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When talking about taxes this is the only phrase the left needs: You get what you pay for.
Simple sound bite for the uninformed.
When talking about the wealthy vs the working class this is the only phrase the left needs: Labor proceeds capital.
Simple sound bite for the uninformed.
Self explanatory phrases, if someone needs either explained keep the explanation simple (because you're dealing with simple mindedness). You get what you pay for, means you get valuable goverenment services for you tax, Police & Fire Depts, Roads, Public Education, etc... Labor proceeds capital, means without labor doing the work, nothing of value would be produced to provide capital. (Even if that labor is bending over to pick up a gold nugget, you have to do the work to get the capital).
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#1, you're not going to get a progressive majority because we conservatives outnumber you 2 to 1. And for the record, Mitt is not a conservative in my view but my motto this year is anyone but Obama. We'll work on finally getting a conservative candidate next time. And we take you very seriously. What you and your ilk are trying to do to this country is appalling and you need to be stopped. And don't blame Bush. He didn't help because he wasn't a true conservative either. But, this problem has been going on in the federal government since the turn of the last century. They have been slowly consolidating their power against the people. Sadly it's probably too late to save this country, or any country in europe. All brought to humanity through progressive ideology.
Our own country is definitely headed down that road and I don't know if it can be stopped now, it has taken over so much of our country.
I think the only way to defeat the government agencies and linked corporations is with information spread all over the country. But how do we do that when their voices are much louder than ours.
I read labels on everything, but that doesn't tell me about anti-biotics and mercury. I also buy at my Co-op, and try to buy mostly organic. The latter is not a possibility for a lot of people, and it is more expensive, but there is a sizeable minority of people who do not want to eat mercury, anti-biotics, GMO food and the like. Some of the publicity is reaching people. The FDA recently "encouraged" farmers to quit using anti-biotics as a result of public awareness, but that is probably useless until we can persuade the FDA and our elected leaders to not allow this to be voluntary. Same with farmer waste into our rivers and lakes.
Maybe OCCUPY would be able to OCCUPY our food stores. Everybody buys groceries. Pink slime got people's attention.
Liberal fascism by Jona Goldberg, read it if you dare. Your just a progressive elitist like Thom, (I mean who spells the name Tom with a h for crying out loud, oh yeah, an elitist), who thinks they are smarter than everyone else. What you don't realize is your beliefs don't mesh with the real world. And by the way, this whole "war on women" is a distraction trumped up by the liberals because they know they can't win on their record. It all started with George Stephanopoulas asking Mitt Romney if he would deny woman birth control at a debate when no one was talking about it. He took his marching orders and followed through. When I run into people like you it reminds me of Jimmy Carter, a man who is very intelligent but has no common sense. A fellow serviceman who served with him said he was the smartest man he'd ever met, didn't have a lick of common sense to apply it to the real world. You elitists remind me so much of Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory, If you had to survive without us "liberty braggers" you'd never make it.
Several things: 1. According to predictions about global warming, nearly all foods may be lacking in nutrition eventually, organic or otherwise. 2. The USDA is in bed w/ corporate farming and corporations, and are actually behind companies like MacDonalds, as a way of promoting agri-business. So in the end, it seems the pressure needs to be on environmental issues and the food industry.
Vote with your feet - boycott foods, pink slime ground beef, etc. , and franchised eateries that serve less nutricious food. Easy to do these days, when it's all you can do to get enough on the table. Who can afford to eat out very often???
Push for truth in labeling. There actually were laws for this at one point...and truth in advertising. An old friend, former speaker Tom Foley, helped work on those bills in Congress way back when. Apparently those laws have gone the way of many that protect the consumer.
Adding a slightly off-topic note. Washington state Democratic caucuses are this weekend...find out when and where in your area if you live in Washington State. ..Be there! Thank you
To “the other 98” who wrote:
“Education and sane Economics work. If you actually know that you and your children are being poisoned, you will choose not to have that happen. If you don't buy the crap, the people that produce it will stop, if they can't sell it.”
