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Topic Started: Sep 8 2012, 11:21 AM (471 Views)
Joan Foster

My friend Peggy was 30...with two children under five years old...when a pain under her arm ("the pit disease" we had jokingly called it)....was diagnosed as a late stage breast cancer. No one in her family had ever had breast cancer. She  herself was a gorgeous, athletic redhead...with a Masters Degree that preceded stay at home Motherhood.

Her first reaction...and that of all of us in her circle of friends..was dumbfounded disbelief. We were YOUNG. We were healthy. We had kids to raise. C'mon...this just could not be happening. 

But it was. So Peg had her mastectomy and started on her course of her treatment. Her attitude was positive. "Let's just get this junk over."

I took care of her little ones while  she had chemo...and always the day after as well. She endured a lot, but she truly expected a cure. We did not have the Internet to reference the odds of beating that type of infammatory breast disease, so, in a way, we passed those months in a blissful ignorance. Just getting the junk over with...talking about next year...talking about "later."

But the months went by, and the Doctors assessments did not get better. One day, I got a weird phone call....someone trying to speak or groan...if pain had a soundtrack....this was it.  I grabbed my kids from naps and drove to her home. Her ribs were breaking, they said later. The cancer was in her bones and beginning in her brain.

The doctors told her all the things none of us ever wish to hear. 

But here was her reaction: she refused to hear. She found a NEW doctor, a chiropracter who assured her that alternative methods existed that greedy MDs would not credit..only due to their own material selfishness. "Dr Sugar Pill"...I used to call him....assured her of a cure. Really, truly, incredibly, and immorally.....assured an easy cure.  No more sick days from Chemo. No debilatating radiation. Peg's kitchen became a laboratory of carrot joice and vitamin concoctions. But I'll tell you, for a few months, she was euphoric. Even her adoring husband bought into Dr. Sugar Pill.  He asked me one day if I would take the kids in January, because he wanted to plan a romantic ski trip to Aspen. Dr Sugar Pill told them Peg would be skiing again by then.

By January, Peg was dead.The only one probably swanning around Aspen was Dr Sugar Pill...having milked the Fear Cash Cow with sweet lies ...so successfully....for so long.

Obama is the Dr Sugar Pill of our era. He tells all these frightened people  that Government can keep giving and even GIVE MORE to them. Nothing has to change. He can help them avoid the pain....he can guarantee no more fear. All those unfunded pensions, all the entitlements can be healed with his Class Warfare Carrot Juice. Don't look at California's financial tumors ooozing and spreading like the Greek malignancy. Come on in, Illegals, Dr Sugar Pill has free stuff for you too. 

And so many voters believe because the Sugar Pill is so much sweeter than the Chemo.  So less fearful than the Radiation. The lies are so much more comforting than the truth. Obama will be hard to beat because the truth these days is bitter and frightening.

And, Obama, Dr Sugar Pill...is...to his political advantage...no purveyor of any semblance of the truth . But the malignant cells will not be denied. And when the pain of reality is no longer inescapable, there will be a rage toward this incompetent Shyster and the cruelty of his National Con Job...that will decimate the Democratic party and make the name Obama an anathema wherever it is spoken.

But the price this country might have to pay for this denouement...may be a truly frightening and desparate one.  

Peg died at home. I visited the day before her last one. The carrot juice bottles, dusty by now, still lined the shelves above the counter.
Edited by Joan Foster, Sep 8 2012, 11:32 AM.
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Very powerful story and a truly sad one. I have so many people I want to send this to that are high on sugar pills.
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Obama is serving old carrot juice in new bottles.

He has taken it to a different level.

Thank you for your post. Sad, but instructive.

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I just sent this piece to a bleeding heart do good liberal who is not an Obama supporter, but who refuses to consider Mitt Romney because Romney is some rich, corporate raider bastard who cannot connect with the common man . . . you know all the reasons.

Believe it or not the response to my email read as follows:

"If I read the post correctly, the person would have died in any event" Sometimes it all amounts to casting pearls before swine. And oh by the way, my attempt to lift the veil of stupidity are mere vitriolic diatribes. I think you probably get the picture. Some people need a "Jonestown moment" to wake them up.
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In reality, that is probably the case. The Doctors did want to try radiation after the cancer spread, but by then, Dr Sugar Pill was running the show.

