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"[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers...not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void andof no force. — Thomas Jefferson, Draft Kentucky Resolutions [1798]Just what federal law or regulation would not be null & void if Jefferson'sstandards were applied today?Please review the info regarding SB 3 and if you agree, contact yoursenator to voice your opposition. -Paul<http://www.citizens.org/hill/legislation/senatebill3.cfm>http://www.citizens.or\g/hill/legislation/senatebill3.cfmCongress is Writing the WRONG Prescription for Health!As the debate over Senate Bill 722 heats up, one thing is certain- theright to use safe dietary supplements is clearly under attack. Thislegislation threatens DSHEA and your access to safe dietary supplements. Weneed you to send a clear message to Washington: Congress is writing theWRONG prescription for health!Senate Bill Voids State Laws, Prohibits Health and Safety Warnings andUndermines Your Health Rights and Your PrivacySenate Bill 3, introduced earlier this year, uses emotionally chargedhomeland security language to undermine state’s and individual’s rights andprivacy protections while giving pharmaceutical companies comprehensiveliability protection and millions in government grants and taxcredits. The bill, entitled “Protecting America in the War on Terror Actof 2005,” contains many troubling provisions. If passed, S. 3 will1) nullify state laws related to the regulation of drugs and vaccines –thereby overturning existing laws banning mercury in vaccines andprohibiting any future state laws regulating drugs.2) Bar States from Warning Their Citizens about drug or vaccine safetyissues if that warning is different than any federal information.3) gift drug and vaccine makers with a financial windfall through millionsof dollars of grants and tax credits, fast-tracking vaccine approval,extension of patents and comprenensive liability protection.4) invade health privacy by establishing a national electronic surveillanceprogram to collect and analyze a wide-range of your health data, includingall data relating to “diseases, including vital records, registries,chronic diseases and maternal and child health data”S.B. 3 has widespread support – partly because it also includes a popularprovision to increase from $12,000 to $100,000 death benefits given tofamilies of soldiers and servicemembers killed combat – a provision Membersof Congress find hard to vote against.<http://www.citizens.org/s3analysis.cfm>Click here to see an analysis ofS.B. Key Health Related Sectionshttp://www.citizens.org/s3analysis.cfmThis is a critical alert. If allowed to pass – this bill will havefar-reaching consequences.* You will not be able to turn to the states for health protection andwarnings when the federal government is not listening. Mercury in vaccinesis one important example where the federal government isn’t listening toindividuals or the science. Consumers have already successfully passedbans on mercury in vaccines in <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 />Iowa andCalifornia and bills are pending in at least seven other states. Recentinformation about the dangers of Vioxx and other drugs make highlight theimportance of having as many possible sources of information and recourseavailable to consumers. (see<http://www.nomercury.org/>www.nomercury.org and<http://www.909shot.com/ActionAlerts/S3Article.htm>http://www.909shot.com/Action\Alerts/S3Article.htmto learn more)* Health privacy is a fundamental right and the national electronicsurveillance system created in this bill, on top of other privacy guttingbills already enacted (see<http://www.medicalprivacycoalition.org/>www.medicalprivacycoalition.org)make it impossible for you to keep the details of your health recordsprivate. Consumers will be wary of seeking medical attention if they donot trust their information will remain private – and this information inthe wrong hands could jeopardize careers and health coverage, for example.<http://www.healthactioncenter.com/action/index.asp?step=2 & item=25051>URGENT– Take Action Today. >>Click Herehttp://www.healthactioncenter.com/action/index.asp?step=2 & item=25051Support your health rights, your health privacy, full access to informationand accountability for drug companies.It is no secret that the pharmaceutical industry is the largest contributorto Congress and that there are almost two drug company lobbyists for everyMember of Congress. This bill has the support of and is a major priorityof some of the highest ranking and most influential Senators. The only waywe will defeat this bill and sustain our health rights is if you and all ofyour friends, neighbors, family and colleagues take action today!

