There are so many examples of money over people in American life — let’s explore one: Tobacco. I’m choosing this one because there is no religious belief that tobacco is good (as far as I know). There is mountains of scientific evidence that tobacco causes all sorts of problems: cancer, heart disease, etc. We even know that second-hand smoke is dangerous. Yet, consider the US policy on tobacco — a warning label and some taxes to discourage use. But, in the end it is legal and consumed by large numbers of people and it’s use is growing among young people. We are talking about a defective, harmful product. So, we have an absolutely clear example of a product that causes disease, increases health care costs, but LITTLE has been done about it. It isn’t banned and you can probably find it within 1 mile of where you live. This is American politics — it is about money and never about people.
Thus, what is the chances of dealing with problems where the causation is less known. For example, scientists have made an overwhelming case about climate change and how the earth is getting warmer. But, just as with tobacco, there are deniers who will argue forever there is no climate change. Just like the executives of tobacco companies swore that tobacco is not addictive and does not cause disease. What is the point of investigation and rational projections, given that in America that ONLY things that matters is MONEY. Even with tobacco, there is little public policy that addresses the fact that tobacco kills people — every year, every day. It is guaranteed. Likewise, climate change will kill many and cause pain for many more.
The list goes on and on.
Food is riddled with profit making that goes against the health of citizens: pesticides, additives, high-fructose corn syrup, etc. Meanwhile, junk food, loaded with fat and sugar, is cheap and leads to more and more disease. In a rational country, they would not allow people to consume food that caused disease. No wonder the rich don’t want universal health care because it would, by necessity, require more rational public policies.
Today’s America can’t solve any problems unless the solution is built around the rich becoming richer. As a result, the country is doomed with public policies that are destroying the country — day after day.
America is Doomed.
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Da Gubsamunts goons can tax the crap out of tobacco and only the users care, because most Americans don’t use tobacco. They get high fives for whacking on the politically incorrect tobacco user. I agree that it should at a minimum be a controlled substance, requiring a prescription from a quack to get it. Once people have to go to an allopathic quack doctor to get their fix, they will quit using it. The cost to the healthcare system from tobacco use is still enormous. And tobacco users don’t pay enough “extra” in to cover the cost of their long term diseases.
What passes for food in this country is deplorable. Processed foods are simply toxic. They are poisonous with white, processed sugar and HFCS being the number one culprits. Most of the chemical additives are neuro-exitotoxins that produce all of the ADHD, HDAD, ABCDEFG, QRSTUV and WXYZ that nearly everyone seems to suffer from to some degree or the other. Sugar causes cancer. I call it cancer fertilizer. It also acidifies your body tissue causing your body to pull calcium from bones to maintain a slightly alkaline pH. Diabetes and obesity are rampant. But the gears of Big Pharma, Big Medicine, Big Quack Doctors, Big Insurance grind on. Big Money is to be made in disease for profit. You will never change shit with Big Food and Big Medical Mafia.
They don’t care a rat’s ass if you croak. They actually want you to so that they don’t have to attempt to pay you socialist insecurity from their bankrupt “fund” (nonexistant, I might add). And even in death, Big Mortuary will get their Big Cut and a chance to pick what’s left of your worthless bones.
Disease for profit is here to stay. It is a tightly knit group of a few very powerful corporations. You can’t have a disease profit system without all of its major components: Big Processed Food, Big Quack Doctors(licensed dope pushers for Big Pharma) , Big Pharma (who treats toxic disease with more toxic chemicals), and Big Insurance (who collects unreasonable premiums from the sickened masses to supply the gear grease to big pharma and big quack doctors). There will be no reform. This won’t change. It will simply bankrupt us and lead to martial law. Prepare for the coming chaos.
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