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To: The Ox who wrote (24671)	11/23/2009 6:56:52 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	1 Recommendation Respond to of 71475

>>Not true.<< i think it is true and no information is out there to sway my view yet. >>What needs to happen, over time, is for money to be employed in new areas, instead of where we are spending it today.<< which means making things like gas much more expensive. but that's not happening. instead of gas taxes, we are talking about all sorts of other taxes. why is that? what will fundamentally change to change the current approach? >>Simply for discussion, we need to take 1/3 of our current spending on things like traditional energy usage, defense spending, drug use (after the fact), etc... and use it toward new areas of need.<< agree - but it won't happen. the uber rich will have to make less money for the benefit of the serfs and peasants - and that won't happen. the politicians simply lack a conscience, so they do whatever they are paid to do. >>One of many areas to be tackled would be prevention of future health care problems.<< the only diet designed, from the ground up, to be anti-inflammatory is the current technology leader in this arena. everything from being consistent with a diet that reduced diabetes 83% to reducing heart disease to enabling the heaviest man in the world to set the world record for medically supervised weight loss to enabling a 42 year old mother to miss gold in the beijing 50m free swim event by 1/100th of a second. i could go on forever, but i won't joslin.org drsears.com cme.medscape.com note that in the last link, the 83% reduction was in a high risk group compared to a low risk group - making the results even more amazing. i'm on this diet and it is amazing. almost 36 months without calling in sick due to a cold (and my son was in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade during this time) and my old record was probably less than 12 months. allergy problem gone. i feel better in my mid 40s than i did at 18 and my TG/HDL level is about 0.8. my doctor tells me not to waste time with a physical the last two years. this type of education can be given for free - people have to want it, though. most simply don't - their addiction to food is too great. >>We could create an enormous amount of jobs which would not require increased energy use. The amount of supervision, education and refocusing of efforts would be a massive undertaking. A perfect example is that the traditional grade school has one 'nurse', who's responsibility covers hundreds of children. Maybe the school has a dietician but probably not. With obesity and type II diabetes issues soaring within our society, why not do more at an early age?<< all that uses energy, right? >>This is only one long term issue that can be dealt with given the proper desire. There are plenty of other areas of 'the economy' which need attention that are simply not getting it. All too often, we tackle problems in the USA backwards. Wait for the problems to surface (often after festering for years or decades) only then do we try to deal with them. Some of these changes will not happen easily in the sound bite only, attention deficit, instant gratification society of today. However, the sooner we recognize these areas, the better off everyone will be in the long run!<< gotta go, kid needs to get on the computer. bottom line, if the economy doubles, pollution will go up significantly. consider it the audacity of reality.