This would be a great ideology if the vaccine industry and the CDC did not have a “public Private Partnership” http://www.cdc.gov/globalaids/leverage-partnerships/public-private-partnerships.html
This would be a great ideology if the public were not told that vaccine mercury is “safe mercuryhttp://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Concerns/Thimerosal/thimerosal_faqs.html
and that aluminum adjuvants are safe as well http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Concerns/adjuvants.html
so they do not realize that they ARE being poisoned. In fact many people have been mislead to believe that vaccines no longer contain mercury but the do http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability/VaccineSafety/UCM096228
The fact is that there is no informed consent – we tried passing legislation in MN that would have required doctors (and now Walmarts) request mercury free vaccines first, then if none were available the doctor would have to inform the patient that the vaccine contained mercury, giving them the choice to choose a mercury free vaccine if they wish. The Minnesota Department of Health fought the legislation for 4 years – they say it would be too complicated for doctors to have to explain that mercury at 50,000 parts per billion is perfectly safe to inject into infants, grandma’s and teenagers. That is actually because it would be impossible to do so. By the way, there is only enough mercury free flu vaccine for about 1/3 to ½ of the infants and children that get it.
Did you know that the vaccine industry has had no liability for damages and the US Gov is 100% liable for adverse effects of their products? http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/index.html
Did you know that the Supreme Court actually determined that you can not even sue the manufacturer, even in the event they KNOW that vaccine ingredients are “unavoidably unsafe”? http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/blog/bruesewitz-vs-wyeth-case-resolved
This would be a great ideology if there was no incredible pressure from doctors and schools, and the incredible recent efforts to eliminate any exemptions and enforce unnecessary mandates. http://www.examiner.com/disease-prevention-in-baltimore/dr-paul-offit-delivers-speech-with-arguments-against-exemptions-from-compulsory-vaccination
In all reality, most of the public is FORCED to “buy the crap” so the manufacturers do not have to stop producing it (with mercury - see FDA link above) and they have governments willingly buy it, even if it goes unused http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/swineflu/news/jul2110newsscan.html
Thom likes to talk about Fascism, where corporations and government work together with the interests of the corporations over that of the people. Our own country seems to be heading down that road. Just look at the FDA and the Food Industry, the BLM and the mining industry and the EPA and the Chemical industry. For some reason however the CDC and the Medical industrial complex get a hall pass????
You Republicans are actually trying to change the Constitution by overdoing those dozens of Amendment bills.
The Constitution doesn't say states have no limits and the federation has no options. And we have.... We're going to drive out corporate greed, if we get a decent progressive majority in Congress.
Americans should actually learn it now : we're screwed since Bush -- you guys are acting like a bunch of lunatics. Mitt Romney is a goop who even straps his dog on top of his car.
Who is supposed to take you guys seriously anymore? Those who do, need their heads examined.
Today's GOP is fascistic -- you're standing for a fascist organisation. So Hitler's not far from you. My campaigning concept very much bases on the Keynesian policy of the conservative Christian-Democratic Angela Merkel. No socialists, just a conservative lady, successfully governing in Germany. You guys are hicks who don't get anything cuz you live under a rock -- that's all.
You phony 'liberty'-braggers. You for example deny MY liberty as woman. You are a bunch of liars and you know that!
You better not go into European history with me my friend, you only make yourself ridiculous. I read original sources.... even German middle-age, which 99% of the Germans don't understand.
Just try..... LOL
In the news a few days ago, there was a farm bill story about how the EU countries will now accept organic foods from the US. This opening of the market will encourage more farmers to turn toward organics. That is those who still own their land. A big grain farmer in our area just sold his operation to some investment firm. There is already so much cancer in our area--me included who gardens organically--from farm chemicals--we haven't had a glass of our own well water since we moved here in the 1990s.
We have the power of boycotting bad products. We need to partner with healhcare officials and researchers and the media to get this changed. There are already products that brag about eliminating high fructose corn syrup. Lets put the pressure on and stop being whinning sheep.
We all know that any industry publicly owned is ONLY in the best interest of the investors that support it . . . forget about the worker bees, 'the people that should govern'.
