Could the reason why we don't get universal health care be to help keep the U.S. population down?
Ours are like the Times in which Dickens wrote:
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
As it stands now, the United States of America has 5-percent of the world's people, yet uses about 25-percent of the world's resources. For instance, fossil fuels.
If we had a population 10-percent, we might use about 50-percent or whatever the calculus of what there is, is. Who knows the exact numbers? I do know we're as a culture right at the top of the consumer pyramid. For certain long-range thinkers in the bowels of government and academia, useless eaters represent a problem. One scientist, Eric R. Pianka, was applauded for suggesting how great it would be for humanity if a nice Ebola virus would wipe out about 90-percent of the population.
So, our elected representatives work to maintain a ruthless, for-profit health care system in which those who can afford it receive the best and most modern medical care in the world and those who can't afford it, well, are more likely to die off. Look at the growing disparity in life expectancy for the rich and the poor, now about five years as best estimated.
Too bad, so sad. But, hey! How's that for successful economic Darwinism? Survival of the capitalist fittest and "Adios!" to the loser class.
George H.W. Bush - "You mean for sleeping or decongestant? Great."
Gee. This may also explain why "Money trumps peace" is so, uh, acceptable nowadays -- for a global effect.
Show me the money! Absolute Eugenics.
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I've never understood how anyone can keep calling something a theory, when evidence exists.
Racial hygiene, and it really never stopped.
You old conspiracy "theorist", you. 
...paid extra, but it's worth it.
http://m.guardiannews.com/artanddesign/2013/mar/31/anti-drone-hoodie-big-brother
Thanks for never giving up and never ratting me out, Mnemosyne. It must be torture.
have disappeared from the shelves over the years. Really wish I'd kept a title list, hindsight and all...
It did take almost a year to dig up a copy of 'The Franklin Conspiracy', only managed to get it when that prositute Gannon was visiting the WH. Seriously, ordered it over and over, was told being sent and never appeared.
I wish I could remember the book about Jr. being with that cult on the Texas - Mexican border when the massacre occured. Doubt it exists many places now. Do you recall the name? Please?!
I'll never rat you out, if you do the same for me! Its better they believe we are totally insane! Bwahaha...
PS - that half - hoodie is awesome! Bet someone suggests we buy one in tinfoil. 
I had to sell my shares in Medicare due to its low profit margin 
Not even Congressional Democrats in 2001 could muster the political courage for verified paper trail voting. They did use the opportunity to enact legislation that helped perpetuate the problems into perpetuity.
What's Changed, What Hasn't and Why: Election Reform 2000-2006
Feb 07, 2006
Electionline.org, a source of nonpartisan and non-advocacy news and analysis on election reform issues, has published the fourth edition of "What’s Changed, What Hasn’t and Why"–- its annual report detailing the state of election reform nationwide.
From the introduction to the report:
"As 2006 begins, the standard title of the report is especially apt. The Help America Vote Act of 2002 imposed a number of key deadlines that finally arrived January 1; as a result, the existence (or lack thereof) of electoral changes – and the reasons why – are no longer merely an academic question for election officials, advocates and policymakers. Rather, such developments take on additional significance as they could provide the impetus for enforcement litigation or other federal activity in the field of election reform."
Pew Report in PDF: http://www.pewtrusts.org/uploadedFiles/wwwpewtrustsorg/Reports/Election_reform/electionline_022006.pdf
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I tell the youngsters I remember a time when all human life was valued.
They usually don't laugh in my face, but they do say, "Uh huh" a lot.
