Capitalism Hits Home: Addiction, Suicide, and Psych Drugs - Life Is Painful In Today's USA (1 of 2)

[S07 E03] Addiction, Suicide, and Psych Drugs - Life Is Painful In Today's USA (Part 1 of 2)
Addiction, Suicide, and Psych Drugs are all heavily marketed. Opioid medications like Oxycontin induce addiction, guns facilitate suicide, and pills numb justified anxiety and depression. Why are they now epidemics?
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[@arysandrodossantos9300]

I truly love this woman: a top academic ❤

[@Ruddy761]

She really is. She is a ray of fucking sunshine!

[@rippingtons60]

I see why she and Richard Wolff make such a good couple.

[@cev12]

She's not an academic? Just a psychologist...?

[@kevinvolk8846]

Typical academics who preach theory instead of preaching solutions that work.

[@arysandrodossantos9300]

@kevinvolk8846 Please feel free and come with solutions or ideas yourself. Show us how to do it

[@bernardheathaway9146]

Everytime I watch this program, I feel some of my sanity returning

[@Spock_Rogers]

Thank you, Dr. Fraad! 🌷 I hope your eyes heal soon. I think these pills have touched every family in the US, unfortunately.

[@vivalaleta]

Small wonder we want to escape this hellhole by using.

[@janelliot5643]

Brava! This is both brilliant and courageous. I appreciate it immensely

[@proletariatprincess1]

what troubles me most about this issue is that people who really need opioids to control serious pain are either being denied, under-prescribed or have to go through a lot of nonsense to get the Rx they need., Kaiser wanted me to fill out a 6-page form that threatened me with Law enforcement and other consequences. I refused. It was insulting. This is politics, not medicine. My doctor knew better but said it was Kaiser guidelines. Guild lines are not laws and have nothing to do with protecting my health but rather protecting Kaiser from potential litigation, I presume. I am an old woman but I raised hell and got the meds I need and have been using for decades. But others are not as assertive and are condemned to unnecessary suffering.

[@jillfryer6699]

you speak for me and my experience. we old women should run classes teaching patients to stand up for themselves and educated them about what is safe and what is not.. In my country the hysteria about this has lead to death or amputations for kids soaking themselves in paracetamol! Because its got an insignificant quantity of codeine in each pill so the silly kids take the whole packet. You can guess how that could lead to the loss of one limb. Oxycontin is less a problem here because we have been warned by the horrible American experience, but its still is a problem.

[@ilianamarisolromero7816]

you're inspiring. I am 60, I go through periods in my life where I can't take it no more and wish I could die, I don't do it because deep down I know that without attempting and ruffling everybody's feathers they all say I'll be condemned, or plainly, I look bad coz I just gave up on life, but again, I know that stress and depression will bring psichosomatization that will manifest in some serious and maybe life ending illness. I have been reading so much, that I now know that it's ADHD, which I have masked. People think that ADHD is just another word for immature, spoiled, and trauma response. Yes, I agree with the ptsd, the ocd, the bipolarity, but there is an undeniable weird wiring in my brain where I can see all alternative and parallel narratives of reality, but then I forget what my mind saw, understood and conceptualized but I forget it immediately. I know I would benefit from ADHD medicine, but I just haven't been able to get diagnosed and dispensed the right medicines to help me focus. I work full time, just bought a house in this crazy real state market, but I suffer immensely Because of my quirks. Some days when I'm glitching I feel like my stomach is being ripped apart

[@proletariatprincess1]

@@ilianamarisolromero7816 I am so sorry for your troubles. I think we older women, we wise women, crones and grandmothers, should be especially heard and trusted with our own health decisions. We are often very much wiser and more reasonable than doctors who presume to know what is best for us with an eye on profits and perks from Big Pharma., My new doc is half my age and I had to tell her that she needs to be my health partner and advocate and the Kaiser Guidelines be damned. I talked to her like a kid. Told her to do the right thing. My old doc of 30 years, a woman I respected and trusted, retired during the Covid scare. I think she had enough of Kaiser policies and she confided that the hospital was not busy at all. They had 6 cases and the big tent they built next door to hold the overflow, was never needed. But that is not what the news was telling us. They were selling fear and withholding viable medications to push their vaccine trial of mRNA and Remdesivir which proved fatal causing organ damage but was very profitable at $3500 a dose. Lots of medical professionals have left the field in the last few years over issues like this. It is a clear indication of how dysfunctional our system is. And the failed drug war has made it worse on a political basis. I don't believe what they tell us now about drugs. Profits and politics have no place in health and medical care.