Has the aluminum industry attempted to reverse the negative affects that aluminum as a trace element has on our brains in blocking neuron synapsis; a required process that can only be accomplished by the more necessary trace element, copper? NO ! ! ! Do we use aluminum as a conductor for everything electric that we develop? NO ! ! ! Aluminum has long been suspect in blocking copper from charging the activity required for synapse of our nuerons as a major culprit in the cause of Alzheimers by depleting our neurons from being charged and ultimately causing their deaths . . .use or lose. MY SOLUTION: shop flea mkts and antique shops for copperware. And, boycot aluminum products as best as I can . . . waxpaper and brown bags are my wrapper of choice..
But, like the boycotts against ALEC and the positive changes that we can make to force industry to change their unscrupulous money addiction in favor of their investors and politicians with their amoral practices, we can also boycott the use of aluminum, corn syrup based products, and hormone-injected fish that are putting our boys into training bras, plus countless other less than moral practices being shoved down our gullets.
Feed us shit and hope we think we are eating steak. That is industry's profit rule . . . right?
BUT, WE DO GOVERN AND WE DO CAUSE CHANGE BECAUSE THE LAST THING WE WANT FROM THOSE CLAIMING THEMSELVES TO BE CONSERVATIVES IS TO SEE THEM TURN OUT COUNTRY INTO A COMMUNIST, FASCIST, AND TOTALITARIAN BEAST.
In just a few moments of your time, those who care to have a "look" that will have more than your eyes twitching, Bhopal. A perfect example of how toxins to body such as Mercry and more have long-term effects on ALL people. Various forms of GENETIC alterations due to a source that is NOT natural but consumed in the form of food and most importantly, WATER, which affects EVERYTHING.
DOW doesn't care. Government doesn't care and UNION CARBIDE most certainly doesn't care about the disaster, loss of life, long term devastation, etc. Why not? It would mean spending money to clean up thier enormous ??? disaster doesn't begin, so - I've no word for such. Now if there's profit to be gained somehow, clean up may eventually be considered. Meantime, the water, the land and all that thrive? no - struggle to survive lay wasting. Bhopal is only one example, but a good one to draw from.
This must needed change will not only provide better health but provide a huge jobs program too. Organic, sustainable agriculture at a local level requires more labor than factory farming. As climate changes, local, diverse crops will better be able to adapt too. We need legislation that favors local farming. Occupy the legislature!
Education and sane Economics work. If you actually know that you and your children are being poisoned, you will choose not to have that happen. If you don't buy the crap, the people that produce it will stop, if they can't sell it. ( The invisible Hand:o) That takes an education. Why do you think that Ditto heads have a 6th grade education(and fewer teeth) and college educated people tend towards being progressives. John Steward said that " Reality has a liberal bias" I would say that so does education and truth!
...if we saw children born with missing eyes or limbs, we have to believe that the medical, pharmaceutical and goverment community would be absolutley diligent in tracking down the cause of such a nightmare... imagine 1 in 88 with such afflictions. there is something dreadfully wrong here and I think it will be up to the parents, especially the mothers-to-be, to figure out the cause. They alone will bring the munbers down. If there is some environmental or medical fault here, do we really believe we will ever be told? This is a real disaster for some parents and their children. Many will require care way beyond the parents' lives......
Someone hit the bull's-eye. When you look at a centralized economy and/or marketplace. You have to see the hub and spoke design. The one factor that a hub and spoke design requires is transportation of goods.This design or model cannot do without fuel, gas or diesel. By decentralizing food production it would exponentially improve the standard of living for Americans. When we transport these crops from the field to the elevators, from the elevators to the trains, from the trains to the cities or the ports to be processed or exported We burn diesel fuel and a lot of it. We are not just talking about the cost of fuel, there is a cost in our environment as well, that black soot that settles our farm ground, homes and cars could be addressed by decentralization to some degree. So in some cases it would be advantageous to decentralize.. For now support your local farmers and producers who bring their produce town.
