Article....does the Government Profit From This? Posted: 03-20-04 21:38pm
The profitability of an early death
(published in 2001)
by robert lederman
perhaps you've seen their heart-warming
public service ads on tv
about renovating a drug rehab center and
how much they care about
kids despite being a cigarette
manufacturer. Here's something they
left out of those 60 second
announcements.
The tobacco giant phillip morris just
suffered an embarrassing public
relations gaffe by inadvertently revealing
a fact economists,
actuaries and eugenicists know but rarely
speak publicly about.
Governments save huge amounts of money
when citizens die prematurely.
Phillip morris, one of the world's
wealthiest corporations, recently
commissioned a study intended to highlight
this fact as a selling
point to the czech government, which is
considering legislation to
regulate cigarette smoking. Phillip
morris controls almost 90% of
the rapidly-growing czech tobacco
market.
The study described premature deaths from
cancer and emphysema as,
"indirect positive effects" of smoking,
leading to "savings in
public health care costs and state
pensions due to early mortality
of smokers."
responsible for millions of deaths in the
u.S. Due to smoking and the
decades spent hiding the truth about its
dangers from the public,
phillip morris is by no means unique in
its coldly-calculating
bottom line approach to business.
Automobile, pesticide, chemical,
food, biotech, pharmaceutical and health
care corporations all
factor in similar statistical selling
points as they lobby the
congress to prevent legislation from being
passed that would protect
human life.
Ever wonder why u.S. Technology can get
us to the moon but can't
manufacture cars that don't blow up when
hit or that kill an average
of 50,000 americans each year? Why do
500,000 americans die each
year from nothing more than taking
prescription drugs? Did it strike
you as peculiar when our "compassionate"
president gw bush wanted to
prevent new restrictions on how much
arsenic - a deadly poison -
would be allowed in our drinking water?
Are you curious as to why in this modern
age of refrigeration
there's a steady increase in deaths from
food poisoning or why our
food supply is more disease-ridden than at
any time in the past
fifty years? Is the government's rush to
release thousands of
untested genetically-altered plants,
animals and organisms into the
environment scientific over-confidence, or
might it be an indication
of a more sinister purpose than helping
feed the multitudes?
As you watch the news each night, do you
ever wonder why so many
people are getting cancer, are infertile,
have disabling learning
disabilities or psychological problems and
thus need a lifetimes
worth of expensiveprescription drugs in
order to function - drugs
which will directly shorten their lives?
Is it possible our government wants people
to die prematurely?
Just think of it in these simple terms.
If millions of today's senior
citizens were to die a mere one year
sooner, the u.S. Government
would save hundreds of billions of dollars
in health care costs,
social security and other social services.
If they died five years
sooner the savings might amount to
trillions of dollars. Viewed in
that context, causing even a minor
increase in premature death in
the american population would be the
single most cost-effective
economical measure the government could
ever take.
New york city often represents the cutting
edge of u.S. Governmental
efforts concerning human health. Whether
it's throwing children off
welfare, issuing the police hollow-point
bullets, closing public
hospitals or spraying the entire
population with toxic pesticides,
mayor rudolph giuliani can be counted on
to be at the forefront of
any government efforts to downsize the
population.
Take his enthusiasm during the past three
years for spraying poisons
invented by the nazis on eight million new
yorkers.
Was it an oversight or an error that the
mayor consistently lied to
the public about the well-known negative
health effects of being
repeatedly exposed to the organophosphate
and pryrethyroid nerve
gasses malathion and anvil? Was it an
accident that products whose
labels specifically state they are not to
be sprayed on people under
any circumstances were directly applied to
children in parks, to
shoppers and to millions of workers going
to and from their jobs? [2]
my eight years of research on mayor
giuliani shows him to be
ideologically linked in numerous ways to
the science of eugenics or
population control - as is his pal gw
bush. Both men claim to get
their ideological inspiration directly
from the manhattan institute,
a right-wing think tank founded by
reagan's cia chief william casey
after he brought thousands of former nazi
experts in eugenics to the
u.S.
