Don't thank Cancer Inc. for decline

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Don't thank Cancer Inc. for decline

By William Campbell Douglass II, MD

Breast cancer rates are down... but don't thank Big Pharma. After all, they caused many of these cancers in the first place with one of the biggest mistakes in modern medicine: hormone replacement therapy.

Harvard researchers looked at data on 350,000 women and found a decline in breast cancer overall... but the biggest dip occurred among rich white women over the age of 50, according to the study published in the American Journal of Public Health.

What's money got to do with it? Everything... because it can't buy you happiness, and it won't pay for the best medical decisions, either. These rich women were the biggest market for those lab-created chemical hormones a decade back, when it seemed like every doctor in America was pushing them as a menopause cure-all.

These women thought they were buying a shortcut through one of life's biggest changes. Instead, the landmark 2002 Women's Health Initiative Study revealed that all they really purchased was their own personal highway to hell.

That study linked Big Pharma's phony-baloney hormones to breast cancer, heart attack and stroke. Many women turned away -- and those HRT-inflated breast cancer rates are now falling again, as the new study shows.

I expect we'll see the same thing with heart attack and stroke among these women.

Today, we're still learning of the problems with these lab- monster hormones: Recent studies link them to lung cancer, heart problems, cataracts and asthma.

It's amazing to me that these hormones are still on the market when there's a simple, safe alternative: bio- identical hormones. These custom-made all-natural hormones are more easily metabolized by the body and come with far fewer risks than Big Pharma's Frankenstein creations.

You can get your own bio-identicals made by a compounding pharmacist... but they're not necessary for everyone. If you're just looking to overcome hot flashes, first try vitamins C and E along with some bioflavonoids.

You'll find those in wine -- and I'd take that over anything from a Big Pharma test tube any day of the week.

healthcare marketing ploys

It even comes down to the C-Span poll on healthcare. This afternoon, during the house floor "debate", C-Span put up phone numbers for Americans to vote on the current healthcare legislation (in case you didn't know, House members are voting on it this Sunday afternoon - very strange timing). Here's what I saw on the screen (or what I recollect):

To support the healthcare bill, call 202-737-0001

To oppose the healthcare bill, call 202-737-0002

If you are undecided, call 202-737-0003

By putting "support" at the top and then adding "undecided" to the bottom, it mutes "oppose" and confuses all the numbers. Our eyes and our brains have to work harder to decipher which string of numbers to call. Why do they really need an "undecided" line? If you haven't decided, how about you just not call?

Of course, "support" will get the 1st spot and the number "1"! Perception is related to words, numbers, feelings and aesthetically pleasing placement.

What about this:

To Vote on Healthcare Legislation, call now:

Support: 202-737-0001 • Oppose: 202-737-0002

Undecided: 202-737-0003

Makes it a little easier to read, right?

Side-note: the "oppose" line has been busy for 2 hours!! Hopefully we're getting our message across and it's not a fake number.

Leaders Fiddle While the Nation Burns

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MARCH 19, 2010

Leaders Fiddle While the Nation Burns

The United States hit a new record this month—more public debt piled up than any month before in the history of the nation. Unapologetic, Congress bought five luxury private jets for a brand new Congressional fleet because they didn’t feel that military jets were good enough for their junkets or their refined tastes.

Where did the money come from? The nation borrowed it from foreign creditors and secured the debt with our earnings and the future earnings of our children and grandchildren.

The FairTax ends the corruption practiced daily by tax writing committees who treat $2.5 trillion a year in tax receipts as their private property. It bars lobby deals and special favors and shifts power from the government to the citizen. It restores the role of the American people in deciding how much and when taxes are paid by their consumption decisions and it creates a new era of robust American economic growth.

But as good as the FairTax is for the nation, it is still ignored, at best, and distorted and despised, at worst, by those in the political elite who profit from corruption of the federal tax code. This week your FairTax organization delivered nearly 100,000 petitions to the House Ways and Means Committee--who could not be bothered to meet with national FairTax campaign chairman, Ken Hoagland.

"I am furious that the leading alternative to the income tax has again been ignored along with every American who petitioned their government for redress of grievances," said Hoagland. "This betrayal of the voice of the American people adds fuel to the fire of our determination to break through the wholly unacceptable and un-American shell of disdain for the common man that we are seeing from Washington, D.C."

Hoagland said that April 15th events planned including the "Storm the Hill" and "Operation FairTax" rallies as well as the on-line tax revolt march www.onlinetaxrevolt.com were needed efforts to "break through to our leaders". "We will not give up, we will not stop and we will not rest until we have ripped this broken tax system and culture of political privilege out by the roots. That is a promise."