[@proletariatprincess1]

@@marklampo8164 What a cowardly thing to say. Speak up for what is right and demand respect. Unhealthy respect and fear of authority lead to tyranny. Nice advice indeed, coward.

[@SaundraRaynor]

Thanks. You are describing me also. I just don't have the energy to type as much as you just did to describe your situation. I no longer have problem with getting pain meds but I have to see doc once every four to six weeks in order to get refill. Not sure why. I'm 82.

[@advandepol7537]

You spend your old days in a very useful manner, dr. Fraad.

[@mikey_gc8]

Thank you for your wisdom

[@AlanDavidDoane]

Insightful analysis and information everyone needs to know, thank you for everything you do, Dr. Fraad. I hope you make a quick and complete recovery, but those are some stylish shades, in the meantime! Happy holidays to you and your family.

[@Pukeyray]

Was watching a psychiatrist discussing how depression and self ending shows in men. One thing he mentioned was that women can survive because they'll say good-byes to others which gives a chance for intervention. Where men can be kind of sneaky about their intentions when planning an exit. Usually when a man mentions their difficulties or pain to others, society punishes and condemns them for wincing. Another thing is how many of those men wouldn't be considered mentally ill but came to the conclusion that ending life is a logical option to end their turmoil. An inability to escape an economic system which is like an electrified hamster wheel in a knee-high flooded room. This topic has touched me personally as a lifelong friend decided to leave behind his wife and 2 babies after Labor Day. Everyone saw him at a BBQ and he didn't show any signs. Although his mental issues weren't noticeable, I wonder if financial issues were a factor. Only a high school graduate stuck in high demanding, low paying jobs with all the expenses on his back. I was slow that month from the depression and my boss reprimanded me with "get over it." Thanks Dr. Fraad for giving voice to these issues that literally affect everyone.

[@davidpeppers551]

I am sorry for your loss and your unfeeling boss. Is it sneaky really? Is withholding your feelings and not making them public sneaky? You put your finger on the problem. As a male I know NOT to discuss troubles, problems, feelings in public, especially around other men. Although women can be quite unhelpful as well, other men can be relentless with the teasing and harassment and downright bullying if you let it be known verbally or even nonverbal that something is hurting, disturbing, or bothering you. You learn that sharing only makes things worse. Of course, not sharing is bad, but what are you going to do? If you cannot find that extremely rare nonjudgemental person with whom it is safe to share, you might only be able to share with a therapist or psychologist, if you can afford one.

[@jhlfsc]

​@@davidpeppers551 I think that is all true. However, I don't the the very specific trype of mental illness that makes a person commit suicide is as situationally dependant as people think. Mental illness in general can absolutely be attributed to situational conditions, but the specific type of compulsion or lack of restraint that leads to a person willfully ending their own life runs clear across all race, class, gender and religious lines.

[@davidpeppers551]

@@jhlfsc It does.

[@robertrodriguez6182]

This country needs more examples of honesty and enlightenment so people can see the harsh realities that it is facing this difficult times!!! Thank You Doctor for your inspiring lectures!

[@advandepol7537]

You discuss the most vital problems of the US in a clear and soothing way.

[@kevinvolk8846]

Do you see the problem with universal healthcare that will pay that same industry to keep practicing their shady ideas? The gov sports these drug companies and will not find “alternative” medicine solutions that work on the root cause of the problem. It’s not wise to let a shady government take too much power when it comes to your health.

[@alexhidel3732]

I’m 50. I live in upstate NY, in the Adirondack mountains, in a small town of about 3000 people. Over the last 12 years or so in my small town something like 45 people associated with this town have died from drug overdoses or violence associated with drugs. One after another. When I was a kid I didn’t hear of one drug related death. Drinking and driving incidents, but no drug overdoses. I’m not on any social media, don’t read the newspaper have few acquaintances because I know this country is done. Curiosity kills, and ignorance is bliss. What you don’t observe cannot disturb you.

[@alexhidel3732]

@@marklampo8164 I don’t know that, but I’m sure it could happen. To be honest it could have happened to me before. I think I use to listen to him on satellite Sirius radio.

