This is all part of the increasing refusal of Republican-controlled government to do anything to help people, to respond to any crisis or other problem, or to feel any need as rich people and their representatives to even make a social contribution at all. There is not only much less Federal research, etc., but a much higher portion of the budget goes strictly to wasteful subsidies for corporations, which they do nothing to deserve and do not "pay back" with any kind of societal behavior. Further, there is no President's Commision on Physical Fitness anymore, they are cutting Community Block Grants which are used to pay for programs, many of which involve educating people on how to manage their diseases, improve their diets, and etc.--so it just everything now. These are the latter stages of a process started by that bastard Reagan, and continued by Clinton and the corporate lobbyists of "D"LC, Inc.
There was a thread on this forum, just locked, called "The DLC member list! REMEMBER IT! COPY IT! NEVER FORGET IT!" by in_cog_ni_to which contained a reply by poster SOS, (#58, Tues. Feb. 7, 11:32AM), excerpting a really interesting linked-article that explains a lot, and that I think everybody should become clearer on, especially as this process is now becoming a threat to us all:
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20060213&s=faux , an article called "The Party of Davos" by Jeff Faux. The poster quoted the part about Clinton's bizarre impostion of NAFTA and GATT after lying to people with campaign slogans that indicated a pro-middle class, pro-worker agenda (remember "Reagan for Jobs" from 1980?), how it cost the Democrats the Congress, and how they have never recovered, as people do not want the extremist, global-rich, corporate lobbyist agenda of "D"LC, Inc. The article refers to many connections between these people, and how so many of these destructive deregulations, etc., are the result of these connections. One point has gone largely unnoticed, but it is killing us now. At the bottom of page 2 of the print, there is this description of NAFTA, and how it overrides government and civic law. "It sets up secret panels, rife with conflict of interest, to judge disputes from which there is no appeal. It makes vitually all nonmilitary government services subject to privatization and systematically undercuts the public sector's ability to regulate business." It quoted many people who referred to NAFTA's origins as the "legislation" of a global-investment social club, benefiting itself, and freeing its money for quick and easy movement. Other articles and threads also clarify "D"LC's role as corporate lobbyists for their sponsors, explaining their strange Floor votes, etc.
This is the point: "...makes virtually all...government services subject to privatization," or commercialization, the more accurate word. They tried to kill Social Security and make it a commercially-brokered pot of money, and were stopped; they commercialized drug coverage and made people sign up with corporations that have no intention of helping them, and they have no recourse, because it is now a corporate system (why they even call this scam "Medicare" perplexes me--it has nothing to do with Medicare; it is a corporate project); and now they try, over and over again, to cut people's access to the Courts when they have been injured, by the scam of inventing a "trust fund" which they claim will "cover everybody" but which they will not fund suffiently. Every single act these neo-cons do is the same: kill a Government agency or program, and either commercialize it (with no restrictions) or make a single pot of money which, when it is gone...
This is getting more and more nightmarish all the time--they are not funding anything, no matter the consequences, there is no public service to government anymore, only a set of corporate interrelationships, taking all tax money, and now our access to complain about all these things or even make them public, has been killed by a now-hostile, even treasonous corporate media.
My Mom had diabetes, and I took care of her when she was very sick, then dying. For a disease as common as diabetes still to be blamed on the supposed behavior of those who get it, is weird, but I know that when my Mom was a kid and had hypoglycemia, an ordinary condition, the treatment given her by her doctor was to eat a lot of sugar, to "raise it." As incredible as it seems, that was the lack of understanding then, and my Mom got diabetes (because of family history) from that terrible advice. It was not her fault, and there are also a few other family members with it, none of whom were overweight at all. Diabetes is a horrible thing, it has to be constantly monitored, much has to be learned, to balance units of different kinds of foods consumed, as against exercise gotten, etc. Sometimes strange things happened--I know for a fact that my Mom, if the sugar got high, cut back on food, had very little, tested later, and it would be over 400! She would worry, "But I haven't eaten anything all day." The complications with insulin or Humulin not working after they had for a while, doses needing to be changed, etc., etc., go on and on and on, and need to be learned about to keep monitoring it all.
I know that diabetics are very angry that not a goddamned thing has been done since the invention of insulin shots, I think 1921. Although you hear about new progress (the Edmonton Protocols, and possible transplants that will someday introduce a healthy system and actually "shut off" the diabetes in the body), nothing major ever happens, and people suffer, pay, and witness no progress. My Mom eventually lost kidney function and had to have dialysis at the end for several months. A while after she died, a Republican Congress killed the funding for a program we would have used--Medicare funding for home visits by a nurse who would help the person in the home, so they could go on living there. It would now no longer be covered. Signing it, killing the program, was Bill Clinton. I never understood it, until learning more about the global corporate investor class that is killing us all, and how they are Republican and "D"LC, Inc., alike.
God bless anyone who has diabetes; I know how you live (but not how you feel) from my Mom.
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