The stressful effects of a faltering economy, skyrocketing unemployment and precarious personal finances can be dire. People take up smoking or use alcohol to cope, they become depressed or suicidal, and they develop stress-related illnesses like heart disease. Now researchers report that the harm may be spreading to children too, when parents’ stress leads them to inadvertently injure their children.
Presenting May 1 at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Vancouver, a team of researchers led by child-abuse expert Dr. Rachel Berger at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh reported a significant increase in cases of shaken-baby syndrome, in which youngsters are shaken violently by an adult, since the start of the current recession. Researchers analyzed data on 512 cases of head trauma in the children’s centers of four hospitals (in Pittsburgh, Pa.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; and Seattle) and found that the number of cases had increased to 9.3 per month as of Dec. 1, 2007, compared with 6 per month prior to that date — a rate that had held steady since 2004.
Corrective measures can be taken!
1. Get rid of all taxes except a sales tax not to exceed 10% ever.
2. Get rid of health care, Social Security, Medicare, Welfare and other government give-away programs designed to enslave people.
3. Return to the Republic form of government guaranteed by the Constitution, Article IV, Section 4.
4. Quit using public schools to teach that we are going to blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons if global warming does not kill us all first.
5. If anyone comes here illegally, no matter how long, send them home and make them do it right. Bring our troops home from places where we should not be and put them on the border where they are supposed to be. Use the money saved to teach our students a skill that gives them hope.
6. Teach the children the truth about the Constitution and that their rights are not granted by the government. That should give them a change.
7. Re-outlaw government spying on citizens which increases stress.
8. End the FEDERAL RESERVE NOW which caused the Great Depression, the burst of the housing bubble and ordered the Congress to bail-out failed banks.
If you let people keep what the people—NOT THE GOVERNMENT! The GOVERNMENT produces and works for NOTHING!—worked to earn and they can afford to pay the doctor, the lawyer and the Indian Chief. And even have enough left over for a house and food and clothes for their kids.
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