As a student, I had been looking for this information to write into my discussion, and I thought I found what I needed here. But the link to the YouTube video is broke.
The very fact this "unbiased observer" uses a phrase like "high fence hunting" shows that he is much closer to the practice of canned hunts than most of us would ever want to be.
It sure is easy to hate Rex when using this extremely biased article as your gospel. Do some research on the man with an unbiased view. His visions generally are for the benefit of the entire entity that is Missouri. To say he's greedy and looking for his own personal interests (For example, his views lowering income taxes in Missouri) is just plain stupid. If all his ideals were enacted including his tax reform, he wouldn't come close to saving as much money as he DONATES to causes that he believes in. He's trying to save EVERYONE money. If he was so greedy, why would he be spending so much of his own wealth on these causes with no possibility of recouping it? As for his views of Missouri teachers and public schools, I don't pretent to understand everything on both sides of the issue, but from what I've read on both sides of the isle, I think it's very possible that under his ideals, good teachers would be paid MORE than they are currently, while not-so-good teachers would be shown the door. The only people who should vehemently oppose this view are BAD teachers, as they will likely have to find another occupation. As a parent, I can't seem to find the flaws in this logic. As a parent, I want my kids to have great teachers, and I'm willing to up their salary a little to do so.
It's about time that this "dark money" be brought into the light. One company in particular I'm interested in seeing completely put out of business is Corrections Corp. Of America. In Arizona, CCA correctional officers were used to do drug searches in a high school. Talk about the class room to prison pipeline!! I guess CCA is trying to ensure a lucrative future for itself. I'm all for sending illegals back to where they came from by the millions, but I despise CCA trying to influence immigration laws. Their only interest is building prisons to house these illegals and get rich off of them at taxpayer expense.
I want to see ALEC gone. This group should have never existed in the first place. It's a breeding ground for drafting legislation in an illegal way. ALEC cannot draft legislation, but the politicians that are members can take the ALEC ideas and pass them off as their own to get the same end result.
There are certainly hundreds of peer reviewed studies on the health risks of tobacco. We are seeing declines in lung cancer, but it will be slow in response to the lowered smoking rates because that is the pathophysiology of the disease. Someone who has twenty pack years of smoking in their history may take another decade to develop cancer. Heart disease risk is much quicker to rebound.
I am a Family Physician who has practiced medicine for forty years. I will tell you that there are other causes of lung cancer (Radon and asbestos are two), but over 90% of the hundreds of lung cancer patients that I have taken care of in my professional lifetime were smokers.
There are certainly hundreds of peer reviewed studies on the health risks of tobacco. We are seeing declines in lung cancer, but it will be slow in response to the lowered smoking rates because that is the pathophysiology of the disease. Someone who has twenty pack years of smoking in their history may take another decade to develop cancer. Heart disease risk is much quicker to rebound.
I am a Family Physician who has practiced medicine for forty years. I will tell you that there are other causes of lung cancer (Radon and asbestos are two), but over 90% of the hundreds of lung cancer patients that I have taken care of in my professional lifetime were smokers.
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