On Health and Education

While politicians are debating whether or not and how the USA should follow the established and experienced lead of Industrialized Countries in covering all their Citizens with Health plans, we keep missing the enormity of the fact that we have, by far, the biggest Jailed population in the world.

It is certainly legitimate to look at how to care about the health of the Constitutional People when a system such as ours is now letting lobbying Corporates dictating laws in the background, as our reflection to the world is surely not on health as we bear the heaviest population in the World with 66% of declared obese and life expectancy ranking only 42 on our planet.

Bad food and bad nutritional habits leading to a sick and overweight population needing to be treated by the Health network including drug companies; it is as if people’s healthiness is an upsetting subject for the striving 17.5% of the US Gross Domestic Product dedicated to what we call ironically health industry, as it should be re-baptized sickness industry, although not as appealing, one might say!

Health is a priority, not only in healthcare coverage and management but also in food quality, as factory mass production processed food is predominant on our market, as well as the prevailing fast food industry, both dispensing the foundation of health problems, whether by lack of vigorous quality or potential for abuse through pressing marketing and behavioral manipulation.

Nevertheless, if health concern is of essence, the lack of Education is the source of the encompassing problem of our Society, as learning should connect to knowledge in healthy conducts and Societal behaviors, and its deficiencies are leading us back to the American jail population.

Near 7.5 millions Americans are imprisoned or nearly 2.5% of the US citizens. If this is not bad enough, our jailed residents represent about 25% of the World jailed population as we make only 4.6% of the Earth inhabitants.

After taking care of the people’s health, we certainly need to press on education, although it is important to understand that it represents a very long term investment in future generations to promote better integrated Americans with a wider knowledge of subjects such as world history, national and international ethics as well as languages.

This more opened and diversified knowledge should lead to a greater understanding of Self Discipline, Respect and Responsibility as individual and collective concept on all subjects and Freedom as a variably circumstantial idea.

Who are we stepping on this time?