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Taking Back America - This is my country!

Yes, it is time for change!

If the American people want to take control of their country Now is the time, but it can not happen if they take responsibility for what happens in their country. You see, people seem to have forgotten the rest history when it comes to our Bill of Rights. When they released the full track of amendments to the Constitution, the editors of the left part Title. He had read the Declaration of Rights and Responsibilities.

There is no improvement generation to fix this problem that Battle tested, the Cold War conditioning, oil shortage hardened baby boomers are the only generation of the past century to understand the price of freedom and the dangers of democracy. I think every person who cares and wants to improve things should wear a T-shirt and stickers that proclaim dough: "It's my country!"

We can start by saying politicians who want to be president that we, the people will tell them what we need and what to do. The last time I checked, they work for us. So the real agenda for change will be presented in this series of articles on Taking Back America. The pollsters, political consultants and advertising agencies that the words sales or sound bytes in the mouth politicians are all wrong. They are the very ones who got us into this mess.

No, we must give the government back to the people, give back to God government and give meaning to our Declaration and Constitution. We must provide what people need to stop promoting what we do not need, and begin to see the government act as our friend and protector rather than a front for greed and power-hungry individuals or companies.

America must be rich, not leaders who try to run or own America. Do not you think those who claim know we were victimized for long enough? We want a nation where housing laws protect the owners does the mortgage and institutions Financial. We want the banking laws that protect citizens not corporate credit cards, debt collection, attorneys fees and hidden.

Our government licensing of telephone companies, television and radio stations, banks, mortgage companies, investment bankers, doctors and brokers stock among many others, while we regulate the stock market, market materials materials (including oil prices and food), energy companies, trade interstate, foreign aid and virtually all other aspects of our lives. Do you feel protected?

We spend more money to protect the oil-producing nations, arms dealers, drug companies, banks and investment houses that we protect those who simply had to change. Look at the cost 500 billion dollars and 4,000 American lives in Iraq to protect the Arab nation, Arab terrorists, or is it the Arab oil producers from disruption? What do we get? The record price of oil, any effort by OPEC to increase production and prices lower, and contempt of the world.

Or how our Afghanistan experience? We spend billions to chase the terrorists out of Afghanistan hiding in Pakistan, a country where we spend billions to protect the military and the government that gives shelter to terrorists. We did not viable foreign policy, we support only the arms dealers of the world that you ensure there is always civil strife, genocide and demigods Running Amok where you can spend billions more to defend people. If America stopped funding the war directly and indirectly do you think the arms dealers spend their own money to cause wars?

Back in the good old USA, we have more than enough wars our own to fight against the destruction of our immune system by pharmaceutical companies, the fight against addiction that is imposed upon us by television, video games, hospitals and doctors, the health industry, the Wellness industry, industry of Physical Education, and all those who think that the only way to good health through the portfolio.

Then there are the telephone companies, banks and companies credit cards with their incredible hidden fees and confusing billing, insurance companies that rate of increase for reasons having nothing to do with their insurance coverage, the media, whose message is always influenced by advertising revenue it could generate, and government that works for everyone but the people he is supposed to represent.

Oh! it is time to change all right, and we change need to be cataclysmic to do good. All the shadows that take advantage of our difficulties, to steal from our treasury and attempt to influence our minds and destroy our will rely on us to be too weak, too selfish and too concerned about making changes, but I say they are wrong. Once again the bad guys have underestimated the power of freedom and the will of the people.

Proudly display your sign This Is My Country, then do what they do not expect, show you care. Help establish the agenda for change that we need not the politicians that we need. Start by making a concerted effort to send a message to oil profiteering by joining a national effort to stay at home at Memorial until the fourth day of July, Independence Day, and reduce consumption of oil and gas wherever possible.

Spend the weekend with your family, see what you missed in your community, state and surrounding areas. Enjoy the Festival and local events. Turn off the television and limit your time online and we can begin to reclaim our nation. Asking you to save Money does not like too much to ask.

What are the goals of change?

1. Money Mongers financial institutions

Who are these people and what threat do they represent? Well, the complex network of interlocking ownership, media access control pricing in equities, currencies, commodities and bonds, and an isolation control cons are probably the most powerful force on earth able to control governments and destroy the opposition, never getting their hands dirty. You see, they are invisible to the general public.

The financial institutions to control the world in simple terms and they do not serve the world in the process, serving as not a good return on investment. They create of mutual funds to consolidate the power of investment and get the government to create more sources of funds and to provide financial manage these pension funds, funds of 401K, IRA and many others.

