Modern medicine has been credited with saving many a life over the past couple hundred years, with the development of medications, diagnostics, and surgical procedures making life possible for innumerable individuals who simply would have great difficulties surviving in earlier eras.
Yet with many blessings there often comes a curse.
He who wields the scalpel and the prescription pad is capable of doing as much damage as he is good. Men (and women) are fallible creatures, and the same goes for our human friends in the medical field.
Deaths due to medical negligence occur frequently throughout the world, and the United States is certainly no exception. And even in modern medicine's relatively short history, we have already seen how a few individuals in power can use the technology of modern society and medicine to cause harm to unsuspecting innocents, sometimes even intentionally.
With all the hoopla surrounding the swine flu and its vaccine, I wanted to take a look at the controversy of its preported safety as well as the trustworthiness of those who assure us it is "safe and secure." (1)
Do the benefits of the swine flu vaccine outweigh the risks for you personally? Should you trust the WHO and CDC when they assure us that this vaccine is totally safe? Is it really ever a good idea to blindly trust another person (however good their intentions and however impressive their credentials) when it comes to your body? After all, you only get one body in this life, and the man who completely abdicates the responsibility to care for his own body to another is a fool!
In Part 1 of this series, I gave 10 reasons I would not be getting the swine flu vaccine. In Part 2, I outlined 4 criteria that, if met, would justify our government's reaction to the swine flu and its vaccine and expound on the first. Criteria #1 -- we would need to see massive amounts of suffering and death from the swine flu (more than the seasonal flu, more than most other communicable illnesses). In Part 3, I expound on Criteria #2 -- there must be a vaccine available that will prevent illness and death in those who would otherwise suffer tremendously and/or die.
So far, we are 0 for 2.
Before I outline some of the potential risks associated with the swine flu vaccine, I just want to address my comments to anyone reading this who has never considered the possibility that their doctor might not be right about everything.
Some of the most common comments I hear any time I challenge the status quo in medicine and health are these -- "But my doctor is a good person and would never tell me to do something that would harm me." "If such-and-such wasn't good for us, then why do doctors everywhere recommend it? I can't believe that they are all in a conspiracy together to hurt us."
I have to agree -- most doctors are good people, and it is preposterous to imagine that each day when the patients are gone, doctors all over the nation get together on the internet late at night to think up ways to damage peoples' health.
But the thing is, it's not your doctor who develops policy for the country or the world. Your family doctor is also part of a system -- one that they have been trained to dutifully follow.
History proves time and time again that it only takes one or two nut jobs (or incompetents) in power to cause tremendous harm -- whether the nut job is a leader of a nation, in charge of developing policy for the military, or conducting a clinical trial on a drug or vaccine. Most of the rest of us are underlings, either too busy or distracted to take the time to research things. Or even if we take that time and discover something amiss, we may have limited power in enacting any sort of change to the status quo.
Here are just a few disturbing examples of government or medical policies in recent years that have hurt countless people --
The Tuskegee "bad blood" syphilis experiment of 1932-1972, in which almost 400 poor sharecropping African-American males in Alabama with syphilis were purposely denied proper medical treatment for the illness in order to see what would happen if the disease progressed unchecked. Unfortunately, the main outcome was misery and death for these unsuspecting men, and infection of their partners and children was common. (2)
During WWII, some U.S. Air Force pilots had the unlucky job of flying into mushroom clouds of detonated atom bombs to test radiation levels in the air. Though "no-one keeled over" immediately and everything seemed fine at the time, radiation poisoning and a lifetime of health problems resulted for many of these young men. (3)
Agent orange in Vietnam. Need I say more?
