I wrote this letter in response to an organization that is trying, once again, to discourage our scope of practice in Michigan. Please let everyone know that we need help to "snuff out" this kind of garbage. The website I'm responding to in my letter is educatedontlegislate.org.
Mr. Ford,
I read with interest your perspective on chiropractic health care. It's unbelievable in this day and age, with the history of chiropractic and its benefits, that you still feel the way you do. Perhaps the anti-trust suit won against the AMA is no longer "fresh" in your mind? It is sad when fear of competition is the driving force in the caring of patients as it appears to be with the affiliated groups on your website. I feel for the poor souls that you claim you want to help.
Let me just remind you that, by their own admission the AMA members killed 250,000 people in one year by illicit medicine! How many people died from chiropractic...directly, not through hearsay? We are tired of hearing that "my aunt's second cousin removed and then re-married to a neighbor in Pookieville, New Hampshire died after an adjustment!" or yet, "had a chiropractor break their neck." This kind of telephone game rhetoric is just not acceptable anymore.
The profession of chiropractic is an honorable one and we try very hard not to tell the truth about medical as they continue to tell lies about chiropractic.
Last but not least, our profession was called out by a group, which claims it is helping to stamp out fraud, for a million dollar square off in the treatment of injuries and disease. It is run by one of your affiliates. We accepted and they never got back to us! Wow. Now there's some confidence.
Remember Mr. Ford, M.D. simply stands in my opinion for More Drugs, More Disease and More Death. Your organization has been in control for too many years; for we continue to see disease and death go up and quality of life go down. Perhaps education is the key. Education that puts Chiropractic in the forefront of health care. We can only do better, it would be impossible to do worse.
Yours in health,
Mary Jo Boven
Friday, May 23, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
Please visit this site!
http://www.numbersusa.com/index
This website is awesome. Please check it our and take advantage of how easy it is to correspond with your representatives. You just sign up and send faxes! The site explains the issues and you can choose to use their letters or create your own.
This website is awesome. Please check it our and take advantage of how easy it is to correspond with your representatives. You just sign up and send faxes! The site explains the issues and you can choose to use their letters or create your own.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
An email I received. My opinion is you should take the time to read it!
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
This email comes in three parts:
Part 1
In just one year; Remember the election in 2006? Thought you might like to read the following:
A little over one year ago: (Referring to 2005.)
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.
Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:
1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!
Remember it's Congress that makes law not the President. He has to work with what's handed to him.
Quote of the Day........"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it." -- Barack Obama
Part 2:
Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing.
www.taxfoundation.org/publications/sho w/151.html
Taxes under Clinton 1999
Single making 30K - tax $8,400
Single making 50K - tax $14,000
Single making 75K - tax $23,250
Married making 60K - tax $16,800 & nbsp;
Married making 75K - tax $21,000 & nbsp;
Married making 125K - tax $38,750
Taxes under Bush 2008
Single making 30K - tax 4,500
Single making 50K - tax 12,500
Single making 75K - tax 18,750
Married making 60K - tax 9,000
Married 75K - tax 18,750
Married making 125K - tax 31,250
Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates.
It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don't even know what happened.
PART 3:
You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this:
Boy, am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.
I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts:
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html& lt; /FONT>
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 0.html
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular,
their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11.During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Million! ! s of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average
cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."
Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
Verify at: http://www.rense.! ! com/g eneral75/niht.htm
14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States."! !
Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.
Are we THAT stupid?
If this doesn't bother you then just delete the message. If, on the other hand, it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you
forward it to every legal resident in the country including every representative in Washington, D.C. - five times a week for as long as it takes to restore some semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof.
This email comes in three parts:
Part 1
In just one year; Remember the election in 2006? Thought you might like to read the following:
A little over one year ago: (Referring to 2005.)
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.
Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:
1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!
Remember it's Congress that makes law not the President. He has to work with what's handed to him.
Quote of the Day........"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it." -- Barack Obama
Part 2:
Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing.
www.taxfoundation.org/publications/sho w/151.html
Taxes under Clinton 1999
Single making 30K - tax $8,400
Single making 50K - tax $14,000
Single making 75K - tax $23,250
Married making 60K - tax $16,800 & nbsp;
Married making 75K - tax $21,000 & nbsp;
Married making 125K - tax $38,750
Taxes under Bush 2008
Single making 30K - tax 4,500
Single making 50K - tax 12,500
Single making 75K - tax 18,750
Married making 60K - tax 9,000
Married 75K - tax 18,750
Married making 125K - tax 31,250
Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates.
It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don't even know what happened.
PART 3:
You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this:
Boy, am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.
I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts:
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html& lt; /FONT>
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 0.html
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular,
their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11.During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Million! ! s of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average
cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."
Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
Verify at: http://www.rense.! ! com/g eneral75/niht.htm
14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States."! !
Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.
Are we THAT stupid?
