The answer to our energy crisis is multi-faceted. Immediately, individually and collectively, we must begin to conserve fuel. We must utilize OUR natural resources such as coal, and natural gas. Also we must invest in technologies that improve nuclear, wind, and solar power, as well as make cost-effective biofuels.

Illegal immigration

Illegal immigration has become a curse to this country. Our jails and prisons are filled with illegal aliens, many of whom are gang members, at a cost of billions of dollars per year. Ironically, an illegal alien in prison has health and dental care that many American citizens do not have. Illegal aliens are involved in everything from property damage resulting from traffic accidents to the murder of U.S. citizens…and THEY GET AWAY WITH IT! This MUST BE STOPPED, NOW!

The government makes a big deal about private employers hiring illegal aliens. Private employers are faced with fines if they hire an illegal alien, all in the name of discouraging illegal aliens from coming here. This is nothing more than a blatant double standard. How can the government encourage illegal aliens to come here by offering any number of welfare benefits, education, and medical care, and yet punish someone for hiring them? It makes no sense!!!

WE MUST:

• Secure our borders
• Enforce existing laws
• Let states enact their own immigration policies
• Verify all welfare recipients
• Penalize fraudulent use of social security numbers and birth certificates
• Penalize all forms of ID fraud
• End the issuance of Taxpayer ID Numbers to illegal aliens
• Terminate mandated public education for the children of illegal aliens
• Terminate welfare – housing assistance, WIC, etc., for illegal aliens
• Terminate mandated non-emergency medical care for illegal aliens
• Have the Supreme Court rule that “anchor babies” are not U.S. citizens
• Deport, Deport, Deport
  

Healthcare

National healthcare is unsustainable in this country largely because we have become a nation void of discipline. This lack of discipline has left us as a nation filled with gluttons, alcoholics, drug addicts (legal and illegal),  (smokers and drinkers), many of whom are uninsured and/or unable or unwilling to pay for any of the healthcare they receive. The diseases that are plaguing us as a nation are diseases of luxury and are largely self-induced.

What can we do?

Nutrition – Watch what you eat!

Americans have given become gluttonous as evidenced by the ever present “Supersize” servings of food and beverages. Gluttony is not without effect. Gluttony leads to obesity, and obesity leads to diabetes. According to the Centers for Disease Control nearly 60 million or 1 out of every 3 Americans is obese and 130 million or 65 percent of Americans are overweight or obese. Those who are overweight and obese are at an alarmingly increased risk for major illnesses ranging from developing diabetes to hypertension and heart disease. There are more than 20 million Americans that have Type 2 diabetes in addition to more than 80 million with hypertension. Increasingly, these conditions are being found together in people who are overweight.

A recent study funded by the National Institutes of Health in conjunction with Georgetown University, the University of Toronto, and researchers from Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine set out to examine the effect of diet on diabetes. The two diets they used were a vegan diet that was low fat and high fiber and the American Diabetes Association diet.

The fasting blood sugars of those on the vegan diet decreased 59 percent more than those on the ADA diet. The vegan group did not need as much medication as before the study. However, those on the ADA diet needed the same amount of medication as the were prior to beginning the study. Those on the vegan diet lost an average of close to 16 pounds while those on the ADA diet lost only an average of 8 pounds. Moreover, the cholesterol levels of the vegan group dropped more than those in the ADA group. Protein loss due to kidney damage decreased in the vegan group but increased in the ADA group. Hence, a vegan diet can be and is instrumental in reversing diabetes.

 In both diabetics and non-diabetics, the risk of heart disease increases with age, but for men and women with diabetes the transition from moderate to high risk occurred at about age 48 for men and 54 for women, which was 14.6 years earlier than transition in non-diabetics.


Exercise - Get Moving!

Exercise is without a doubt an indispensable component for being healthy. Exercise impacts the entire body, from head to toe. During exercise the muscles contract and relax, the heart beats faster with stronger contraction, and the lungs take in more oxygen, which then passes to the tissues of the body. The combined effect of all of the actions that occur during exercise results in:
Burning more calories
Increase of strength and endurance
More energy and an overall sense of feeling better mentally and physically
Enhances the condition of the heart
Instrumental in leading to a longer, happier, and healthier life


Exercise is good for the heart!

