1.  Insurance companies are only in it for profit.  They just want you to pay into the system and then deny you coverage when you actually try to use your insurance.

2.  No current system actually respects or rewards staying healthy.  If they did, then you’d be able to deduct vitamins and supplements as the cost of staying healthy from your taxes or insurance companies would pay for these items.

3.  Control the population and you will control costs.

4.  Illegal immigrants should be treated as necessary but a bill for the cost of the service should be sent to the originating country.  Ideally, anyone in the country illegally should be instantly deported and cared for in their homeland.  The United States should not have to pay for the entire world and anyone who does not see that is deeply delusional.

5.  Our government needs to step up to the plate, so to speak, and stop rewarding companies that make garbage food products with tax breaks and contracts.  If we can have mega companies making trash then we can have these same companies producing quality and truly organic foods for the masses.

6.  Individuals need to wake up and start making healthier choices.  They would be helped in this regard if the big food companies didn’t think it was okay to feed us low-nutrient, high-fat, high-sugar, pesticide/hormone/antibiotic-laden CRAP.

7.  The government is downright ignorant when it comes to pasteurization of dairy products.  RAW MILK is very safe and highly nutritious and boosts immunity.  RAW nuts should be allowed to be just that — RAW, not pasteurized which destroys nutrients.  Our government is a knee-jerk organization without any common sense whatsoever.  Any well educated complementary/alternative medicine practitioner knows the truth about these quality foods.

President Obama has acknowledged the truth about how Congress and federal employees have the absolute best health care benefits and options in the country.  And, he says, it would be nice if all the citizens had the same.

WHO does he think is paying for all those great benefits that he, Congress and other federal employees get?  WE DO — the public, through our tax dollars!

So the question must be asked WHY then doesn’t EVERYONE get the same great benefits and options?

Our government is composed of greedy pig lawmakers who make laws favorable to themselves and screw over everyone else.   Obama has so much admitted this.  Yet not one single news report has pointed this out which leads us to believe that the entire news world is so entwined with the minutia of this pathetic debate that they cannot for the life of them see the “forest for the trees”.

The obvious and simple answer, of course (at least to some), is that our government simply can’t afford to pay for everyone. Then we say equality to ALL.  Congress and federal employees should get the same obscenely high cost crap that the majority of Americans are forced to accept AND a large percentage of them should get NO insurance in keeping with what a huge number of people must contend with.

We foolishly believed that with Obama in the White House, the U.S. government would magically grow some balls to protect the lower and middle classes against the barons of industry who rule the world.  Not so.  Obama got in and caved in, instantly, and with the same zeal as those who came before him.  Congress didn’t help.  It never does.

Monsanto goons control our food supply and are willing to destroy the environment, people’s health and the livelihoods of small farmers everywhere, all for the sake of huge profits and their comfy lifestyles as they shove thousands of pesticides and genetically modified foods our way.

Health care reform was a joke.  Medical insurers and pharmaceutical giants won out over common sense and humanity.  The US deliberately pays the highest prices for drugs, most of which are unnecessary, don’t work or worse, kill.  Why?  Obviously to reward the pharmaceutical companies for getting many of our officials elected AND because the industry spends the most amount of money to bribe our officials into making obscene legislation in their favor.  Same with Monsanto.  With former Monsanto executives now heading up government offices and making all the decisions without oversight, what hope do we have?

And finally we must bow to the banks and Wall Street for tossing everyone they could get their hands on out into the streets and out of their homes via mortgage meltdown/evictions, a problem THEY created, causing more homelessness than we’ve seen since “the Great Depression”.  Our legislators do love using that depression phrase.  It makes it seem as if they weren’t in control of anything and that it’s merely been a huge vortex of strange events that bombarded us throughout the year.   Give those scum another huge bonus.   Earning millions of dollars a year apparently is still not enough!  But will the government initiate oversight of this industry?  Nah!  Besides, it’s too late.

Which leads us to credit card interest rates and the rush by the banks to screw everyone over again before the measly rules Washington did enact take effect in February and August 2010.  One credit card, Premier Bank, was offering a card worth $250 of credit.  You had to pay upfront fees of $256 to acquire it and pay 79.9% interest.    Can you say USURY?  For those not familiar with the term, it means the illegal action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest.  Many other credit card companies increased their rates to 30% and Obama said boo-hoo.  Then all the legislators wrung their hands in dismay and said “what shall we do?” and then proceeded to do nothing.  The new rules soon to take effect are so watered down and convoluted they’re absolutely worth nothing.  And the banks win again!