An astounding 1 in 4 veterans of the first Gulf War in the 90's developed a serious, debilitating mystery autoimmune illness called Gulf War Syndrome. Veterans had been given numerous vaccines, and researchers found that anthrax vaccine with the chemical adjuvant squalene, which has been shown to cause autoimmune symptoms in lab animals, was the likely culprit -- 100% of soldiers with Gulf War Syndrome who had received the anthrax vaccine from a particular lot of the vaccine had antibodies to squalene. (4) (5)
Tetanus shots contaminated with hGC, the pregnancy hormone, were given to millions of women and girls in the Philippines, Mexico, Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Nigeria throughout the 90's. The problem is that this causes the body to launch an immune response against the hormone, and spontaneous abortion is the result. Oops -- sorry, guys! Hope you weren't planning on ever having kids! (6)
Millions of polio vaccine doses were recently given out in Nigeria, paralyzing 124 children. Interestingly enough, I began researching for this article over a month and a half ago. The MSNBC link to this news article has since been removed. (7)
Alright -- so here are some of the clear, potential risks from the H1N1 vaccine based on its past track record as well as the ingredient lists of:
thimerosal (in multi-dose units),
squalene (in some of the European variants),
formaldehyde (a known carcinogen),
MSG (a neurotoxin),
antibiotics,
ethylene glycol (anti-freeze), and
other mystery substances including fragments of random viruses, cancer cells, and cells from various animals . . . (8)
POTENTIAL SERIOUS RISKS --
Guillain-Barre syndrome --
seizures,
other neurological problems,
miscarriages,
death
an unknown number of possible long-term ill effects difficult to trace back to vaccines . . .
An organization called "Judicial Watch" found 1,112 reported adverse reactions to the H1N1 vaccine between October 1 - November 4, 2009, including 38 serious reactions, 12 life-threatening reactions, and 6 deaths. Here are some of the more serious cases (all 100% documented) --
A 77-year-old male contracted severe back and chest pain within 30 hours of receiving the H1N1 vaccine and died of an aneurysm that very day.
A 9-year-old female with Down’s Syndrome went into cardiac arrest 6 days after receiving the H1N1 vaccine and was found dead in her home.
A 24-year-old female with cerebral palsy and epilepsy received the vaccine and went into cardiac arrest the next day due to a flu-like illness and died.
An overweight 46-year-old female took the H1N1 vaccine and called her doctor the next day complaining of feeling light-headed. She was dead the next day.
A 55-year-old male turned blue and went into respiratory distress with an elevated heart rate immediately upon receiving the H1N1 vaccine. He was taken to the hospital by ambulance. This man survived. (9)
It looks like the swine flu vaccine wasn't so "safe and secure" for these individuals.
Further, a previously healthy and athletic 14-year-old boy, Jordan McFarland, was hospitalized the day after receiving the H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccines, and now he suffers from excruciating pain and paralysis due to Guillain-Barre syndrome that developed immediately after his vaccination. (10)
(Hundreds of individuals developed this rare and debilitating neurological in 1976 after receiving the swine flu vaccination.)
Scores of women have come forward to report that they miscarried their baby within a few days of receiving the H1N1 vaccine. (11)
The moral of the the story is this -- doing your own research (even if you just take 10 minutes to browse the topic online) is essential to making sure you are aware of the risks and benefits of any particular treatment or vaccine, as well as any safer alternatives. Don't count exclusively on your doctor, public officials, and the mainstream media to inform you of all possible risks and to make a proper decision about what is best for you and your family.
Interestingly enough, did you know that the Director general of the WHO, Dr. Margaret Chan "didn't get around" to getting the H1N1 vaccine, which she unabashedly promoted worldwide as the best and safest way to protect oneself from the pandemic, until December 30, 2009 after she was openly accused of hypocrisy? (12)
Most of us are sick of hearing about it, but it's time for me to resume beating the dead horse of discussing the U.S. government's handling of the swine flu "pandemic" and the promotion of the swine flu vaccine as the only way to prevent the deaths of thousands and the misery of tiny babies, helpless children, adolescents, and young adults the nation wide.
To date (November 28, 2009), Wikipedia reports that there are 2,353 swine flu deaths confirmed in the U.S. (1), still far below the average yearly number of deaths attributed to the seasonal flu -- 36,000. The swine flu national emergency declared by President Obama in October, however, is still in full force.
In Part 1 of this series, I outlined ten reasons I would not personally partake of the swine flu vaccine. In Part 2, I gave four criteria that would have to be met in order to justify our government's handling of the swine flu and swine flu vaccine. I focused on the first point -- namely that we would need to see suffering and death on a massive scale -- superceding the misery caused by seasonal flu and any number of other diseases and conditions that afflict mankind.