A study by Harvard researches published in the October 2002 Journal of the American Medical Association, assessed the impact of different forms of exercise on a pool of 44,452 healthy men and found that men who weight-train, run or walk briskly exhibit a significantly reduced risk of coronary heart disease compared to those who don’t. The researchers determined that men who ran for an hour or more per week reduced their risk by 42 percent, while those who walked briskly for 30 minutes or more lowered their potential risks by 18 percent.


Exercise is good for the brain!

A study of 1130 alumni of an Ivy League university showed that those who burned between 2000 – 3000 calories per week had a 46 percent reduction in stroke risk. The researchers showed that walking in excess of 12 miles per week decreased the risk of stroke by 29 percent.

Exercise has a positive effect on blood flow to the brain thereby improving mental health by increasing the neurotransmitters serotonin and dopamine, which affect mood positively.

Given the sedentary lifestyle of many Americans today, if you are one of them, it is advisable to check with your doctor prior to beginning an exercise routine. As you begin to exercise any increase in intensity should be gradual. To make the leap from couch potato to marathon runner overnight can effectively shock the body and cause a heart attack and even death! So make certain that you keep in touch with your doctor as you attempt to make the transition from couch potato to hardbody!

ObamaCare

The propaganda used to promote ObamaCare centered on convincing the masses that it was the answer to the high cost of medical care. As we are finding out, ObamaCare is more about government control of the masses than anything else. If ObamaCare was such a great idea why were politicians bribed in a manner and we've never seen in the history of our country?
 

• The state of Louisiana was to get $300 million more in Medicare subsidies.

• The states of Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and Utah were to get more Medicare money — $2 billion more.

• Vermont was to get $600 million in added Medicaid payments. Massachusetts, almost as much.

• Connecticut was to get $100 million to build a hospital.

• And finally, 11 states were get an extra $8.5 billion in Medicaid simply because their representatives supported Obamacare.
   

Obama's socialized healthcare was forced upon us. It requires everyone to purchase it, fines you if you don't, and fines employers who don't provide it. It will add more than 10 million new people (including children born to illegal aliens) to the already saturated healthcare system. It adds thousands of IRS agents to monitor your bank accounts and make certain you pay the premium. It was written by a committee whose chairman publicly admits to not understanding it. The then Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi said publicly that we'd have to pass it to see what was in it! It was passed by a congress that had only a few hours to read its 2700+ pages of legal obtuse language. Yet, congress exempted itself from it! It was signed by a President who hid his smoking habit from the public. The funding was administered by a treasury chief who did not pay taxes. Speaking of taxes, the healthcare bill collects taxes for four years before any benefits are to take effect. It will be overseen by surgeon general who is obese and financed by a country that is in effect bankrupt. Now unemployed alcoholics can have a liver transplant for free at YOUR expense!!! ObamaCare is inept, inefficient, ineffective and only likely to get worse! Why have it???

About our National Healthcare problem:

Healthcare expenditures in 1960 were just $27.3 billion and the per capita was only $147. By 2009 healthcare expenditures had skyrocketed to $2.486 TRILLION with a per capita of $8,086 with no end in sight!!! Why is healthcare so expensive? Healthcare is expensive for several basic reasons:

1. Healthcare is an on-demand resource available all day every day.
2. Available and emerging technology provides diagnostic tools and machines that cost millions of dollars.
3. Illegal aliens seek health care and are unable or unwilling to pay for it.
4. High cost of prescription drugs.
5. Pregnant women who are illegal aliens come to the U.S. to have their children born here, a.k.a. “anchor babies”.
6. Although passed with good intentions the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985 (EMTALA) has resulted in the ER becoming nothing more than a high priced clinic since it forces hospitals to treat any patient that enters an ER for “emergency care” regardless of the persons ability to pay for treatment.

