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The collapse of health and the downfall of the u.s. economy (preview) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Today, here's what I'm predicting for the future of the u.s. economy and its practice of medicine: This feature story continues at www.HealthRanger.com (membership required) where you will read my predictions and trends for the next decade concerning the u.s. economy and the future of Western medicine. Huge economic shifts have already begun. Learn what's coming, and take steps now to save yourself from the Disease Economy. Click here for details.

Why the disease economy requires more disease The United States is now so completely invested in disease that, believe it or not, the u.s. economy cannot afford to invest in making people healthy, because the loss of business to drug companies and hospitals could cause an economic disaster. When you've built 1/5th of your national economy on pharmacies, drug companies, cancer centers, hospitals and outpatient surgery centers, the idea of showing people how to take care of their health and avoid all these products and services is simply incompatible with the economic foundation of your nation.

So politicians can shout all they want about the "strong u.s. economy." But in reality, it isn't strong. It's diseased. And the disease is only getting worse, since the government departments regulating much of health care (the FDA and others) flatly refuse to allow any genuine discussion of alternative medicine, nutrition, natural health and herbs. In fact, they go out of their way to isolate Americans from the very possibility of learning about true disease prevention, thereby boosting profits of the drug companies that rule Washington. Prevention, you see, would make people healthy again.

This is why I now call the u.s. economy the disease economy -- because more and more jobs will be dependent on the proliferation of disease. And no national economy, by the way, ever got rich by spending all its time, money and energy treating chronic disease with overpriced prescription drugs. Economists lose their minds... again Some economists, however, think all this is wonderful. "It will create jobs!" According to economic statistics, you see, it doesn't matter if a person makes cars, flips burgers, or fills prescriptions for dangerous drugs at the local Wal-Mart pharmacy.

Today, over 16% of the u.s. economy is spent on health care (sick care, actually), making medicine look a lot like a 16% tax on the entire economy. The result, not surprisingly, is that many U.S. corporations can no longer compete in the global marketplace. General Motors, for example, was spending more money on health care than steel. The result? The company is now largely considered bankrupt. But GM is just the tip of the iceberg on this issue. No country in the world spends anywhere close to 16% of its GDP on health care. Only the United States. But why does the U.S.

U.S. economy and the future of Western medicine. Huge economic shifts have already begun. Learn what's coming, and take steps now to save yourself from the Disease Economy. Click here for details.

Big Brother U.S. Government Subpoenaed Amazon.com to Obtain Book Purchasing Records of Customers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The issue is simply ignored from one presidency to the next in a great pass-the-buck game that can only end in a sudden a total collapse of the u.s. economy (and its currency). Recent news reports reveal the U.S. debt is now increasing at the rate of $1 million a minute!. Ron Paul believes in honest currency (having the currency backed by gold, so that savings cannot be stolen from the People through the Fed's planned hyperinflation). He believes in health freedom and in getting the U.S. out of wars in the Middle East.

Uncontrolled federal spending, encouraged by voters, to drive U.S. government into bankruptcy Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

U.S. economy overnight by simply selling all the debt they have accumulated. This is not at all an exaggeration. But you might ask, "Why don't they do that? Why doesn't China sell U.S. debt and cause the collapse of the u.s. economy?" The answer is simple: Why would China want to mess with the great scam? China is selling all sorts of plastic goods to U.S. citizens who are spending more money to buy them. This results in a huge transfer of wealth to China, and China uses a portion of that wealth to purchase U.S. debt.

The health care reform legislation that Congress should pass, but won't Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Unless you actually prevent disease and fundamentally improve the health of the American people, no structure of health care coverage will save us from a near-certain future: a mutant population, trapped in a system of disease proliferation that will ultimately cause the collapse of the u.s. economy and the end of America as we know it. Of course, you can always "race for the cure" if you're really stupid enough to think that running around in circles, raising money for Big Pharma via a corrupt non-profit organization, is going to solve this problem.

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

Lawmakers have rendered themselves incapable of making decisions that support any real future for our nation. The u.s. economy is now a carcass of cash (debt, actually), and lawmakers are simply divvying up the spoils to their Big Pharma buddies.