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http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn1ILLEGAL ALIENS AND EMTALA** Dr. Madeline Cosman, Ph.D., ESQMarch 23, 2005NewsWithViews.comThe influx of Illegal Aliens has devastating, hidden medicalconsequences. We judge reality primarily by what we see. But what we donot see can be more dangerous, more expensive, and more deadly than whatis seen.[1] <http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn1>Illegal Aliens' stealthy assaults on medicine now must rouse Americansto alarmed alert.[2]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn2> Even PresidentBush describes Illegal Aliens only as they are seen: strong physicallaborers who work hard in nasty jobs with low wages, who cultivate theirfamilies, and who pursue the American dream. What is unseen is theirfree medical care that has degraded and closed some of America's finestemergency medical facilities and caused hospital bankruptcies: 84California hospital are closing their doors forever.[3]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn3> An importantcause of these hospital closures is the Emergency Medical Treatment andActive Labor Act of 1985 (EMTALA).What is seen is the political statistic that 43 million lives are atrisk in America because those people have no health insurance.[4]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn4> What is unseenis that medical insurance does not equal medical care. Uninsured peopleget medical care in hospital Emergency Rooms under the coercive EMTALAthat obligates hospitals to treat the uninsured but does not pay forthat care. Also unseen is the percentage of uninsured who are IllegalAliens. No one knows how many Illegal Aliens reside in America. If 10million, they constitute nearly 25% of the uninsured. If more, more.*EMTALA*EMTALA requires each Emergency Room to treat anyone who enters with an"emergency" associated with cough, headache, hangnail, cardiac arrest,herniated lumbar disc, drug addiction, alcohol overdose, gunshot injury,automobile trauma, HIV-positive infection, mental problem, orpersonality disorder. Definition of emergency is flexible and vagueenough to include almost any condition as requiring mandatory care. Anypatient coming to a hospital emergency room requesting emergency caremust be screened and treated until stabilized for discharge orstabilized for transfer whether or not insured, whether or not"documented," and whether or not able to pay.A woman in labor must remain to deliver her child. Babies born toIllegal Alien women are called Anchor Babies for once they are born,like anchors dropped to keep boats safely in harbor, they pull theirIllegal Alien parents and siblings into lucrative residency. The babiesinstantly qualify as citizens for welfare benefits. They have causedvolcanic eruptions in Medicaid costs and skyrocketing stipends underSupplemental Security Income and Disability Income.[5]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn5>,[6]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn6>What is seen is the strong-backed Illegal Alien who will come to theEmergency Room and cough, sweat, and bleed but is assumed basicallyhealthy even though he and his Illegal Alien wife and kids never wereexamined for contagious diseases. By our glance and by our shrug wegrant Illegal Aliens health passes. What is unseen is that many IllegalAliens harbor within their bodies fatal diseases that long ago Americanmedicine fought and vanquished. Now Illegal Aliens carry drug resistantstrains of tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, plague, polio, Dengue Fever,and Chagas Disease.[7]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn7>,[8]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn8>A hospital with an Emergency Room must have specialists ready to treaton call at all times for all departments that provide medical servicesand specialties within the hospital's capabilities. EMTALA is anunfunded federal mandate. Government imposes viciously stiff fines andpenalties up to $50,000 for each incident upon any physician and anyhospital refusing to treat any patient that a vigorous prosecutor deemsan emergency patient even though the hospital or physician screened anddeclared the patient's illness or injury non-emergency.[9]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn9>,[10]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn10> But governmentdoes not pay either the hospital or the physicians for treatments. Inaddition to the fiscal attack on medical facilities and personnel,EMTALA is a handy truncheon to pummel politically unpopular physiciansby falsely accusing them of violating EMTALA.High-tech hospital emergency units degenerated into local free medicaloffices. In California, for instance, between 1993 and 2003, 60hospitals closed because of over 50% of unpaid services, and another 24California hospitals closed in 2004. Even ambulances from Mexico come toEmergency Rooms with indigents because the drivers know that EMTALArequires accepting patients who come within /250 yards of a hospital/.That geographic limit has figured in many lawsuits.