Back From the Dead

I apologize to everyone who has been eagerly awaiting my return. I was on my own death-watch for the past few weeks. Okay, maybe a slight exaggeration on my part. The flu and my weak bronchial response to the illness really knocked me out. I'm still terribly dazed by the medications and flu grogginess, but will make an attempt to rejoin the literary and internet world today.

I find it astounding that with all our scientific and medical advancement in the past fifty years an otherwise perfectly healthy adult can still be obliterated by the flu for several weeks. The pharmacological and health care industry in the United States is a frickin' joke. The industry focuses on symptom management, not health and wellness. "Let's prescribe something for that nasty cough." (Not what's causing it). I'm so over this.

Don't think for one instant I'm promoting the Obama, Hilary or Pelosi heathcare reform nonsense. That is not the answer! That route is just a means for the further promotion of Socialism!!!

The problems lie within the FDA and its communal relationship the pharmaceutical companies and a seriously corrupt insurance industry. Our healthcare has turned into an outrageous scam that will only worsen as the Baby Boomers age. These two fields have gone the same way as the auto and fuel industry. If this were an unregulated field it would go bankrupt, but since the government feels we can't take care of ourselves, healthcare has become more profitable than oil. The focus on profit margin has crippled research and development and redundant anemic bureaucratic oversight has cost the economy billions and priced a very large portion of society out of vital care. Now, the government wants to overhaul the mess it created at the taxpayer's expense claiming it will not affect the deficit. Hogwash!!! That is not possible. Our Democratic lawmakers tripled our deficit in under a year bailing out two industries that would have fixed itself under the free market system at no cost to anyone except those who damaged themselves in the first place. Government intervention in a free market economy doesn't protect it's citizens, it handicaps them to dependency. Folks we are headed down a path that there is no return. Look at history, please. Rome faltered. So will we.

I'm not saying I have the answers. I don't. Sometimes we must take a step backward to make progress. Let's reexamine what made our country great. Focus on the Constitution and what we stand for. The document was created by great statesmen. Let it work. Don't over-govern. Allow our greatness, like cream, to rise. It will. (It 's the physics of natural order) Greatness always rises.

Al