Maybe radiation would not have extended her life, but at the least, it was an HONEST approach that may have increased her time or decreased her pain. Dr. Sugar Pill was devoid of honesty. Nobody was getting anything out of that carrot juice concotion but HIM.

Ask your friend, if her child's life was seriously in jeopardy, what matters to her/him in choosing the physican to entrust that loved one's survival? Does the MD need to be likeable, fit our high moral standards, be a guy we want to befriend? DO you REALLY CARE at such a point? Would you reject the most experienced, qualified surgeon because....say, he cheated on his wife? Because he opposed your political or social views?

No. We want a job done...a life saved. If the child matters, only the COMPETENCY of the attending physican matters.

Your friend must not believe our problems are very serious...if Dr Sugar Pill is an acceptable alternative. Or he/she is just seriously that partisan
Edited by Joan Foster, Sep 8 2012, 12:25 PM.
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Sep 8 2012, 11:21 AM
Obama is the Dr Sugar Pill of our era. He tells all these frightened people  that Government can keep giving and even GIVE MORE to them. Nothing has to change. He can help them avoid the pain....he can guarantee no more fear. All those unfunded pensions, all the entitlements can be healed with his Class Warfare Carrot Juice. Don't look at California's financial tumors ooozing and spreading like the Greek malignancy. Come on in, Illegals, Dr Sugar Pill has free stuff for you too. 
A much tougher, and probably smarter, lady was prescribing iron about the time I suspect your friend was overdosing on sugar.. In a 1976 television interview, Margaret Thatcher noted that socialists inevitably mess up a country's finances because "[t]hey always run out of other people's money."
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Great job Joan. Today I was walking through the craft booths with my daughter, who is in her early 30's. We were talking about politics and she mentioned how she felt Obama has not done well, but... she liked what he wanted to offer.

This daughter has lived in a house I own for the last few years as she got all her finances back in order, presently awaiting an appraisal so she may get a loan to finally pay something herself! I'm to blame for letting her live there for free, but I wanted her to at least get rid of all her debt and then purchase a home, so that is happening.

Anyway, she is clueless as to who would pay for Barry's promises, though she has a little hint he's not doing well with his plan.

I suspect many just plain lack the knowledge of how Barry would pay for his promises and plans ...with their futures!
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Sep 8 2012, 06:12 PM
Great job Joan. Today I was walking through the craft booths with my daughter, who is in her early 30's. We were talking about politics and she mentioned how she felt Obama has not done well, but... she liked what he wanted to offer.

This daughter has lived in a house I own for the last few years as she got all her finances back in order, presently awaiting an appraisal so she may get a loan to finally pay something herself! I'm to blame for letting her live there for free, but I wanted her to at least get rid of all her debt and then purchase a home, so that is happening.

Anyway, she is clueless as to who would pay for Barry's promises, though she has a little hint he's not doing well with his plan.

I suspect many just plain lack the knowledge of how Barry would pay for his promises and plans ...with their futures!
Well, lets just say it is a persons responsibility to educate a family member so that they can make best decisions for him/herself and family. IMO, giving anyone free stuff is backing up what the government wants to do for a lot of people. So expectations for free stuff from anywhere becomes very great. Sometimes lessons are learned the very hardest way, especially when it is family.

Just my observation, nothing more.
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Great post, Joan.



I think every one concerned about the future of the country needs to make a point of being very active this fall talking to whomever will listen. They need to wake up at least one person.
Edited by foxglove, Sep 9 2012, 05:56 AM.
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Sep 8 2012, 06:27 PM
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Sep 8 2012, 06:12 PM
Great job Joan. Today I was walking through the craft booths with my daughter, who is in her early 30's. We were talking about politics and she mentioned how she felt Obama has not done well, but... she liked what he wanted to offer.

This daughter has lived in a house I own for the last few years as she got all her finances back in order, presently awaiting an appraisal so she may get a loan to finally pay something herself! I'm to blame for letting her live there for free, but I wanted her to at least get rid of all her debt and then purchase a home, so that is happening.

Anyway, she is clueless as to who would pay for Barry's promises, though she has a little hint he's not doing well with his plan.