If this doesn't bother you then just delete the message. If, on the other hand, it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you
forward it to every legal resident in the country including every representative in Washington, D.C. - five times a week for as long as it takes to restore some semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Step Out and Speak Up!
Amnesty for Illegal Aliens
Okay, this is a hot topic that even our presidential candidates avoid talking about but surprise; I have an opinion about it!
Years ago I knew a man that had come into the United States from England for a visit. Instead of returning to the UK at the end of his stay, he remained in the U.S. For years he lived in fear of the authorities finding him and deporting him.
Eventually, he was granted amnesty and lives freely now. During his “illegal time”, he never took any help from the government. He was self sufficient and did not take advantage of our welfare system. He loved the U.S. and never, ever flew a British flag anywhere. His dream was to become an American, not to use America. There’s a big difference between the two.
Now, compare this with a taxi ride I was given in Puerto Vallarta where the taxi driver was complaining about the U.S. He said that we didn’t care about others, only ourselves! Can you imagine a country like ours who gives more than any other country in the world and he was convinced we were selfish! I inquired where he had learned his English and he told me that he had worked in Los Angeles for 7 years. He made enough money to build a nice house in P.V and was happily back in the land he was born in. I asked him if he missed it and he said he only went there to make the money and then return to where his heart was, Mexico. He was upset, however, that his brother could not go because he too, wanted to build a house and get ahead. Yet the reason he was mad was that the people who helped them sneak into the country were charging too much! You read that correctly. They were charging too much!
I also know of people who are working here and have no intention of going back. They expect to have all of our rights as citizens and also expect some extras. They want to stay but make no attempt to give back. They refuse to learn English, display only Mexican flags and mock our country.
So, with the above scenarios, what is the answer?
I believe that we need to stop the border crossings occurring everyday. That is the most important thing we can do. No matter what it takes, we need to stop the illegal entrance of people into the U.S. This is for both our gain and the safety of those trying to come over. Now we can deal with those already here.
I believe that the only flag that should be displayed and flown in public for allegiance in our country is the AMERICAN flag. Last, but not least, we definitely have to start speaking English and to define it as our homeland language. I believe we can give help to those who really desire to be here but they must give back by showing through their actions that they desire to become AMERICANS. Work programs should be enforced, (we already have many) for those who want to work as visitors from another country.
These are but a few of the steps we need to take. I, by no means, want to underestimate the work necessary to address and correct this issue. Talk is not good if it only comes from one side. We need to speak up to everyone we can about our feelings. Let representatives know how you feel. I have with letters and signing petitions and faxes.
Step out and speak up. Just my opinion.
Okay, this is a hot topic that even our presidential candidates avoid talking about but surprise; I have an opinion about it!
Years ago I knew a man that had come into the United States from England for a visit. Instead of returning to the UK at the end of his stay, he remained in the U.S. For years he lived in fear of the authorities finding him and deporting him.
Eventually, he was granted amnesty and lives freely now. During his “illegal time”, he never took any help from the government. He was self sufficient and did not take advantage of our welfare system. He loved the U.S. and never, ever flew a British flag anywhere. His dream was to become an American, not to use America. There’s a big difference between the two.
Now, compare this with a taxi ride I was given in Puerto Vallarta where the taxi driver was complaining about the U.S. He said that we didn’t care about others, only ourselves! Can you imagine a country like ours who gives more than any other country in the world and he was convinced we were selfish! I inquired where he had learned his English and he told me that he had worked in Los Angeles for 7 years. He made enough money to build a nice house in P.V and was happily back in the land he was born in. I asked him if he missed it and he said he only went there to make the money and then return to where his heart was, Mexico. He was upset, however, that his brother could not go because he too, wanted to build a house and get ahead. Yet the reason he was mad was that the people who helped them sneak into the country were charging too much! You read that correctly. They were charging too much!
I also know of people who are working here and have no intention of going back. They expect to have all of our rights as citizens and also expect some extras. They want to stay but make no attempt to give back. They refuse to learn English, display only Mexican flags and mock our country.
So, with the above scenarios, what is the answer?
I believe that we need to stop the border crossings occurring everyday. That is the most important thing we can do. No matter what it takes, we need to stop the illegal entrance of people into the U.S. This is for both our gain and the safety of those trying to come over. Now we can deal with those already here.
I believe that the only flag that should be displayed and flown in public for allegiance in our country is the AMERICAN flag. Last, but not least, we definitely have to start speaking English and to define it as our homeland language. I believe we can give help to those who really desire to be here but they must give back by showing through their actions that they desire to become AMERICANS. Work programs should be enforced, (we already have many) for those who want to work as visitors from another country.
These are but a few of the steps we need to take. I, by no means, want to underestimate the work necessary to address and correct this issue. Talk is not good if it only comes from one side. We need to speak up to everyone we can about our feelings. Let representatives know how you feel. I have with letters and signing petitions and faxes.
Step out and speak up. Just my opinion.
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