I have to agree.

When I was in the Army Hospital at Valley Forge, PA we were watching 60Minutes with Walter Cronkite (not sure of spelling). Cronkite was standing in his suit with a flack jacket and helmet on reporting on a battle in Vietnam that seemed to be going on at the time. One guy in the room with us piped up that he was there in that battle. We wondered how he could have been there, when he had been in the hospital with us for more than a couple weeks. He convinced us that the real battle had taken place several months before although no one remembers the news program saying anything about it being "OLD" news.
I also remember talking to a couple guys in my unit who had taken an in-country R&R to Saigon. While there they got a chance to see Cronkite and talk to another big name reporter (I think it was Rather [? spelling]). These reporters hung out in a Bar in Saigon where they talked to any soldier/sailor/airman who came in about the war. They also talked to c*******t agents who came in the bar. When it was time for a report they took this information an used it, mostly without ever checking it out. They would put on a flack jacket and helmet and stand in front of a green screen and give their report which looked like they were at the battle, but of course, it was a cameraman/woman who was at the battle risking their lives.
The important part I am trying to say is that ALL NEWS is edited. It can be old and f**e and we will mostly not know. I have been told that a few families in the world own most of the media, and they can dictate what we are told. Other than that the real job of the news media is to sell advertising space by getting people to watch/read wh**ever has the advertisers ads on. Any real news that gets to us is more by accident than intent. Don't get me wrong I have known some journalists who do try to report the facts, its just that the odds are stacked against them and most of them will admit that. GOD help the world we need it. Lin19

Good article, it hits home especially #8. They all follow the money and with the cost of e******ns they will do what ever the money tells them to do.
My solution, which will never happen, is an amendment that provides public funding for all e******ns with no outside money. That maybe the only way, to begin, to get control of the government back in the hands of the people.

I also support euthanasia as do most people in America according to surveys. I would expand it to include anyone who suffers from an incurable illness that leaves them in a great deal of pain. There is a big debate about the use of opiates for non cancer patients, but without pain medication what are patients to do? I agree these pain medicines leave much to be desired, not the least of which is that for far too many they do not help enough. There seems to be a shortage of research into better pain treatments and there is no approved method of objectively measuring pain in individuals.
Another issue is the greed factor, where people maybe kept alive against their wishes, just so the rich can get richer, while the families of the suffers go into deep debt.
The only method is for the patient to refuse any life prolonging treatment, except for comfort medication. The problem with this is that some patients have conditions that are very painful, but not directly life threatening, one example being spinal injuries. Another related problem is that not all doctors will honor their wishes even if they have expressed them.
Additionally many do not have a written directive, nor do they discuss this with those close to them so they will know their wishes. How many of you have a written directive or have told close family and friends what you want done in case you are seriously injured and can not express yourself?
As was said this should be an individual decision between the suffer and their God, what business does anyone else have in this matter, except maybe family, when compared to that of the individuals wishes. Why does everyone feel they have to control the life and death of others that they often do not even know?
One additional note: I see a lot of complaints on here about bad spelling or grammar, but just because a person is not good at these sk**ls does not reduce their right to speak, also some may have dyslexia or other conditions that interfere with self expression and they may not know it. I was in graduate school before I realized I had a form of dyslexia that has always hampered my writing, speaking and hearing ability. Even now I have re-read this several times and yet I bet many readers will find a lot of mistakes that I did not see or am even aware of?

Very nice, Thank you and HIM.

With the help of the Supreme Court the 1% are taking complete control and except maybe for Switzerland we are all under the control of the 1percenters.

Again when I say the VA has good people there are also some bad ones in the lead. I caught them moving funds that should not be moved and I told my local Congressman, who checked and came down on them, unfortunately his staff used my name and since then my name is MUD in the local VA. Now I mostly go to private doctors.
Again the best bet for veterans in my opinion, is health insurance that would allow them to go to any doctor they wish too. In the 40+ years that I have used the VA I have seen it go from a fair to good agency to a really badly run organization. Now that the 1% are in charge there is little hope for improvements. However, I still would recommend that people should write to their elected officials and ask them to consider changing the VA medical system to private insurance that is free for eligible veterans and even provide low cost health insurance as a benefit for all veterans and their families.

