Comments on: Social Utility: How Much Are Grandpa and Grandma Worth? http://www.augustforecast.com/2009/08/21/social-utility-how-much-are-grandpa-and-grandma-worth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=social-utility-how-much-are-grandpa-and-grandma-worth Bringing the Future Into Focus Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:42:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: five mistakes http://www.augustforecast.com/2009/08/21/social-utility-how-much-are-grandpa-and-grandma-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-16467 five mistakes Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:33:38 +0000 http://www.augustforecast.com/?p=543#comment-16467 Your site is really cool to me and your subject matter is very relevant. I was browsing around and came across something you might find interesting. I was guilty of 3 of them with my sites. "99% of site managers are guilty of these five BIG mistakes". http://is.gd/ay65xf You will be suprised how easy they are to fix. Your site is really cool to me and your subject matter is very relevant. I was browsing around and came across something you might find interesting. I was guilty of 3 of them with my sites. “99% of site managers are guilty of these five BIG mistakes”. http://is.gd/ay65xf You will be suprised how easy they are to fix.

]]> By: Marie Hart http://www.augustforecast.com/2009/08/21/social-utility-how-much-are-grandpa-and-grandma-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Marie Hart Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:56:08 +0000 http://www.augustforecast.com/?p=543#comment-97 Did you hear about the woman in Oregon who "needed" chemotherapy drugs in order to prolong her life? She was denied the drugs and on appeal was denied them again and then denied again on another appeal. Oregon will, however, pay for assisted suicide for her ($100), but will not pay for the chemotherapy drugs ($4,000 per month) to prolong her life. Anyway, after being contacted by her doctors, the manufacturer of this designer drug decided to provide them for free for her (which is very unusual for a manufacturer to do for a drug which has a high retail price). Read more at: http://www.wral.com/golo/blogpost/5755842/ Personally, I do not think that every avenue must be taken in order to prolong life. I would not expect to be kept alive at $4,000 per month at taxpayer expense, but to be told that drugs to help me to commit suicide would be covered, is crass. Did you hear about the woman in Oregon who “needed” chemotherapy drugs in order to prolong her life? She was denied the drugs and on appeal was denied them again and then denied again on another appeal. Oregon will, however, pay for assisted suicide for her ($100), but will not pay for the chemotherapy drugs ($4,000 per month) to prolong her life.

Anyway, after being contacted by her doctors, the manufacturer of this designer drug decided to provide them for free for her (which is very unusual for a manufacturer to do for a drug which has a high retail price). Read more at: http://www.wral.com/golo/blogpost/5755842/

Personally, I do not think that every avenue must be taken in order to prolong life. I would not expect to be kept alive at $4,000 per month at taxpayer expense, but to be told that drugs to help me to commit suicide would be covered, is crass.

]]> By: Mark Glasgow http://www.augustforecast.com/2009/08/21/social-utility-how-much-are-grandpa-and-grandma-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Mark Glasgow Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:31:22 +0000 http://www.augustforecast.com/?p=543#comment-96 This is a great article but points to what is only the tip of the iceberg. Social engineering is going on in many areas of modern life. Our food is genetically engineered; our pharmaceutical based allopathic model of medicine is largely a result of social engineering, propaganda and strong-arm tactics. The so-called free press often serves its masters´ pocketbooks more than the public´s right to be well-informed. The concentration of capital, in the hands of those without social conscience has also become problematic. Unfortunately, any and all systems, ism´s and movements in the hands of greedy, ungodly handlers can be perverted and distorted in such ways that they use even plausible means to arrive at disastrous ends. We would also do well to note that our current health care dilemma has little to do with social engineering. It has been largely precipitated by our inability to afford the price of our own care and even with the highest health care expenditure in the world, we fail to provide adequate services to millions of under-covered and uninsured individuals. The truth is, many in the developing world have better access to health care than do many in the U.S.A. What is sad, is that this has been the case for far too long for many poor and working poor. Only now that it has become an issue affecting many middle class Americans, is it being given the opportunity to be vigorously and publically debated. We may not agree with Obama on anything but it is in his administration that this debate is taking place. In eight years of George Bush and Republican administration of our country, there was scanty debate on an issue that is obviously vital to so many Americans. Before we write the Obama off in the same breath as Hitler and Lenin, we should take a moment to ponder this fact and perhaps even the psychological effect that a black man in the White House, has had on our own racial biases. It seems to me that those who would oppose Obama are very quick to paint him as some sort of monster-in-the making, an aberration on the political landscape, in their efforts to discredit any initiatives he puts forward. This is not helpful, diverts attention from the real issues and will result in maintaining a status quo, which by any measure, is undesirable. This is a great article but points to what is only the tip of the iceberg. Social engineering is going on in many areas of modern life. Our food is genetically engineered; our pharmaceutical based allopathic model of medicine is largely a result of social engineering, propaganda and strong-arm tactics. The so-called free press often serves its masters´ pocketbooks more than the public´s right to be well-informed. The concentration of capital, in the hands of those without social conscience has also become problematic.

Unfortunately, any and all systems, ism´s and movements in the hands of greedy, ungodly handlers can be perverted and distorted in such ways that they use even plausible means to arrive at disastrous ends. We would also do well to note that our current health care dilemma has little to do with social engineering. It has been largely precipitated by our inability to afford the price of our own care and even with the highest health care expenditure in the world, we fail to provide adequate services to millions of under-covered and uninsured individuals. The truth is, many in the developing world have better access to health care than do many in the U.S.A.

What is sad, is that this has been the case for far too long for many poor and working poor. Only now that it has become an issue affecting many middle class Americans, is it being given the opportunity to be vigorously and publically debated. We may not agree with Obama on anything but it is in his administration that this debate is taking place. In eight years of George Bush and Republican administration of our country, there was scanty debate on an issue that is obviously vital to so many Americans.
Before we write the Obama off in the same breath as Hitler and Lenin, we should take a moment to ponder this fact and perhaps even the psychological effect that a black man in the White House, has had on our own racial biases. It seems to me that those who would oppose Obama are very quick to paint him as some sort of monster-in-the making, an aberration on the political landscape, in their efforts to discredit any initiatives he puts forward. This is not helpful, diverts attention from the real issues and will result in maintaining a status quo, which by any measure, is undesirable.

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