[@kali542]

I live in Vermont: SAME , but in 1900 it was worse. Opium use in Vermont was rampant "In 1900 Dr. A.P. Grinnell surveyed druggists, general store owners, physicians, wholesalers, and manufacturers of opiates in Vermont on their sales of opium and opium products, then made his grim assessment that Vermonters consumed an incredible 3,300,000 doses of opium each and every month"

[@SaundraRaynor]

Do Vermonters have more financial pressures than others? Or are all states suffering the same percentages?

[@SaundraRaynor]

By the way, Xanax saved my life recently during a very stressful period related to changing finances.

[@kali542]

@@SaundraRaynorI totally understand that you were helped by that medication. If you need it -take it and save your life. I have been there. I’m glad you’re ok. Vermont suffers the rural problems plus gentrification which makes it impossible for native Vermonters to afford their own state.

[@cheri238]

Thank you, Dr. Fraad. May your eyes heal soon.❤

[@TennesseeJed]

I like the shades! It gives you the badass look you exemplify!

[@Ace1000ks19751982]

American life is stressful, and this is why people turn to substance abuse.

[@fndngnvrlnd]

Life in the US is hell on earth. Their insane PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS will lead them to their destruction.

[@kali542]

it is only stressful because we never think we have enough, are happy enough, are good enough. It is a trap to keep us serving the wealthy. Slavery.

[@Kasadoll]

I guess that's just the burden of being the best country in the world. USA baby! But seriously American life is amazingly stressful and it's hard to get good mental or physical care without it breaking you. There's a lot of undiagnosed mental problems and health problems in this country but people avoid getting the care that they need like the plague because they know they can't afford it. Substances such as drugs or alcohol is a more dangerous but affordable "alternative".

[@abdulrahmanraheem423]

Exactly! Everyone I work with has 2 jobs just to make ends meet! We are all stressed out from working trying to keep up..

[@Ace1000ks19751982]

@@Kasadoll Being the best country, best in what way? People are stressed working multiple vrappy jobs without benefits. Most jobs that exist now are part time jobs without any benefits. As a result, people have to buy their own health insurance, which is pretty expensive.

[@ronkirk5099]

If the social safety net and regulations protecting us from the excesses of unfettered capitalism are eliminated or reduced in any way, these societal problems will only increase. Drug addiction is the 'disease of despair'.

[@Buffy-ip4io]

Yes it is horrible times. I'm about at my end. Im old, bodys broke. Nearly 40 years hard labor in dead end jobs. Worked my ass of for everyone I love and in my community making them my priority. To end up only there option. I can't work this hard anymore. And im always going to have to. Because I can't save save a penny. Medical dept. Sold everything trying to survive. And still lost my house. So more debt. Can't get any disability because doctor are sold out tools for the pharma industrial complex. And if I could the last thing I want is to rely on this worthless government. Living in a destructive environment. Hay, gave it a good go. Piece, love and prosperity to all who deserves it. Love u all! Because your my brother, my sister, my mother and my father. Because you and I are Edmond Dontas (line from The Count of Monti Cristo) sry if I spell it all wrong.

[@martinholsinger1932]

I appreciate Dr. Fraad's podcasts (as well as Prof. Wolff's) because they often address issues that continue to be relevant after the immediate week they are released. One of the thoughts this presentation raises for me is that, given widespread public knowledge of the sins of the drug companies and their enablers at NIH and other government agencies, it is not surprising that the government's pronouncements on Covid were met with such widespread skepticism.

[@nurnichtausliebeweinen2240]

Get well soon, and thank you for still taking the trouble of filming!

[@melissahardiman5203]

You look way cooler with the shades on😎😎😎😎🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@milantomich6568]

Not painful ,this is no life here only if you are part of establishment then you joy life. Otherwise it is hell.

[@vivalaleta]

I inquired about magic mushrooms for my long term depression to my Dr. Loon and he laughed and laughed.

[@WORLDCITIZEN10]

Good work Looks good with you sun glasses

[@Spock_Rogers]

I thought she joined a jazz band. 😎

[@Acode7940]

Thank you for mentioning the culpability of the pharmacy stores. I thought they were involved, but never heard or read anything reporting on same.

[@sizzla123]

Awesome. If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. ~George Washington

[@irinabass1655]

Gorgeous blouse, Harriet. Looks very much like Ukrainian ethnic style (a Ukrainian here)

[@earthsystem]

Common Sense And Empathy Collide With Education And Experience

[@claudenobles779]

excellent

[@MrDayinthepark]

Harriet answered questions I had had for years, regarding my parents. It was astonishing, I had written checks to so many psychotherapists over the years. I got an immediate answer, the correct answer.