[11]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn11>,[12]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn12>Los Angeles County Trauma Care Network, built in 1983, was one ofAmerica's finest Emergency Medical Response organizations. Consisting of22 hospitals, super-high-tech equipment, superior emergency physicians,surgeons, specialists, nurses, and technicians, it offered 365-day,round-the-clock emergency care for people suffering life-threatening carcrashes, industrial accidents, urban crime, natural disasters ofearthquake and wildfire, and national disasters of terrorism. Now mosttrauma hospitals have left the Network and so have many emergencyphysicians and surgeons.[13]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn13> EMTALAcontributed to the Trauma Care Network's loss of focus and loss ofmoney.[14] <http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn14>*VIOLENT CRIME*Illegal Aliens perpetrate much violent crime whose physical resultsarrive in ERs. [15]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn15>,[16]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn16> "Dump and Run"patients dropped on the hospital sidewalk or at the emergency roomentrance before the car speeds away usually are connected to drugs andgangs. Patients requiring tracheotomies and thoracotomies for stab orgunshot wounds are dumped at hospitals whether or not exclusivelydedicated to trauma care and EMTALA governs their treatment.[17]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn27>,[18]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn18>While nationally most people coming to emergency units are not poor andhave medical insurance,[19]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn19> cities such asLos Angeles with large Illegal Alien populations, high crime, andpowerful immigrant gangs are losing their hospitals to the ravages ofunreimbursed care under EMTALA. In Los Angeles, 95% of outstandinghomicide warrants are for Illegal Aliens, likewise for 66% of fugitivefelony warrants. The notorious 18th Street Gang has 20,000 members theCalifornia Department of Justice deems 60% Illegal Aliens, but 80%according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The Lil' Cycos Gangnotorious for murder, racketeering, and drugs in Los Angeles's MacArthurPark was thought 60% illegals in 2002, though higher now. FranciscoMartinez of the Mexican Mafia ran the gang from prison whileincarcerated for felonious reentry after deportation.[20]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn20>Illegal Aliens move freely in /crime sanctuary cities/. [21]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn21>,[22]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn22> In LosAngeles, San Diego, Stockton, New York, Chicago, Miami, Austin, andHouston, no hospital, physician, city employee, or police officer canreport immigration violators to the Department of Homeland Security'sBureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (the old INS). Los AngelesPolice Department /Special Order/ 40 (begun in 1979 by then Chief DarylGates) prohibits cops from "initiating police action where the objectiveis to discover the alien status of a person."Daily as many as 10,000 Illegal Aliens cross the 1,940-mile-long borderwith Mexico. [23]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn23>,[24]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn24> About 33% arecaught. Many try again, immediately. Authorities estimate about 3,500Illegal Aliens daily become permanent U.S. residents, at least 3 millionannually.[25]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn25>,[26]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn26>,[27]<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftn27> EMTALA rewardsthem with extensive, expensive free medical services if they claimemergency requirement for care.Government welcomes Illegal Aliens by refusal to police our borders, byreluctance to prosecute people who violate basic American law, and byfervor to please those who snidely abuse our generosity and cynicallyply our compassion against ourselves.*Footnotes:*<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref1>*1,* FredericBastiat's /Selected Essays on Political Economy: What is Seen and Whatis Unseen/. Irvington-on-Hudson, New York: Foundation for EconomicEducation, 1995.