SIDS and the Second Great Depression

Recently a Kaiser Permanente study confirmed running a fan in a room where a baby sleeps reduces the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. It is alarming that such a simple safeguard, putting a fan in a baby’s room, can increase their chances of living by 75%. Additionally pediatricians concluded other simple safeguards can help. Putting a baby on its back, opening a window, and buying a firm mattress for the crib also decrease the risk of SIDS. Drugs are not needed. There are no cumbersome prescriptions. In fact the pharmaceutical industry need not be involved. Is this the current state of the medical profession in America today? It took almost a decade for them to figure out home grown country doctor cures can save a baby’s life? It almost parallels the discrepancy in the American economy. All the Wall Street hype cannot save a country. What can? Only honesty. Thank God with the changing of the guard in the White House right around the corner, the smoke is beginning to clear. Almost two decades of smoke and mirrors have crippled the world’s superpower, and for what? Personal monetary gain. The world would be a lonely place with no people. People come from babies. Maybe if we have begun to care about babies again, we will begin to care about American adults. Simple solutions have been available the entire time George Bush has been in office, yet systematically they have been circumnavigated. Some believe there are simple holistic cures for cancer, including Dr. Lorraine Day. Others feel if cancer is cured, like a simple budget in a business, money allotted for its study will be lost. What is more important, saving the lives of the American people or empowering the wealthy through deceptive paper trails? It seems as the “Second Great Depression” might just be the Fight Club America has needed. Finally the bullshit has reached such mass proportions it can no longer sustain itself, and ironically enough there is nothing left to sustain it. The "credit" has been squandered irresponsibly. American salaries have not kept up with the cost of living, and the jobs that once produced those salaries have been outsourced. We have no economic infrastructure. It long has been known America's ports are full of incoming goods, but there is a stark lack of any product going out. NAFTA was the precursor of this tragedy, and it was one of Bill Clinton’s worse failures. As a result the peso collapsed under the stress of Wall Street's predictions of grand profits based upon cheap labor. Unfortunately South American society was not ready for assembly line work. Similarly India and China have shown signs of a similar phenomenon. While China’s socio-political system did decide to invest in its own middle class, America pedaling American goods out of factories in Asia is not that easy. Wouldn’t it have been better to keep America’s jobs in America for Americans? It seems corporate executives decided the salaries and benefits Americans deserved and demanded through labor unions were too high a price to pay. Instead they abandoned their own work force that once bought their products in favor of a newer potential superpower. Globalization emerged. Fuck America. Now it has backfired in grandiose fashion and Tyler Durden is laughing his ass off. Because there is no credit left America magically will be transformed into a "who can make it in a free market and who can’t" socio-economic system. Long live the Republic! Nuts and bolts now are the issue of America, and it is refreshing. No more cattle futures, stock portfolios, and mutual funds. It will be Glenn Miller, “Po Boy Sandwiches,” and Hoover Boxes. We can dispense with the financial dribble and get back to life. Isn’t it grand?