New research shows vitamin D slashes risk of cancers by 77 percent; cancer industry refuses to support cancer prevention Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Here's a startling statistic: Did you know that reducing the cancer death rate by just 1% would be worth almost $500 billion to the u.s. economy over the next hundred years or so? (Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Drop the cancer rate by 10% and it's worth $5 trillion dollars to the economy. (These gains are due to increased productivity and life spans of working, contributing people.) We know right now that vitamin D and calcium can slash cancer rates by 77 percent. Do the math on that, and you realize that sunlight and calcium could result in a $38.

U.S. economy over the next century. That's enough economic productivity to pay off our entire national debt, build new schools in every town and city in the country, provide free college educations to all young people who wish to go to college, invest billions in new energy technologies and even fund massive health education campaigns to keep our population healthy. $38 trillion is a lot of money. With that kind of increased abundance, we could build a whole new society of health, wealth and education. But guess what? The cancer industry won't let that happen.

Canadian Cancer Society announces national program to prevent cancer using vitamin D Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Soak this in: Did you know that reducing the cancer death rate by just 1% would be worth almost $500 billion to the u.s. economy over the next hundred years or so? (Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.) Drop the cancer rate by 10% and it's worth $5 trillion dollars to the economy. These gains are due to increased productivity and life spans of working, contributing people. We know right now that vitamin D and calcium can slash cancer rates by 77 percent. Do the math on that, and you realize that sunlight and calcium could result in a $38.5 trillion boost to the U.S.

Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power Mark Schapiro See book keywords and concepts

The strength of the u.s. economy, and the global influence that comes with it, has always been rooted in its enormous three-hundred-million-people-strong home market. Today, Europe presents a market of twenty-seven countries that is significantly larger, both in population and in wealth. Likewise, its export trade has long powered U.S. influence; however, in 2005, according to the CIA's World Factbook, Germany overtook the United States as the world's biggest exporter.

What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You Ray D. Strand See book keywords and concepts

In one of the richest, most well-fed nations of the world, more than 25 million Americans are living with the crippling effects of osteoporosis at a cost of about $14 billion each year to the u.s. economy. At least 1.2 million fractures occur each year in the United States as a direct result of osteoporosis.9 I have actually seen patients fracture hips as they simply walked into my office, without any kind of fall or injury. Spontaneous compression fractures of the vertebrae and of the back cause tremendous pain and suffering in my patients with osteoporosis.

Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes Michael J. Panzner See book keywords and concepts

Like force-feeding a duck to make foie gras, the Greenspan-led Fed appeared determined to stuff the u.s. economy with enough borrowed money to ensure that something of value was created—even if in the end it killed the bird. In addition, the upbeat mood of the 1980s and the heady, go-go days of the 1990s convinced many Americans that circumstances would invariably get better, no matter what hiccups came up along the way. The United States had not seen a bone jarring, consumer-led recession for 15 years, and one could argue that the optimism was justified.

Until mid-2006, in fact, the u.s. economy was generally viewed as being in a Goldilocks state. Unfortunately, many observers made the classic miscalculation: they assumed that the disparate pluses and minuses added up to some sort of healthy middle. This is a perspective akin to that of an adventurer wading complacently across an unfamiliar river with an "average" depth of 4 feet—and hidden trenches 20 feet deep. Everywhere you looked, ominous signs belied the upbeat reports and sustainability of the post-2001 recovery.

Big Brother U.S. Government Subpoenaed Amazon.com to Obtain Book Purchasing Records of Customers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Only a financial fool could look at the current situation and have any degree of confidence in the future of the u.s. economy, and much of this has been caused by outrageous national debt spending by our current pro-war president. Ron Paul cannot reverse all this overnight, but if the People use their voting power to eject all the criminals, hucksters, war mongers and corrupt fat cats that currently run this country, we could begin the economic and political healing processes that, in fifty years or so, might return this country to something resembling an honest society.

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

There was no human die-off but there was a die-off of expectations and a reduction in carrying capacity of the u.s. economy. Is it fair to say that the by-product of zealous oil use literally converts into such an abstract form of "pollution" capable of poisoning what amounts to a social consensus? This must return us to the idea of entropy. Entropy is the spending down of energy and its translation into negative by-products. Not all of them are physical or material. Air pollution is one expression of entropy. But so is social disorder. So is institutional breakdown. Bodily death is another.