As a "professional" - whatever that means - you should know that mercury is a mutagen........ it is capable of mutating genes, and affecting the "expression" of genes as well. Many people are born with (or suffer from, as a result of toxic exposure?) a genetic deletion of an allele that affects the enzyme methylenetetrahyafolate reductase or MTHFR. typically people with this genetic trait are susceptable to heart disease. It is an enzyme responsible for helping the body attach a carbon atom to vitamin B-12, thus making it the methyl-b12 that the body can absorb. Methyl B-12 is part of the very important process of methylation, or the ability of the body to detoxify itself of heavy metals such as mercury, lead and aluminum. A great resource on this can be found here: http://www.vce.org/mercury/Deth.pdf
What really startles me is your comment "ASD sperm donors may have passed genes over the passed 30 years - hence the drastic increase in diagnosis". I realize that having the "Dr." in front of you name may impress some people, but without specifics, this is "anecdotal" evidence - the very term given when thousands of parents worldwide describe what happened to their children as they become autistic, As for the "REAL" studies you speak of, please give links, and lets have a real back and forth debate rather than firing off personal suppositions.
Lets start off with the CDC funded study from Denmark http://fourteenstudies.org/pdf/HG_2.pdf "Thimerosal and the Occurrence of Autism: Negative Ecological Evidence from Danish Population-Based Data"
One of the authors of this study is has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud and money laundering based on a scheme to steal grant money the CDC had awarded to governmental agencies in Denmark for autism research. http://www.ageofautism.com/2011/04/autism-researcher-poul-thorsen-indicted.htm Choice Excerpt from the Study:
"Also, outpatient activities were included in the Danish Psychiatric Central Research Register in 1995 and because many patients with autism in former years have been treated as outpatients this may exaggerate the incidence rates, simply because a number of patients attending the child psychiatric treatment system before 1995 were recorded for the first time, and thereby counted as new cases in the incidence rates."
Meaning: we didn’t count 93% of the kids diagnosed with autism in Denmark during the time mercury was in vaccines, then we did once it was removed.
This study is the bottom brick in a house of cards. - Good Doctor Geborah - your opinion please?
We can boycott products that contain it. I already do not consume products that contain high fructose corn syrup. As beekeepers, we are discouraged from using it for spring and late fall feed for our bees, by the most respected bee journal in the world.
Please see the following in Bee Culture: "High Fructose Corn Syrup & HMF" by Ross Conrad
http://www.beeculture.com/storycms/index.cfm?cat=Story&recordID=686
From the professional field: All REAL data and studies agree that ASD is a genetic disorder; not related to vaccines, foods, polution, etc, etc, etc. I understand it's hard for the average health-concerned citizen to let go of their blame game. However, foods, additives, environmental poisons do NOT cause ASD - genes do, and the race is on to discover what ones or what conbination is the etiological culprit. Having said all that, there is a real concern/knowledge/litigation (google) that ASD sperm donors may have passed genes over the passed 30 years - hence the drastic increase in diagnosis. Recent knowledge that a sperm donor doctor fathered 600+ children gives cause to reflect on the grim possibilities.
The introduction of GMO's (genetically modified organisms) into the food chain--such as genetically modified corn, soybeans, veggies, etc. needs to be studied, too. The increase in autism could be linked to the increasing use of GMO's and to my knowledge it has not been studied. High fructose corn syrup should be BANNED. The body cannot digest it. For those of you who have ROKU--the U of C lecture series devotes an hour on the chemisty of HFCS and effect on our bodies. I labels now to avoid it.
Roll back states rights? Really. Have you ever heard of the Constitution? Clarissa, your in the wrong country. Canada maybe? maybe not socialist enough, try Venezuela. That would probably be a good fit for you.
Yes you should. And take a good firearms class, get a concealed carry license and carry your gun daily. Help make the world a safer place. I would love to see guns in the hands of all law abiding citizens.
We're the only industrialized country that doesn't have universal health care. We also have the most frankenfood "products" that are created in experimental labs, mass produced, and mass-marketed. If our goverment were to take responsibility for our health care, it/we would have to regulate the food that is making so many people sick. It/we wouldn't be able to afford NOT to! Coincidence?
Could studies like this deter major food corporations that are using high fructose corn syrup in their products to feed Americans?" I believe that our media exists to entertain, not give facts that will cause corporations to change their profit based actions. People do not understand that a lot of what they eat is unhealthy. We cannot get GMO's to be labeled. Monsanto, with its weed killer Roundup is currently developing weeds that are Roundup resistant and is changing insects. Mercury, according to Dr. Mercola, is dangerous to our health, regardless of whether or not it causes autism.
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