If Only There Were Fewer People…

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If only fewer people were alive today, imagine what this country would be like. The “green economy” would be alive and well, people could actually make decent use of solar, wind, and corn-based energies, and a lot of federal administrative headaches would magically be solved, like Social Security, Medicare, and both federal and trade deficits. Imagine the nirvana!

If only those people were self-sufficient, imaginative, and clever enough to devise their own conveniences and technologies, and desired true freedom—to be out of eye-, ear-, and arm-shot of the government. Imagine the progress!

Now imagine this: a crafty century-old-and-evolving social engineering plan to return to the days when there were much fewer people in this country—more intelligent, more inventive, and more reasonable people—that involves a slow and systematic poisoning of the population, through legislation, regulation, reliance on outdated information (or no information at all), lax oversight, and lax enforcement.

Laws are made in this country at all levels without thought, consideration, or even planning for the worst outcomes, especially contrarian ones. Every issue has a flip-side, and that flip-side usually comes back to bite someone in the butt, no matter how undeserving the bite is. Lack of oversight and enforcement can make the bite worse, and so can unforeseen loophole exploitation.

Let’s examine the “ignore the imports” issue: tainted wheat gluten, toothpaste, and toys from China and Mexico. Lax enforcement has left big gaping holes in our port inspection programs, allowing for all kinds of bad food and lead-encrusted toys to come in and poison our population. I guess we couldn’t do a good enough job of thinning the herd here at home, so we had to outsource it. China’s been trying to kill of its own people for centuries to lower expenses, and now it seems they’re exporting the favor. Mexico is no gem to be admired either when it comes to quality of life—battery acid in the water, lead and mercury in the air, and who knows what all else.

Another herd-thinner is medical care. Prescription drugs of the most recent and effective variety are routinely withheld from much of the public due to cost—a cost that the drug companies are reluctant to alleviate, thanks to health insurance coverage. No insurance, no fancy drugs—or sometimes no drugs at all. Then there’s dental care—one good abscess can go straight to your brain, killing you, and yet there’s no national Denticare program. Imagine that!

A third herd-thinner is our food. Commercially-available produce, fresh meats, as well as canned and boxed goods, is tainted in a way all its own—through high-tech pesticides, genetic modification, all manner of preservatives, unsterilized compost-based fertilizers, corner-cutting with tainted feed, and lax inspection. Nobody knows or has ever tested additives to see what they do to us long-term, but we’re seeing them for ourselves through autism, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, generational obesity, early childhood diabetes, infertility, and numerous birth defects and cancers. Meanwhile, our Food Guide Pyramid is only serving to stuff us with unnecessary foods for a sedentary society, adding to the caloric, fat, and carbohydrate misery—all in the name of food politics. God save the farmers!

Have you checked out the crash test ratings on our cars lately? You might want to take a look at the NTSA (federal) ones, and then compare them to the NIHS (Insurance Institute) ones. For giggles and grins, take a look at the worst-performing car makes and models, and then go look up their gas mileage. We’re being led to conserving ourselves right into death-trap cars—another herd-thinner.

What about terrorism and our porous borders? Well, that’s another herd-thinning issue brought about by lax enforcement. You’d think the power-that-be actually WANTED terrorists to come in here and start slaughtering the masses!

Speaking of terrorism, we’re still reeling from the Twin Towers and Katrina disaster aftermaths, both of which suffer greatly from lax attention and lax follow-through to see where the money’s actually going and where it ended up. Instead of helping to put New Orleans back to rights, much of their money is going toward a huge memorial—somewhere in the $3 billion range. Imagine how many homes, families, and services that future hurricanes and storm surges will wipe out because of badly misused monies! Never mind the trillions that’ve already been poured into the Twin Towers hole, with nothing on the surface to show for it (except “mysteriously” sick and dying emergency workers, and former employees in the nearby vicinities). This is how terrorism and Mother Nature herself have been employed in shaving our human numbers.

Despite all these herd-thinning tactics, we still manage to survive and thrive, albeit with a few complications. With the looming specter of a Democratic president on the horizon, we have “quantum” taxation to look forward to, complete with another herd-thinning tactic—depression of the mental variety. Scores of people who feel there is no hope left, despite all the newly-developed federally-funded programs around to insure they eat, have shelter, and access to some sort of medical care and scutwork job, will endeavor to commit suicide. They just couldn’t go on any more in these conditions. The shell of the person they once were will be too hard to live with.

We used to die off in good time all on our own. Since the invention of vaccines, vitamins, exercise regimens, and organic farming practices, we’re not dying off fast enough, and some of us are carelessly producing more than our fair share of babies for replacements. What’s a government to do, besides beg, borrow, steal, and stoop to clever parlor tricks just to keep the show going and the audience mesmerized? They’ve already tried poisoning the well—improved air and water standards did away with that. Now they lull us into a stupefying sleep with the media, never to re-awaken.

Would we even RECOGNIZE a smoke-and-mirrors act when it’s happening right in front of us? Probably not—the media has done its job well by slackening our jaws, shortening our attention spans, and repetitively spoon-feeding us stuff unfit for a pig.

I can hardly wait for the next herd-thinner to reveal itself. Maybe this one will actually do me in before I get a chance to form a defense strategy and alert my readers.

In spite of all this, there’s already an opposing strategy at work in our pharmacies— refusing to fill birth control and “morning after” pills on pharmacists’ personal religious grounds. As fast as the government tries to kill us off, the church encourages rampant breeding—go figure!

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