Winston tastes good like a cigarette should, call for Philip Morris; I’d walk a mile for a Camel, the old cigarette slogans or jingles. I remember when they were on TV and radio along with liquor ads. Doctors use to appear in ads telling you which was their favorite brand. Then again back then they didn’t know the dangers of smoking. It was accepted I can remember smoking in grocery stores.
Then they started to find out how dangerous smoking was and slowly as it was verified and published the ads were taken off TV then radio.
What replaced them?
Ads for drugs, doctors, hospitals, insurance companies and the most dangerous of all, attorneys replaced cigarettes and booze. I’m not sure that was a good trade.
When I was growing up outside of aspirin, alka seltzer things like that none of the items I listed before were allowed to be advertised
I was musing today on health care today, cold blooded insurance companies, DRGs, doctors who don’t care about patients and are just in it for the money, drugs that can cause more problems than they cure, drugs that become addictive in a dose or two. People live longer, is the quality of life better? People without medical training see an advertisement for a drug and go to their doctor and demand it. The doctor prescribes it; the drug company makes money the doctor gets paid for the visit. Then the patient has reactions to the medication, more doctor visits and more drugs. The patient’s quality of life goes down yet they live longer using more drugs and doctor visits. Doctors and drug companies get richer. I thought it was illegal to practice medicine without a license yet advertising companies are telling people how to diagnose themselves what would you call that? Lawyers say it’s legal and why it keeps them rich as well.
We may not have lived as long on the average yet somehow I think we were healthier, happier, had more personal freedom and a better quality of life when cigarette ads were on TV and radio.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Boycott hersheys chocolate
Hershey's chocolate is closing a plant in PA after 23 years and moving it to Mexico. Way to go NAFTA. Where's Obama and his people on this?They can tell someone not to buy a jet but protecting US workers I guess not. I think the article in the paper said 260 jobs.Is Nestles part of Hershey? Someone let me know what chocolate I can buy to support American workers.
I agree you can't boycott everything made outside of the country it is a global economy. However why should we support a company that puts American workers out of jobs. They moved to better their profits they only get that if we continue to buy it now. Are Mexico's FDA standards up to American standards? Or are they going to sell sub standard chocolate. NAFTA is great isn't it.
While it's only chocolate it's a stand for American jobs and American workers. Chocolate happens to be the product. It's a stand to tell the American government NAFTA with Mexico isn't working, all it's doing is costing American jobs. Buy Swiss chocolate, German chocolate Chinese whatever just don't buy Hershey's they are anti American. Maybe we should all tell our grocery stores and mom & pop shops to stock something else. This is how true change is made grassroots with real Americans standing up for other Americans.Like the song said 'If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything'I stand for Americans for America.I hope Hershey's hasn't received any bailout money.
Take back America vote out incumbents
I agree you can't boycott everything made outside of the country it is a global economy. However why should we support a company that puts American workers out of jobs. They moved to better their profits they only get that if we continue to buy it now. Are Mexico's FDA standards up to American standards? Or are they going to sell sub standard chocolate. NAFTA is great isn't it.
While it's only chocolate it's a stand for American jobs and American workers. Chocolate happens to be the product. It's a stand to tell the American government NAFTA with Mexico isn't working, all it's doing is costing American jobs. Buy Swiss chocolate, German chocolate Chinese whatever just don't buy Hershey's they are anti American. Maybe we should all tell our grocery stores and mom & pop shops to stock something else. This is how true change is made grassroots with real Americans standing up for other Americans.Like the song said 'If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything'I stand for Americans for America.I hope Hershey's hasn't received any bailout money.
Take back America vote out incumbents
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Obama the puppet
Obama is nothing more then a puppet on Pelosi's and other senior democrats strings. They say jump he says how high.
Lets' face it he was not elected by the democratic party he was elected by crack addicts, welfare recipients and people who never voted before and talked into doing it by ACORN. Had he been elected by the democratic party, had the rulers of it really wanted him they would have stood behind him a lot better than they have. Someone made a comment that the government giving money is good and it will get us out of the depression. It didn't work with FDR check your history WWII got us out of that one. No the government giving out money is like giving a fix to an crack addict, good for a short high. What is needed is to have new jobs in the private sector otherwise we're doomed. If that means cutting pork, welfare, and a lot of other services for now to give the private sector tax cuts so they open new plants and stores and businesses that's what is needed. Pelsoi and the rest of them don't care they have their millions and their retirements. Crack addicts and welfare recipients don't want their benefits cut because they may actually have to work. So who pays the price for these losers? The hard working American taxpayer. I'm not talking corporate welfare, I'm talking that any one who wants a loan to start or help grow a business gets it at a reasonable interest rate that must be payed back to the government just like they would have to to a bank.Credit card companies are forced to cut their interest rates to no more then 5% above prime. That would free up billions in disposable income that would stimulate the economy. We need real action to get the private sector moving, you just can't tax government employees if that's all we have to pay for the government it just doesn't work.We need a true leader not a puppet on the string of a useless self seeking politicians.