Even looking at the swine flu stats on the high end, it is obvious that this point has (thankfully) not been met.
Whether we "got lucky" as a people and dodged a bullet, or CDC and WHO officials are guilty of hyping the up the risks of a supposed deadly global pandemic, over 4 1/2 times more people in the United States die by falling each year (14,900 to be more precise) than have died from the swine flu in 2009. Where's the national "falling down" emergency?
In this portion of the ongoing discussion on the swine flu, I will discuss point 2.
2) Is there a vaccine available that will prevent illness and death in people who would otherwise suffer tremendously or die?
This is an interesting question to answer. The swine flu vaccine was rushed through development and production this spring and summer, with minimal testing. Swine flu vaccine testing took place to determine that 1) people wouldn't immediately keel over after receiving the shot, 2) people wouldn't keel over after receiving both the swine flu and seasonal flu vaccines together, and 3) people actually launched an immune response to the vaccine (3).
The studies carried out by the National Institutes of Health discovered the following:
"Healthy adults who received a single 15-microgram dose of 2009 H1N1 vaccine had robust immune responses 8 to 10 days following the first dose of vaccine.
Healthy children older than 9 years had a robust immune response following a single 15-microgram dose of 2009 H1N1 vaccine. Children younger than 9 are likely to need two doses of vaccine to be protected.
In healthy adults, co-administration of the seasonal and 2009 H1N1 flu vaccines did not impair the immune response to either one.
Early results from a trial in healthy pregnant women showed that one dose of 2009 H1N1 vaccine elicits a strong immune response." (emphasis added) (3)
On first glance, it may appear that the testing shows that the swine flu vaccine would save lives and days missed from school and work. But the next question is this -- does the production of a robust or strong immune response to a vaccine in healthy individuals mean that the vaccine will be effective for those who would actually be at risk of suffering complications or death from the swine flu? Do healthy people even need the vaccine to begin with, or is it the ones with underlying health problems who are most at risk of experiencing extreme symptoms and/or dying from something like the swine flu?
This is an important question to answer, as early data on swine flu hospitalizations and deaths showed that the majority of casualties were individuals with underlying health conditions, such as obesity, asthma, heart disease, and immune dysfunction. In fact, data from late summer showed that 75% of those who died from the swine flu in Canada had some pre-existing condition (4).
The National Institutes of Health is running trials on the swine flu vaccine with individuals with asthma and HIV. These trials are ongoing, and no preliminary results are posted on their website. The results of these trials will be interesting to see when they become available.
We have very minimal data to look at to determine the real effectiveness of the swine flu vaccine. Perhaps we might take a look at the seasonal flu vaccine through the years to get an idea of how effective the swine flu vaccine may or may not be.
This is where things start to get a bit tricky. If you are among the millions of Americans who have believed the official line that "the single best way to protect against the flu is to get vaccinated every year," (5) then I invite you to open your mind to consider the possibility that the actual science on the flu vaccine may not support such a blanket statement.
The public is accustomed to so-called conspiracy theorists casting doubt on the effectiveness of flu vaccines, and even accusing vaccine makers and government officials of harming the masses by promoting vaccines that contain dangerous ingredients. It is understandable that the average citizen wouldn't jump on the anti-vaccine bandwagon when their trusted family doctor, national and international health bodies, and the mainstream news media tout their effectiveness, and aren't subtle in their urgings to go ahead -- get the flu jab and be a "flu fighter"!
But how did the majority of Americans feel about a military invasion of Iraq after 9/11/2001? Most of the populace (myself included) backed our government's actions at the time, only to realize later that the connection between Al Qaeda terrorists accused of downing the twin towers and Saddam Houssein's admittedly brutal regime were practically non-existent. A crisis had been used to sell the American population on taking an extraordinarily costly action that, in fact, would do little to nothing in preventing future terrorist threats from Al Qaeda.
Similarly, it appears that we as a population have been had, once again, concerning the flu vaccine. Recently, renowned vaccine researchers Lisa Jackson, MD and Tom Jefferson, MD have found that previous research on the flu vaccine used blatantly flawed methodology in finding any evidence that the flu shot reduces mortality due to the flu.
