Friday, 4. April 2008, 16:12:40
The reality is that businesses have a budget for the year. When the government raises the minimum wage, it puts businesses out of there budget. So what do they do, they either have to lay off employees or they have to cut the employees hours. This could even cause small businesses to shut down. Yes, you would have a pay increase, but with the hours they would have to cut, you would actual be making less money. Granted, this would not effect everyone, but a majority of the people, it would.
Friday, 4. April 2008, 12:47:55
I did not write this. I am just spreading the message. This is a forwared e-mail I got from my father. He got this e-mail from a close friend of his.
SWEET POISON! A MUST READ!
In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick.
She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around.
Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain.
By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was
on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not determine
what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick she just
knew she was dying.
She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter's name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of.
She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd.
On March 19, I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she said they didn't find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS.
I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked my sister
if she drank diet soda? She told me that she did. As a matter of fact,
she was getting ready to crack one open that moment.
I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda! I e-mailed
her article my friend, a lawyer, had sent. My sister called me within 32
hours after our phone conversation and told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk!
The muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel 100% but, she sure felt a lot better.
She told me she was going to her doctor with this article and would call me when she got home.
Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed! He is going to call
all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweeteners of
any kind. In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the
diet soda...and literally dying a slow and miserable death.
When she got to Florida March 22, all she had to take was one pill, and that
was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on her way to a
complete recovery.
And she is walking! No wheelchair!
This article saved her life. If it says 'SUGAR FREE' on the label; DO
NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD
ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on 'ASPARTAME,' marketed as 'Nutra Sweet,'
'Equal,' and 'Spoonful.'
In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United States in 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus.
It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this to be rampant.
I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.
I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of this
sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic
acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants. The
methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus.
Many people were being diagnosed in error. Although multiple sclerosis is
not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity is!
Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers.
The victim usually does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or
she continues its use; irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may
become a life-threatening condition. We have seen patients with systemic
lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas.
In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases where vision loss re turned and hearing loss improved markedly.
This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia. During a lecture,
I said,
'If you are using ASPARTAME (Nutra Sweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting, pains, numbness in your legs,
Cramps,
Vertigo,
Dizziness,
Headaches,
Tinnitus,
Joint pain, Unexplainable depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision,
or memory loss you probably have ASPARTAME poisoning!' People were jumping
up during the lecture saying, 'I have some of these symptoms.
Is it reversible?'
Yes!
Yes!
Yes!
STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on food labels! Many
products are fortified with it! This is a serious problem. Dr. Espart
(one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice; a nurse stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS.
This is beyond coincidence!
Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple SODIUM
(salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you crave carbohydrates.
It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight!
These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells,
particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin and
is used primarily to preserve 'tissue specimens.'
Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body!
Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the 'diet products' and with no significant increase in exercise; his patients lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period.
Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that some
physicians, who believed that they had a patient with retinopathy, in fact,
had symptoms caused by Aspartame. The Aspartame drives the blood sugar out
of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the fact
that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance.
Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE. Especially with diabetics, the
Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates the neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, Seizures, Depression, Manic depression, Panic attacks, Uncontrollable anger and rage.
Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics as well.
Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had complete turnarounds in their behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet.
So called 'behavior modification prescription drugs' (Ritalin and others)
are no longer needed. Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first
place!
Most of these children were being 'poisoned' on a daily basis with the very foods that were 'better for them than sugar.'
It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.
Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e. mental retardation,
if taken at the time of conception and during early pregnancy. Children
are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should NEVER be given artificial sweeteners.
There are many different case histories to relate of children suffering grand mal seizures and other neurological disturbances talking about a plague of neurological diseases di rectly caused by the use of this deadly poison.'
Herein lies the problem: There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame
was included in 100 different products and strong objection was made concerning its use. Since this initial hearing, there have been two
subsequent hearings, and still nothing has been done. The drug and
chemical lobbies have very deep pockets.
Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED! There are now over
5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly chemical and there
will be thousands more introduced. Everybody wants a 'piece of the
Aspartame pie.'
I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is.
And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the Conference of the American College of Physicians?
This has been recently exposed in the New York Times. These
[organizations] cannot criticize any additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are required to endorse their products.
Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children and infants.
The bill would also institute independent studies on the known dangers and the problems existing in the general population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry, neurological changes and behavioral symptoms.
The bill was killed.
It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting and uninformed public. Well, you're informed now!
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW!
Please print this out and/or e-mail To your family And friends. They have a right to know too!
Wednesday, 2. April 2008, 13:48:29
I believe in small government. Keep it simple. The more power you give the government, the more restrictions you will have on your life. Anything that get too big becomes hungry for more and increcently inefficent. The more control you give to a government the more it is less a democracy and the more it becomes a communist country. And we all know how well a communist country works... just look at Russia or China. The governments job is to uphold the Constitution and to provide support to the states that are need from a catastrophic event. Smaller government usually also means less government spending.
I believe in capitalism. The government should never get involved with the countries economy.
I believe in the right to bare arms. I also believe that if you commit a crime then you loss that right.
I don't believe in open borders. Illegal aliens are ILLEGAL!!! They should be treated as such and deported. Any employer that knowingly hires an illegal alien should be fined and sent to jail. That would reduce some the incentive for illegal aliens to come into the country if the can not find work.
I do believe in immigration. I don't have any problem with a person that comes into a country legally; that learns the language, becomes a citizen, and contributes to the country.
I believe in the Bush Tax cuts. The less money that the government takes out of my paycheck, the more good and services I can buy. Which,in turn, will help business, which will help the stock market grow. The Bush Tax Cuts also provide less taxes for businesses(capital gains tax), which will give them more capital to spend on such things like research and development, which will promote a company to hire more people.
I don't believe universal health care will work. First it gives more power to the government. It will drive personalised or private health care companies out of business. Which means less choices. I like choices. It doesn't work well in England or Canada, so I defiantly believe it won't work in the USA. Not only that, it will raise taxes!!!
I believe in pro-life. A baby is a life that should be cherished and is sacred. A baby is a natural consequence of having sex. If a person does not want to or can not take care of a baby then adoption is the option. There are plenty of loving families that would love to have a child in there life. There are plenty of birth control options out there and it is a parents duty to provide sexual education to there children. The easy way is not always the best way.
This is just my opinion. I am open to all comments.
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