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The number one disease in America is heart disease with expected annual cost to hit a trillion in the near future. The American Heart society states the official cause is obesity due to diet and lack of exercise. Review the diet they recommend and…
Let's play the game of 'follow the money'. Statins are easily the most profitable drug ever! Ask yourself, why do they exist? In the 70s the government hired a person named Ancel Keys to create a study on heart disease. Based upon Keys' findings…
Provided that any government run program is well run and focused on well thought out solutions. Since politicians are only interested in getting re-elected, any program they devise will be compromised. Government isn't the answer to our problems, …
You don't need government to save your life. You don't need government to save our health care. Do yourself a favor and do it yourself. And, along the way you'll save medicare because more will NOT need it.
Here's the worst part, Obama got you Trump. Call it reversion to mean. Now Trump is compounding. Consider this: now Trumplike candidates are now getting elected throughout the country. It is becoming the Trump party. Oh the nigthmare! And just…
No matter how you feel about Trump, he's getting things done. I believe part of how he's being treated is a message to other outsiders who may be thinking of following his footsteps. Is he perfect, of course not, but his motives are understandable…
@BenWP: don't even talk about SEEDX. I still feel like throwing up whenever I think about it. Only one of them was former Oakmark. Never fell for the former FAIRX guys.
@hank: I agree. Not sure if the 'deep value' has been the problem, however. There are other funds/teams employing a value strategy and not having the same issue as Winters. It is true that growth has been on a tear lately, but I'm heavily into v…
I am for teams as well. As much as I love AKRIX, I sleep better at night with my FMI Funds. If, for any reason Chuck Akre was not at the helm, I would reduce my exposure considerably. I check in from time to time with his former crew and whereas …
The best answer for health care, is to not need it. The best way to not need it is to control what you put in your mouth. How about this: I would legalize marijuana and tax sugar and other carbs like they do with tobacco. I would then funnel the…
@LewisBraham: the blue pill is full of carbs. If you take care of those who can help themselves first, then you help address those who can't help themselves.
Take out the label if you like. And, you're probably correct that it doesn't help with civil discourse. Then again, people on here, just like in life, are only interested in the appearance of civility. Either something works or it doesn't; life i…
@Old_Joe: the problem with Liberals is you fail to see things through. My comment concerning SS's design was towards its flawed design. But since you brought it up, Liberals want to import more immigrants to shore up Social Security and perhaps t…
Fisher Investments sends me a flier at least once a quarter. I'm glad I avoided them because they're full of crap. Saying SS is pretty secure is like saying you can still digest food while taking Prilosec. The truth is a putrefying heap of irony,…
The Nuveen fund's performance has been superior to Allianz lately. The Nuveen fund also has the advantage of having a lower cost (.95 vs 1.15). I wouldn't invest in either but within your 401k, you don't have much of a choice. So, superior perfor…
@Old_Skeet: I couldn't agree more. In many cases, we are divided by ideology (and they depend on this fact). But this is a problem which impacts us all. It can be fixed and as 'Old_Skeet' eluded, you have to wonder why they're doing nothing. Th…
@bee: I agree that if you're depending on SS you've already failed. But from the moment we started working we were required to pay into this. We should require them to fix it. It can be so much more than it is. Imagine if the money that was tak…