Past flu vaccine research has boasted that the elderly who get the flu shot in the fall are 50% less likely to die that winter. But flu only accounts for 10% of winter deaths of the elderly. Tom Jefferson, MD remarked: “For a vaccine to reduce mortality by 50 percent and up to 90 percent in some studies means it has to prevent deaths not just from influenza, but also from falls, fires, heart disease, strokes, and car accidents. That’s not a vaccine, that’s a miracle.”
Further, the data shows that between half to over 2/3 of flu-like illnesses each year are NOT due to influenza, but to any number of other types of viruses. A flu vaccine would do nothing to mitigate illness and death from 2/3 of all flu-like infections!!
- Past flu studies have determined that the flu vaccine reduces mortality by cohort studies -- comparing death rates of those who got the flu shot vs. those who didn't. Again, at first glance this may seem an appropriate way to determine the effectiveness of the vaccine. But Jackson and Jefferson show quite convincingly that this difference in mortality may be the result of the "healthy-user effect". In other words, those individuals who get the flu shot are also more likely to take vitamin C, get their exercise, and eat their veggies.
- The very individuals who are most at risk at dying of the flu (the very young, the very old, and the sickly) have a much weaker immune response to the flu vaccine, that is, the vaccine doesn't work as well for them. Those who are healthy and therefore may not be at a high risk of dying of the flu are the ones for whom the vaccine produces a strong immune response. So the ones who need an effective flu vaccine the most aren't getting nearly the protection from the flu as the ones who need it the least!
- A double-blind placebo study on the flu vaccine would provide more clues as to whether or not the flu vaccine actually reduces the rates of illness and death due to the flu. Strangely, CDC and other health officials refuse to subject the flu vaccine to such scrutiny, claiming instead that a double-blind placebo study would be "immoral". This is incomprehensible to me -- sign me up to be part of the placebo group!!!
- Flu vaccines are made based on "best guesses" of which flu strains will circulate the following year. If the flu vaccine really prevented deaths, one would expect spikes in flu deaths in years when those guesses were wrong, such as in 1968 and 1997. Hard data shows that this is not the case -- no more people died of the flu in those years when the flu vaccine was a mis-match to the strains that ended up in wide circulation.
Whether you are open to considering the possibility that our government's response to the swine flu is out of line with reality or not, stay tuned for the final two installments of "Swine Flu Vaccine -- WHO do you Believe?"
Thousands dead, millions sick, school cancelled for children nationwide – a national emergency ensues as swine flu holds the U.S. hostage in its death grip.
Whether this scenario is actual or an overblown fantasy perpetuated by a convenient marriage between the CDC, the pharmaceutical companies, and the media, no-one can deny that the swine flu and its hastily-conjured vaccine have provided ample material for debate amongst reporters, scientists, and inquisitive citizens.
Earlier, I shared ten reasons I would not be lining up for the swine flu jab.In my opinion, there are four questions that need to all be answered in the affirmative in order to justify the response we’ve seen to the swine flu from our government and governmental agencies.
Are there significant levels of suffering and death due to the swine flu?
Is there a vaccine available that will prevent illness and death in people who would otherwise suffer tremendously or die?
Does this vaccine come with little risk of significant side effects?
Are there no other viable options to prevent suffering and death from the swine flu?
I will address the first question in this article, and others in subsequent posts:
1)Are there significant levels of suffering and death due to the swine flu?
Obviously, this question raises two more basic questions – First, how many people have actually sickened and died due to the swine flu; and second, how many people would need to be sick and die before it could be considered significant?
Americans were told that 1,000 Americans had died of the swine flu as of late October (1).But that very day The Christian Science Monitor revealed that this statistic was inflated – less than half of these deaths were confirmed to be correlated with the swine flu – just 411 (2).
On the other hand, as of this date (November 9), Wikipedia reports 1,702 swine flu deaths in America (3).
Verifying any of these statistics has proven time-consuming and nearly impossible, so I gave up.
A recent CBS investigative report, however, revealed that in some states (Georgia and Alaska, for instance), the CDC found that only 1-2% of flu-like illness could actually be attributed to the swine flu.In other states the rate was higher, but still a minority of flu-like illness was verified to be caused by H1N1 (4).
