more bad news from the right wing extremist re January 12, 1987agan revolution

As Congress began reviewing President Reagan's proposed budget this week, officials from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut analyzed its effect on the region and concluded it would be devastating.

Commuters on subways, buses and railroads would face higher fares if the budget is adopted, the officials say. Students from the three states would lose about a half-billion dollars in education loans and grants. No new subsidized housing for low-income families would be built. A cap on Federal reimbursement for Medicaid would cost the states more than $500 million.

''Mass transit is wiped out, housing is decimated and student assistance is shot,'' said Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, who joined the Budget Committee this session. ''What else is there left in our part of the country?'' New York Seen Losing $2 Billion

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About 240,000 of the 1.5 million New York schoolchildren in the school lunch program would lose their subsidized lunches, state officials say. Elderly people entering the Medicare system, officials from the region said, would see their premiums rise by $84 a year. Poor families in the three states would lose more than $100 million in energy assistance, a 32 percent decline, according to state and Federal officials.

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Though approved by useless Bush Gutted FDA, microchip implants linked to animal cancer

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neither the company nor the regulators publicly mentioned this: A series of veterinary and toxicology studies, dating to the mid-1990s, stated that chip implants had "induced" malignant tumors in some lab mice and rats.

"The transponders were the cause of the tumors," said Keith Johnson, a retired toxicologic pathologist, explaining in a phone interview the findings of a 1996 study he led at the Dow Chemical Co. in Midland, Mich.

Leading cancer specialists reviewed the research for The Associated Press and, while cautioning that animal test results do not necessarily apply to humans, said the findings troubled them. Some said they would not allow family members to receive implants, and all urged further research before the glass-encased transponders are widely implanted in people
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The product that VeriChip Corp. won approval for use in humans is an electronic capsule the size of two grains of rice. Generally, it is implanted with a syringe into an anesthetized portion of the upper arm.

When prompted by an electromagnetic scanner, the chip transmits a unique code. With the code, hospital staff can go on the Internet and access a patient's medical profile that is maintained in a database by VeriChip Corp. for an annual fee.

VeriChip Corp., whose parent company has been marketing radio tags for animals for more than a decade, sees an initial market of diabetics and people with heart conditions or Alzheimer's disease, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

The company is spending millions to assemble a national network of hospitals equipped to scan chipped patients.

But in its SEC filings, product labels and press releases, VeriChip Corp. has not mentioned the existence of research linking embedded transponders to tumors in test animals.

When the FDA approved the device, it noted some Verichip risks: The capsules could migrate around the body, making them difficult to extract; they might interfere with defibrillators, or be incompatible with MRI scans, causing burns. While also warning that the chips could cause "adverse tissue reaction," FDA made no reference to malignant growths in animal studies.

Did the agency review literature on microchip implants and animal cancer?

Dr. Katherine Albrecht, a privacy advocate and RFID expert, asked shortly after VeriChip's approval what evidence the agency had reviewed. When FDA declined to provide information, she filed a Freedom of Information Act request. More than a year later, she received a letter stating there were no documents matching her request.

"The public relies on the FDA to evaluate all the data and make sure the devices it approves are safe," she says, "but if they're not doing that, who's covering our backs?"

Why private corporate interests of course. And a bang up job they're doing too what with more and more toxic products and dangerous pharmaceuticals flooding the market daily. You can see what a stellar job the republikkkan gutted USDA is doing if you peruse the articles posted here on the agricultural industrial complex

Thanks republikkkans for gutting the regulatory mechanisms of the federal government. And thanks right wing dimocraps for helping them.

America. The country where NOTHING matters but the bottom line of whoever pays most to politicians.