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there are conflicting opinions about almost everything. Does CO2 in the atmosphere really contribute to climate change or are climate changes natural occurrences because the sun heats up and cools down periodically? It depends on who you ask. Water vapor is 20 times more plentiful in the atmosphere than CO2 gas and is also a greenhouse gas, how does that figure in? Then there’s the “health


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care crisis.” Some people feel it should be called a “health crisis.” Every time I’ve taken a sick animal to the vet the first question I get asked is “What have you been feeding him?” There really isn’t even much agreement on what a good diet consists of. When I was a child we


studied the 7 basic food groups in health class. Then the USDA authored the food pyramid. Soon low-fat became the craze with even low-fat ice cream. Sugar substitutes became popular. What happened in the meantime? More and more people became overweight while cancer, diabetes, and other dangerous


diseases began showing up in the population at younger and younger ages. Certainly diet and exercise are factors in weight gain and health but try and find some objective research that isn’t funded by someone with an “agenda.” So what can we believe as


we head into the new year? If we want the truth about things we are going to have to do a lot of digging ourselves. It’s hard, but not impossible, to get facts on things from people who don’t have an agenda. The first thing to ask when researching is, “What does this party stand to gain by the position they take?” The second most important question is “Who is funding this research and what could they gain by it potential findings?” Totally objective research is very rare but does exist. A lot of commonly accepted “research” was sponsored by parties who had a great financial interest in which way the “results” leaned. We can believe that America


is still the greatest nation on earth because of the values it was founded on. Strong faith and values like hard work, thrift, integrity, and creativity are still what will carry the day. Many of our parents and grandparents practiced a virtue called delayed gratification. It meant to start small, work hard, save and gradually build up. A Perfect Society would be one in which communities are


mostly self sufficient and everyone is able to work not far from home. Food would be produced within a reasonable distance instead of the 1500 mile average distance it now travels before it’s on the table. This food would be grown or produced sustainably where freshness and nutrition are what matters most instead of shelf life and packaging. This Perfect Society would


have a low crime rate because it would have strong families whose first responsibility is to take care of their children. Churches would be vibrant and strong, exerting a major influence on community morals and behavior as they once did. Good health would be the norm because of proper diets and healthy lifestyles. Businesses would flourish because people would shop locally and have a community mindset. Taxes would be low because crime, drug dependency and alcoholism would be rare, saving a host of costs to the taxpayer. Does this sound like an impossible dream? Maybe. But it’s a good goal to aim for. This “dream” society has as its base one primary virtue: individual responsibility. Taking responsibility for each part of our lives is something almost all of us can do. May God bless and have


mercy on us as we head into 2012! ♥


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