And to the automakers who stood hat in hand begging for money, we say bah, humbug, you assholes should have been paying attention to the environment instead of continuing to build your crappy cars.

Will we thrive in 2010?  Will we even survive?  How many more people will be living under freeways or in tent cities while the rich have money to burn?

As I’ve listened to the health care reform debate drone on over the past number of months, I realized without a shadow of a doubt that there is no hope for the masses.  Our politicians live in a fantasy land; they may easily have slipped down the rabbit hole along with Alice.  And they’re never coming back up.

If they’re not as stupid as they pretend to be, then it must just be a matter of greed and complacency.  They obviously know nothing about how many people live, never having walked in their shoes.  I’m not talking about the upper middle class or people lucky enough have to have flexible positive flow incomes.  I’m talking about those who are unemployed or self-employed or retired who have extremely limited and static funds.  There is NOTHING left over for anything.

So, how can any legislator think that a person living on such a fixed income is going to magically be able to afford health insurance at any price?  Where is the money going to come from?  They still expect people to pay for what they’re calling a public option health insurance. These D.C. morons just don’t seem to understand this very simple basic principle.  They keep yacking on about public option or private insurance from employers or personal insurance that someone with money can afford to buy.

Advice to politicians:  Stop the yacking, pull your heads out of your asses, climb out of the rabbit hole and get real.  Once and for all do the right thing.

Also check out our Health Care Reform and Individual Freedoms report.

A search of the literature points to exposure to manganese while self-pumping gasoline, to chronic mercury exposure, to pesticide exposure and to a myriad of unknown factors that may affect genetic expression. A research team from the California-based Parkinson’s Institute recently found that the most common pesticides used in gardening tripled the incidence of Parkinson’s disease. The NIH Website www.medlineplus.gov lists 29 published studies linking Parkinson’s disease with pesticide exposure.

The causes of neurodevelopmental disorders — including autism, ADHD and Asperger’s syndrome — remain elusive. But clearly, to quote Walter Willett, M.D, M.P.H., of Harvard’s Department of Nutrition, the fact that we’ve changed the fat in our diet has a role to play. Changes in diet and activity, the increased use of vaccines, toxins in the environment (including mercury, lead and phthalates) and genetic susceptibility to the multitude of environmental changes could affect our children, whether as individuals or collectively. The combination of factors could impact each child differently.

In an announcement September 29, 2009, the EPA noted that U.S. consumers are “understandably anxious and confused” about chemicals in the environment and in their bodies. Quoted as saying the 1976 toxics law was “inordinately cumbersome and time-consuming”, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson indicated that in the coming months the Obama administration will promote a new law placing responsibility on the chemical industry to prove that its compounds are safe.

In the interim, Jackson said, the EPA would begin to analyze and regulate six chemicals that have raised high-profile health concerns. These include bisphenol/BPA, found in hard, clear polycarbonate bottles and in dentistry materials; phthalates, found in vinyl and cosmetics; brominated flame retardants; perfluorinated compounds used in nonstick coatings; paraffins found in lubricants; and benzidine dyes and pigments. It is feared that these six chemicals mimic hormones. They have already been linked to reproductive problems, the obstruction of fetal development, cancer and other health disorders.

Using its authority under existing law, EPA may restrict the use of these six chemicals or require that product labels warn consumers of the risks associated with their use. — October 13, 2009 – Reprint From American Assn. of Health Freedom

My comment: Notice that the report does not say that the EPA will ban these very dangerous chemicals -  only restrict and label them.  Which basically means manufacturers will still be able to kill us slowly.

Not only did she prove herself ignorant, stupid and inflammatory during her run for the vice presidency, she’s now proved she can’t be trusted to do what she signed up to do.

I’d like to think we’ve seen the last of her and that maybe she’ll go deeper into the wilds of Alaska and meet up with a nice big grizzly who’ll have her for lunch, but I’m guessing she’ll more likely show up on the talk show circuit and become a female Rush Limbaugh. She’ll take to the airwaves and spew loads of garbage, make lots of money; the media will pretend they’re outraged and report about her on a near daily basis.

The republican heart throb, or rather, heart ache, will then become pregnant with 8 babies simultaneously; she’ll give birth by ceasarian section. When they cut into her enlarged tummy, she’ll go flying around the surgery like a deflated balloon. They will make a reality TV show about her and her witless offspring; pay her even more money and maybe if we’re lucky, one of her stupid kids will shoot her in the head when he’s practicing his hunting skills from a helicopter. Way to go, Sarah!