[@MaryBeth551]

I'm looking forward to hearing Dr. Fraad's 2nd part, addressing the root causes of so much American misery. I also have a theory above the shooter epidemic we have in this country. Many of these men have served in the US military, they get prescribed SSRIs, they have ptsd, they start hearing voices commanding them too "take the whole outpost " ....the VA Healthcare system is broken when it comes to psychiatric issues. They have no clue how to help people. The highest percentage of veteran suicides is actually female veterans in their 60s &70s. Little known fact. That's how too many of us end up.

[@larryhatfield7372]

You also have to count the amount of deaths due to heroin and fentanyl because s lot of the people started out on oxycodone then turned to heroin due to cost

[@thespacecowboy420]

The problem is unregulated capitalism with no real penalties

[@SaundraRaynor]

You are not alone.

[@marcobsomer5574]

très bon exposé, bravo. Deux jeunes gens que je connaissais se sont suicidés après ....

[@felicetanka]

USA where even medicine is a business. And national holidays are only 11.

[@joeallegra4778]

Certain Opiates work great for my pain..but as with everything eles you develop a tolerance..theres a happy medium, you have to find..

[@theageofgoddess]

💯

[@treefrog3349]

This conversation does not delve in to the conversation about WHY these excesses are sanctioned and permitted to occur. Thousands of street kids are incarcerated today for the same behavior of Pharmaceutical Corporations. If that does not suggest a level of hypocrisy and oligarchic preferential treatment, what would? And this is just the "tip of the ice berg" of American dysfunction. Democracy is a beautiful idea but it has morphed in to an oligarchic hegemony that the most poorly-served cannot even recognize.

[@williamevans7726]

The word "democracy" has ALWAYS been theoretical terminology.. Nothing more.. It has never, ever, been a true reality.. Especially in the U.S.. In the "land of the free, and the home of the brave" ----- with the help of every mass media platform you can think of; "democracy" is a politically charged buzz-word ------ which the government cleverly uses to CONVINCE millions of "fun-loving Americans" that they live in the "greatest country" in the entire universe!! The term itself, is used to ensure the majority of the U.S. population will ALWAYS believe something that is not, nor will ever be, fundamentally true.. End of story..

[@elliotlambert3817]

Happy to be in America OK you stay in America

[@fassadine6352]

The doctors are the ones precribing, so they should be reponsible. The doctors should ask or read what's in it before prescribing to the patients. I have been to hospitals the nurses are telling telling the doctors to prescribe to patients without any test and the doctors are clueless. Doctors overdose patients because they are clueless. Patients want more because they are addicted or the dosage is too weak in their mind. Parents always want to zombified their children so they can be well behave. They go to their pediatrician create some bullshit diagnoses and put that child onto some crazy drug. When that drug stop working they call the pediatrician for higher doses. If you are a parent your child ends up at the emergency room, you cannot tell that doctor to stop drugging your child; if you do they will call the cops on you and throws you out of the hospital and even treat to throw you in jail. Doctors and nurses are not innocents. They are soulless!

[@verdict1163]

Imagine thinking the US is a free market capitalist country 😂

[@DerekFullerWhoIsGovt]

🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@mariapulidoperez1391]

God is the answer to survive all the stress and problems in this chaotic world. My prayers for all the people with addictions.

[@Spock_Rogers]

If we look at countries by standards of living, those who treat their citizens the best are among the least religious. I think we should invest in community centers instead of giving taxpayer money to divisive religious organizations.

[@SaundraRaynor]

God is not the answer. Less financial pressures is the answer.

[@marianhunt8899]

God cannot make the economy function more fairly. Man cannot live on alone but needs water, food and shelter. Jesus recognised this but it escapes some Christians sadly. People are working long hours and can't afford rent and food and are reduced to begging at food banks.

[@burnindownthehouse]

Ah, you're about 15 years behind. Oxycontin is very hard to get now. Most doctors won't prescribe it for fear of losing their license, and the ones that do prescribe it have extremely strict restrictions as to how much they can prescribe and how often it can be prescribed. Most addicts have turned to heroin, fentanyl, or a combination of the two. It's much cheaper and packs a big punch. But the main point that addiction is killing America is very true.

