PSYCHOLOGY OF C.M.R.

THIS IS ANOTHER REPORT I WROTE FOR MY PSYCHOLOGY CLASS! ENJOY!

Psychology of C. M. R.


During the late 19th century, a "clean living" movement emerged in the U.S. dominated by efforts to prohibit alcohol consumption, tobacco use, and manipulate females' reproductive health. The movement also advocated proper diet, exercise and physical fitness, pure water, and no caffeine and moderation red meat consumption. Remarkably similar concerns have emerged again in contemporary American society. (Engs, 155)
New York City in March 2003, Mayor Michael Bloomberg banned smoking in bars and restaurants. (Hill, 2004) This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to bans on smoking in America. In Georgia, employers can out right restrict your from smoking on and off the job. This is legal as long as the employer informs the employee of this when taking the job. (United Pro Choice Smokers Rights, 2004) In addition, in August 2002, if you are in a custody battle with your spouse, your spouse can take your child away from you if you smoke in your children’s presence. (ASH, 2002)
In November 2003, Southwest Airlines endorsed a policy of if your over 30 pounds over your idea weight, you will need to purchase an additional seat on their airlines. (Southwest Airlines Homepage, 2004) President Bush entered the fight against overweight Americans in 2002. President Bush is imposing taxes on soft drinks, regulating vending machines in schools, and restricting the snack and other food items that could be harmful to obese Americans. (Keifer, 2002)
In recent years, many states have lowered their legal limit on how much you can drink before driving from .10 down to .08. If you were to have a beer at dinner you would be consider legally impaired to drive. You would be facing many thousands of dollars in fines and imprisonment for drinking one single beer during dinner. (MADD, 2004)
The National Right to Life website states that, “A new individual human being begins at fertilization, when the sperm and ovum meet to form a single cell.” They also believe that a rape or incest victim should care that child to full term. They want to ban all forms of abortion in America for any reason even if the mother’s life is in danger. (Right to Life, 2004)
Since 9/11, passing through an airport to get to your plane has changed. Additional screening occurs when an individual sets off the alarm on the metal detector, or if he or she is selected for the additional screening. (You know the old woman with a cane that can hardly walk.) This screening includes a hand-wand inspection in conjunction with a pat-down inspection that includes the torso. This pat down search is very through and includes their placing fingers under the breast of men and women. (TSA, 2004)
Since the mid 90’s, our children have been told, “If your child acts up in school, you might be placed on Ritalin for ADHD.” Here are a couple of symptoms of ADHD:
Inattention: where a person often fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes, often has difficulty sustaining attention in tasks, often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly, or often does not follow through on instructions.
Tasks: Where a person often has difficulty organizing tasks and activities, often avoids, dislikes or is reluctant to engage in tasks that require sustained mental effort, often loses things necessary for tasks or activities, often easily gets distracted by extraneous stimuli, or is often forgetful in daily activities.
Hyperactivity: Where a person often fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat, often feels restless, often has difficulty engaging in leisure activities quietly, or often talks excessively.
Impulsivity: Where a person often blurts out answers before questions have been completed, or often interrupts or intrudes on others. (Adhdnews, 2004)
When looking at these I can see a normal child doing these things and often. I wonder if we are placing these children in a box so we can make them in to little adults or so they will not be a hassle to an uncaring teacher.
Michael Bloomberg recently signed a bill raising the city's cigarette tax from 8 cents to $1.50 a pack. With a state tax of $1.50, the highest in the country, New Yorkers were already paying more for cigarettes than other Americans. Now the price of some brands is more than $7, nearly twice the national average. Thanks to Michael Bloomberg and the New York City Council, the potential earnings for terrorists have multiplied due to smugglers bring cigarettes in to the city.
The tax hike was a revenue measure. "City officials say the new tax will bring a much-needed $111 million into the city's coffers this year," The New York Times reported, "helping plug a budget shortfall of nearly $5 billion." (Sullum, 2002)
