Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Educated voters. I'm a true believer in freedom and Democracy, but it only works when your citizens are well educated and capable of considering the long term consequences of today's decisions. Sadly, the educational standards in the United States today are abysmal, and only a tiny percentage of the voting population can even understand the concepts of fiscal policy, the money creation process or international debt markets. As a result, most voters have absolutely no clue about how to vote intelligently. |
| There are all sorts of crises that can be sold to the voters as a reason for more spending. These include war, a terrorist threat, healthcare crises, epidemic crises and even a prescription drug crisis. The latter "crisis" was used by President Bush to get voter support for his massive, Medicare-funded, prescription drug handout program, which is now a national disaster. That program promised discounted prescription drugs for senior citizens, a benefit that practically no voter over the age of 65 could resist. |
| The voters in our country act like a bunch of children. This is why I honestly believe -- and this is not an exaggeration by any means -- that every democracy is ultimately doomed to financial collapse. When you put the recipients of the spending in charge of voting on spending decisions, the long-term result can only be catastrophe. This is especially true when you consider that most people tend to think in terms of what's in it for them rather than what's good in the long-term for the country, or the fiscal health of the next generation. |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger attempted to pass some major referendums involving spending reforms, some of which would have put California on a much smarter and more responsible fiscal track. The voters defeated those referendums, and a mere two months later, Gov. Schwarzenegger announced that, "the message has been received," and that he was going to put his support behind a number of measures based on the principle of new spending that the state of California cannot afford.
In other words, Gov. |
| Rather, the only way to stay popular as a politician -- whether at the city, state or federal level -- is to be the person who offers the most handouts to voters.
In fact, for decades, Republicans and Democrats alike have been competing with each other just to see who can create the most voter entitlements while accelerating the nation toward financial collapse. So far, the Republicans are winning by a long shot. President Bush has put the nation in deeper debt than any president in history, and there always seems to be another excuse to justify even more deficit spending. |
| As a result, most voters have absolutely no clue about how to vote intelligently. And so politicians who want to get elected simply promise more short-term handouts that further compromise the fiscal future of the country.
It can only lead to one ultimate outcome: The bankruptcy of the U.S. government. It's not a question of if, but when. |
Charles Barber
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 In the run-up to the 2004 presidential election, brain researchers showed Democrat and Republican voters a political ad while they were lying in an MRI machine. The researchers didn't bother to ask the voters what they thought of the ad—in this case a George W. Bush campaign spot that used 9/11 imagery. Instead, they observed which parts of the voters' brains were active as they watched. Democrats responded to the 9/11 imagery with far more activity in the amygdala—the part of the brain that responds to threats and danger— than did the Republicans. |
Greg Critser
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 Somehow pharma, and not traditional liberal health-care warriors, was becoming a standard-bearer for patients, who, of course, were also voters. The psychographic had lurched right. It hurt doubly that many of these propharma voters were gay voters, whose rights and interests had once been the sole domain of the liberal establishment. Kennedy was also getting a propharma message from his own constituents in Massachusetts's surging biotech industry, many of whom were pharma-based. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Elected by voters to 4-year terms:
R. Owen Johnson, Jr., Chair (chosen by Board in Dec., 4-year term), Dist. 5
Verjeana M. Jacobs, Esq., Vice-Chair (chosen by Board in Dec., 4-year term), At Large
Rosalind A. Johnson, Dist. 1
Heather Iliff, Dist. 2
Pat J. Fletcher, Dist. 3
Linda T. Thomas, Dist. 4
Donna Hathaway Beck, At Large
Ronald L. Watson, Ph.D., At Large
Amber P. Waller,* At Large
County Executive
Elected by voters to 4-year term:
Jack B. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 After the defeat of four different propositions that were going to introduce some fiscal sanity to the State of California, he returned to the podium and announced, "Message received," and then proceeded to detail all kinds of new spending programs that would put the State of California even deeper into debt, and the voters loved it!