They create expert "financial" to tell us what happens to our markets investment and how to invest the money we do not control completely ignoring conflicts of interest when the major beneficiaries of the council are market makers, the very institutions whose financial experts advise supposedly objective market.

What does this mean? The media takes the advice of industry experts and discusses the price of oil is rising because of the possibility of hurricane in the Gulf who may or may not disrupt the supply lines and drilling operations. A suicide bombing in Iraq shows that oil supply Gross this country is not stable if a future shortage of oil in May if a result of bombing the pipeline is successful. In cold weather, in American means that there will be a shortage of heating oil, regardless of whether there is already sufficient stocks in the country. So the price of oil rises, rises again.

Who benefits? The owners of crude oil, which companies pay for crude oil, the banks that finance companies, shareholders holding shares of companies, IRAS, 401K, pension funds and mutual funds that pump money into companies, firms that sell and buy their stocks, or companies of price fixing in the market? Guess what, each of them could be part of financial institutions benefiting of market manipulation caused by reports of speculation in the media sector.

So why the Federal Trade Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission let that happen? The FTC and the SEC is supposed to be our watchdogs of government to protect the public against unscrupulous financial manipulators. For two years, the same financial sector was behind the illegal handling unethical, immoral and often sub-markets mortgages and almost sent the U.S. into recession and certainly left a million homeowners in foreclosure. Where were the federal regulatory agencies?

2. Mortgage Lenders - Vampires of the Golden Dream

Although mortgage lenders can be owned, controlled or manipulated by the financial sector and banking institutions, they are often developed independently until they finish attacking an unsuspecting public, after getting caught using dubious practices (eg subprime), using tactics heavy handed, to deceive consumers and initiating foreclosure.

When this happens the lenders are now approaching bankruptcy obtain purchased by the financial and banking sectors seeking to acquire real estate assets at well below the loan value. Thus, losses are amortized property is acquired well below the loan value of new mortgages are written to sell or refinance property, a few million people lose their homes because of seizures, and financial institutions now have a new division to provide the goods and credit worthy customers.

Of course it loses sight of the fact mortgages and illegal sales practices unethical caused the prop cycle taken place. Or that mortgage lenders, sales, lawyers and law firms staff were all involved in this scam of billions of dollars. What closing costs, collection costs and late fees have made millions of dollars from someone at the expense of the unlucky owners.

Finally, even the government has supported programs such as mortgages Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (what great names for federal support players mortgage), not to mention the long list of programs such as VA, Indian, rural low-income and mortgage and other federal programs Housing must be ever vigilant to root out corruption, contract setting, construction and botched repairs, heating and utilities inefficiency and other problems that beset our efforts for federal housing and state.

3. Credit Card Industry Standards, Fees and methods of collection

Now, this is an area of the collapse of regulation and the benign neglect involving agencies Federal and state from the FTC to Congress with the SEC at the Justice Department. There is a set of laws at both state and federal regulating these practices, but nobody seems to pay attention.

The issuance of credit cards through the mail and Internet and the proliferation of companies offer credit cards are stunning. The constant evolution of interest rate, justification of such changes, the explanation of these practices and outright fraud in the consumer information is appalling and predator.

The costs of permanent change for the ATM fees, handling, processing, vendor fraud, security, and another excuse for stick to the consumer. Companies Credit rating feeds into information societies and credit card collection companies making whole business of debt collection a windfall for lawyers, collection agencies, bailiffs and even the courts. Lies concerning the rights cardholder is overwhelming for most people, threatening them and their credit, and subject to brutal tactics.

A simply stated that there is no protection for people to get the cards, the cost of understanding evolution, and especially Getting caught in late payments and perception. The debts are written off yet, raising efforts going full steam. Their efforts at debt should be forgiven are still made to scare consumers in making payments. If we allow a company credit card to cancel the bad debt, then why the industry gathering continuing poor consumers without money? Why the bad debt years before the debt is forgiven for the consumer?

4. Industry costs health care, insurance and unnecessary treatment

Just look at the facts and there is no doubt that this system is broken. In 2006 we spent $ 2.1 billion on health care, more than $ 7026 for each person in the U.S., and it took more than 16% of our domestic product Brut. Which is 4.3 times more money than we spent on defense. The cost increases in health care to more than double the inflation rate per year.