Since President Bush has been placed in office, gas prices have gone up by 100%, from a low in of $0.99 in the beginning of 2001, with $21.00 a barrel for oil. Now it is $55.00 (+) per barrel of oil and $2.00 (+) for gas. President Bush has ties to OPEC oil producing nations (including a direct tie to the Bin Laden family.) You would believe that oil and gas prices would be at an all time low. (OPEC, 2004)
If you are overweight or obese in American, you have to pay more for your clothes and products like airline seats. Some people feel the need to reduce the amount of food on your plate for you but you are still paying the same price as the thinner person. (Ponderosa, 2004). President Bush wants to put in measures so if you are overweight or obese companies do not have to hire you for a job, just because of your weight. If you are overweight or obese, many doctors will not treat you for your any illness until you lose weight, even if that illness is causing weight gain (Polycystic Ovarian Disease).
(Dr. McCrudy, 2001)
The drug companies and doctors want you to spend more then what you earn for your treatment and medication. If you are ill in American you have to pay at the very least $150.00 to see a doctor that will on average spend five minutes with you, send you to the drug store to buy medication that cost another $100.00.
Many Americans cannot afford to do that, so they self-medicate, until they reach a point were they cannot handle the illness they have and go to the emergency room at the local hospital. This were again you have to pay $400.00 (+) just too see a doctor that will only see you for on average three minutes in the emergency room and send you home with a prescription for medication that will cost around $150.00 (+).
Since President Bush took office in 2001, the United States went from having a surplus in the deficient to record national debt. People have lost their jobs or have lost benefits on the job like Medical Insurance and Vacation Time. President Bush put in place tax cuts for people making over $200,000 a year. President Bush would like now to hike taxes on the poor and middle class Americans. Making middle class and poor pay for the rich tax cuts that caused the deficient in the first place.
This is what happens when one side takes over America:
Christian Coalition of America's Agenda
for the 108th Congress (2003-2004):
1. Making permanent President Bush's 2001 federal tax cuts, including the marriage penalty tax cut
Helping the president pass his tax cuts including the successful 2001 tax cut bill in the amount of $1.3 trillion and the $330 billion tax cut bill in 2003, which will actually be an $800 billion tax cut if not allowed to expire. So far, most say President Bush has got passed over $2 trillion in tax cuts.
2. Getting votes in the first session of the 108th Congress to confirm President Bush's judicial nominations.
Liberal filibusters are either being conducted or are anticipated against Miguel Estrada, Priscilla Owen, William Pryor, Carolyn Kuhl, and Charles Pickering, judicial nominees to the Circuit Court of Appeals. Miguel Estrada's nomination has been filibustered by the Senate for over 6 months and the filibuster of Justice Priscilla Owen is in the 4th month.
3. Help pass Senator Charles Schumer's bipartisan 'Stop Pornography and Abusive Marketing Act,' the SPAM Act, S. 1231.
Democrat Senator Schumer and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham want to stop junk emails with links to pornographic websites. The SPAM Act will mandate jail time for repeat offenders; establish costly fines for spamming activity; create a "Do-Not-Spam" list of email addresses.
4. Passing Senator Lindsey Graham's and Congressman Joe Wilson's 'Holy Sites' resolution
Senator Graham's resolution, S.Con.Res.32 and Congressman Wilson's H.Con Res.150 addresses the protection of religious sites mainly in and near Israel and the freedom of access and worship in these sites.
5. Passing Majority Whip Roy Blunt's and Democrat Congressman Harold Ford's 'Charitable Giving Act of 2003,' H.R. 7.
Their bill now has 80 co-sponsors and just one of their bill's provisions would mean an additional $4.3 billion in giving to American charities.
6. Passing Congressman Spencer Bachus' and Senator Jon Kyl's 'Internet Gambling Enforcement Act'.
Congressman Spencer Bachus' "Unlawful Internet Gambling" bill, H.R. 2143, passed in the U.S. House by a margin of 319-104.
7. Getting a vote on Congressman Henry Brown's 'Child Pornography Prevention Constitutional Amendment' in both the House and Senate.
Congressman Brown introduced his constitutional amendment in Washington D.C. in July and will do likewise in Charleston S.C. in August.
8. Passing Congressman Walter Jones' 'Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act.'