The CDC discontinued testing in July, and ignoring the data showing that H1N1 was not as prevalent as thought, continued feeding the H1N1 pandemic scare and prepared for a massive vaccination campaign while the mainstream U.S. media continuously reports on the deaths supposedly due to H1N1 without specifying that no-one really knows how many of those who died were actually confirmed to have swine flu because they haven’t been tested.
State reports as of July 2009 reveal enormous over-diagnosis of H1N1 – as many as 83-99% of suspected H1N1 cases were found to either be the seasonal flu, or altogether not even influenza.Could there have been a lot of false negatives in this testing?It’s possible, but it seems dishonest to me that this data has been hidden from the populace.
To illustrate how senseless this is, can you imagine if every case of fatigue with fever, joint pain, and swollen glands (all symptoms of HIV infection) were assumed to be HIV without any testing, and reported to the public as new HIV cases?!?
If the CDC claims the higher ground with their Western scientific methods, then ought they not actually USE those methods?
Regardless, let's consider that there have been 411-1,702 deaths due to the swine flu in the U.S. Is this grounds for treating the disease as a pandemic? According to the CDC, “more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from seasonal flu-related complications, and; about 36,000 people die from seasonal flu-related causes” each year (5).
Hmm – 36,000 deaths annually due to the seasonal flu (estimated) vs. 411-1,702 deaths due to swine flu in the U.S.Even supposing that the 36,000 seasonal flu deaths stat is inflated (as I am inclined to believe), and that 1,702 people really have died of the swine flu, H1N1 is clearly no match for the seasonal flu in terms of deadliness!
For comparison's sake, let's look at the top 15 causes of death in America, and the number of people who die each year because of them (6):
Heart disease: 631,636
Cancer: 559,888
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 137,119
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 124,583
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 121,599
Diabetes: 72,449
Alzheimer's disease: 72,432
Influenza and Pneumonia: 56,326
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 45,344
Septicemia: 34,234
Whether 411 or 1,702 people have died from the swine flu so far this year in our nation, it doesn't make a hill of beans of a difference for those who died or lost loved ones. But so far, I am completely unconvinced that the relatively low mortality rate of the swine flu justifies a massive vaccination campaign with an untested and fast-tracked vaccine, and the declaration of a national emergency.
The WHO (World Health Organization) is urging people to get their Swine Flu vaccine as soon as it becomes available in their area. Ignoring the fact that safety testing on this vaccine has been minimal at best, officials are calling this vaccine their "most important tool" against a pandemic. Pregnant women and small children are to be the first in line for the vaccine.
So if the WHO is so sure that this vaccine is the answer, why would someone like me who has at least a reasonable level of intelligence and personal responsibility choose to decline?
Here are Ten Reasons I Won't Be Lining Up For the Swine Flu Vaccine --
10. While the Swine Flu appears to be more contagious than many other bugs running around out there, and certain populations may be at greater risk of catching it, it is no deadlier than the seasonal flu on the public at large. Actually, you have a 293% greater chance of dying in a car crash this fall/winter than you do of dying of the Swine Flu (1.2 million people worldwide die each year in car accidents. So far, 4,100 people worldwide have died of the Swine Flu).
9. Vaccine companies now have legal immunity against lawsuits should their vaccines be found to have caused injury, giving them little incentive for rigorous safety testing.
8. Vaccine companies have a HUGE profit incentive to rush vaccines to the market regardless of how much safety testing has been completed (and by the way, I've always wondered who in the world would volunteer to be a first-round guinea pig in these tests!!).
7. Look what happened with the Swine Flu vaccine debacle of 1976! Four thousand Americans sued the government because of damages from this vaccine, two-thirds of which were neurological in nature, and some quite severe --
6. Don’t think things like this happen today?Take a look at what has happened with Gardasil, the vaccine for HPV given to young girls to protect against some types of cervical cancer. Paralysis and death, two of its "minor" side effects, have impacted real Americans --
5. Chemicals such as thimerosal (which has mercury in it), squalene (causes severe autoimmune response when injected into rats), and ethylene glycol (anti-freeze) are in the vaccines as preservatives and "adjuvants", which are to shock the immune system into creating antibodies against the microbe. But what else do these chemicals do when injected into the body, especially that of a small child or pregnant woman??
