks
Then the drugs for the sprawl
Through obesity and hope
Through waistlines and scope
‘Til we find our place
On the Ozempic path unwinding
In the Circle
The Circle of Life
Verse 2
Some of us eat the surplus cheese
While others pay the mounting fees
We are all connected in the great chain
From the SNAP aisle to the pharmacy lane
The taxpayer’s wallet gives what it can
To the processed foods and the injection plan
It’s the wheel of fortune, it’s the leap of fate
It’s the government gate… that swings both ways
Chorus
It’s the Circle of Life
And it moves us all
Through despair and hope
Through faith and love… and rebates
‘Til we find our place
On the path unwinding
In the Circle
The Circle of Life
Bridge/Outro
Wegovy rising like the morning sun
GLP-1 flowing when the damage is done
From the grocery cart to the needle’s prick
The federal cycle does the trick
Nants ingonyama… SNAP-onyama!
It’s the Circle… of Life!
👏👏👏 Bravo Grok, way to drive home such an obvious connection made by a human.
I guess we would have to ask Neo Hippy how MMJ supplied by Medicaid would fit into The Great Circle of Life, if that glorious day ever happens. Other people here probably don’t know this but MJ increases appetite and helps with nausea (a common affliction when reading about government waste). Grok refused to answer unless I “logged in”.
Drug based weight loss seemed to work for Elon briefly, then lose effectiveness like cough syrup. Like every other government program, it’s a temporary fix which the voters forget about & demand another program on top of.