Vitamins, SNAP, Big Pharm, Iris Scans

 ~ some of my daily supplements ~

Dave used to call me a cynic. I'd respond, "yeah, but a cynic is simply a realist with more information." He'd nod and smile knowingly. In yet another power grab, fueled, I sincerely believe, by filthy lucre, Senator Dick Durbin of IL, along with the FDA - who we know...heavy on the sarcasm... isn't in bed with big pharm companies...and if you believe that, I've got some swamp land under a bridge in the dessert to sell you! - is again introducing cumbersome, intrusive legislation designed to prevent you us from taking "supplements", aka vitamins.

Durbin states, "At most convenience stores, you can't make it to the cash register without encountering flashy advertising displays for energy supplements like Rockstar Energy Drink and 5-Hour Energy. These products, which market themselves as dietary supplements that offer a boost of energy, are foods and beverages taking advantage of the less stringent safety standards for dietary supplements under current law. When consumers walk down the aisle, they see products that contain potentially {emphasis mine} unsafe additives right next to beverages that have undergone FDA approval {oh yeah, that makes me feel safer}, but they aren't easily able to tell the difference."

Could the difference be, Mr. Durbin, the soft drink industry has spent untold millions lobbying the FDA for our elected representatives employees to turn a blind eye? Although, in the recent case of the "anti-obesity tax" wanting to, by law, ban the sales of oversized soft drinks, I have to admit...I'm on the side of the soft drink companies. The government, no matter what those elected folks think, does NOT have the right to interfere in our personal lives, that's not the purpose of government. Although they do, each and every single day and adding more insults all in the guise of "we're the government and we're here to help". Dear God, save us!

To read more about Durbin's intrusive legislation, click here and call and write your elected employees to vote NO.

The government food stamp program, called SNAP, refers to itself as "Food and Nutrition Service" and "the largest program in the domestic hunger safety net". Reallllllly? Do tell please, what part of soft drinks, chips, cookies, etc. are "nutritious"? If these ejits want to help, why don't they make it illegal for folks receiving food stamps to buy chips, cookies, sodas and other junk food? Why don't they make it illegal and then enforce the laws already on the books to sell food stamps? I don't care if people smoke or drink but I do a slow burn every time I see someone with a grocery cart lined with six-packs of soda, containing bags and bags of chips, dip and other junk, whip out their food stamps to pay. After paying with food stamps, they pull out a wad of bills to pay for their beer, wine and cigarettes. 

I don't care if people eat junk, drink, smoke or do drugs...I just care if they do it with tax slave dollars. Government programs should be in place to help folks but I'm just not seeing the help. Are you?

But I digress from the original point which are supplements. I'm rather amazed at the numbers of sheeple who pop pills, either or both prescription and supplements, without doing research. Just because some guy or gal has M.D. after their names means they know what they're doing...right? WRONG! It may, very well, mean they are in the back pockets of some pharm rep who promises trips, free travel, gifts, etc. Yes, that is correct: some, but not all, doctors accept "free stuff" in return for pushing writing 'scripts for some big pharm companies.

And, speaking to parents here...did you hear about a Florida school who hired, at tax slave expense because, hey! it's a school, Stanley Convergent (a "security solutions" company snort, chuckle, guffaw!) to take scans of children's eyes? Yep, close to 750 children were scanned before parents were notified it was "an option".  

Dave and I always said if we'd had children, we'd have to take turns going to jail. Do you realize iris scans, without knowledge or permission, is an invasion, as well as a horrible abuse, of our Constitutional rights? My advice to those parents: it's okay to get angry but then get a lawyer! A money hungry, willing to do almost anything, money hungry lawyer and contact the ACLU while you're at it. There's NO way I'd let the rats get away with this one. I'd sue the school, the school board, school superintendent, the principles, teachers, the company and anyone else I could name. If you don't stand up for your child, who will? It's your responsibility as a parent!

Civil rights are being violated on a weekly daily hourly basis and most of us are sitting on the sidelines with a, "Well, it's not happening to me" attitude. 

What can you do?

*write your elected officials representatives employees; hold them accountable and let them know you're watching what they do. 
*show up at political events
*engage your rights as a tax paying citizen
*to find your Senator, click here
*to find your Congress rep, click here
*if you're a Christian, you need to know about the ACLJ
*read an e-news report every day; some good ones: Alliance for Natural Health, Dr. Mercola, Natural News, Drudge Report

In the future, Mondays are going to be reserved for political commentary; I can't afford to get this het up but once a week. grin

Blessings ~ a free country still, sort of ~ ACLJ ~ ACLU although it pains me to admit it grin ~ civil rights ~ Drudge Report ~