Lets' face it he was not elected by the democratic party he was elected by crack addicts, welfare recipients and people who never voted before and talked into doing it by ACORN. Had he been elected by the democratic party, had the rulers of it really wanted him they would have stood behind him a lot better than they have. Someone made a comment that the government giving money is good and it will get us out of the depression. It didn't work with FDR check your history WWII got us out of that one. No the government giving out money is like giving a fix to an crack addict, good for a short high. What is needed is to have new jobs in the private sector otherwise we're doomed. If that means cutting pork, welfare, and a lot of other services for now to give the private sector tax cuts so they open new plants and stores and businesses that's what is needed. Pelsoi and the rest of them don't care they have their millions and their retirements. Crack addicts and welfare recipients don't want their benefits cut because they may actually have to work. So who pays the price for these losers? The hard working American taxpayer. I'm not talking corporate welfare, I'm talking that any one who wants a loan to start or help grow a business gets it at a reasonable interest rate that must be payed back to the government just like they would have to to a bank.Credit card companies are forced to cut their interest rates to no more then 5% above prime. That would free up billions in disposable income that would stimulate the economy. We need real action to get the private sector moving, you just can't tax government employees if that's all we have to pay for the government it just doesn't work.We need a true leader not a puppet on the string of a useless self seeking politicians.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
The greatest threat to America
The greatest threat facing the American people today is the American government. It has gotten so huge, so unwieldy, it answers to no one. It is a ruling aristocracy at its worst.
We the people have allowed this to happen. We elect public servants as congressman and senators at the federal and state levels to do their best to protect Americans. To protect our country, our jobs, our resources, in short our lives, they have betrayed us. We have allowed them unlimited terms, and these offices are often passed down through family or party for generations. Except in rare cases due to publicity they are beyond the law.
This financial collapse might not have occurred had they been paying attention to America. Selling our jobs, and resources overseas is that protecting Americans? Allowing foreign nationals to buy and control American companies and move them overseas or bring in foreigners to run them, how does this protect America? I’ll make it easy for you, it doesn’t. The ruling class doesn’t care about anything but themselves. You see they get a retirement from 1 term in office with medical that most taxpayers don’t see after working 50 years. Out of office they use their influence to become lobbyists earning millions a year. What incentive is there for them to protect Americans when it could affect their lifestyle? None.
We need to take back America. We need to institute term limits, we need to institute time limits before elected officials can become lobbyists. We need laws keeping foreign concerns from buying and controlling American corporations. The founders of the USA had this to say about the people “it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.” –Declaration of Independence
We the people have allowed this to happen. We elect public servants as congressman and senators at the federal and state levels to do their best to protect Americans. To protect our country, our jobs, our resources, in short our lives, they have betrayed us. We have allowed them unlimited terms, and these offices are often passed down through family or party for generations. Except in rare cases due to publicity they are beyond the law.
This financial collapse might not have occurred had they been paying attention to America. Selling our jobs, and resources overseas is that protecting Americans? Allowing foreign nationals to buy and control American companies and move them overseas or bring in foreigners to run them, how does this protect America? I’ll make it easy for you, it doesn’t. The ruling class doesn’t care about anything but themselves. You see they get a retirement from 1 term in office with medical that most taxpayers don’t see after working 50 years. Out of office they use their influence to become lobbyists earning millions a year. What incentive is there for them to protect Americans when it could affect their lifestyle? None.
We need to take back America. We need to institute term limits, we need to institute time limits before elected officials can become lobbyists. We need laws keeping foreign concerns from buying and controlling American corporations. The founders of the USA had this to say about the people “it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.” –Declaration of Independence
Sunday, February 1, 2009
I miss old radio
How many of you remember AM radio? Wolfman Jack, Cousin Brucie, Imus in the morning and the rest that made radio great.
Don't get me wrong the signal is a lot better on FM it's just we don't have many jocks if any worth listening to. Either they're scared of the PC police so all they are or allowed to be is some bland clone of what some bean counter thinks will make money. Or they are just to vulgar and disgusting without any reason to be so, and they move to satellite radio. Where is the middle ground?
They should bring back WKRP in Cinncinatti and show people what a station should be.
Here in CT I remember a traffic reporter named Morgan Kaolian. He wasn't one of these talking heads you get today, he flew his own plane up and down the highways reporting traffic conditions. I got a chance to fly with him once it was great.
Imus a genius, who else could give you the Right Reverend Billy Sol Harkness of the first church of the gooey death and discount house of worship, and all the other funny, biting, satirical views of life at that time.
Wolfman Jack, spinning the hits with that voice. Cousin Brucie WABC evening radio. Pioneers all.
Who's up and coming? Nobody. Bean counters and the PC police won't let anyone do anything edgy. The real sad fact is people out there now don't realize what they're missing, they think John Teesh, Delila, Billy or Bobby somebody or other are good. A bunch of no talent talking heads.
Around here Damon Scott at least tries, the morning host on that station I wouldn't have call a square dance.
Well thanks for reading, I feel a little better.
Don't get me wrong the signal is a lot better on FM it's just we don't have many jocks if any worth listening to. Either they're scared of the PC police so all they are or allowed to be is some bland clone of what some bean counter thinks will make money. Or they are just to vulgar and disgusting without any reason to be so, and they move to satellite radio. Where is the middle ground?
They should bring back WKRP in Cinncinatti and show people what a station should be.
Here in CT I remember a traffic reporter named Morgan Kaolian. He wasn't one of these talking heads you get today, he flew his own plane up and down the highways reporting traffic conditions. I got a chance to fly with him once it was great.
Imus a genius, who else could give you the Right Reverend Billy Sol Harkness of the first church of the gooey death and discount house of worship, and all the other funny, biting, satirical views of life at that time.
Wolfman Jack, spinning the hits with that voice. Cousin Brucie WABC evening radio. Pioneers all.
Who's up and coming? Nobody. Bean counters and the PC police won't let anyone do anything edgy. The real sad fact is people out there now don't realize what they're missing, they think John Teesh, Delila, Billy or Bobby somebody or other are good. A bunch of no talent talking heads.
Around here Damon Scott at least tries, the morning host on that station I wouldn't have call a square dance.
Well thanks for reading, I feel a little better.
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