[@wingdingdmetrius8025]

What's up with the aviators?

[@SaundraRaynor]

Assume you are referring to the practice of Big Pharma paying doctors to prescribe certain meds?

[@jillfryer6699]

Always lovely to see Harriet back. All good wishes for the poor eyes. Look forward to next episode. Pharma companies 'aggressively market' every new drug for as long as its a money spinner. When it gets old... You can tell a doctor is under the thumb when they refuse to prescribe a perfectly harmless and effective anti inflammatory for arthritis, for instance, and insist on prescribing the latest- which causes raised blood pressure and even heart failure. The problem with the old drug is that it went on the market in 1961! Sometimes doctors get confused with all the drugs on the market. I once had one go on an accusatory addiction rave because I wanted a prescription for something for heart burn - a common side effect of an anti-inflammatory. I think the problem was its name started with Z! If there's a Z or X in it somewhere it must be suspicious.

[@DominionMovementDotOrg]

some of the marketing tactics mentioned here are already banned

[@uncleshamus3451]

I praise your work but I fear your pissing in the wind✌️❤️

[@arysandrodossantos9300]

What do you have to add ? Will truly appreciate...😢

[@ashrafalam6075]

Respected Madam, Pleased to share something about my thoughts. 40 years before there were only 70 Psychological conditions and today more than 400 Psychological conditions. Humans are not made in a factory, every human has its own individuality. God has created Varieties not identical. Today, there are more than 400 Psychological conditions. Psychological conditions is not a Disease, it's everyone Style or behaviour. No one can rectify/ treat / change this condition. Pharmaceutical companies knows it very well. Once a person becomes addicted to any kind of medicine will continue till death. They are creating patients for every kind of conditions. It's a Cartel of Pharma + Psychiatrist. Treatment of Psychological conditions is change of life style not medicine. Every condition can't be changed or altered. All social conditions Suicide/ Mass Shooting/ Addiction/ Divorce ,only can be changed after change in life style not by medicine. Awaiting your feedback.

[@jillfryer6699]

Addiction is a result of sustained exposure, daily, for months, of addictive drugs. Its a chemical problem not a social problem in itself. It you cannot afford it and use crime to find the money that IS a social problem. With use of guns for this crime it is an even bigger social problem. If you can afford it its possible no one will ever know about it. It is simply not true to say that 'addiction to any kind of medicine will continue to death'. Next you contradict yourself saying addiction is one of many social problems that can 'only be changed by change of lifestyle not by medicine'! You seem to not know what you are talking about, just caught in a confused hysteria about opiates and synthetic opiates like Oxy. If you don't know better than that you shouldn't be wasting an experts time requiring feedback.

[@DJWESG1]

Arguably , a person going through a schizophrenic and or psychotic episode who chooses then to act on his or her mh problem, lash out and commit an atrocity or self harm means that person does in fact need to be medicated, usually with a power sedative in the immediate and a systemic type of drug that limits the episodes of the long terms. No lifestyle change will stop those mh episodes and breakdowns because the problem is quite often too severe.

[@marianhunt8899]

Affordable clean water, healthy food, affordable homes and healthcare would go a long, long way to easing the distress people are under.

[@anwaypradhan6591]

The system of exploitation, the system of corruption, the system of free market trade, the system of free market slavery, the system of neo liberal exploitation, the system of drug abuse, the system of unhealthy competition, the system of unscientific urbanization, the system of climatic crisis, the system of unscientific industrialisation, the system of unplanned artificialism, the system of warmongers and war market economy, the system of racism and discrimination, the system of decay and devastation.

[@marxxthespot]

🌞🤝🌞

[@tecnologiaengestiondemerca7291]

🤔

[@Turdfergusen382]

Our government is too fascist for gun reform in the US currently.

[@SaundraRaynor]

There wiuld be much kess addiction and suicides if everyone who wanted a job could get one. We simply need more income. At least 20 to 30 percent more.

[@davidpeppers551]

12:14 ---- Wow! Most Americans visit the Louvre? Most? Of all the people I know, I don't think one of them has mentioned their visit! Maybe I am in the wrong tax bracket? Could it be that most Americans who visit Paris visit the Louvre? Or France even? Or is it of all the sights in France, the Louvre is the one Americans visit most? Maybe I don't hang with the kind of Americans that most Americans are! Hey, fellow Americans, Did you or anyone you know go? What percentage of your friends and acquaintances have visited the Louvre?

