Home Foreclosures and Unemployment: So What Else Is New?

Foreclosures mount, mediation fails, wealthiest Black suburb suffers

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. - A widely touted strategy aimed at keeping Maryland residents from losing their homes by bringing banks and homeowners to the bargaining table has met with little success as the nation braces for another wave of foreclosures.

Maryland passed a law a year ago that gave homeowners in foreclosure the right to mediation, if they ask for it. The Justice Department reported in a November study that there were 25 mediation programs in 14 states.

As of May 31, just 56 homeowners in the state have gotten a modification of their loan through the mediation program. Borrowers complain that lenders are more interested in foreclosing than negotiating. One borrower was horrified to discover that the bank had sold her home during the mediation process.

U.S. Unemployment: Racing Toward The Bottom

'Employers won't create jobs, government won't create jobs, and rhetoric won't put people back to work. Then, what are we to do? We must consider encouraging entrepreneurship.'

Publisher's Note:

It's amazing how a little person, like myself, who've stated the same thing for years, but yet it takes an already known person to say the same, and it gets noticed!  Oh well, what do I know, huh?

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Where's The Outcry Regarding 'Hormones' in Our Milk Supply?

Painkillers, Antibiotics, Hormones . . . In Our Milk? YES!

Did you know that the U.S. is the only industrialized country to allow hormones to be given to cows whom we get our milk supply?  To date, I've been informing people, including my daughter who has a young son, to refrain from drinking whole milk.  The sad part about this article and other articles that were published reporting the same disturbing news is that cheese, yogurt, and other dairy products may be also affected with these hormones.  In addition, there have been numerous published media reports from parents and medical personnel about an increase in hormonal growth in childrens' breasts, and other parts of their body, that are unexplainable, but the finger pointing is aimed at the hormones and other substances that are infiltrating our milk supply these youngsters are consuming.

Are we at the point today that it's best to own land to grow our own fruits, vegetables, cows, goats, etc., to ensure our health is not in jeopardy?  Frankly speaking, I believe we have reached that point decades ago!    

Hormones in milk can be dangerous

 One study compared diet and cancer rates in 42 counties. It showed that milk and cheese consumption are strongly correlated to the incidence of testicular cancer among men ages 20 to 39. Rates were highest in places like Switzerland and Denmark, where cheese is a national food, and lowest in Algeria and other countries where dairy is not so widely consumed.

Cancer rates linked to dairy can change quickly, said Ganmaa. In the past 50 years in Japan, she said, rising rates of dairy consumption are linked with rising death rates from prostate cancer - from near zero per 100,000 five decades ago to 7 per 100,000 today.

Butter, meat, eggs, milk, and cheese are implicated in higher rates of hormone-dependent cancers in general, she said. Breast cancer has been linked particularly to consumption of milk and cheese.