U.S. Citizens Must Be Protected, Controlled, Regulated and Intimidated For Their Own Good

Too Good Reports ^ | Dec. 8, 2003 | Fred Reed

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

Fred rocks BTTT

[SunStar]

If a law doesn´t make sense in a particular instance, a Mexican will ignore it.

So do most Americans...

[snopercod]

I buy my amoxicillin, ampicillin, tetracycline, etc. at the local feed store.

It's for my livestock, you understand.

[blackdog]

Ditto on the antibiotics. There is not much that does not cross over either. God bless the farm supply.

The only annoyance is when cutting those large oblets in half, then quaters, the sharp angles make the pill snag in your throat. I now just crush em and put it in an empty capsule instead.

[marlon]

The problem with this is that antibiotics are already way over perscribed. This is exascerbated in countries like Mexico and other 3rd world nations who don't require perscriptions for them. We are creating super-germs that are becomming ammune to antibotics and soon we will have no defense against them.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Everybody is happy, which isn´t a crime in Mexico.

Hmmmm...good. If their so happy, there should be many less of them coming over the US border illegaly next year.

[newgeezer]

{ping} This is great!

[EggsAckley]

Great article. Thanks for improving my day!!

[EggsAckley]

Do the feed stores ever question what you're buying them for? I'm wondering if California, which regulates EVERYTHING, has regulated this.

[Ancesthntr]

Or might it be that the rules are just stupid, the product of meddlesome bureaucrats and frightened petty officials with too much time on their hands? Maybe it would be better if they just got off our backs?

My wife is from Mexico, and I've noticed many of the same things as in this article. We are supposed to be the free country, but as for the dignity of doing what one thinks is right for one's self or family - Mexico is head and shoulders ahead of us in practical terms. Now, of course, I don't live in Mexico and wouldn't ever want to - and neither does my wife. There IS a deep corruption like we don't have here, the place is mostly as poor as dirt, medical care really sucks (even if you can walk down the street and get your antibiotic of choice without a scrip), and crime is awful. As a gringo - forget it, you wouldn't last a week outside of the tourist traps. Oh, and you can't legally get a gun - on THAT score, the Mexicans are about as bad as NYC or DC.

One thing that Reed didn't mention: the reason for this apparent freedom in Mexico is simple: there's no money in it for the authorities to be repressive, certainly not as repressive as the laws in Mexico allow them to be. However, if there's a way to relieve someone of their money, rest assured that the policia will find it. There's little wonder why one of the past police chiefs of Mexico City amassed a fortune of something like $12 million on his annual salary of about $8,000, or why one of the past presidents of Mexico is worth well over $1 billion. If Mexico was a richer society, I promise you that it would be far more repressive. That's probably the reason that we have to get permission to do just about anything here: the application/permit costs money.

[newgeezer]

Since it wasn't mentioned, I'm guessing Mexican "freedom" ends somewhere south of anything resembling our (nearly meaningless) Second Amendment.

[Gunner9mm]

But you can't drink the water!

[biblewonk]

Either they don't allow women to vote, or they are a few hundred thousand lawyers shy of a devoloped country.

[thoughtomator]

It's only because they can't pay for any more tyranny than they already have. Count on economic development to change that.

[biblewonk]

The minute someone's uninsured horse poops on someone elses Lexus all bets are off. The minute that Lexus owner's kid gets a ride on a horse and falls off and scrapes his ematiated knee, bing, there goe the lack of safety rules. The minute the Lexus owner drinks too much taquila(sp) at a taco stand and crashes his Lexus into a parked manure cart, there go the taco stands and open drinks because He sued for their carelessly selling to him. It's the yuppy bastards that are causing all of our trouble. And their wives. Probably mostly their wives.

[Cowgirl]

For all Mexico's faults, the man does have a point.
The public schools really reveal how bad it has become. They have thrown out any common sense and replaced it with
zero tolerance.

[newgeezer]

Either they don't allow women to vote, or they are a few hundred thousand lawyers shy of a devoloped country.

From the sound of it, I'd think both would have to be true!

[Paradox]

HE still makes some good points, but ole Fred has long since gone a little "weird". It is part of his charm though.

[Ignatz]

We are creating super-germs that are becomming ammune to antibotics and soon we will have no defense against them.

I read something interesting about this serveral years ago. It was written by a medical professional, perhaps a researcher. He claimed that the antibiotics were not actually creating the "superbugs", but that the "superbugs" already existed. The "everyday" bugs were being killed-off routinely by the antibiotics, making incidents of infection by the "superbugs" seem more serious.

Let me try to make this more clear:
Let's say that in 1960, there were 100 total flu deaths in a particular region.
80 of the deaths were from "everyday" flu bugs (80%), and 20 were from "superbugs" (20%).
Fast-forward 40 years to 2000. In 2000 in the same region, effective medicines were now available to treat/kill the "everyday" flu bugs, so there were only 40 flu deaths: 20 from "everyday" flu bugs(50%) and 20 from "superbugs" (50%).

The conclusion of, say, the NY Times: OMG!!! The "superbug" deaths are up 30% in the last 40 years!!! Our current medicines must be mutating them!! We must put a halt to the medicines that are effective on the "everyday" flu bugs!! People cannot be given these effective medicines!!! A massive Gov't program is needed to stop the Dubya-friendly drug companies from selling effective "everyday" bug medicines!! It's Dubya' fault! Elect Hillary before it's too late and "The Children" die at Dubya's own hand!! She's for "The Children"!! She had a Socialized Medicine Plan that was killed by the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy!!

Hmm. Maybe I went a little overboard on that last part, but I think you get the "gist" of it.

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