ACS supports current healthcare legislation

In times that the media have likened to The Great Depression, Americans continue to give time and money to charities. After all, there are people in need who are far worse off than we are. While we are in a great economic slump, it's vital that we keep tabs on the non-profit organizations. Our disposable income is sparse, so every penny given to a charity is worth more to us.

Sixty thousand (60,000) members of AARP ended their memberships over the summer because AARP supports the current healthcare legislation. Members of AARP voted with their dollars; they moved their support to other Retirement associations in-line with their American beliefs.

Have you researched the Political Action Committee agendas for your favorite charities? For 7 years, I have supported the American Cancer Society (ACS) through volunteerism, fundraising and personal donations. I touted to potential donors that ACS is the "largest non-governmental cancer research organization in the world."

The line between "non-government" and "private charity" has been overtly crossed through American Cancer Society's Cancer Advocacy Network. ACS CAN is promoting passage of the current healthcare legislation. Go ahead, visit ACSCAN.org and find the "Healthcare Can't Wait" petition on its front page.

This petition does not clarify specific desires of the American Cancer Society regarding cancer treatment, prevention or coverage. Instead, it urges for a complete passage of the current healthcare legislation. After all, no one should be responsible for their own bodies, right?

It is one thing for an ordinary citizen to lobby for the healthcare legislation and quite another for them to do it on behalf of ACS CAN and in conjunction with an ACS staff partner. The American Cancer Society, the “largest non-governmental cancer research agency,” is in bed with big government. Under the non-profit guise, ACS pays no taxes while lobbying to take away personal choice and personal responsibility and replace it with government control.

Why should non-profits have any bearing on taxation or law writing?

In this country, we regularly demonize private companies and corporations because they have a stake in the outcome of any political reform. We are giving a pass to non-profits, which pay no taxes, for the sake of good-will and charity. In this case, ACS is blatantly lobbying for government take over of our healthcare system - one-sixth of our Gross Domestic Product. We allow a non-tax-paying entity to manipulate the law while taking government grants.

The American Cancer Society exists as a supplement to standard insurance or lack thereof; they exist as a non-governmental research body. By promoting a government-run healthcare program, ACS is literally replacing its charitable contributions with funding by the government. No longer will Americans give to medical-related charities; instead, "donations" for the general welfare of all will be forcefully extracted from law-abiding citizens through taxation.

In addition, other countries that have implemented a socialized healthcare system like the one being proposed in America, have lower cancer survival rates. Not only are the vast majority of healthcare innovations developed in the United States because of our free-market system, nowhere in the world is a cancer prognosis so hopeful as it is in the United States.

• Breast cancer mortality is 88% higher in the UK than in the USA
• Prostate cancer mortality is 604% higher in the UK than in the USA
• Colorectal cancer mortality is 40% higher in the UK for both men & woman than in the USA

The American Cancer Society should continue its education campaign for early screening and cancer causes. They should not, however, have anything to do with changing laws that affect private, tax-paying citizens and businesses in the United States.

I thank the American Cancer Society for opening my eyes to the corrupt political system that rewards "non-profits" through regulation and government hand-outs. From today on, I will research companies before donating my time and money. I vow to uncover the rest of our nation's non-profit organizations playing progressive under the veil of charity.

I urge you to look deeper into your charitable giving. Please, keep giving, but be sure to find the association that best represents your philanthropic side AND your American side.

Below is an open letter to the American Cancer Society:

March 16, 2010

Robert Watts

American Cancer Society

1620 South Clyde Morris Blvd

Daytona Beach, FL 32119

To Mr. Watts:

About 10 years ago, right out of college, I found myself in Tallahassee fighting on the side of small business owners, the Florida Restaurant Association (FRA) and the Florida Hotel & Motel Association (FHMA) against the statewide smoking ban in Florida. On the other side of the argument was the American Cancer Society, a large non-profit association, lobbying to control private business’s right to allow, or not allow, smoking in their establishments.

The FRA and the FHMA argued that private businesses should be able to allow smoking in their establishment if they so chose; patrons vote with their dollars and can choose not to spend money in a smoking establishment. The American Cancer Society (ACS) felt that it was in the best interest of the public to make public smoking illegal. The proposal was solely enacted to control the behavior of Americans. The statewide smoking ban became law in 2003 with complicated food vs. alcohol guidelines for smoking establishments.