<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref2>*2,*Madeleine Pelner Cosman's /Who Owns Your Body?: Doctors and PatientsBehind Bars/. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005.<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref3>*3,* Chong,J-R. Hawthorne Hospital to Shut Doors. R.F. Kennedy Medical Center CitesFinancial Problems for Closure...Sixth ER in La County This Year. /LosAngeles Times/, September 24, 2004.<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref4>*4,* JohnGoodman, Gerald Musgrave, Devon Herrick's /Lives at Risk: Single PayerNational Health Insurance Around the World/. Lanham and New York:National Center for Policy Analysis, Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref5>*5,* Wright,CM. SSI: The Black Hole of the Welfare State. /Cato Policy Analysis/224, April, 1995.<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref6>*6,* Peter J.Ferrara's /Social Security: The Inherent Contradiction/. Washington:Cato Institute, 1980.<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref7>*7,* Lee B.Reichman's /Time Bomb: The Global Epidemic of Multi-Drug ResistantTuberculosis/. New York: McGraw Hill Professional, 2001. www.TBtimebomb.com<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref8>*8,* LaurieGarrett's /The Coming Plague/. New York: Penguin, 1995.<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref9>*9,* CosmanMP. Medicare and the Criminalization of American Medicine: 1965-1993.6:1 /National Trial Lawyer/ (1994).<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref10>*10,* TurnerGM. HIPAA and the Criminalization of American Medicine. 22:1 CatoJournal, Spring/Summer 2002.<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref11>*11,* 237 F3d 1074.<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref12>*12,*/Arrington v. Wong/, 237 F3rd 1066 (9th Cir. January 22, 2001)<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref13>*13,* RoarkAC. Surgeon Tires of Effort to Plug Gap in Trauma Care-Hospitals: Adoctor on call in emergency rooms. /Los Angeles Times/, December 23, 1990.<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref14>*14,* WeberT., Ornstein C, Landsberg M. King/Drew Trauma Unit Faces Closure. DrewProposal Assailed. /Los Angeles Times/, September 14, 2004.<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref15>*15,*Michelle Malkin's /Invasion/. Washington: Regnery, 2004.<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref16>*16,* Jon E.Dougherty's /Illegals: The Imminent Threat Posed by our UnsecuredU.S.-Mexico Border/. Nashville: WND Books, 2004.<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref17>*17,* RoarkAC. Surgeon Tires of Effort to Plug Gap in Trauma Care-Hospitals: Adoctor on call in emergency rooms. /Los Angeles Times/, December 23, 1990.<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref18> *18,*Heather Mac Donald's /The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave/. New York: ManhattanInstitute, 2004. www.City-Journal.com <http://www.city-journal.com/><http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref19> *19,*Weber, EJ. Does Lack of a Usual Source of Care or Health InsuranceIncrease the Likelihood of an Emergency Department Visit? Results of aNational Population-Based Study. /Annals of Emergency Medicine/,October, 2004.<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref20> *20,*Heather Mac Donald's /The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave/. New York: ManhattanInstitute, 2004. www.City-Journal.com <http://www.city-journal.com/><http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref21> *21,*Heather Mac Donald's /The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave/. New York: ManhattanInstitute, 2004. www.City-Journal.com <http://www.city-journal.com/><http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref22> *22,*Michelle Malkin's /Invasion/, Washington: Regnery, 2004.<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref23> *23,*Michelle Malkin's /Invasion/. Washington: Regnery, 2004.<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref24> *24,*Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform (CAIR) www.cairco.org/articles<http://www.cairco.org/articles><http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref25> *25,*DeWeese T. The Mexican Fifth Column. www.fairus.org<http://www.fairus.org/> 2003<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref26> *26,*Guzzardi D. Illegal Aliens: The Health Cost Dimension<http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/health_care/htm>. January 25, 2003.<http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeline.htm#_ftnref27> *27,*DeWeese T. The Outrages of the Mexican Invasion. American Policy Center.www.cairco.org/articles <http://www.cairco.org/articles>. February 27,2003.© 2005 Madeline Cosman -