Check out the following lovely assortment of potential side effects, and remember -- if you happen to be one of the unlucky who gets one of the more serious side effects, you will have no legal recourse --
*Local injection site reactions (including pain, pain limiting limb movement, redness, swelling, warmth, ecchymosis, induration) *Hot flashes/flushes *Chills *Fever *Malaise *Shivering *Fatigue *Asthenia *Facial edema. *Immune system disorders *Hypersensitivity reactions (including throat and/or mouth edema) *In rare cases, hypersensitivity reactions have lead to anaphylactic shock and death
*Cardiovascular disorders *Vasculitis (in rare cases with transient renal involvement) *Syncope shortly after vaccination *Digestive disorders *Diarrhea *Nausea *Vomiting *Abdominal pain. *Blood and lymphatic disorders *Local lymphadenopathy *Transient thrombocytopenia. *Metabolic and nutritional disorders *Loss of appetite. *Arthralgia *Myalgia *Myasthenia *Nervous system disorders *Headache *Dizziness *Neuralgia *Paraesthesia *Febrile convulsions *Guillain-Barré Syndrome *Myelitis (including encephalomyelitis and transverse myelitis) *Neuropathy (including neuritis) *Paralysis (including Bell’s Palsy) *Respiratory disorders *Dyspnea *Chest pain *Cough *Pharyngitis *Rhinitis *Stevens-Johnson syndrome *Pruritus *Urticaria *Rash (including non-specific, maculopapular, and vesiculobulbous) .
(*These are listed as potential side effects in the insert for the influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine manufactured by Novartis.)
4. The swine flu vaccine (and many other vaccines, for that matter) also contains foreign genetic material from chicken embryos, since the H1N1 for the vaccine is cultured inside fertilized chicken eggs.The potentially negative effects of having foreign genetic material injected into your body are unknown, but even industry insiders have expressed concerns about this (see my previous blog post for details).
3. I have already personally experienced negative reactions to vaccines -- a tetanus shot at age 15 that led to pain, heat, and swelling in my arm and has caused a loss of range of motion in my left shoulder that persists to this day, as well as sickness after receiving a few vaccines before moving to Russia years ago. Did these vaccines protect me from illness or death? It is possible. But I subsequently had an autoimmune illness for 6 years and now I don't need any more shocks to the system. I'll take my chances with the Swine Flu.
2. Speaking of which, I did take my chances with the Swine Flu because I had it back in July. Although some have not been as fortunate as I have and the truth is some people have gotten quite sick and died, my experience with the Swine Flu involved a half a day of fatigue, fever, malaise, and cold chills. I got myself to my ND (naturopathic doctor) that day, and within 1 minute of taking the H1N1 homeopathy along with some herbal tinctures for the immune system, I was about 75% better. I went home, took it easy, used some of my anti-viral essential oils, and was up and running the very next day.
A healthy lifestyle and effective, natural remedies are the foundation of my healthcare plan. In my book, I'll reserve the doctors and the drugs primarily for emergencies!
1. Until the CDC and the WHO get honest with the masses and tell them how they can do some simple, natural things to boost their immune system and prevent flu (such as get adequate sun exposure to boost Vitamin D levels), allow natural remedies with clinical results be openly promoted as effective with certain issues, and stop promoting vaccines and Tamiflu as "the way, the truth, and the life", it's hard for me to believe that their close ties with the pharmaceutical industry are completely innocent.
When government authorities open their eyes to see the damage being done by a purely pharmaceutical approach in public health, and stop blackballing those things that have been used effectively for thousands of years, they will have my ear! Until that time, I'll get my health information elsewhere.
In the world of complex problems and economic instability we live in today, we all need a shoulder to lean on from time to time.Everyone needs help when sickness or disaster strikes.When we are down, we need reassurance from those we love that things will turn out O.K., and that we will somehow be taken care of.
In days past, families, friends, churches, and local communities in America have stepped in to help individuals and families with special needs.Thank goodness for the kindness and generosity given to us by those close to us!!And for those of us who believe in God, our gratitude toward him and the blessings he gives us in our darkest hour knows no limits!!!