In 2008, ACS backed and lobbied for a $1.00 increase in the cigarette/tobacco tax in Florida. This direct tax on tobacco smokers was originally intended for a fund to help with lung cancer, emphysema and COPD. Instead, our Florida legislature redirected the funds to balance the Florida budget. A non-profit company once-again lobbies for power over the private sector in order to control behavior. The bill passed in April 2009.

On Tuesday, March 9, 2010, I attended my first ACS Board Meeting to present an update on the Holly Hill Relay for Life. In the beginning, the Advocacy Chairs explained how the healthcare bill was gaining some Republican support, which was good, but what was even better is that Congress was going to push through the Legislation using Reconciliation. The Advocacy Chairs had just been to Tallahassee lobbying for the current healthcare legislation with fellow volunteers and a staff member. Upon their return, they had learned they were 1,500 petitions short and had a FedEx package of ACS CAN (Cancer Action Network) petitions for healthcare legislation. They urged us all to sign the forms, not only with our names, but with the names of our children and grandchildren – because, after all, we didn’t actually have to “sign” or include our social security number. We just needed to get more names on the petitions.

I sat through the remaining one and half hours of the meeting wondering if the American Cancer Society was really pushing for socialized medicine. When the meeting adjourned, one of the Advocacy Chairs asked for my form. When I told her I didn’t support the current healthcare legislation, she continued guilt me into signing the form by parroting Obama talking-points (thousands die every day with no healthcare; her 32 year old granddaughter can’t afford it – should she go without?; women with cesarean sections are denied healthcare, etc). I again declined adding my name to the petition – or my husband’s name, son’s name or grandmother’s name for that matter. I explained that we see the current healthcare legislation from different points of view and suggested that we discuss it further in a different setting.

When I got home, I did a quick search to find out if ACS was truly advocating the healthcare legislation or if the Advocacy Chairs had just taken it on as a pet project. I went to www.Cancer.org, clicked “Advocate for Change,” clicked “American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network” and it directed me straight to an online petition for the healthcare reform. www.ACSCAN.org has a petition pop-up before directing users to the main website.

Why should a non-profit have the ability to lobby changes in the law in order to manipulate behavior?

It is one thing for an ordinary citizen to lobby for the healthcare legislation and quite another for them to do it on behalf of ACS CAN and in conjunction with an ACS staff partner. The American Cancer Society, the “largest non-governmental cancer research agency,” is in bed with big government. Under the non-profit guise, ACS is lobbying to take away personal choice and personal responsibility and replace it with government control.

Again, why should non-profits have any bearing on taxation or law writing?

And in this country, we regularly demonize private companies and corporations because they have a stake in the outcome of the healthcare reform. We are giving a pass to non-profits, which pay no taxes, but blatantly lobby for government to take over one-sixth of our economy. We allow a non-tax-paying entity to manipulate the law while taking government grants.

The American Cancer Society exists as a supplement to standard insurance or lack thereof. By promoting a government-run healthcare program, ACS is literally replacing its charitable contributions with funding by the government. No longer will Americans give to medical-related charities; instead, money will be forcefully extracted from law-abiding citizens through taxation.

In addition, other countries that have implemented a socialized healthcare system like the one being proposed in America have lower cancer survival rates. Not only are the vast majority of healthcare innovations developed in the United States because of our free-market system, nowhere in the world is a cancer prognosis so hopeful as it is in the United States.

• Breast cancer mortality is 88% higher in the UK than in the USA
• Prostate cancer mortality is 604% higher in the UK than in the USA
• Colorectal cancer mortality is 40% higher in the UK for both men & woman than in the USA

If anything, the American Cancer Society should continue its education campaign for early screening and cancer causes. They should not, however, have anything to do with changing laws that affect private, tax-paying people and businesses in the United States.

Please take this letter as my resignation from all volunteer responsibilities with the American Cancer Society. Because I believe that healthcare is the responsibility of every American, not a right, I must part ways with ACS. I feel that lobbying for the current healthcare legislation is a direct misuse of non-profit status and abuse of a charitable organization with such influence as the American Cancer Society.

I hereby donate my $100 registration fee to any team requiring assistance in 2010.

While so many of American Cancer Society’s programs are worthwhile and beneficial to our community, the act of promoting the current healthcare legislation has broken the line between charity and government.

Thank you for opening my eyes to the controversial support of non-profits in our political system.

Sincerely,

Kristina Bouterse

Owner, Wing Zone

www.KristinasConscience.blogspot.com

It's the final countdown...

