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

In 2006, University of Pennsylvania risk management professor Kent Smetters and Jagadeesh Gokhale of the Cato Institute estimated that, because of entitlement programs, the gap between projected federal spending and income might be as high as $65 trillion. Economist Laurence Kotlikoff puts the total of unfunded liabilities nearer to $80 trillion, over seven times the value of the gross domestic product (GDP), the nation's output of goods and services.

Natural Health Solutions Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

That number will soon be 25 cents, or a quarter of our entire federal spending. There is no nation in history that has ever financially survived such outlandish spending on disease, and the extreme inefficiencies, frauds, and disease mongering of conventional medicine today genuinely threaten the financial future of our entire nation. These are just a few of the true costs of our present system of medicine.

Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism Marion Nestle See book keywords and concepts

If prices fall, levels of taxpayer-supported federal spending would increase to protect farm incomes. Critics also raise concerns about the effects of rBGH on the cows themselves; higher milk production stresses cows and leads to more frequent mastitis and sores at injection sites (an issue of animal rights). Although Monsanto asserts that appropriate veterinary and herd-management practices minimize such problems, farmers report them regularly. The FDA, however, views these complaints as raising no new concerns about animal health.

Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill Robert Whitaker See book keywords and concepts

Not surprisingly, with this storytelling at work, Congress coughed up. federal spending on mental-health research rose from $10.9 million in 1953 to $100.9 million in 1961—a tenfold increase in eight years. The storytelling also gave state legislators real hope that community care could replace hospital care. At the governors' conference in 1955, the states pledged support "for a full-scale national survey on the status of mental illness and health in the light of new concepts and treatment methods.

Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton See book keywords and concepts

In the 1980s, however, politicians responded to pressure for reduced federal spending by cutting funds for water treatment, and by the 1990s the money had been virtually eliminated.8 In the meantime, the push for clean water had created another problem?tons of pollution-laden sewage sludge generated as a byproduct of the treatment process. According to Abby Rockefeller, the hundreds of billions of dollars spent purifying water through central sewage processing plants has largely been wasted.

The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

Democrats also generally advocate less federal spending for defense than Republicans do. Groups that have traditionally supported the party include blacks, Jews, Catholics, labor unions, liberals, and the generally disadvantaged and poor. The Democratic party has traditionally been strongest in big cities and in the South. (Compare Republican party.) Department of Agriculture A department of the federal executive branch that provides services for farmers, including agricultural research, soil conservation, and efforts to regulate and stabilize the farming economy.

20 Years of Censored News Carl Jensen See book keywords and concepts

Congress could demand disclosure of data on the cost and character of secret programs but has only done so on a piecemeal basis; nor has Congress ever confronted the underlying fact that the secrecy system itself defies the Constitution, which requires the government to publish a complete and accurate account of all federal spending. SOURCE: Mother Jones, March/April 1992, "The Pentagon's Secret Stash," by Tim Weiner. UPDATE: Please see update of "Pentagon's Black Budget," #7, 1990. CHAPTER 18—1993 A Major Flood vs.

Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America E. Richard Brown See book keywords and concepts

However, Daniel Greenberg notes, "virtually all of this improvement was achieved prior to 1955, which, ironically, was when federal spending for cancer research began to accelerate to its present level." Greenberg chalks up much of the improvement in survival rates through the midfifties to the postwar introduction of antibiotics and blood transfusions that reduced the death toll due to cancer surgery. "It wasn't that more patients were surviving cancer," Greenberg asserts, "rather, they were surviving cancer operations that previously killed them.

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