These days, we have another friend in town.This is a friend who for the past several decades has come to our rescue with increasing zeal.This is a friend to whom we as a nation gave certain powers over 225 years ago – the power to protect our borders from foreign invasion, the power to regulate commerce between nations and between the states, the power to coin money, the power to appoint judges and ambassadors, the power to levy taxes.
This friend is Uncle Sam.Whether you trust this friend or not, whether you like him or not, his offers of assistance to Joe American are growing more and more frequent.He has long since looked upon the duties of families, churches, and local and state governments with jealousy.
He thinks he can do better.
You've Got Problems? We've Got Solutions!
Don’t have time to spend with your kids?No problem – America’s public school system will soon pick up the slack and baby-sit your kids from sunup to sundown so you don’t have to deal with your kids’ snotty noses, their constant need to be kept busy doing something, and those vexing questions on the meaning of life!
Don’t have any money to feed your kids because of unemployment or bills rising faster than your puny paycheck?We’ve got your back!Just send your kids to school early so they can be fed breakfast.Lunch – well, we’ve got you on that one too.And since the kiddies will soon be staying at school as late as 7 PM, we’ll throw dinner in as a bonus.You provide the kids with a place to sleep at night, and let good old Uncle Sam do the rest.
You’re sick?Poor baby!Don’t worry about your lifestyle – it’s not your fault!Soon enough, we’ll make sure you have health insurance (whether you want it or not).Because, you know, having health insurance is the key to good health!
Don’t know how to go out there and do something productive for society to bring in an income?Can’t think for yourself??GREAT!You must be a product of public schooling and mass media indoctrination!And as long as you don’t question the system, we’ll find you a job.Whether you want to work in healthcare, education, or law enforcement, we’ve got a bunch of positions opening up shortly!
And we’ll tell you about some other problems you didn’t know you had, because we have solutions for those too
We will protect you from the dread disease of Swine Flu – we have worked with a few corporations to concoct a vaccine that contains:
Swine flu virus,
Aluminium (linked with brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s),
Ethylene glycol (found in anti-freeze),
Formaldehyde (a known cancer-causing agent),
Thimerosal (which contains mercury), and
Squalene (which causes autoimmune symptoms when injected into rats).
If you are pregnant or have small children, you should be first in line for this vaccine to protect you from an illness that has killed 600 people worldwide (most of whom had underlying health problems) out of millions of people who contracted the disease.
(And we’ll just leave out the evidence that you can prevent or reduce complications with this and other types of flu with adequate Vitamin D, which can be attained for free by getting 15 minutes of sun exposure per day.)
We will protect you from Global Warming, and we will do this by levying “green” taxes on such things as your monthly utility bill, cow flatulence, and even a proposed baby tax!Didn’t you know that having babies is damaging to the environment and puts us all at risk?!?
(Not to mention all the “problems” revealed to us on the pages of grocery-store magazines with the solutions provided within their pages:get rid of cellulite now, you need a bikini-ready body, the Top 10 Sex moves you MUST know to get a guy, the latest styles and beauty products you need to make a splash, etc… ad nauseum)
Pay no attention to the man behind the green curtain . . .
Don’t worry – it’s not all about problems out there.We’ll make sure you never know about the real threats that hang over you, because a few rich Americans own Hollywood and the mainstream media, and they will promote a steady diet of:
Fast food advertising,
Immortality masquerading as all that is good, glorious, and delightful,
Blatant immorality (for those of you so desensitized that you don’t need the sugar coating),
Sports rivalries and scores,
Contentions between the false split of the political “left” and “right”,
The latest gossip on Britney Spears, AND
Everything you ever wanted to know about Michelle Obama’s wardrobe.
Don’t you fret yourself about:
Impending food shortages,
Eroding civil liberties,
A consolidation of power at the level of the Federal government, and developing draconian global government, AND
Corruption, hypocrisy, and lies in high places.
No, don’t you worry yourself about these things.Because we’ve made sure you have so many other things to worry about that you have neither the time nor the space in your brain to concern yourself.
Besides, I bet they’ll come up with a new government program to deal with any of these types of problems should they become big enough.Because we have a true friend in Uncle Sam . . .