I am fearful. I am fearful about my fear. It grows daily with each new news report about how I should be afraid of losing my job, losing my house, starving to death, losing my ability to care for my animals, getting older and not having health insurance. I am fearful about our environment and the loss of many species with the latest threat to the polar bears. I loathe the fact that I am so fearful about things that are beyond my control.

I wish I could be more Zen-like. Accept that which I cannot change. However, if I just accept things, even though I cannot change these things, don’t I just become complicit in the whole horrible process? That’s how I used to think many years ago which brought me nothing but ill health due to excessive stress. I worried about everything.

Now I just stress about almost everything then do mental exercises to alleviate my stress until the next stressful thing arrives. When the mental exercises don’t help, I pound my head against the wall to knock myself into unconsciousness. That helps until I wake up and remember what caused the stress that motivated me to knock myself unconscious.

I’ve tried seeing a psychiatrist until I realized that those people are as screwed up as everyone else and don’t know how to fix anything. They do know how to write out a prescription for anti-depressants, though. I won’t take them. You shouldn’t take them either. They don’t make the problems go away. Of course if you don’t have health insurance you can’t afford to buy them anyway. And, you’ll still lose your house or job or starve to death. Doesn’t that make you angry?

You know what helps? Spitting. If you get angry enough you should just spit. You can hear it and you can see it which means you can truly appreciate the awesome value of it. Spit at the wall; spit at the floor; spit at your local politician. It beats throwing expensive shoes. And when the spit dries on your wall or floor, feel free to color it with crayons to brighten up your world.

If the spit dries on your local politician, revel in the fact that he/she will now have to take their garment to the dry cleaners or else worry about whether or not they contracted some horrible disease from your ugly spit. They will become fearful and they will loathe you for your disgusting habit. What they sow, so shall they reap. That should make you happy.

Time to send a message. Since the public is funding these businesses through the big bailout, I think it should now be US calling the shots. A lot of people are having financial problems and many will default on their credit card payments. It’s going to show up on your credit report no matter how much you try to reason with the banks. I would suggest that people stop paying off their debts and when the debt collectors start calling you tell them to take out your payments from the bailout money they received from YOUR tax dollars — remember, the money you paid when you actually had a job. Then, you can tell them that if they still need more money, they should get it back from the overpaid CFO/CEO fuckers who created this mess in the first place.

I’ve been seeing those Walmart commercials about buying a prepaid Visa card. It seems a good way to go as a backup to carrying cash. Obviously once you tell the banking industry to go fuck themselves you’ll never get credit again, at least not for about 7-10 years, but the way things are going in general, you wouldn’t get it anyway. Are there going to be any jobs left in the United States? The word “depression” is now on everyone’s lips. Scary stuff, indeed.

Why not reward people for NOT having children by giving these individuals tax breaks? Our financial situation, environment, health care and education systems will all benefit immediately by this approach. — FEB. 25, 2009

But let’s get something straight first. Obama is not black. Obama is of mixed race. And he’s not African-American. He’s American. As someone of mixed race, he truly can identify with both sensibilities. As someone who came from lesser means, he can understand the problems that the majority of Americans must face everyday. I cannot think of a better representative to bind the people of this country together.

Obama is intelligent, thoughtful and articulate. Obama is willing to engage in diplomacy. Obama’s message has been ‘hope for the future’ and ‘change for the better’. And even though Obama is younger than his Republican opponent, he proved to be the more mature one.

George Bush was a stupid warmonger who was arrogant about his stupidity. And McCain was happy to blindly follow Bush’s lead. Obama was lucky enough to have raised the most money ever in a Presidential campaign, but Bush comes from oil wealth and McCain lives comfortably in 11 homes and with 13 cars and has an heiress for a wife. Neither Republican falls into your “average American” category despite their clamor about pitching to their “base”. Their only base has been their “Joe the Plumber” and “Joe Six-Pack” mentality. Thankfully, America woke up and realized that that mentality is pathetic and ugly and not something that was going to move us away from our woes and into the splendid future.

The whole world has been watching and will continue to watch. It is now time for America to shine. We will only do that with honesty, tolerance, intelligence and fortitude. We must face our problems head on and fix them. We can no longer set them aside and say they’ll wait for another day. Our natural resources are limited; our economy and our environment are in shambles. We must make every representative accountable.

I have hope for the first time in many years. Obama knows what needs to be done. Now if only we can make it happen!  – filed 11/5/08