With 16% of GDP, we have the highest cost of health care of any developed nation with the next highest being Switzerland 10.9% Germany 10.7% Canada 9.7% and France 9.5%. Americans spent a third more on health care than any these nations, while 50 million Americans have no health insurance to all citizens in other nations mentioned receive health care. At the current pace, we will spend 4 billion dollars in health care in just 7 years, in 2015.

With the war in Iraq, one would expect the cost of health care for veterans to be important that the treatment in the war zone is far improved from previous wars and for each death of a soldier there are 9 wounded soldiers returning home. However, the cost of health care veteran drops to $ 5,000 per person, $ 2,000 less per year than civilians.

What is the origin of these statistical aberrations? Are we much sicker than citizens of other nations? Is there a greater medical risk to civilians in America than our soldiers in Iraq? Why are 50 million uninsured Americans, when all other citizens Nations receive health care?

According to latest statistics from the employer paid health insurance premiums in the U.S. were $ 11,500 for families and about $ 4,200 for individuals. That means annual insurance premiums disease represent a significant portion of care costs health. Something is very wrong with the system.
So what is the average student debt for new doctors entering the market? The Association of American Medical Colleges, the average student debt of indebted graduates of the Class of 2006 (including pre-borrowing Med) is $ 130,571. The average debt of medical graduates in 2006 grew by 8.5 percent over the previous year. 72 percent graduates have debt of at least $ 100,000. 86.6 percent of graduating medical students carry outstanding loans. 40.2 per cent of graduates of 2006 non-debt for education, an average of $ 16,689. Source: AAMC 2006 Graduation Questionnaires
So how do they do when graduate? The cardiologists are the most popular specialist last year, fetching salaries ranging from $ 234,000 to $ 525,000 with a average of $ 320,000 per year, according to polls. Just behind the cardiologists are radiologists and orthopedic surgeons. Now, why have we prepared med Student money when the bank financing is easily possible, given their low risk?

5. Pharmaceutical proliferation Prescription Drugs

This can be short and sweet. In 2002 we spent $ 162 million billion on prescription drugs in 2006 and we spent $ 217 billion on prescription drugs. One in five Americans takes 5 or more prescriptions per day. All Americans prescriptions average 2.9 per day. Our seniors, who are growing very rapidly with the aging of baby boomers on average $ 559 for prescriptions in 1992, $ 1.205 for drugs in 2000, and 1912 $ in 2005 with spending expected to reach $ 2805 in 2010.

Each day, it seems that health authorities announce a new prescription drug that does not work, or whose long term effects are determined to be more dangerous than expected. Yet, every day it seems there are new requirements for new diseases. We live longer but spend much more. Children are over-prescribed with Ritalin and other drugs. They are addicted to drugs, they do not even raiding medicine cabinets for the cultivation of new drugs.

6. FDA (Food and Drug Administration) drug approval process

If drug prices in America rose by almost five times faster inflation then the FDA must assume some responsibility because they are the regulatory body to oversee the over-the-counter and prescription drugs so abundant in our society.

The new process for approving drugs the FDA with layers of animals and human clinical trials is the most expensive, longest and often the most bizarre in terms of protocols and criteria for approval in the world. It This process is designed to benefit the rich pharmaceutical companies, not to research companies and small independent and laboratories.

Large pharmaceutical companies have successfully negotiated with the FDA for approval of new drugs, even if the drug prolongs life expectancy of the patient in just 30 days. However, when these products are sold to the public, nobody seems to mention they can only be good for 30 days at a cost of thousands of dollars

Things were so ridiculous in the approval process that television advertisements for the drug Celebrex contain warnings so many side effects and interactions that made the announcement said "the FDA said in May that the benefits outweigh the risks "when the rise. Are they mad? It might be safe to take?

Clinical trials approved FDA require a protocol in which half the patients received a placebo rather than medicine so that results can take the drug be measured against a control group not taking the drug. Not a bad practice unless the drug is experimental and disease will kill patient.

For example, 3 patients in stage of cancer for weeks or months to live. In Step 3, all natural and extremely costly, as chemotherapy treatment, radiotherapy or surgery has failed. When they are offered a chance to participate in an experiment that could save their life and the option is certain death, you would think they jump at the chance, but this is not the case.

Why would they sign up when only half the people will receive the same treatment, with the other half get a placebo effect? If they are in the half that gets the candy and not the drug they die. If given the drug there is a chance they can live. When you're facing death should not be the 50-50, you will not get the treatment.

Other problems include the industry with their price gouging, opposition to the sale of drugs generic much less opposition to foreigners who also sell drugs for much less, payments to doctors for prescribing their drugs, and unsubstantiated allegations concerning over-the-counter drugs like cough syrup that has been proven that nothing good.