That's what the voters want you see -- more spending and less accountability. And why not? The government has been spending more money than it has for decades, so why can't the voters do it too? While we're at it, let's vote ourselves some free prescription drugs. |
Charles Barber
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| The researchers didn't bother to ask the voters what they thought of the ad—in this case a George W. Bush campaign spot that used 9/11 imagery. Instead, they observed which parts of the voters' brains were active as they watched. Democrats responded to the 9/11 imagery with far more activity in the amygdala—the part of the brain that responds to threats and danger— than did the Republicans. The UCLA neuroscientist who conducted the scans didn't think much of the traditional methodologies used by political scientists and consultants, like focus groups, to gauge the mood of the electorate. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 No politician ever got elected by promising voters their entitlements would be halted, did they? Political popularity is derived from promising voters precisely what the nation cannot afford: Endless entitlements and runaway spending without apparent consequence.
The China factor
The only thing keeping the U.S. afloat right now is the temporary willingness of Asian countries to keep buying U.S. debt, thereby pumping up the U.S. economy with dollars earned on the backs of Chinese laborers. |
David Steinman
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 Doing the simple math tells me that probably three-quarters of all voters want a president from either party who can energize the nation by articulating a coherent, practicable and visionary environmental policy that ties together our future sources of energy with an inspired response to the threat of global warming and our national security—what I call being a green patriot. For the growing number of Republicans who have long closeted their environ-mentalism or who desire to build for themselves a coherent conservative outlook that includes proenvironmental policies? |
Charles Barber
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| Only one in five voters said the press should report that a presidential candidate is taking antidepressants, placing it below spouse abuse, income tax evasion, exaggerated military or academic record, ongoing or past affair, homosexuality, cocaine and marijuana use, or a past drinking problem as an area of concern.41 In 2004, in a Rice University study of attitudes toward mental illness in the Houston area, respondents were twelve times more likely to ascribe the cause of mental illness to a brain disorder than to a character flaw. |
| In a poll done before the 2000 presidential election, voters didn't particularly care whether or not candidates had received psychiatric treatment or were taking antidepressants. Those issues—which proved explosive in 1972, when Democratic vice presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew from the race after it was revealed that he had undergone elec-troshock therapy for depression—hold little current interest for the public. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's hysterically funny to see candidates like Huckabee shooting helpless birds on camera just so he can demonstrate to all the dumbed-down hick voters in Middle America that he, too, is capable of killing birds with a shotgun (although he apparently has better aim than Cheney). Shooting innocent animals should disqualify anyone from becoming president, in my opinion.
Smart people evaluate each candidate's integrity, skills and philosophies. |
| It's simple: People who strictly vote along party lines are complete idiots. voters must consider the individuals, not merely the party. People who also vote for candidates simply because of their religious affiliation are not too bright, either. Religious affiliation does not qualify a candidate to direct this nation's economic policies, executive actions or respect for individual liberties. Certainly, it's important to elect a candidate who respects religious freedoms, and when it comes to respecting such freedoms, there's no one stronger than Paul. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Such voting systems include Instant Runoff Voting where voters choose their first, second and third choice, allowing them to vote for who they really want to support without fearing they might "waste" their vote on a candidate who doesn't have a real shot at winning.
Both the Democratic and Republican parties hate the idea of an Instant Runoff Vote because it would allow independent-minded candidates to threaten their stranglehold over U.S. elections. Click here to learn more about Instant-Runoff Voting at Wikipedia. You can also learn more at www.InstantRunoff. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Waller,* At Large
County Executive
Elected by voters to 4-year term:
Jack B. Johnson (D), County Executive, 2010
County Administration Building, Suite 5032
14741 Governor Oden Bowie Drive, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 - 3070
(301) 952-4131 e-mail: wjproctor@co.pg.md.us web: www.co.pg.md.us/Government/ExecutiveBranch/
Prince George County's County Health Department http://www.co.pg.md.us/Government/AgencyIndex/Health/index.asp
Donald Shell, M.D., M.A. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The people are now considered proxy voters to be brainwashed and manipulated into voting for whichever candidate is going to concentrate the most power into the hands of the few. As a result of all this, the future of this nation is in real jeopardy.
