Our founders created a government that was suppose to be
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth
Congress was suppose to operate with PART-TIME CITIZEN LEGISLATORS and composed of three different branches:
LEGISLATIVE
JUDICIAL
EXECUTIVE
There was no concept of a “shadow government” of un-elected regulators.. that takes the laws passed by Congress and create REGULATIONS and or… when they get the whim to accomplish something… reinterpret a law creating new regulations that allows them to make their goals legal.
In fact, Congress can pass laws that don’t have to pass any constitutionality test before they are implemented and can/will be enforced until some entity outside of the government challenges the law in our court system.
No one really knows how many unconstitutional laws that there are on the books … at all levels of government (Fed/State/Local).
If you don’t believe that the bureaucracy isn’t trying to divide/conquer .. just look at all the internal groups that are having a class conflict, that they have help created
rich vs poor
sick vs health
white vs black
legal vs illegal
Republican vs Democrat
I am sure that there are other groups or sub groups.
The bureaucracy has shielded itself from any lawsuit by sovereign immunity, they can create unconstitutional law… enforce unconstitutional laws.. and their enforcement is usually done with coercion, intimidation and force.
The DEA has the prescribers, pharmacies/Pharmacists, drug wholesalers, drug manufacturers acting like a whimpering child, sitting in a corner because someone has taken away their favorite toy.
Congress has given the insurance industry immunity to the Sherman Antitrust Act .. so they can do things that are ILLEGAL for any other business or individual to do.
Those who are suffering from chronic diseases can be ones that suffer the most. As the insurance industry decides which medications that they will pay for and which ones they will not… basically … practicing medicine without a license.
They know that they are increasingly dividing some groups.. take the chronic pain community.. how many hundreds or THOUSANDS of Face Book pages are there ?… How many have sent letters to their Congressional Representative… and the letters that you get back all have some of the same phrases… they state that they understand your issues… they emphatic with your issues.. BUT.. they are concerned about drug abuse.
How many hundreds of on-line petitions have been created that need 100,000 signatures for them to even look at the petition.. and a few have even gotten a few thousand to sign. The only one that I know that exceeded the renumber of signatures.. to get them to look at the petition – was one that was calling for the resignation of the head of the DEA… and the OUTCOME ??? I have not seen anyone new as the head of the DEA.
We may be approaching the point of no return very soon…the Nov 8th election.. Normally 99% of Congress that goes for re-election… gets re-elected… that happens again this election… it will just re-enforce their belief that they are doing “a good job” and to continue doing what they have been doing… they fact that Congress has a SINGLE DIGIT APPROVAL rating makes no difference to them.
Over the last decade, both parties have controlled Congress at some point in time… how is your life today in comparison to how it was a decade ago. If it hasn’t improved any and/or gotten worse… would suggest that none of those in Congress … regardless of their party affiliation… doesn’t change how things are being done in Congress.
If I was a member of Congress and 99% get re-elected.. I would figure that there is not really 100 -116 million chronic pain pts… the chronic pain community has no unity… because there is enough numbers within the chronic pain community to determine ANY ELECTED OFFICE.
The bureaucrats have decided that substance abuse is a direct cause of prescription opiates.. and they have decided that they are going to “save the addict”…part of the program is continually reducing the opiate doses that are being prescribed. If you are a chronic painer.. guess where you fit into that equation.
If the chronic pain community DOES NOTHING… means that you GET NOTHING… except may be digging their own grave.
How things evolve over the 2 next year.. will not depend on “george” or some knight on a white horse coming along to SAVE THE DAY..
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Amen,,,exactly,,,if we don’t come together,,,we are all dead,,,includig the profession of pain maagement,,maryw