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States sue the federal government over the Bush drug benefit program (commentary) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

That's how big government works. And nobody in the history of the United States has made big government bigger than President Bush. Big Government used to be the political refuge of Democrats, but now Republicans have beat them at their own game (both Reagan and Bush were record spenders. Clinton, on the other hand, actually cut spending. Not nearly enough, but he did make major cuts.) The "game," of course, is seeing who can offer the most handouts to voters while claiming with a straight face that nobody has to pay for them. And the bigger the lie, the better it seems to go over with voters.

Americans betrayed by Democratic senators with surprise amendment that protects Big Pharma monopoly Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Big Business and big government are now merging to become a unified system of financial exploitation of the people. The corporations financially rape the people, and the government keeps it legal. Please note that senators of both major parties -- Democratic and Republican -- joined in this most recent mass betrayal of U.S. consumers. While Republicans certainly have stronger ties to drug companies, when push comes to shove Democrats will sell out their constituents just the same.

Where's the health in health reform? Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

All of this, of course, is big government at its finest. And it's all being done for your own protection, didn't you know? Drugs from Canada are very, very dangerous, we've been told. (I have a question: if drugs from Canada started killing Americans, how would we know? So many Americans are falling over dead from prescription drugs right now that it would be hard to sort them out.) If that's not enough, big government USA has more solutions for you, too. Don't worry about your food choice or diet, just be sure to drink lots of milk, because the dairy industry is tight with the feds.

Review: The Future of Food, a must-see documentary that exposes the biotech threat to life on our planet Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

We're fighting to protect life on many fronts, including challenging Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Oil and big government. We believe in consumer rights, open-source intellectual property and the protection of nature. We're radical thinkers who support radical changes to create a sustainable future founded on consumer freedom, liberty and education.

FDA drug safety bill passes in the U.S. Senate; health freedom advocates outraged at betrayal of American consumers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Dropping a nuclear bomb over a major American city would kill fewer people than the FDA / Big Pharma / big government agenda will now kill, thanks to the actions of our lawmakers. (And that's using statistics from the Journal of the American Medical Association, by the way.) As shameless as ever, this dangerous law has been sold to consumers as a "drug safety" bill. But prescription drugs are not safe, even if they are purchased at the highest retail prices in the world. (Paying more for a drug does not make it safer.

I advise all remaining sane citizens to start making plans now to protect themselves from the new merger of Big Pharma and big government. S.1082 has all come down to one thing: a Big Medical Scam. Analysis by Byron Richards (opinion) The Senate has sold out the American people. Anyone voting for change in the last election can now plainly see the shenanigans of a Democratic-controlled Senate. Under Republicans no FDA reform ever took place.

FTC sues Kevin Trudeau over weight loss claims while ignoring Big Pharma monopoly pricing Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

That's big government watching out for ya, as usual! I'll bet you feel really, really safe now that Trudeau is being investigated for promoting a weight loss book.

The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts

A spate of "natural cure" books have looked at some of the marketing practices of the drug companies, the power of the food companies and Big Pharma, and the porous influence of these huge conglomerates on agricultural policy and on the FDA, and these books and authors have concluded that it's all a great big government conspiracy to keep you from knowing what you need to get yourself well and to stay healthy and out of the medical system. That the big evil people in government and in power don't want you to know the truth.

States sue the federal government over the Bush drug benefit program (commentary) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

And nobody in the history of the United States has made big government bigger than President Bush. Big Government used to be the political refuge of Democrats, but now Republicans have beat them at their own game (both Reagan and Bush were record spenders. Clinton, on the other hand, actually cut spending. Not nearly enough, but he did make major cuts.) The "game," of course, is seeing who can offer the most handouts to voters while claiming with a straight face that nobody has to pay for them. And the bigger the lie, the better it seems to go over with voters.

The truth about Enron that most Americans don't want to hear Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Bush's spending habit makes big government Democrats look like tightwads. What else makes this uniquely American is that Americans have come to believe a great many absurd falsehoods thought to be insane just a generation ago. They believe that their labor is inherently more valuable than the labor of anyone else in the world. They believe that whatever they're invested in (their homes, their stocks, their dollars) will go up forever and that they can bank on the expected gains. (Enron booked future profits for today's ideas like actual earnings on the balance sheet.