An intoxicated nation
We have become a nation of drug addicts -- and I don't mean illegal drugs. From the high-fructose corn syrup and caffeine in the food supply to all the prescription drugs people now believe they need because they saw them on TV, synthetic substances now dominate American medicine (and American tragedy). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 On the other hand, if world leaders really wanted to kill everyone, they could just force the population to watch endless reruns of televised speeches from President Bush, and that would drive countless voters to kill themselves far more quickly.
But suppose the theories have an element of truth? Mandating the killing of fresh foods would certainly be an effective way to accelerate the diseasification and death of the population. It's also a great cover story: "We're killing all your food to HELP you! Because we care! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This action demonstrates that the House of Representatives, much like the Senate, is utterly controlled by Big Pharma and has abandoned any responsibility to defend the interests of the voters. Drug companies now have complete control over the U.S. Congress, and through a campaign of intense lobbying and financial influence, they have managed to easily water down a law that once proposed to end the American monopoly on pharmaceuticals and ban advertising on new drugs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's a tactic much like rigging the electronic voting machines to make the voters think their opinion counts. At the FDA, the top priority seems to be creating the illusion of openly listening to the public while, in reality, using every means possible to thwart the public's will. By relying on deceitful tactics like the one being reported here, FDA is clearly operating in bad faith.
The FDA appears to be subject to no law
This is how the FDA operates: Deceive the public by making them think the agency is listening to reason, then suddenly change the rules and leave the public out to dry. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Treasury debt), an international reputation in ruins, a dysfunctional national press, a national health care system that actually promotes disease and cures no one, a mentally impaired President, a broken public education system, an irreversible addiction to oil, a drugged-up population of voters and a deeply-ingrained habit of spending itself into financial oblivion. Anyone who thinks this system is sustainable is kidding themselves. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| That's what the voters want you see -- more spending and less accountability. And why not? The government has been spending more money than it has for decades, so why can't the voters do it too? While we're at it, let's vote ourselves some free prescription drugs. Isn't democracy a wonderful thing?
I call it the tyranny of the masses, because whatever the majority wants to do -- no matter how unethical, irrational or illegal it may have been before -- it's suddenly justified under law. |
| Offer big handouts and entitlements to voters
I'm always amused when one generation of taxpayers or voters steals money from another group. It's usually the older generation stealing money from the younger, because it's a lot easier to pass on the cost to your children or grandchildren than to actually pay it yourself. Politicians are getting very good these days at making people believe they can actually get something for nothing. In fact, getting elected has really become a competition of who can offer the biggest handouts of all.
Even Arnold Schwarzenegger got swept up into this recently. |
James Howard Kunstler
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 In 2004, voters in Arizona passed Proposition 200, requiring new voters to offer proof of citizenship and state and local governments to verify legal residency before extending "public benefits" to people who apply.
As massive Mexican immigration into the southwestern United States continues to occur in a climate of increasing turbulence and desperation, it will prove to be a tragic and quixotic historical event because the inevitable falloff in oil and gas supplies will drastically reduce the carrying capacity of the "Aztlan" region for all human life, whatever its race or national origin. |
Greg Critser
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| It hurt doubly that many of these propharma voters were gay voters, whose rights and interests had once been the sole domain of the liberal establishment. Kennedy was also getting a propharma message from his own constituents in Massachusetts's surging biotech industry, many of whom were pharma-based. Why, even the new FDA commissioner, a young physician named David Kessler whom Kennedy liked for his antitobacco rants, seemed open to industry initiatives. |
David Steinman
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| That unusual combination of the broad appeal among voters, my being a former legislative colleague, and David being a recognized and admired science broadcaster gave the PM a sense that SWAG was something that was intuitively correct and achievable," Fulton told me in an interview.
Martin stunned both Fulton and Suzuki next, however, when he demanded copies of the SWAG publication in French and English and ordered them distributed across the government to various deputy ministers, ranging from health and environment to Natural Resources Canada. |
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