[@Spock_Rogers]

When she said that, my impression was that if you're in Paris, one of the destinations of any other American you would speak with would be the Louvre.

[@davidpeppers551]

@@Spock_Rogers The Louvre is the most visited Museum in the world. Perhaps that is what she meant.

[@uncleshamus3451]

😢✌️

[@cev12]

1) Physicians prescribe, but we mostly blame pharmacists for not questioning the physicians. Pharmacists can lose their licenses because physicians write bad prescriptions. Is that not ludicrous? Blame and target the root cause, not everyone else. 2) I love to blame capitalism and corporations as much as anyone. But are we seriously not going to blame the drug addicts for risking it? Maybe ages ago, before the addiction risk was known, we could lay the blame on others. But people know now: they solicit recreational drugs. So the "blame everyone else" excuse just does not hold water anymore. And it's overuse is tiring.

[@DJWESG1]

You are right to point out the users. Its a two way street , with many ppl activly lying to Dr's in oder to get their scripts. And if we roll back another 15 years we see same problem with prozac type drugs, and a whole lot of middle class ppl willing to tale those drugs as means to escape their mundane everyday lives.

[@jameseglavin4]

As someone studying hard to become a certified addiction counselor, please don’t advocate blaming addicts for their addiction. It’s literally counterproductive as it contributes to the shame and stigma addicts need to overcome in order to seek help, and it demonstrates your ignorance of how addiction starts and develops. Yes, people know they’re taking dangerous drugs, but the huge majority of chronic addicts either started with drugs prescribed by a physician or do not have the opportunity or resources to get the mental health treatment they need before they begin to self-medicate. So please, have some compassion for addicts. I guarantee you that whether you’re aware of it or not, you know and probably love at least one.

[@cev12]

​@@jameseglavin4 So you want me to be disingenuous and pretend that it's not what it is? That addicts had no choice in the matter? And you want me to lie for the addict's ego? I have plenty of compassion for them: we're all flawed humans (as are you, in insulting me for the gratification of your and others' egos). But I'm not going to lie to myself or others about the addict's involvement in becoming addicted. And for the sake of truth in your work, you should be transparent and honest about it too.

[@oreradovanovi5204]

I don't think you understood the podcast. So listen to it before commenting.

[@cev12]

@@oreradovanovi5204 Then enlighten me, you prick. I listened to it. But apparently only YOU, in all your omniscience and perfection, can understand it. So enlighten me.

[@SaundraRaynor]

I think xanax saved my life recently. Suicidal due to stress and worries over finances.

[@chioma3100]

Don't ever give in. You're worth more than society's valuation of you. I'm superfrugal and am only just managing. Was just laid off last month and continuing to learn this system and how to thrive. I'm hopeful.

[@blackswan4486]

Sounds like more money would save your life

[@RenieFibra]

All president in the world must be unite.set a meeting about problem of each nation helping each other what is good what are they going to do so that problem solve .all leaders mus be unite .

[@AlanDavidDoane]

Those leaders WANT a nation of drug addicts, or they would have done something decades ago.

[@Ahng_Noying9574]

If the leaders can't, or won't, it is left to us, the people.

[@theboyisnotright6312]

Regulation of guns? Thats your answer to the despair so deep they off themselves? I really dont agree with that. How about we make it so life isnt abluving hell?

[@renardleblanc5556]

I had a vitrectomy circa 2004 (which managed to save one eye but I lost the other), and I get lasik on a (semi-) regular basis, along with the occasional LUCENTIS injection, so I can totally sympathize with the sunglasses. Thankfully, Canadian healthcare covers all of that, so my family and I are not destitute (alternatively, I could settle for going blind, I suppose).

[@useyourbrain1539]

Sorry, every ad I view on tv lists a copendium of side effects.

[@maryutz2643]

We need to help people financially. We need to make housing and healthcare not for profit. I'm out on the gun control. After what this government pulled during the big C, I realize how important it is to have an armed citizenry. I've done a 180 on guns. Don't talk to me about gun "control". Talk to me about solving the problems that make people want to reach for a gun.

[@SaundraRaynor]

Wrong. Only more income oer household will help in our capitalist society. Not God.

[@buy.to.let.britain]

if you think printing currency and giving it to banks is capitalism, you need to wake up. (and stop making videos).