I suspect many just plain lack the knowledge of how Barry would pay for his promises and plans ...with their futures!
Well, lets just say it is a persons responsibility to educate a family member so that they can make best decisions for him/herself and family. IMO, giving anyone free stuff is backing up what the government wants to do for a lot of people. So expectations for free stuff from anywhere becomes very great. Sometimes lessons are learned the very hardest way, especially when it is family.

Just my observation, nothing more.
I wonder if I did the right thing by saving and investing money to send both my children to college. I wanted them to go (if they wanted a higher education), but I wanted them to graduate debt free. It was the goal I wanted because I put myself through college by borrowing money. I also paid off my loans within five years of graduating.

That goal was my gift to them. Once they graduate, I hope and pray they will go on to being responsible citizens. I wonder if I made it to easy although they had to work for their other than school expenses. They've flipped burgers, worked at WalMart and other types of part time jobs.

Anyway, I wanted to give them a good start to life and hopefully they will prevail.

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I did not take Chatham's comment as a negative judgment for what I had done. I took it as meaning if I spoil my daughter she will not learn from it, which I admitted to doing a little.

My daughter has now paid off her debt as a result of me helping her to help herself. I hope she learned from it and appreciates the fact my help is near an ending point in regards to the free housing!

As for paying a childs way through schooling, my guess is it varies with the individuals involved. My eldest abused that opportunity in his third year. It took him a couple years working before he could afford to pay his own way to getting his degree. Maybe I failed to monitor him well enough that year he slipped, but he learned from it.

If I had it to do over, I'd probably just do about the same ...adding in reviewing his grades better, like each month he needed money!
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No criticism meant. My point being, as discussed in another thread, that parents try to give more to their kids than they had, to make life easier. Unfortunately,, it comes down to a lot of parents who have it pretty darn good, give too much to their kids and the kids have nothing left to dream about. If they want something they just ask for it. If they can't get it from whom they ask, then the only reasonable course left is to get stuff from the government. Cause the government says ya can. This is the only reason that people believe that government can or should do more than anyone else. Obama had it pretty good in his life and now he sees the only reasonable solution to the problems people are having is to get them on the government roles. Why else advertise to get people on food stamps and checks in the mailbox. People have turned government salvation into a right. "it will never make me rich, but I will survive". "better than spending my time looking for work". 99weeks of unemployment checks is not enough, I need more". "I can get a loan from Ally for next to no interest and maybe never have to pay it back".

Corporations have a lot of money that they can spend. But they don't. No one wants to work. Oh, some do want to work, just not at that place. That is why the government wants all of that corporation dough. All of that rich man dough. It's billions, maybe a trillion in cash. That will pay for a lot of sitting around.

Not a criticism. Just the way I see it.
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Sep 8 2012, 09:44 PM
No criticism meant. My point being, as discussed in another thread, that parents try to give more to their kids than they had, to make life easier. Unfortunately,, it comes down to a lot of parents who have it pretty darn good, give too much to their kids and the kids have nothing left to dream about. If they want something they just ask for it. If they can't get it from whom they ask, then the only reasonable course left is to get stuff from the government. Cause the government says ya can. This is the only reason that people believe that government can or should do more than anyone else. Obama had it pretty good in his life and now he sees the only reasonable solution to the problems people are having is to get them on the government roles. Why else advertise to get people on food stamps and checks in the mailbox. People have turned government salvation into a right. "it will never make me rich, but I will survive". "better than spending my time looking for work". 99weeks of unemployment checks is not enough, I need more". "I can get a loan from Ally for next to no interest and maybe never have to pay it back".

Corporations have a lot of money that they can spend. But they don't. No one wants to work. Oh, some do want to work, just not at that place. That is why the government wants all of that corporation dough. All of that rich man dough. It's billions, maybe a trillion in cash. That will pay for a lot of sitting around.

Not a criticism. Just the way I see it.
Actually, I did not take it as criticism. I just wonder if I'm really helping them or making them think they should be given things they did not pay or work to earn. Afterall, I had to depend on myself to get through college. I've tried to instill that they must depend on themselves and not the government. If they learned that lesson, I'm happy.

I guess I wanted them to not have it as hard as my husband and I had. Some of their friends where given everything while other friends had to work for their education. Hopefully, they have learn from all of us.

Even with all my doubts, like kkp I'd do the same all over again. The best job they had was flipping burgers at DQ. Both sons knew they did not want to do it forever!