If understanding giuliani's
nazi-connection requires one to research
the maze-like corporate, think tank and
cia connections behind his
administration, gw bush's are a simple
matter of documented american
history. Until their assets were seized
by the u.S. Congress in 1942,
president bushôs family operated banks and
shipping companies that
were fronts for the third reich. Their
nazi-connection is the source
of the bush family fortune and continues
to this day. [3] bush and
giuliani's policies euphemistically
code-named, "compassionate
conservatism" and "quality of life", share
a common but never
publicly stated objective - the efficient
shortening of our lives.
The poor, children, minorities, the
elderly and the environment must
all be sacrificed in order to increase the
profitability of
corporations - the same corporations which
put these elected
officials in office or which in bushôs
case, he, his family and his
administration members are major stock-
holders in.
The increase in disease creates fantastic
economic opportunities for
drug manufacturers and health providers
while at the same time
lessening the long-term total in social
benefits that the government
must pay out. Disease is rapidly becoming
the driving force behind
the entire u.S. Economy. It may prove
even better than war as a
profit-driving engine.
What more cost-effective way to cut
government spending than to
massively apply chemicals to the
population which reduce fertility,
worsen chronic illnesses such as asthma
(which is at epidemic
proportions among minorities in n.Y.C.)
and lead to terminal
diseases such as cancer?
The reason many people balk at accepting
this view of giuliani or
bush as eugenicists is that they don't see
people immediately dying
in large numbers as a result of their
policies. What isn't
understood is that we are dealing with
death rates as analyzed by an
actuary. Like geology, the effects can
only be observed over a long
period of time.
Learning from the mistakes of the past
century, immediate death - as
in rounding up millions of people and
shipping them to gas chambers -
is an unworkable solution from this
viewpoint. Reducing life
expectancy by as little as a single year
or reducing fertility so
that one less child is born to each family
or so that an additional
15-30% of people become infertile is all
that's needed in order to
save vast amounts of government money
while creating a huge economic
boon for pharmaceutical, chemical and
medical companies.
These savings on social programs can then
be passed along in the
form of tax write-offs and corporate
welfare - exactly as giuliani
and bush have done to the delight of their
wealthiest patrons.
Another factor which makes it hard to
comprehend what's really going
on isthat today's eugenics agenda is not
necessarily about targeting
jews, blacks or some other minority. In
this madness, no one is to
be spared. Giuliani's enthusiastic use of
malathion may have even
given himself prostate cancer, which is a
known effect of repeated
malathion exposure.
Before you say this proves he could not
have known it was harmful,
ask yourself if phillip morris executives
didn't allow their family
members, children and friends to smoke,
knowing as they did that
tobacco was a definite cause of cancer?
Ask yourself if ford executives allowed
their friends to drive cars
they knew were defective and might shred
their tires at high speeds
or overturn?
Ask yourself if the drug manufacturers
that have every study at their
disposal and know the long-term effects of
taking their products
don't allow their own friends, family and
relatives to take these
dangerous medications or if chemical
company executives aren't aware
that they and their children are being
slowly killed by air
pollution and chemical contamination of
the environment?
Perhaps this is what is meant by the
saying, the love of money is
the root of all evil.
We all owe a debt of gratitude to whoever
at phillip morris
commissioned the benefits of an early
death study. Perhaps as a
result more americans will realize that
our corporations and the
government they own and operate may not be
the public servants and
public benefactors their glossy
commercials and service
announcements would lead us to believe
they are.
Public enemy #1 might actually be a far
more apt description for
them.
[1] cbs evening news 7/17/2001
philip morris: dead smokers cheaper
tobacco co. Outlines savings to czech
gov't from smokers' deaths
company is lobbying against stricter
anti-smoking regulations
july 17, 2001 ap
(cbs) "sick smokers may burden a country's
health care system, but
dead smokers save governments money.
That's the conclusion of a
study on the financial cost of smoking
that was commissioned by
tobacco giant philip morris. The company
is lobbying the czech
government against stricter health
regulations on cigarettes with a
study of "indirect positive effects" of
smoking, detailing "savings
in public health care costs and state
pensions due to early
mortality of smokers...The study by
research company arthur d.
Little international concluded that the
financial benefits to the
czech government from duties and taxes
paid by consumers, importers
and tobacco businesses outweighed the
costs of health care, lost
working days and fires caused by
cigarettes. "
