Opiate for the masses....Viagra

Gee...some days the news is just too good not to pass along! Yes, I am being sarcastic.

And so comes (no pun intended) the headline of the day: Pfizer offers the unemployed free Viagra.

How about using some of those massive drug company profits to provide food and nutrition for school kids? How about donating it to green initiatives? How about ... well, anything, but enabling out-of-work American males to get their little stiffy on.

OK, for the record Pfizer is also going to donate Lipitor, anti-smoking meds, antibiotics and other potions to Americans who can present a "pink slip" to prove they are jobless. A good thing. Maybe....

But, seriously folks, Viagra! Since when has a cure for erectile disfunction become a neccessity of life. I was brought up to think it was food and shelter and clothing were the necessities of life. And maybe drugs to help a serious life-threatening illness. No guy has died from lack of nookie yet.

The jobless in this battered economy can use a hand (again no pun intended!), but surely drug company money can be spent on more pressing issues than making sure men can have sex. You think their wives, who are worrying about where the next mortgage or rent payment is coming from or how to feed the two kids, are feeling hot to trot? I don't think so....being sick with worry doesn't make for a raging libido.

So who is going to help the women feel sexy again? No free pills from Pfizer for that. No free gift certificate for wine and roses. Nope...the women will just have to get their groove on from hearing chubby hubby call out: "be ready in an hour dear, I am popping the little blue pill..." Who said romance is dead? Oh yeah, the drug companies.

Somes, You've Just Gotta Laugh...