Originally Posted by
HipKat
The thing is, Save Us, there are ways to get around that. Pressing for healthier lifestyle habits by letting Doctors affordably help people quit smoking. Require it instead of suggest it. Less dependency on processed foods. As a country, that can be done. Farmers don't NEED Monsanto to grow produce, but there's so much money pouring out of corporate America into Washington, no one has a chance.
Explore other means of federal income and spending cuts and redirect funds to ways to improve life. cough cough Military spending, for example. On a national level Marijuana/hemp is a gold mine, but Conservative sticks in the mud are blinded by ancient regulations and laws that were only based in promoting corporate profits, not healthier people.
Things don't get better until someone starts making radical changes to the status quo