One point you failed to make: Because of environmental restrictions, pig farmers all across the country have had nearly impossible mandates to meet, for several years, and many of them have simply quit trying to raise hogs. As a result of decreased production, lack of feed, swine flu (irrational) fears, banking fiascos, and flawed environmental laws, a crisis has developed in the healthcare stream. Armour Thyroid is made from dessicated pig thyroid, which has been unavailable for some time. As a result, the medicine supply has disappeared, and millions of people who take this thyroid supplement medication -- because it's a natural substance and carries none of the hazards of the manufactured thyroid med's -- have suddenly found...

I encountered the same result with Bank of America. Don't we have Tim Geithner and Obama to thank for this situation? Just one more example of the wrong-headedness of the current administration and "leadership" in the House and Senate. My daughter has been trying to restructure her mortgage for the last 9 months, having submitted 17 packages of various forms, to date. They promised her an answer by the end of the year (2009), but that didn't happen, either -- just as nothing else they've told her has actually come to pass. (And no, she's not with Bank of America.)