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century James Howard Kunstler See book keywords and concepts

This is exactly the kind of problem against which central government as we know it would prove ineffective, as big government will be subject to the same encumbrances of scale as big agriculture or big business, while the competency of government to redistribute wealth is always questionable—and in the Long Emergency, land will be wealth. If government does attempt to reallocate land on an emergency basis, it might only foment a resistance that would threaten whatever remaining legitimacy it had.

It could be undertaken in a political climate of anarchy or under government sponsorship, though I reiterate my point that the post-peak oil predicament is liable to render big government dysfunctional and impotent. I would be more concerned about what might happen on the local and regional levels, and I will discuss that later. Military aggression against other nations is another probability, essentially resource wars, and these are already under way. How long the United States can keep it up is a big question mark.

Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies Greg Critser See book keywords and concepts

Holmer decided he could win on one count: populist inclinations against big government. As the organization had done in the early 1990s, when it campaigned against Bill and Hillary Clinton's health care plan, Holmer drafted two unlikely characters to make his case in the media: Harry and Louise, the smart-talkin' seniors on a mission to protect America from a government that seemed bent, in this case, on "getting into my medicine cabinet." Holmer spent millions on the campaign.

Big Pharma: free market economics run amok Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It's almost as if Big Business is the new dictator, and it's the Big Business centrally-planned economy instead of the big government centrally-planned economy. The free market, it seems, needs some intervention from time to time in order to keep it honest. And I'm talking about real intervention, not some panzie-slapping FDA acting like it's regulating drug companies (which it clearly isn't).

Government has a legitimate role in keeping Big Business honest, and while I am no proponent of big government, there are times when it must stand up to industry and make decisions on behalf of the people. We don't see that happening much today. Our present government is basically just an extension of private industry.

It's not enough to say that Big Business and big government are in bed together... they are, in fact, nearly indistinguishable. And so the classical theories of free market economics we've all been taught are ideal in theory. In the world of academic books and mathematical models, all consumers benefit from the greed of private industry. But in the real world, people die broke and sick. The power of the free market doesn't stand up to the reality of collusion between private industry and government.

Where's the health in health reform? Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

If that's not enough, big government USA has more solutions for you, too. Don't worry about your food choice or diet, just be sure to drink lots of milk, because the dairy industry is tight with the feds. Don't worry about that mad cow disease from a Texas cow (that reluctantly took the USDA seven months and three rounds of testing to finally admit), because the beef industry has executives in key positions at the USDA, and they're out to protect your health, too.

Better than the Flat Tax, the Flax Tax saves our economy and our health! (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Bush has -- get this -- outspent the greatest big government liberal spender in history: Lyndon Johnson! Seriously, what if flax were a form of currency? Then we could pay our landlords with flax. We could pay our electric bill with flax. You see, if you turn flax into the currency, you would actually have something of substance, whereas today the dollar is based on absolutely nothing. And, of course, the Federal Reserve determines what a dollar is worth by how much money it creates in the M2 money supply. (Neat trick, huh? They just print up more money and spend it.

What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

But in one way we are living in a condition of virtually a corporate dictatorship in which big government and big industry decide what information the consumer can have. It's the object of the Cancer Prevention Coalition and my personal objective to ensure that this information, which has been buried away in government and industry files, which vitally affects our lives, our health, our welfare and those of our children and our families be made available to the public and let the public decide. And I think the market place should take over where government has failed.

The Whole Soy Story: The dark side of America's favorite health food Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN See book keywords and concepts

Sadly, big business and big government have usurped their impossible dream. Old-fashioned whole soy foods that contribute to health if eaten in moderation have given way to ersatz products that lead inevitably to malnutrition and disease. Gigantic corporate farms and billion dollar soybean-crushing and food processing plants have driven out small farmers and cottage industries. The result worldwide is an epidemic of disease in humans and other life forms mirrored by a malignant increase in pollution and overall damage to the planet—a kind of cancer on the body of Mother Earth.