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(ACTUALLY, the CHILDREN HAVE someone who is supposed to be financing them- THEIR BIOLOGICAL FATHERS! Yet the OLD PEOPLE, esp. women, are going to need the tax money and these are the LEGIT recipients. The 'for the children' thing is an excuse to mess up marriages, male financial responsibility, promote illegitimacy, and devatate societies. A man who does not provide financial support for wife of his youth (and stay with her, conceiving the children

in the ready made family called marriage) is worse than a heathen or infidel,

and the government who sabotages that is undermining God's plan!--"Cheyenne Cin")

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Artificial Baby Boom

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.mises.org/story/1761Wednesday, March 23, 2005An Artificial Baby BoomP. Gardner Goldsmith[Posted March 22, 2005]A popular platitude in the United States is that children "are ourfuture." Armed with that comfortable phrase, politicians haveendeavored to shower parents with myriad government favors, securedfrom the effort and initiative of others. These perks range fromgovernment-run school and day-care, to nutrition and "wellness"programs, to special health care and activity programs, all having thewonderful practical effect of making "our" children de-facto wards ofthe state.And while Americans tend to pride themselves for being ahead of othernations when it comes to setting social and political trends,evidently, the politicians in Laviano, Italy, have surpassed us in thisregard.A recent Los Angeles Times article reported that the bureaucrats ofthat small southern Italian town have become alarmed by a decliningbirth rate. As a result, they’ve come up with an ingenious governmentsolution. The answer? Simply reward people for having babies. MayorRocco Falivena and his associates have taken it upon themselves --through the taxpayers, of course – to literally pay parents of newbornsfor having children. Over the course of five years, the government ofLaviano will offer $14,000 to the parents of any newborn child. TheTimes reports that twenty people thus far have taken up the governmenton its quite generous offer, giving the idea of a nuclear family awhole new meaning.While it may be easy to derive amusement from this example ofredistributive government folly, it might be wise to pause for amoment, and consider that the US government has been doing the verysame thing for years.Those who have taken advantage of it, those who work in tax policy, andthose who keep their eyes on the functional disequilibrium of thegeneric State are familiar with what is being cited. It is the "EarnedIncome Tax Credit" (EITC), a special dispensation from the InternalRevenue Service of the US government that showers financial rewards onpoor people who have kids.As opposed to a tax cut for parents who have children, which has thelaudable effect of decreasing the burden of taxation for some citizens,but the pernicious effect of increasing the relative share of the taxburden for others, and reinforcing the fanciful notion that governmenthas a prerogative to favor some behavior over others, the EITC actuallygives moneyto people over and above that which they might have paid tothe government in the first place.Depending on his income, the EITC for which one could qualify rangesfrom $1, to nearly $5,000. In most cases, the EITC is collected by poorpeople who have no income tax liability whatsoever, and it is, ineffect, a tax redistribution scheme perpetrated in their favor.In an unpublished working paper, "Fertility Effects of the EarnedIncome Tax Credit" University of New Hampshire assistant professor ofeconomics Reagan Baughman asserts that the effect of the EITC,especially since it was expanded in the 1990’s to allow for moreredistribution of wealth, has had the practical effect of increasingbirth-rates among non-white women. (All information below derived frompublished news articles on the topic and not her unreleased paper.)"We do not find evidence that white women responded to the increases inthe EITC, but we find evidence that non-white women had small butstatistically significant increases in their fertility rates," writesBaughman.Which just goes to show the behind-the-curve utopians in Italy thatthey could learn a thing or two from their friends in the UnitedStates!The EITC rewards people for having children. For example, according tothe IRS, if you are a single, childless, wage-earner, and the IRS termsyour "taxable income" as ranging between $28,950 and $29,000, you getno money in the EITC. If you have one child, you can qualify for a"credit" of $218. If you have two children, the "credit" increasesnearly five-fold, to $1,155. If a citizen’s tax liability is lower thanhis EITC, which it often is, then he is making a net profit off ofanother tax payer.Thus, rather than taking the direct, Italian, route to encourage birthsin the United States, and possibly inspiring people to sound-off inprotest, American politicians have developed a much more stealthyapproach. They use the tax code, and call the payments for children"tax credits". The results, however, are the same. As Ms. Baughman’sstudy indicates, the attempt by the government to "help" poor peoplewho are having trouble raising children has had the unanticipatedcontrary effect. It has incentivized and encouraged births among poor,non-white Americans.It seems counterintuitive to think that a government intent on helpingpeople could do more harm than good, but this is what happens whendecision-making is taken out of the hands of free individuals andexercised by others. This is a fact of nature, and the reasons for itare numerous.There is the matter of the subjective valuation of money. Only theperson who earned the money, who actually employed his skills andenergy and time to engage in a free exchange for payment, can properlydetermine how he will fulfill his desires and needs with the fruits ofhis labor.This truism is closely tied to the fact that the problems peopleencounter are best understood by them, not someone who is not in theirshoes. Having a child is the decision of the parents, not the state.The consequences of creating a new life, one wholly dependent on hisparents and those who freely engage in charitable activity to supporttheir efforts, are properly felt by the individual participants. Theymust make the calculations regarding income, expenses, hopes, anddreams, and it is an economic fact that they will determine the bestcourse of action more often than people not associated with theirconcerns.The further removed one gets from the individual desires and needs ofthe money-earner, the less efficient, less informed, any decisions willbe. The redistribution of wealth causes a redirection in the flow ofusable capital, from those activities that are determined by the wageearner to be most productive, to those that would not have beenselected by that wage earner. By definition, this is a loss for theearner. When conducted on a large, national scale, a net loss in theproductive wealth of everyone is thus incurred, and unintendedconsequences arise.Thus, developing from a tax program that rewards childbirth, that warpsthe marketplace, and blurs economic reality for parents, we discover aperverse outcome: more children are born into poor families.It is just the kind of thing the utopians in government wanted to tryto alleviate, yet they have made it worse.The ethics of having an abstract entity, ostensibly formed to protectour lives and our property, become a machine of redistribution based onmajority-sanctioned theft are highly questionable. The practicaloutcome is pernicious. The trouble is that most people working ingovernment will not recognize the fact that their actions are havingsuch disastrous effects on the lives of others. Theirs is a religion.They worship at the altar of the state, and any empirical evidence thatchallenges their belief is discounted or overlooked.Don’t look for Ms. Baughman’s study to be widely quoted by the membersof the pop media, and don’t look for it to be held up for viewing bythe volunteer army in the IRS. Moreover, don’t count on many of ourCongressmen and Senators acknowledging what her report tells them. Theyare too busy concocting new means by which to seize the productivelabor of Americans to try to relieve crises of their own making.