We're coming up on April 15, 2010! For those new to the politikin' scene, April 15 is somewhat of a holiday for FairTax.org. For over 10 years, we've envisioned April 15 as just another beautiful spring day... we've rallied in front of post offices, held tax day protests and helped spread the word of the end of the IRS.

On Thursday, April 15, 2010, our nation's Capital will be humming with patriotism. Die-hard Americans will fill the streets of Washington demanding tax reform - demanding a hearing at the House Ways and Means Committee. FairTax has collected thousands of petitions asking for a hearing at the Committee and thousands of supporters will deliver these petitions to current Chairman Levin.

For those not trekking to Washington, here are two easy ways to promote FairTax:

• FIRST: Join the OnLineTaxRevolt.com and create a personal Avatar to march to Washington D.C. for the April 15th Rally
• SECOND: Find a post office Rally in your area or START YOUR OWN!! The purpose is to share FairTax as the solution to our economic woes. Do you know people who procrastinate on their taxes and then sweat it out for days while they completely stress over numbers? And then they rush to the post office to deposit their tax returns and find a SOLUTION to the silliness of income tax!

If you're on the East Coast of Florida, join us for our • Daytona Beach Tax Day Rally • Presented by FairTax East Volusia & Volusia 912

• Tax Day Rally!! April 15, 2010 • 5p-7p, downtown Daytona Beach • Park at City Island (Magnolia & Beach St. between the ball field & the library)

Email FairTaxVolusia@gmail.com with questions or to volunteer. Or call Susan @ 386-788-8083.

Find your area happenings at FairTax.org

Guess how many taxes are in this bill??!!

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FLEMING HEALTH CARE REFORM UPDATE
Guess how many taxes are in this bill??!!
March 13, 2010

As a citizen concerned about our nation’s health care system, I thought you’d like to know that the health care bill being rammed through the House contains 10 years worth of tax increases to pay for only 6 years worth of benefits. These taxes total $500 billion dollars over 10 years. Many of these taxes will affect Americans earning less than $200,000 a year, despite the President’s promise to avoid such taxes.

Here are just a few of the taxes contained in the bill:

• $750 penalty per worker charged to employers who fail to provide government-sanctioned health insurance
• Tax on brand name drugs—totaling $2.3 billion
• Increased penalty for early withdrawal from your HSA (from 10% to 20%)
• Tax on medical devices—totaling $19.2 billion
• 10% tax on indoor tanning services

WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU: Some of these taxes may affect you directly. Others, like the employer mandate, will cost our economy desperately needed jobs. Others will have ripple effects through the system that will raise prices for everyone.

THE DOCTOR'S DIAGNOSIS: America needs common sense health reform, not job-killing taxes. Future Congresses will be under pressure to raise taxes even further to pay for future years of an expanded government-administered health care system.
As this process unfolds, I will continue to work to represent you, bring common-sense to this debate, expose abuses of power and do all I can to prevent bad policy from becoming law.

Sincerely,

JOHN FLEMING, M.D.
Member of Congress

P.S. If you’d like more information, please visit my website at Fleming.House.Gov or follow me onFacebook and Twitter.

blowing wind up our...

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=526944

Wind Energy - did you notice the blip about the failed Spanish wind power industry during the Cap & Trade campaign? During the Cap & Tax fiasco this summer, opponents broke open the failure of a wind energy experiment in Spain. Wind energy was economically inviable and destroyed jobs. The findings were widely ignored and assumed implausible in the United States. Of course wind energy will work - our government will subsidize it!

BREAKING NEWS: the United States Department of Energy (DOE) tried to discredit the findings in Spain in order to propel the wind energy movement in America. Our Federal Government suppressed vital, real-life research regarding the viability of the wind industry. Jobs were killed in Spain. It cost more money and energy to make a turbine than it saves over a long period of time. So when it's finally in operation and all the costs are figured it out, it will take less energy to run than a stove straight on natural gas than on wind power. Ironic.

I used to work for a natural gas company, Infinite Energy Inc., based in Gainesville Florida. The company sells natural gas to municipalities for them to create electricity as well as the gas passing through to the end user. If electricity isn't made with natural gas, it's probably made with coal. The basic building block of any creation is energy. We can't build equipment for dams, nuclear plants or wind power without natural gas, petroleum or coal.

That's one of the ironic things about the green movement. Sure, the end product might be pure as day, but if it's more than a local thing, everything that is required to expand a product nationwide will gobble up energy and natural resources. What was the carbon footprint of the Copenhagen climate change shinnanigan?