The mortality rate for black mothers is about three times higher than those of white mothers and Massachusetts senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren knows why. While speaking at Texas Southern University, a historically black college, she stated the following: “The best studies that I’ve seen put it down to just one thing: prejudice. Doctors and nurses don’t hear African American women’s medical issues the same way as they hear the same things from white women.” In other words, Senator Warren believes that that we doctors and nurses deliberately give black patients inferior care. Let’s look at the stats. According to both the United Health Foundation and the World Health Organization, the maternal death rate per 100,000 is for 47 for blacks, 18 for whites and 38 for American Indians. To put this in perspective, the rate in 1900 was 900 (there is no data on different races at this time), so overall, the situation has improved tremendously for all women since the dawn of modern medicine. … [Read more...]
Politicians Like Ned Lamont are Why Donald Trump is President
Anyone who wonders why the general public was so outraged that they put Donald Trump in the White House has only to look at the behavior of our new governor Ned Lamont. Taking a page from the playbook of his fellow Greenwich plutocrat, Lowell Weicker, Lamont deliberately misled the voters by promising to place tolls only on incoming trucks, just like Weicker misled the voters in 1990 into believing he would not initiate a state income tax. Like Weicker, Lamont knew that if he had been honest, he would have lost. We witnessed the usual kabuki theater that precedes a middle-class fleecing, as Governor Lamont assembled a team of business leaders, Goldman Sachs cronies and reached out to Republican leaders for input. We saw learned men and women with furrowed brows pondering the complex dilemma of responsible stewardship. It was a huge scam of course. Lamont had every intention of imposing tolls. As a scion of the J.P. Morgan fortune (his great grandfather was a partner in Morgan’s firm) and a respectable entrepreneur in his own right, he knows how to read a balance … [Read more...]
Immigration – The Protracted Conflict
December 26, 2018 My grandfather had a scar on his face. It extended across his right cheek, from his ear lobe to his lower jaw. It was thick, ragged and ugly; as it had never been surgically repaired. The coal miners in the Scranton area of Pennsylvania went on strike in the early 1900s. This was at a time when there was no safety net. If you didn’t work, you didn’t eat. The workers at the mine could barely support their families; thus the strike. The mine owners sent recruiters to Sicily and convinced my grandfather; a shepherd who lived in a corrupt society dominated by Mafia thugs and ennobled clergy, that life would be better in America. The next thing Grandpa knew, he was walking into a coal mine while a bunch of angry men on strike were screaming at him in a language he did not understand. Suddenly, a man with a knife slashed his face. My grandfather’s immigration to the United States was legal; unlike those pouring over our borders today, but that is not the point. Immigration in this country … [Read more...]
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