7. Agriculture - Food Testing, ingredients and Source

You go to the grocery store, check for fresh meat, to see something that looks nice and red, cool and buy it. Or maybe you buy chicken fry up for dinner. Then again you can buy food for animals company for your dog or your favorite cat. Now someone tell you the fresh meat, like beef should not be red? We you said color pigments and carbon monoxide are used to give the pieces of meat color and they are injected into the slaughter?

Have you that chicken was raised in a chicken coop and pumped with hormones, steroids and God knows what else to fatten for slaughter? You said everything you've purchased included rendered animal parts?

Did they mention the rendering plants use the product gross, including thousands of dogs and cats died, heads and hooves from cattle, sheep, pigs and horses, all skunks, rats and raccoons? They talk So the millions of maggots crawling over the carcasses? Did they tell you carcasses are ground and cooked to create lots of yellow grease, meal and bone meal and meat and bone meal is used as a source of protein and other nutrients in poultry, pigs and food for pets?

That the fat of the animal is used as an "energy source" and millions of tons will be transported to poultry ranches, cattle feed-lots, dairy and hog farms, fish-feed plants and manufacturers of pet food where it is mixed with other ingredients to feed the billions of animals that humans eating meat, in turn, will eat.

When you look at the ingredient label and is said that included meat protein it sounds good, but also that proteins rendered carcasses and what are the health consequences of Food sub-standard products made? The deadly mad cow disease was caused by feeding rendered products for cattle.

8. Campaign Reform - Empty Promises and Empty Wallets

For the first time in our history the presidential campaign, in 2008 alone will cost more than one billion. Now that so it's a lot of money that is spent to buy a job that pays $ 400,000 a year and lasts only four years. One billion dollars spent to make $ 1,600,000. If this is the result of capitalism Then we might have a problem.

Campaign reform has been talked more and made less than any other issue facing Congress and the president. Advertising costs are political criminals. Some campaigns to spend more money collect money they do get elected. Interest groups give to candidates, to give more to national political parties, more state political parties and then spend the money themselves to influence elections.

More than 1 billion will be spent running for president and can be changed if the President and Congress have the guts. Paid ads can be stopped, financing of special interest can be stopped, and a grid of elementary logic can take place. Applicants may receive time free media, since all the airways are government regulated. Voter registration can be increased.

There are approximately 226 million people eligible to vote in the U.S. and about 142 million are registered to vote. In 2004, approximately 121 million did not vote for President. This means that approximately 53% of eligible voters participated in the last presidential election, a total low enough the citadel of democracy in the world. What needs to be fixed. Require voter registration system with a social security card or permit driving if necessary, but to get people involved in the process. We can not make people vote but we can be sure they have the opportunity to vote.

9. Immigration Reform - The Slumbering social issue of the day

So far, candidates did a masterful job of avoiding the issue of immigration reform, even before the campaign heated They have a variety of ideas to offer. However, it seems that the ideas have been taken off the table in the hope no one noticed that volte-face on an issue.

There few areas of agreement. For everyone recognizes that we need to strengthen border security in both the Canadian and Mexican borders. We also recognize that there are millions of Mexican workers in the United States illegally in paid employment jobs generally not wanted by the Americans. What to do about them is a huge problem.

Since there is widespread opposition to any type of amnesty program that allows them to remain without further action may be a better solution would be to allow those illegal immigrants and their families to stay with permanent work visa if they are gainfully employed and have paid taxes in the United States.

They are there and they pay our income and sales taxes. They have cars and drivers licenses. They make a substantial contribution to social security even if they can not draw benefits. What amnesty are we giving? If we do not throw at us owe back income, sales and social security benefits? I say they have already paid enough for a permanent visa and must be upheld if they complement our requirement of citizenship.

If immigrants Illegal who are gainfully employed and contribute to our tax system and social security are granted a visa for permanent work, overnight we can reduce the problems of border security money substantial savings and improved relations between our two countries. This will free resources to prosecute criminal elements from foreign countries who enter illegally for reasons much more disaster.

Not only are millions of illegal immigrants do pay taxes and provide services, we would not have otherwise, but they are also victims to hordes of unscrupulous people involved in the sale and repair of cars, medical treatment legal assistance, and many other areas, because they have no means to protect themselves. They can not go to law enforcement assistance, as they would be prosecuted. Merely granting deserved a permanent work visa would stop predators take advantage of their status.

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