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What Problem Would You Fix?
If you could fix one problem in our country, what would you fix and how would you solve it?
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Great question. I'll leave health care alone because the other forum is doing a pretty good job with that!
I think our biggest problem is the prevalence and acceptance of mean-spirited behavior, our inability to work together to resolve issues. When and how did we get so ill-willed? We have many problems but we also live in the greatest country that ever existed. We are all different but we are all on the same team.
I think the media does a lot to divide us and is largely responsible for this lack of tolerance and civility. Too many of us hate any idea that is not our own. Too many of us assign the worst possible, nefarious motives to what may be nothing more that genuine attempts to improve the world we live in. It may not be an idea you support but that doesn't have to mean it's part of an evil plot.
It seems as though we have to make ourselves hate those with opposing views in order to validate our own. That makes it difficult, if not impossible, to hold meaningful and productive discussions. There is mean-spirited, organized opposition to everything. The result is that we compromise on everything. Everything is watered down. Everything is less than it could be, not as great as it should be.
I remember the national pride when we won WWII and when we went to the moon. We were all bursting with pride. We should feel the same way every day but I wonder if anything could make us all feel the same today. I'm afraid there are now too many haters who's only purpose is to disrupt.
You don't have to agree with me. I respect your right not to. I still want to like you and care about you. I know, that's pretty strange. And that's the problem.
I think our biggest problem is the prevalence and acceptance of mean-spirited behavior, our inability to work together to resolve issues. When and how did we get so ill-willed? We have many problems but we also live in the greatest country that ever existed. We are all different but we are all on the same team.
I think the media does a lot to divide us and is largely responsible for this lack of tolerance and civility. Too many of us hate any idea that is not our own. Too many of us assign the worst possible, nefarious motives to what may be nothing more that genuine attempts to improve the world we live in. It may not be an idea you support but that doesn't have to mean it's part of an evil plot.
It seems as though we have to make ourselves hate those with opposing views in order to validate our own. That makes it difficult, if not impossible, to hold meaningful and productive discussions. There is mean-spirited, organized opposition to everything. The result is that we compromise on everything. Everything is watered down. Everything is less than it could be, not as great as it should be.
I remember the national pride when we won WWII and when we went to the moon. We were all bursting with pride. We should feel the same way every day but I wonder if anything could make us all feel the same today. I'm afraid there are now too many haters who's only purpose is to disrupt.
You don't have to agree with me. I respect your right not to. I still want to like you and care about you. I know, that's pretty strange. And that's the problem.
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on Sep 05 2009 at 12:55:12 pm.
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You both have some great ideas. LakeWorth, I'm totally with you on the situation at the FDA. How many salmonella outbreaks are we supposed to endure with our food? As much as I always try to feed my family fresh fruits and veggies, a small part of me is always a little scared, too, because of the recent outbreaks over the past couple years.
But if I could fix just one issue I'd love to see this country throw everything it's got at finally curing cancer once and for all. Tremendous strides have been made over the past several decades, especially for cancers like breast and prostate, but far too many Americans are dying every single day from cancers. If we were able to put a man on the moon 40 years ago, how can we not eradicate cancer? It's something that affects almost every single one of us and as my old boss and mentor Sam Donaldson (himself a cancer survivor and major fundraiser) used to say: Cancer is the one thing that you can't throw too much money at. If our leaders spent a quarter as much money on cancer research that they spent on pet projects for their districts, I think we'd see a huge difference in the war on cancer.
But if I could fix just one issue I'd love to see this country throw everything it's got at finally curing cancer once and for all. Tremendous strides have been made over the past several decades, especially for cancers like breast and prostate, but far too many Americans are dying every single day from cancers. If we were able to put a man on the moon 40 years ago, how can we not eradicate cancer? It's something that affects almost every single one of us and as my old boss and mentor Sam Donaldson (himself a cancer survivor and major fundraiser) used to say: Cancer is the one thing that you can't throw too much money at. If our leaders spent a quarter as much money on cancer research that they spent on pet projects for their districts, I think we'd see a huge difference in the war on cancer.
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Stamp Out Stupidity!
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on Sep 05 2009 at 12:55:37 pm.
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You can't fix STUPID....
I think if I had my choice of which one to fix......I'd fix illegal immigration....
If they insist upon breaking our laws and coming here on their own hook...
Why do we insist upon "paying them for the misdeed" by giving them SS
they never earned....and Medical they never will pay for.....AND they
DO need a drivers license...clearly stating they are illegals....but they
NEED to be insurable...
By doing what needs to be done we would fix, two thirds of the drug problem..
Social Security would be more stable and our medical would not have the great
weight on it that is on all charity services NOW....we would also fix part of the
joblessness, by HUGE FINES on all those who employ them...The terrorist threat
would go down.....
I would choose two things...Growing HEMP in the US would take the pressure
off our Nat. Forests...probably solve our fuel problem...(yes you can make fuel from
hemp oil..and fiberglass, plastic, cloth, paper......AND where HEMP grows it
polinates Pot and negates it's making any THC....so no war on POT...BUMMER!
LLaurel
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Dear Lake Worth-- You hit the nail right on the head!! If there were a genuine interest and profit in curing cancer, the information would have been widespread YEARS ago!! Over the past 20 years I've met, heard and read about hundreds of cases like yours. Unfortunately, rather than building on these strides, the pharmaceutical companies are doing everything possible to completely control alternative medicine, and require prescriptions for it. There is legislation already afoot. You have validated that doctors receive precious little education or training regarding nutrition, so how do they propose to manage it for their patients??? Their eyes glaze over at mere mention of personal cures like yours. They call those who have cured themselves of tumors and cancer "miracle patients." As far as I'm concerned, the very existence of a human being is some kind of miracle anyway! Kudos to you!!
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I completely agree with both of you......I'm a diabetic with fibromyalgia..
(autoimmune disease, bet you can't have just one!) I use vitaminsa
and herbs to control all my problems....With my Dr. blessing...
I have a cousin who was given about six weeks..and she looked it..
LUNG cancer....NOPE not a smoker....nor her hubby..another
cousin smuggled some stuff out of Canada that was being tested
on Dogs with cancer a complete protocol...
..Joanne told me when she last went in there was no sign of
tumor.....NONE....
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Maybe we need to create a blog to gather stories of myriad recoveries from cancer with just lifestyle changes and alternative medicine, based on true experiences or reported by witnesses of others' experiences?
Tragically, I just lost one of my lifelong friends last spring to prostate cancer and I've NEVER witnessed a more valiant effort to fight cancer -- nor a more hideous way to die from it via 1-1/2 years of multiple surgeries, repeated chemotherapy treatments, and oh! so much suffering! It's awful for a person's legacy to become so heavily clouded by how painfully he passed on. I still have difficulty thinking about it.
Tragically, I just lost one of my lifelong friends last spring to prostate cancer and I've NEVER witnessed a more valiant effort to fight cancer -- nor a more hideous way to die from it via 1-1/2 years of multiple surgeries, repeated chemotherapy treatments, and oh! so much suffering! It's awful for a person's legacy to become so heavily clouded by how painfully he passed on. I still have difficulty thinking about it.
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