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  dong

  1 year ago

  I think there's a point where life is not neccesarily living. I don't believe in suicide, but I don't think every means should be taken to keep people living a low qualify life. I hope when I'm at the age, I'll have the grace not to ask for extreme medical care.
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  bripblap

  1 year ago

  Thanks dong. I agree - there's definitely a point at which quality of life falls below a minimally acceptable point, and our country has got to get comfortable with that idea. How to address it, I don't know - assisted suicide, living wills, etc. Hard to say, but a good point.
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  V.A.S.

  1 year ago

  As a nurse friend once told me, elderly people facing this issue don't have to commit suicide. They can just quietly stop taking their medicine and let nature take its course. That's a hard thing to advise anyone to do, but I hope I can remember it when I'm at that stage of life and my quality of life has diminished to such a low point that I don't want to continue.
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  DMB

  1 year ago

  If you watch OutThereTV, or listen to Allan Watt, from Canada, you learn that China is the "ideal state" and the earth can comfortably support only about 500-million people. There is not necessarily one all-encompasing plan, but among the smaller ones, we have persistent con-trails, spraying barium into the atmosphere, which tends to give elderly in Florida the sniffles. Folks have developed Prozac for arial dispersal. Fluoride, taken internally, leads to more docile people & creation of porous, brittle bones.
  
  Baby-boomers are starting to retire. Laws & policies will be made to accomodate this surge of elderly, so techniques will likely already be in place when you are nearing your life's end. Simply do what everyone else does. The S&L bailout helped people that got into trouble "doing like everyone else." Similarly, this Mortgage bailout eventually should do the same.
  
  If your child lives on his/her own, for a couple of years, so only their own, meager income is used to calculate "financial need" they likely will qualify for a grant to cover their tuition, at most state-funded universities.
  
  People are not usually upset about legal immigrants, like the ones arriving at Dulles airport, since they are treated about equally.. having to pay income taxes, and abide by the same laws. Their sorrow comes from illegal immigrants coming in, being treated at public facilities without helping pay for the services through taxes, which are not withheld by their employer who is paying them sub-standard wages, and not withholding taxes. That keeps the local wages low.
  
  Ross Perot was right when he said when NAFTA passes, you will hear a sucking sound as manufacturing jobs move south of the border, where minimum wages & OSHA expenses are avoided. The same is true concerning China being given Favored Trading Partner status in the mid-1990s. We have no trade tarriffs, so everyone in the U.S. buys the cheap foreign goods.
  
  Federal Reserve Notes are owned by international banks. Their "value" is backed by the Gross Domestic Product of the USA. As manufacturing jobs are sent out of the country, we are effectively exporting the "security value" of the Federal Reserve Notes, making them worth Less than before, so we have inflation.
  
  This devaluation likely will drive us into becoming the North American Untion. Just as Britain's population had 70-percent vote to NOT join the European Union, their lawmakers added them into it, anyway. The same can happen to the USA. After all, it was in 1913, near a congressional break, that the Federal Reserve system was wiggled into law, to take us off the gold-standard, and onto the unsecured, FRNs as our money.
  
  Each time we print Federal Reserve Notes, those are bank-notes, debts the USA owes to the bankers of the international Federal Reserve, to whome we pay interest, funded by taxes, merely for the privelege of using their bank-notes.
  
  Your value to the world system is your value to the community. So, serve your community (and don't keep it too much of a secret.) Maintain your extended relationships, since they are part of your community. And I agree, don't watch the news, too much. It is true, "with much knowledge comes much sorrow."
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