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12/18/2025

The Problem With Government-Run Healthcare Models

When people talk about Medicare for All, the idea sounds generous on the surface. Free healthcare for everybody. But the part that rarely gets discussed is how that healthcare would actually function once it is fully government run.

Under a government-controlled system, you don’t get freedom of choice. You get whatever the government approves. That means the range of care narrows dramatically. You won’t be able to access services like acupuncture, chiropractic, naturopathic care, or other alternative and integrative approaches that many people rely on today.

Government programs focus almost exclusively on AMA-approved medicine. And that generally means two things
Operations
Drugs

Not prevention.
Not holistic treatment.
Not lifestyle and wellness-based care.
Not anything outside the narrow list of approved interventions.

So while the idea of free healthcare is appealing, the reality of government-controlled healthcare is far more restrictive. The treatments you believe in, the providers you trust, and the approaches that help you may not be part of the package at all.

The more centralized a healthcare system becomes, the fewer options people have. And that’s the part of the conversation that rarely gets the attention it deserves.

12/17/2025

Why Both Parties Are Quietly Discouraging Charity

The Republicans changed the tax code by raising the standard deduction, which means most people no longer itemize. When you don’t itemize, you can’t deduct charitable giving. So even though people may still want to give, there is no tax encouragement at all.

The irony is that both political parties end up discouraging charitable giving, even though private charity is almost always a more efficient and more effective way of meeting social needs than government programs. Charity is local, fast, targeted, and accountable. Government is slow, bureaucratic, and wasteful.

But both parties want more government, just in different directions.
Conservatives generally push for more spending on defense, law enforcement, and national security.
Liberals tend to push for more spending on social programs, public benefits, and subsidies.

Either way, both sides expand government’s role and shrink the role of private charity. And the tax code reflects that. When the government makes charitable giving harder or less rewarding, it signals that the state, not the community, should be the primary problem solver.

The problem is, government will never be as flexible or effective as private charity. And discouraging people from giving hurts the very communities politicians claim to serve.

12/16/2025

Why We Should Be Encouraging Private Charity, Not Limiting It

I’m a big fan of private charity doing as much as possible to make the world better instead of relying on government. Private giving is faster, more targeted, more innovative, and more compassionate. People on the ground know their communities better than any federal agency ever could. When individuals and organizations step up, real change happens.

That’s why it makes no sense to discourage charitable giving by limiting deductions to sixty percent or by structuring the tax code in a way where most people don’t itemize and therefore get zero deduction for giving. The result is that countless acts of generosity go completely unrecognized and unsupported.

Private charity should be encouraged dramatically. When citizens take care of each other, when they support local organizations, when they invest in solutions that matter to them, the whole country becomes stronger. Communities become more resilient. Innovation increases. People step up because they want to help, not because the government forces them to.

We should be making it easier for people to give, not harder. Private charity is one of America’s greatest strengths, and we ought to fuel it, honor it, and expand it, not limit it.

12/11/2025

Why We Need To Get Honest About Sugar And Diabetes

Diabetes is, in many cases, a symptom of eating far too many carbohydrates and drinking far too many sugary drinks. We flood the body with sodas and sweet snacks, then act surprised when blood sugar spirals out of control. In a better world, soft drinks would come with a warning label and a heavy tax that reflects the real cost they create in long term health problems. I am in favor of a very steep tax on sugar, because right now it is far too cheap and far too easy to overconsume.

Fake sugars are not the answer either. Artificial sweeteners can confuse the body, disrupt normal signals, and create a different set of problems. The truth is simple. Our taste buds and our culture are addicted to sweet. What we really need is not a different kind of sweetener. We need far less sweetness in our diet overall. Reducing sweeteners sharply is one of the most powerful steps we can take to prevent disease and move toward real health.

12/10/2025

Why Returning to Ancestral Eating Creates Real Health

The Weston A. Price Foundation is a very interesting traditional food organization because it focuses on something modern nutrition rarely talks about, eating the way our ancestors ate before processing took over our food system. They promote nutrient dense foods, clean farming, real fats, fermented foods, mineral rich broths, and the idea that health begins with what the soil produces and what we put in our bodies.

They have a lot of powerful content rooted in the simple truth that eating sick food makes sick people. And when people are sick, who profits Big pharma makes more money developing treatments for diseases that are often created or worsened by the industrial food system itself.

Our ancestors did not eat chemically modified grains, refined sugars, vegetable oils, artificial flavors, dyes, or ultra processed snacks. They ate whole foods from healthy soil, and their bodies reflected that. Today, the more we drift away from that way of eating, the more chronic illness we see.

The Weston A. Price approach reminds us that health is not just about avoiding disease. It is about giving the body what it was designed to thrive on. When we return to real food, we return to real health.

12/09/2025

The Hidden Risks in Manufactured and Genetically Modified Foods

I think a lot of the manufactured foods on the market today are genuinely dangerous and harmful. They are engineered for shelf life, sweetness, and profit, not for human health. When you take whole foods apart, strip out the nutrients, add chemicals, preservatives, artificial flavors, dyes, and then package it as “food,” the body does not know what to do with it. Over time, that creates real harm.

I also believe that some of the newer innovations, like genetically modified foods, are not proven to be healthy. We simply do not have long-term data showing how they affect the human body over decades. Some may end up being safe, but others may not. And because the science is still evolving, there is a very real possibility that some of these foods may actually be harmful.