Natural Health Solutions Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

We're being taken on a ride, and this ride ends in the downfall of the u.s. economy, as well as the capabilities of its workforce. At least the Roman Empire only poisoned its own population by accident (their famous aqueducts used lead pipes, which slowly poisoned the population). Here in the United States today, we are doing it on purpose! In fact, we're seeing the early signs of it already: the offshoring, the manufacturing base leaving this country, and the lack of mental stability in our peers who are taking too many prescription drugs that impair mental functions.

Too Profitable to Cure Brent Hoadley, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

S. economy $132 billion per year. • Fact: Diabetes, from a pharmaceutical's point of view, is TOO PROFITABLE TO CURE. Made to Feel Like a Victim Allegorically, recent improvements in health care brought to you by the pharmaceutical corporations, are about as useful as a bandage on a slashed throat. In fact, older diabetics might consider the pharmaceuticals to be the ones wielding the knife rather than applying the bandage. As a diabetic who complains about the disease or the treatment, I have had several doctors offer me this insightful cliche: "Aren't you glad you have insulin.

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

They have no idea the entire u.s. economy is a giant Enron bubble waiting to collapse. Why? Largely because it's based on consumer spending powered by bubble real estate prices propped up by easy money expansion from the Fed. But explaining all that is another article altogether. If you really understand Enron, then you understand what most people don't: That Enron didn't merely fool Americans, it mimicked them. Enron didn't scam people as much as it played to their private ambitions of greed and power.

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

Producing food will become a problem of supreme urgency. The u.s. economy of the decades to come will center on farming, not high-tech, or "information," or "services," or space travel, or tourism, or finance. All other activities will be secondary to food production, which will require much more human labor. Places that are unsuited for local farming will obviously suffer, and I will discuss this later in the chapter. To put it simply, Americans have been eating oil and natural gas for the past century, at an ever-accelerating pace.

This torrent of newcomers will find themselves in a rapidly sinking u.s. economy. Many of the jobs they had hoped to find will have evaporated. With the suburban housing industry crippled, there will be no need for more sheet-rockers. The better-off Anglo population will be losing their jobs, too, and they will not have the cash to employ so many Mexican maids and gardeners. Those who had lawns may be unable to continue watering them. The water supply situation in the Southwest is likely to become only more critical.

No politician wants to tell voters that the American Dream has been canceled for a lack of energy resources. The u.s. economy would disintegrate. So, whichever party is in power has tended to ignore the issue or change the subject, or spin it into the realm of delusion—assisted by agencies such as the U.S. Geological Survey, which serve their masters very well by supplying often inaccurate but reassuring reports. One president in recent times, Jimmy Carter, told the truth to the American public.

If the Saudi oil infrastructure were crippled, the global economy would stagger, with the u.s. economy leading the way off an economic cliff. Normality, as it has been understood in the United States for a long time, would end very quickly. Many Arabians regard oil as a curse. They have lived with this bonanza a little more than half a century. It has turned their lives upside down and inside out and has devastated their traditional culture.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

During that time, the Chinese economy strengthened dramatically compared to the u.s. economy. If China's currency had floated freely against the dollar, the yuan would have risen —a dollar would buy 6 or 7 yuan instead of the 8.28 it purchased for more than a decade. So Chinese goods remained cheap for American consumers—too cheap, in the eyes of American manufacturers. Under pressure from the U.S. government, China revalued the yuan in July 2005, but maintained a peg, tying the yuan to the dollar, yen, and euro.

Rising popularity of medical tourism reveals deterioration of U.S. healthcare system Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I wouldn't be surprised if sooner or later someone in organized medicine argues that outsourcing our offshore surgical procedures is hurting the u.s. economy, and they might try to pass a law that makes it illegal to go overseas to get surgery. There have already been many attempts to arrest people traveling to anti-cancer clinics in Mexico, or to seize their medicinal herbs as they come back across the border. There is a Gestapo-like effort out there to try to shut down anything that tries to compete with the overpriced, ineffective U.S. healthcare system.

Bird flu poll reveals U.S. economic collapse likely in the event of a human pandemic Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

If this many people actually do this, the u.s. economy will all but collapse. Think about this very carefully: If two-thirds of the people stay home, don't go to work, don't go out and spend money, don't go and produce something, this country will experience severe economic consequences. Not just a recession, not just a depression -- but a sharp, and hopefully only temporary, collapse of basic economic activities. That's what we're looking at, and let me translate this into real terms for you. This means two-thirds of the people who run the oil refineries won't go to work.

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