Congressman Jones' bill, H.R. 235, got around 175 votes in the House last year and is expected to pass this year. It now has over 160 co-sponsors. This bill does not affect the campaign finance law passed.
9. Passing Congressman Robert Aderholt's 'Ten Commandments Display Act', H.R. 2045
Congressman Aderholt's states' rights bill gives the individual States the power to decide whether or not to display the Ten Commandments on or within publicly owned buildings and the bill does not mandate that they be displayed. The bill now has over 60 co-sponsors.
10. Passing the anti-cloning bill, including Senator Sam Brownback's bill in the U.S. Senate
The House passed the bipartisan bill sponsored by Congressmen Dave Weldon and Bart Stupak on February 27, 2003 by a margin of 241-155. Senator Orrin Hatch has a competing bill. Probable outcome: stalemate.
11. Passing Congresswoman Melissa Hart's and Senator Mike DeWine's 'Unborn Victims of Violence Act'
(called the "Laci and Connor's" in the U.S. House.) Congresswoman Hart's bill, H.R. 1997, has over 130 co-sponsors and Senator DeWine's bill, S. 146 has 34 co-sponsors. Their bill would prosecute as a separate offense those who engage in conduct which causes the death or bodily injury of a child - in a mother's womb.
12. Passing the 'Child Custody Protection Act in the House and Senate
(i.e. protecting parental notification rights for abortions on minors.) Senator John Ensign's bill, S.851 has 23 co-sponsors and would "prohibit taking minors across state lines in circumvention of laws requiring the involvement of parents on abortion decisions." Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's bill which is similar to the Senate bill has 89 co-sponsors.
13. Getting a vote on Congressman Ernest Istook's 'Prayer and Pledge' Constitutional Amendment
Congressman Istook's bill, H.J. Res. 46, which proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the United States restoring religious freedom has 95 co-sponsors.
14. Support Support Congressman Frank Lucas' 'Pledge of Allegiance Constitutional Amendment'
Congressman Lucas' bill, H.J. Res. 26, proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to protect the Pledge of Allegiance. It has two co-sponsors.
15. Support Congressman Todd Akin's 'Hands off the Pledge of Allegiance, Federal Courts' bill
Congressman Akin has 218 co-sponsors, including the Speaker of the House, "To amend title 28, United States Code, with respect to the jurisdiction of Federal courts inferior to the Supreme Court over certain cases and controversies involving the Pledge of Allegiance.
16. Prohibit special civil rights protection based on sexual preference/'domestic partners'.
17. Supporting legislation allowing parental choice in education
(vouchers/tax credits/scholarship tax credits, etc.)
18. Supporting legislation barring adoptions of children by homosexuals
19. Supporting legislation prohibiting the physical desecration of the flag of the United States of America.
(Christian Coalition of America's Agenda, 2004)
I felt the need to add to this to my report because it is very in what is happening today. President Bush has a web site called: www.presidentialprayerteam.org . This website has a government seal at the top. When did it become okay for a sitting President to push is own Doctrine? When did the fundamentalist become the majority in America? When did it become okay to tell a person that they could not smoke, drink, be overweight, gay or any other FREEDOMS that we had before 9/11 or President Bush came in to office?
If you have not figured it out, The Psychology of C.M.R.

C is for Control. Controlling the population of any given country is similar to what happen in World War II with the Germans and Hitler also in the 1990’s with Osama Bin Laden and Taliban.

M is for Money
In taxing the poorest of the population so the highest can live beyond their needs, you strip the country of its wealth.

R is for Religion.
When you combine Control, Money and Religion together you get a state that is power hungry (War in Iraq, controlling the populations thoughts and feeling.), and that will do almost anything to put what they are doing on other nations. (Bush Doctrine of Democracy.)

The reason why this has anything to do with Psychology at all is because. We live in this everyday your level of stress raises, your fears come to the surface. I remember when there was not this much worry or fear. It was over 4 years ago before President Bush took office in an underhanded way.
In a side note, On the Jay Leno show this last week was Michael Moore. He was in a suit and tie, he looked frighten. He did not have much to say about the election and only boasted about the tax cut the people who make more then $200,000 a year. I believe he was probably threaten in someway not speak any more about President Bush on the air.

**** UPDATE MICHEAL MOORE HAS A NEW MOVIE COMING OUT CALLED SICKO - IT SOUNDS WONDERINGFUL.