When you mix that uncertainty with a food system already dominated by processed ingredients, artificial additives, and crops grown in depleted soil, it becomes even more concerning.

The safest path is still the simplest. Foods that are closest to how they appear in nature. Foods grown in healthy soil, raised without chemicals, and minimally processed. Whole vegetables, fruits, grains, beans, grass-fed meats, pasture-raised eggs, clean dairy, and foods with ingredient lists you can pronounce.

The more we return to real food, the more we protect our health from risks we do not fully understand yet.

12/04/2025

We Need a Healthier Food System, Starting With How We Feed Animals

I think we have to eat healthier, and that starts long before food reaches our plates. I am advocating for an entirely different food system, one that restores how we grow food and how we feed animals. That is part of what the forage harvester project is all about.

Right now, too many animals are grain fed, and that creates a cascade of health problems, both for the animals and for the people who eat them. Grain makes animals gain weight fast, but it does not make them healthy. Healthier forage makes healthier animals, and healthier animals make healthier people.

God’s creation already gave us one of the best forages that ever existed. GA grass is an incredible grass. It is high protein, high quality, and was once common across the Midwest. It supported thriving ecosystems, healthier cattle, and richer soil.

But we destroyed it. Plowing wiped out huge sections of native grasslands. Barbed wire kept cattle confined in smaller spaces, causing them to overgraze the same spots over and over until the grass died out entirely. What was once a natural, regenerative system disappeared.

Reintroducing grasses like GA grass and shifting animals back to a forage based diet can repair soil, restore ecosystems, and create food that is genuinely nutrient dense again. It is a return to the way nature was designed to function.

If we want healthier people, we must start with healthier land and healthier animals. This is not just a diet change. It is a systems change.

12/03/2025

Why So Much of Our Food Is Not Really Food Anymore

Some of the food on store shelves today just should not be eaten on a regular basis. A lot of the brightly colored breakfast cereals are not much more than cardboard and sugar. They crunch, they taste sweet, they sit in a pretty box, but they do not bring much to the table for your body.

You are not getting meaningful fiber. You are not getting real vitamins and minerals in their natural form. You are not getting protein that keeps you full. What you are getting is a hit of processed carbohydrates, artificial flavors, and a sprinkle of synthetic vitamins added back in so it can be marketed as fortified.

The problem is bigger than just one bowl of cereal.

When you start the day with something that is basically sugar and refined starch, your blood sugar spikes and then crashes. An hour or two later you are hungry again, you crave more sugar, and the cycle repeats. Over time that pattern is tied to weight gain, fatigue, and a higher risk of diabetes. You feel like you are eating, but your cells are still starving for real nutrition.

The packaging tells a different story. Words like whole grain, part of a balanced breakfast, or heart healthy are plastered on the front, while the real story is on the back in the ingredient list and the nutrition label. Long ingredient lists, very little fiber, almost no real food.

Real food looks different. Eggs, oats, fruit, nuts, yogurt, vegetables, beans, whole grains. Things that had a life before they hit your plate. They give you fiber, protein, healthy fats, and minerals your body actually knows how to use. They keep you full, steady, and energized instead of wired and then wiped out.

The takeaway is simple. A lot of what the modern food industry sells as breakfast is really just flavored sugar and refined starch in a box. If you want your body to feel good and function well, the goal is to eat more food your great grandmother would recognize and less that comes out of a cartoon covered package.

12/02/2025

Eating Well Is Possible, But You Have To Be Intentional

It is absolutely possible to eat well in this country. We are blessed with an incredible amount of good food. Fresh produce, clean proteins, dairy, eggs, whole grains, all of it is available if you know where to look.

We are also surrounded by a lot of bad food. The kind that is engineered to taste good, last forever, and keep you coming back for more. In most grocery stores, the rule of thumb still holds. Stay around the perimeter and you will usually find the healthiest options. That is where the fresh food lives. Vegetables, fruits, meats, seafood, dairy.

The trouble begins once you head into the aisles. That is where the ultra processed foods fill the shelves. Boxes, bags, powders, snacks, frozen meals that are convenient but loaded with chemicals, preservatives, and ingredients that barely resemble real food.

So eating well is possible, but it requires awareness. It requires paying attention to where you shop inside the store. And it requires a little discipline to reach for the foods that fuel your body instead of the ones engineered to hijack your appetite.

11/26/2025

A City With No Sprawl And A Better Quality Of Life

In this model, you still live in an urbanized environment with everything that makes a city vibrant. Hospitals, medical care, restaurants, entertainment, culture, and community life are all right there. You get all the benefits of civilization without the chaos that normally comes with it.

But unlike traditional cities, this one is self-sufficient in food and energy. It produces what it needs, and it does not sprawl endlessly outward. The community is a fixed size, surrounded by protected land that will never be developed. If more people want to live there, they start a new village, not a bigger circle.

This solves one of the biggest problems modern cities face. Urban sprawl has created horrible traffic, long commutes, and inefficient infrastructure. We keep expanding miles away from the city center, forcing people to sit in cars for hours. In some places, traffic moves at ten miles an hour or less because the system was never designed to support that level of sprawl.

A fixed size community flips the script. You walk or bike everywhere. You can reach the countryside in minutes. You are not trapped in a car or stuck in congestion. And the city does not cannibalize the land around it.

It is a vision of urban life that is healthier, smarter, and far more sustainable than the model we keep repeating.