President Nixon's 'war on drugs' began forty years ago, although the United States started drug prohibition policies in 1914. This year is the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson's 'war on poverty.' We don't fight those wars too hard any longer. Many Americans, today, are consumed fighting for the right to conceal and carry a gun while other folks spend a lot of time and energy fighting to keep homosexuals from marrying.
In my lifetime, I have witnessed cigarette commercials removed from radio and television ads and replaced by 'ambulance-chasing-lawyers' ads urging 'sue-the-bastards;' I agree that secondhand smoke is bad for our health; I also think the law-suit-greed mentality is bad for our Nation's moral compass!! Today, I am protected in most states from smokers in the public places. Currently, I understand that there is a legislative proposal to ban smoking in autos where children are present; I suspect soon all American homes will have cameras installed to monitor this one.
I recently had a medical doctor tell me that 30% of the prescriptions he writes is motivated by patient request, which is driven by television ads. This will put more drugs in medicine cabinets for teens to seize and fabricate 'mid-buzzing cocktails.' How stupid can we become as a nation?
Some gentleman in Texas is fighting hospital authorities to disconnect the ventilator on his pregnant but brain-dead wife. Test completed on the fetus confirm the forming child has significant brain trauma and deformed lower extremities. Do you think there just might be a connection of this tragic circumstance to the fact that a fetus is trying to form in a dead body?? Of course it has nothing to do with those anti-abortion nut-jobs.
Each trip I take to Wal Mart seems to reveal one major underlying corporate mission...that company will not rest until its customers search the aisles for goods, SELF-CHECK OUT and bag; sound familiar? It should. The big oil companies trained us well at the convenient store pumps! Of course, there is a plethora of 'conservative' pundits who will bitch about link-cards, school lunch programs, food stamps, etc. and pontificate that 'those' people on those government programs need to get off their ass and get a job. I ask REALLY? How about our government doing away with one of the biggest socialists programs in America...Farm Subsidies???!!!
Spare me the poppycock crap!
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