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I've worked hard to keep my weight down as I know extra weight is just harder on my back. Before my accident I was 6ft tall and over 230lbs. Now I'm almost 5'9" (crushed spine) and struggle to keep my weight between 180 and 190lbs. I've been working hard the last few months and I'm down to 182. Three months ago I was hitting 203lbs! Should my doctor have thrown me out? For some people losing weight is the hardest thing in the world. God made us all different. I hate it when "perfect" people try to make us all fit in their mold!!!
DLKinney, congrats on your success and best luck on your goals.View Thread

What happened to a society that was inclusive and looked at each other with open arms, across color, race religion, weight etc.
Should obese people be offered help losing weight, sure. For some it's easier said than done. Should smokers be offered smoking seccation, sure, sometimes it's easier said than done.
I don't mind offering people ways to help, but forcing lifesyle changes on anyone is unamerican and unethical.
We're all in this life together!
I completely agree with the slippery slope!!View Thread


At 74 she still works hard every day. She takes care of 8 horses feeding and cleaning. I tell hert to slow down, but it's not her way.View Thread

Great book and no written statement has been so true since Orwell penned 1984.View Thread

He explained it better, but I thought it to be quite interesting.View Thread

I also you know that anything the government runs they screw up! Think of the postal system, the IRS, SS and SSDI. If you want the state to run it then use the DMV for an example.
I don't want the governent involved in my medical care or insurance. Let the insurance companies compete across state lines and instead of capping the doctor's payments, This would in effect limit the insurance company profit, not by regulation, but by competition!!
Unfortunetly, once something is broken it's hard to put it back the way it was.View Thread

As we educated the worlds doctors and scientists we let lobbyests and politicians give more and more power to insurance companies and less and less to our own doctors.
Now we have a medical system that is rife with curruption, a space program that no longer can afford manned flights. The leading scientific programs are now in europe and we have a media that likes to paint our soldiers as murderers every chance they get.
I'm more libetarian than conservative, but I do struggle with why we send billions of dollars abroad, yet we can't take care of our own. I certainly don't beleive the answer lies in socialistic approaches, but a competetive market open to all. A system that pays doctors what they're worth and provides affordable insurance for us all with a reasonable safety net to help those that cannot help themselves.View Thread

"I have an old bill from a hospital that goes back. I had a three day admittance as a kid for tonsils. My three day stay in 1955 was $165. X rays were $11. Surgery was $75. What has happened?"
Healthcare needs to be un-reformed. It's not government's job nor do they have the legal right to mandate such matters. They have, however regulated the insurance companies more and more and as is usually the case with lobbyiest and politicians, such regulation has destroyed the effieincy of the system. Making the insurance companies rich while those that need healthcare face physical and/or financial suffering.
I don't care how much the CEOs make, but they should be earning it by providing a superior product that thrives in a competitive market.
The framers of our country put great pwer in the the people and great restrictions on government. Over 200 years much has changed through perversion of the legal system with the manipulation of stare decisis.
In 1787 the framers spent countless hours creating a document protecting us from their biggest fear, a government backed religion or vica versa. In my opinion, what they didn't conceive as they built "Free America" was "Coporate America" I wish the establishment clause had something to the effect of seperation of corporations and government.View Thread
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