“Anchor babies” take a toll on our health care system because every year hundreds of thousands of pregnant women come to the U.S. for the sole purpose of having their babies born here. When the child is born it gets a U.S. birth certificate and can be issued a passport. The child also becomes eligible to sponsor for legal immigration its illegal alien mother and other relatives when the child turns 21. Additionally, these mothers have the added benefit of not having to pay for the birth thanks to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985 (EMTALA). The cost of delivering these babies is passed on to U.S. Citizens in the form of taxes and ever rising healthcare insurance premiums.

It is argued ad nauseum that “anchor babies” are given citizenship as per the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, specifically Section 1 which states “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” The Supreme Court has not decided the issue and as a consequence “anchor babies” will continue to be born here.

Nationalizing our health care system, the best health care system in the world, is not the answer because it will serve only to bring it to a speedy collapse. However, our health care system is poised for changes because of two critical factors: 1) an insufficient supply of health care professionals, 2) an ever-burgeoning unhealthy population.

The average age of a nurse in the U.S. is approaching 50. There are not enough nursing schools to meet the demand, and if there were enough schools there are not enough teachers to teach in them. It is hard to convince a nurse to leave a hospital setting where they are easily making $100,000 to go into teaching where they will make half of that. In addition, many nurses are seeking higher positions such as nurse practitioner or physician assistant.

There is a shortage of doctors and this will only get worse since fewer people are applying to medical school. In addition, fewer and fewer medical graduates are going into the specialties such as cardiology and neurosurgery that require four to 6 or more additional years of study.

However, the major impact upon of our health care system is the ever-burgeoning unhealthy population. America is no longer a well-disciplined, or at least disciplined, nation. Discipline has been replaced with hedonism. The consequence of this is that we have now become a nation of alcoholics, drug users and abusers, and gluttons. As such, the health problems we have are self-inflicted. No health care system can remain viable where the population is given unrestricted freedom to engage in destructive behaviors.

Jobs and the Economy

What we are experiencing in the economy, high unemployment, loss of jobs, decreased hiring, etc., can be directly related to burdens imposed by three things – taxes, unions, and regulation.

Businesses are faced with many taxes that serve to under_construction.htm gross receipts tax, business income taxes, sales tax, employment taxes, and franchise taxes. Additionally, a business that owns real property must pay property taxes.

We must decrease taxes in order for current businesses to flourish and to encourage the growth of new ones.

In the era of their founding, unions were a benefit to the worker because of the deplorable working conditions in many of the plants. Businesses then were in many ways abusive in their treatment of the average worker. Today, it is the union that is abusive to the worker by taking their dues, forcing them to strike, causing the employer to pay high wages that often results in fewer jobs! Unions are placing a chokehold on the economy by wielding its power. This can be seen in the current battle that Boeing Aircraft Corporation is facing with the National labor Relations Board. (NLRB).

The NLRB is an agency whose main job is the adjudicate disputes between unions and employers. As of this writing, its acting general counsel Lafe Solomon was nominated by President Obama but has yet to be confirmed by the Senate. Lafe wants to stop Boeing from building aircraft in a new building that Boeing is constructing in South Carolina. The debate stems over the fact that Boeing chose to build its planes in South Carolina because it was less expensive than to do so in the state of Washington. It is the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers that is fighting Boeing .

South Carolina is a right-to-work state. Given the strikes that Boeing has experienced in the past with the unions in Washington, it's no wonder that it chose to move to a right-to-work state. If Boeing is not allowed to make its planes in South Carolina, Boeing would be put at a competitive disadvantage against its rival Airbus. In addition, it will having a chilling effect on the economy. Should the NLRB rule in favor of the unions,  Boeing could very well decide to move its facilities to Mexico, China, or even Canada! Such a decision would have rippling effects with businesses as it would signal that America is not the place to have and do business.

EVERY state should be a right to work state so that EVERYONE has a chance to be gainfully employed.

Regulation speaks for itself. There are numerous regulations, thanks in part to the environmental movement, that frustrate business growth and expansion and hampers production.

Given the forgoing, is it any wonder that many manufacturing plants have left the United States and set up operations in business friendly countries???