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Insult to Injury

Servicemen and women disabled in the line of duty trust the government willprovide for them. But many return home to find themselves facing a newenemy: the Department of Veterans Affairs.http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/March-April-2005/feature_holding_marapr05.msp

 

 

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Nurse: Michael tried to kill Terri

 

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Florida Report... Where's Our Constitutional Republic??? Boy Arrested for Bringing Water to Terri

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Gabriel Keys (foreground) is arrested by police officers for trespassing inPinellas Park, Florida, March 23, 2005. The young protester attempted totake a glass of water into the Woodside Hospice for the brain-damaged TerriSchiavo. A federal judge rejected a request from the parents of Schiavo toorder her feeding tube reinserted, dealing a blow to attempts by the U.S.Congress and the White House to prolong her life. REUTERS/Carlos Barria<C:/WINDOWS/Application Data/IM/Runtime/Message/{CE695E56-EB55-4C24-B6F4-B7FB35B6D2E4}/Show\r42090660641.jpg> <http://us.rd./dailynews/reuters/brand/SIG=pd7i95/*http://www.reuters.com> http://story.news./news?tmpl=story<http://story.news./news?tmpl=story & u=/050323/ids_photos_ts/r4209066064.jpg & u=/050323/ids_photos_ts/r4209066064.jpg

 

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Wednesday, March 23A Slow Buildup

 

 

 

 

 

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