Mad cow madness: USDA lies and the coming collapse of the U.S. beef industry Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It's that old revolving door between private industry and big government -- serving your interests, of course! So what's the real story here? The real story is just as I predicted -- we have mad cow disease in this country, and I think we just have the tip of the iceberg here. Wait until the truth really comes out about this -- then you're going to see some mad cow madness hitting the fan in a very big way. And by that time, nobody will be able to tell where all the parts came from.

Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths Brian O'Leary See book keywords and concepts

This has become a partisan issue politically, but there is no solution yet, as the traditional battles between "big government" and private interests continue. Economic government has co-opted medical care to the point it has become a big business rather than a birthright. Many of us in America cannot afford to see a doctor or go to the hospital. We simply must stay healthy! Again, Europe is ahead on this question.

The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers Katharine Greider See book keywords and concepts

I don't want big government in my medicine cabinet!" she famously exclaimed. The ads announced that they were paid for by Citizens for Better Medicare (CBM) but didn't mention that the group gets the great majority of its funding from pharmaceutical companies or that its director had recently moved from his post as PhRMA's advertising chief.

Will they have the same kind of choices and access when big government reaches into their medicine cabinets?" In the run-up to the 2002 election, PhRMA used grants to a conservative seniors organization to subsidize another multimillion-dollar television ad blitz praising mostly Republican candidates for supporting "real prescription drug coverage" through Medicare—meaning the market-based GOP version the drugmakers favor. The ads, announced as "paid for by United Seniors Association," featured avuncular television star Art Linkletter. PhRMA's role in the campaign remained under the radar.

Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths Brian O'Leary See book keywords and concepts

To purely rely on big corporations or big government to set our policies and priorities has proven to be disastrous to the environment and taxing to personal freedom. We are going to have to create stronger but more flexible institutions which will navigate us through the turbulent waters of change. Our new direction must begin at home. Communities sharing resources and talents could form nodal points for communicating globally, over the net and through travel, new ideas and green technologies that can benefit everyone.

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele See book keywords and concepts

To discredit the single-payer idea, insurers, HMOs, for-profit hospitals, and other private interests play on Americans' long-standing fears of big government. This view was summed up by Susan Pisano, a vice president of the American Association of Health Plans, who contended in 2002 that a single-payer system "would lead to the creation of a large federal bureaucracy that would be less responsive and actually raise issues of cost, access and quality more than it would solve them.

Americans who are skeptical of anything that smacks of big government fear that a universal health plan would restrict personal freedom. But the market system already has done that. Those with health insurance often can go only to physicians or hospitals approved by their plans, unless they are wealthy enough to pay the fees out of their own pockets. Many Americans fear that it would cost too much, even though the market system already has given the United States the world's most expensive health care with little to show for it.

Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths Brian O'Leary See book keywords and concepts

I join Reich and Korten in believing that in taking this small step, we can expose the System for what it is, free of the captivating bromides such as "free trade", "economic growth", "prosperity", "end big government", "no new taxes", "compassionate conservatism", "liberal spenders", and "personal responsibility" which can be very deceiving or outright lies. Even the word "conservative" is a misnomer because most conservative politicians conserve nothing natural. Rather, he or she preserves a dysfunctional System antithetical to any kind of conservation measures.

The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers Katharine Greider See book keywords and concepts

The latter is exactly what drugmakers most fervently wish to avoid, fighting it off with rhetoric that raises the specter of seniors losing "access" and "choice" in a "one-size-fits-all big government program." The drug industry's political exertions over the last few years, including political ads aimed at key congressional candidates, helped prepare the way for the narrow passage in the House in June 2002 of the GOP version of a Medicare drug benefit.

Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About Kevin Trudeau See book keywords and concepts

This is why the FDA and the FTC and big government want to suppress information about natural remedies; it simply will cost them money. Remember, it's always all about the money. Can you see why I'm mad as hell and not going to take it anymore!? Use of Books. Another way drug companies increase the sales of their drugs is to pay millions of dollars to doctors, alleged experts, who in fact, are paid spokespeople for the drug companies. These experts then write books about the health benefits of certain drugs.

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