As a disabled veteran I know the VA has problems, but they also have good and caring people working in the system.
Still the Veterans Medical system by it's very existence puts all veterans who must use it as second class citizens. Why not just create medical insurance similar to that used by retired military only free for veterans eligible for the current veterans administration medical system. Then veterans could go to any doctor they wanted and would not have to wait or drive hundreds of miles to be seen by often medical students with no experience.
If you consider the billions spend on the VA medical system, insurance probably would cost less in the long run. Eligibility could be established when an activity duty member leaves service and the regional offices of the VA could monitor current eligibility. One change I would make is put some effort into medical malpractice so that all medical insurance rates could come down and provide low cost medical insurance to all veterans and their families. I believe this could be done by using the money now given to the VA medical system and using it for insurance.

A friend sent me a similar article from another source that said some of the veterans were only listed with mild symptoms and mental illness, depending on the type, does not last indefinitely, but this action will effect them for life. Also this source said they also lost control of their ability to handle money and other concerns.
http://downtrend.com/jrc410/ It was under top posts and concerns.
I hope I got that right? Also 129,000 is not just a few, and new studies have shown that combat veterans as well as those who suffered from PTSD had a lower suicide rate than those who never experienced combat. I do not know if I saved that article, but you can probably find it by going to drudgereport.com.

Thanks it was interesting and helped confirm where I stand.

I assume that these people are eligible for food stamps. This is another example of the bad American economy. Things only look worst in the future with reports that over half of the whole Congress are millionaires and now there are 85 individuals in the world that have wealth equal to about half the planets populations.
To me this only shows that things are getting worst all over the world.

That is true. There is a major issue among disabled or injured people who need strong medication or opioids to control pain so they can work or just survive. There is a big push by certain groups to restrict opioids to just a 6 month supply unless you have cancer.
However, there are many especially with nerve or back conditions that are in extreme pain 24/7 and need some kind of medical control. Still there is no measuring system for pain, other than a self report scale of how much pain you feel. Then it is up to the doctor to guess if you are telling the t***h or not.
To make things worst several sever pain suffers have overdosed and k**led themselves either accidentally or maybe on purpose (euthanasia) to end the pain. Some might suggest that the real "controllers" are trying to reduce legal methods of getting medication so that more will k**l themselves thus reducing the disabled or perhaps to force them to buy illegal drugs which cost more and puts more money in "their" pockets.
It is a serious problem and involves politics because some groups are pushing for FDA regulations that limit opioids to only 6 months unless you have cancer. Right now it varies from state to state and doctor to doctor about how much pain medicine a person can get.
My position is that we need an objective test to measure how much pain a person is in and how effective various pain medicines are for each individuals pain. Little or no research is being done on this, that I can find, so it is left up to politicians, the worst possible group, to write the regulations.

Betty, what are you trying to say. The web site gives no information that I can see??

It seems Obama and Bush II are at the bottom and I think history will write it as such when all the skeletons are counted.

I feel adoption is better than a******n, but if it is early in the pregnancy or if the fetus is deformed and can not be corrected or the mothers life is in danger then a******n can be considered.
I agree this should be a decision by BOTH biological parents if they are known and I think the father should be able to raise the child on his own if the mother does not want to be involved. I have always felt that until the child is old enough to survive outside the womb on its own for a short time then it was to late to be aborted.
When it comes to adoption I feel anyone connected to either biological parent should have first rights to adopt with the same benefits that a non related person would have. It seems in our society the fathers rights are often considered last except when it comes to paying child support. And being a week-end father, every other weekend is not fair to the father or the children.

Amend is right, but I still say that all e******ns should be publicly funded with no outside money. The whole e******n could be done for less than the cost of matching funds last time.
It will be a big fight with the super rich who control the government and the country are not going to give up easily. In fact I do not believe the people can amend the constitution themselves, as it should be, it requires either congress or state legislatures. The people are left out in the cold.