#9: Aspirin. Capitalism. FDR as a Fascist US President? 07.7.2=1 0:50am.

http://www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/an-aspirin-a-day-keeps-the-cancer-away/
An Aspirin A Day.

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/01/2216/

"Capitalism is Bad for Men's Health: Study", by Mira Oberman.
Published on Sunday, July 1, 2007 by Agence France Presse

"Communism may be oppressive, but it seems as though capitalism is bad for men’s health, according to a recent study which found significant increases in mortality rates after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The life expectancy for men freed from the Iron Curtain dropped by six years between 1991 and 1994 amid social disruption, physical hardships and economic instability.
The degree to which men were affected depended upon how rough the transition to capitalism was and how much income inequality increased, the new study from the University of Michigan found.

And they were significantly more likely to be impacted by the transition than women, the study found."" ... ...

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/raico/fdr-1.html

"Fascism Comes to America; The Early Years", by Ralph Raico

... ... "And now Franklin Roosevelt, too, has come to represent a certain conception of America, one that is worlds apart from Jefferson's vision, and different from anything that even Lincoln could have imagined. Roosevelt stands for the national government as we know it today, a vast, unfathomable bureaucratic apparatus that recognizes no limits whatsoever to its power, either at home or abroad. Internationally, it gives every evidence of intending to run the whole world, of extending its hegemony – now that the Soviet Union is no more – to every corner of the globe. Domestically, it undertakes, through an annual budget of close to $2 trillion, to assuage every real or invented social ill and thus enters into every aspect of the people's lives. In particular, it is engaged in what even a couple of decades ago would have seemed fantastic – a campaign to annihilate freedom of association, subjecting the American people to a program of radical social engineering, in order to transform their voluntarily held traditional beliefs and values and way of life.

More than anyone else, Franklin Roosevelt is responsible for creating the Leviathan State that confronts us today. " ... ...