Prediction!

James Cameron said recently on that new Nat Geo show about the new discovery's of the sinking of the Titanic, that the thing that made that ship wreck so important compared to all other maritime disasters and a story that endures the test of time an always will in our memory, was the fact that it represented all the different CLASSES of the world. All jammed into one ship and the struggles from the bottom to the top that they experience that faithful night, all similar to what many classes experience on a daily basis in their daily lives. And this has always been and will always be....

Just as we have SO much wasted tax payer money put toward wasteful things, that it is spinning out of control across the country....

There is this ridiculous show called American Weeds that comes on like Nat Geo or something about medical marijuana an the people who support an sell it in Colorado, an the others who try an shut it down. And I think it is a perfect example in one town of the bigger issues of the entire nation, just like the Titanic exposed that night in the different classes. A smaller model of a bigger picture....

It is mind BOGGLING all the misguided an WASTED tax payer money put towards policing the people not following the state guidelines, too many GREY areas. It is like a test model for the entire country, or an example....

Like Joe smo has a medical dispensing license, yet he can only grow four plants confined from the world. Yet he is growing more then four plants in his backyard in plain view of all the children. Well guess what Colorado, you opened that can of worms, now deal with it. Stings an money wasted going after that idiot is a clear WASTE of TAX payers money IMO. When they could be going after the real crooks, like makers of crystal meth an hard drug dealers an gangs an such, freakin quagmire joke....

If they had any sense the ENTIRE country, they would legalize weed across the country an clean up on the money made from taxes an revenue and us that a s a key factor to bailing out this economy. If a person wants to burn themselves out, that is their choice, let all the hippies smoke themselves till their blue in the face I say, lol. Better then drinking the way I see it, as alcohol kills an destroys in every way. Drunk drivers, not to mention that it eventually breaks down every system in the human body....

Pickle technology, shrimp treadmills, the list goes on an on towards wasted tax payer money that could be put to something else. An when you have too many chiefs (clueless chiefs) running the show with no CORIDNATED organization, then we are already doomed as is this economy in the end.....

I guess in the end sometimes the entire deck of cards MUST come crashing down, so as it can be re-built from the ground up more soundly the 2nd time around. Hopefully guided by the mistakes we made the first time around....

Yes Angel just look at Holland. They have low crime rate, everyone is happy, great tourism. The people have health benefits as well as college paid by the state if I am not mistaken. Seems like they have a heck of a lot figured out, that the USA could copy from if again they had any combined sense. And little I have seen from our government in recent years makes me think they they do in fact have any sense.....

Hawk,

A few years ago, I actually had a MM card for a year but it didn't do any better for me than the regular prescriptions I'm taking now for nerve damage so I dumped it when it came up for renewal. I believe the issue with that is the competition with the pharmaceutical companies. They would likely lose billions if marijuana were ever legalized. I believe polls are showing a majority of US citizens actually support legalization, just to take the power away from drug dealers and cut down on the prison population and the war on drugs budget, and perhaps for the tax money it would garner. But people who build and run prisons or work in corrections don't want to lose revenue and jobs. And certain law enforcement would lose a ton of funding and jobs if weed were legalized and they'll fight it tooth and nail. So many competing interests with the tax payer caught right in the middle. The law never made sense to me. If marijuana is illegal than alcohol must be illegal, right? Total hypocrisy.

T great points an hate that did not help you, as I recall you mentioning you are a disabled vet if memory serves me correctly, so indeed thank you for the service an personal sacrifice.....

I truly hate for anyone to be unhealthy in any way in this world, and can honestly say that is one of the things that troubles me most about life....

One of my best friends who was just in the hospital fighting for his life in essence as he has been battling crohn's disease for many years now, and he knows as well as I that it will be in all likelihood what kills him in the end way to soon....

He calls us all "skaters of life", remember that as I always have. Us the healthy as we skate through life without a care, never really knowing the suffering that others deal with daily. I have bad acid reflux disease, an that is my worst health problem to date, and is easily fixed by simply taking a Nexium or any 24 hour heartburn meds each an every morning....

I never take my health for granite an most grateful to still be healthy an alive after 38 years on this most UN-forgiving world, lol....

Fredd buddy with your combined wisdom an experience as well as business an math skills, NO DOUBT I could put you in control of the entire quagmire mess of the US economy if I had that power, lol. You an some other CCF members here with similar qualities, and in a a couple of years we would be back to a solid economy, no doubt in my mind....

There ya go again, Fredd, being rational in a completely crazy world.

Well Fredd from what I can tell about the happenings in our neighbor to the south, A VERY LARGE chunk of that is going to their powers that be via 50/50 one 50 being the cops, the other 50 being the drug lords. I don't even wanna name the country, may wake up in the next life minus a head, but you know what I am sayin....

Cross that border, you better have A LARGE CHUNK to donate and pray you don't get shot, and that is not likely....

How is my prediction looking now.