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Sep 8 2012, 09:44 PM
No criticism meant. My point being, as discussed in another thread, that parents try to give more to their kids than they had, to make life easier. Unfortunately,, it comes down to a lot of parents who have it pretty darn good, give too much to their kids and the kids have nothing left to dream about. If they want something they just ask for it. If they can't get it from whom they ask, then the only reasonable course left is to get stuff from the government. Cause the government says ya can. This is the only reason that people believe that government can or should do more than anyone else. Obama had it pretty good in his life and now he sees the only reasonable solution to the problems people are having is to get them on the government roles. Why else advertise to get people on food stamps and checks in the mailbox. People have turned government salvation into a right. "it will never make me rich, but I will survive". "better than spending my time looking for work". 99weeks of unemployment checks is not enough, I need more". "I can get a loan from Ally for next to no interest and maybe never have to pay it back".

Corporations have a lot of money that they can spend. But they don't. No one wants to work. Oh, some do want to work, just not at that place. That is why the government wants all of that corporation dough. All of that rich man dough. It's billions, maybe a trillion in cash. That will pay for a lot of sitting around.

Not a criticism. Just the way I see it.
Actually, I did not take it as criticism. I just wonder if I'm really helping them or making them think they should be given things they did not pay or work to earn. Afterall, I had to depend on myself to get through college. I've tried to instill that they must depend on themselves and not the government. If they learned that lesson, I'm happy.

I guess I wanted them to not have it as hard as my husband and I had. Some of their friends where given everything while other friends had to work for their education. Hopefully, they have learn from all of us.

Even with all my doubts, like kkp I'd do the same all over again. The best job they had was flipping burgers at DQ. Both sons knew they did not want to do it forever!

Speaking as a child that was one of five that our parents sent through college, I think how it is done makes a difference. We all realized that it was a privilege that we were given and truly appreciated it. I don't think any of us took it for granted. If that gift was given to us as if it was our right, we probably wouldn't have realized how lucky we were.

I confess, I'm still amazed that they sent 5 of us through college - and not necessarily to the closest state college.
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Sep 8 2012, 08:51 PM
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Sep 8 2012, 06:27 PM
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Sep 8 2012, 06:12 PM
Great job Joan. Today I was walking through the craft booths with my daughter, who is in her early 30's. We were talking about politics and she mentioned how she felt Obama has not done well, but... she liked what he wanted to offer.

This daughter has lived in a house I own for the last few years as she got all her finances back in order, presently awaiting an appraisal so she may get a loan to finally pay something herself! I'm to blame for letting her live there for free, but I wanted her to at least get rid of all her debt and then purchase a home, so that is happening.

Anyway, she is clueless as to who would pay for Barry's promises, though she has a little hint he's not doing well with his plan.

I suspect many just plain lack the knowledge of how Barry would pay for his promises and plans ...with their futures!
Well, lets just say it is a persons responsibility to educate a family member so that they can make best decisions for him/herself and family. IMO, giving anyone free stuff is backing up what the government wants to do for a lot of people. So expectations for free stuff from anywhere becomes very great. Sometimes lessons are learned the very hardest way, especially when it is family.

Just my observation, nothing more.
I wonder if I did the right thing by saving and investing money to send both my children to college. I wanted them to go (if they wanted a higher education), but I wanted them to graduate debt free. It was the goal I wanted because I put myself through college by borrowing money. I also paid off my loans within five years of graduating.

That goal was my gift to them. Once they graduate, I hope and pray they will go on to being responsible citizens. I wonder if I made it to easy although they had to work for their other than school expenses. They've flipped burgers, worked at WalMart and other types of part time jobs.

Anyway, I wanted to give them a good start to life and hopefully they will prevail.

We did exactly the same thing - as we told our children, their inheritance was the ability to get the best education possible. They received what we called their living inheritance - we were alive while it was being spent. Our youngest graduated this apst spring. Believe me, they are all grateful that they graduated debt free - unlike their friends. In fact, our youngest told me over dinner last night a conversation he had with a friend who also just graduated and has a job making $30,000 a year. He was telling my son (who starts his job tomorrow at a figure $6,000 less than his friend) that he was spending much of what he takes home each month paying off his loans - he said how it would really be difficult for my son but then he remembered that my son was debt free - they did the math and my son would have more money each month than he - money my son plans on investing.

My guess is that your children are appreciative as well.
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