“Remember, corporations are a creation of the government, an entity created to protect people from their wrong doings. Corporations would not exist in a free market.”

Corporations are the free association of people who pool their capital together for business. Corporations can exist in a free market or, in the case that we have now, a corporate welfare state. The problems we have with corporations are rooted in government preference, intervention, legal bribing, and cronyism.

"Corporations have never existed in a free-market."

This doesn’t mean a corporation CANNOT exist in a free market. I'll post a quote from Murray Rothbard from an article entitled "What is the Free Market?":

The Free market is a summary term for an array of exchanges that take place in society. Each exchange is undertaken as a voluntary agreement between two people or between groups of people represented by agents. These two individuals (or agents) exchange two economic goods, either tangible commodities or nontangible services. Thus, when I buy a newspaper from a news dealer for fifty cents, the news dealer and I exchange two commodities: I give up fifty cents, and the news dealer gives up the newspaper. Or if I work for a corporation, I exchange my labor services, in a mutually agreed way, for a monetary salary; here the corporation is represented by a manager (an agent) with the authority to hire.

Note he draws no exclusions between the free market and corporatism.

"They are a creation of the government that protects people from shoddy business practices."

It was modeled after the way churches work. Being a member of a church does not expose you to liability if the church is targeted for a lawsuit and the same goes for investors in corporations. There are libertarian, free market arguments both in support of and against limited corporate liability.

Check out the Weston Price Foundation's website. It has good reasons NOT to use soy milk for babies.

I know a mother who's baby did very well on raw goat milk.  It turned out to be the only thing that her baby could tolerate.  If I could not breast feed, I would use raw goat milk to feed my baby.

Dr. Mercola had a recent article about the dangers of soy and soy milk. One biggie is that it can delay puberty in boys and bring about premature puberty in girls.

It can cause a host of other problems, too. Soy is strongly anabolic. A consistent diet of anabolic foods can promote cancer.

I cured my own Stage 4 cancer ten years ago by factoring that into my own treatment recipe...got rid of the cancer in less than two weeks! It cost me about $10. Today it might cost $20 to $25.

It's working for others, too:

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The best to you.

Kelley Eidem

Together we can cure cancer - one person at a time!

“Home schooled children don't have this problem.”

This study is comparing American kids to kids from Western Europe. Where do you think the European kids go to school?

This study seems to be pretty much on the money with its conclusions, even if they’re not complete: regulatory practices and cultural beliefs about the role of medication in emotional and behavioral problems, different diagnostic classification systems, government cost restrictions in Europe, the larger number of child psychiatrists per capita in the US, and direct to consumer drug advertising.

We can add issues that Dr. Mercola has been driving home for years: poor American diets, vaccines, and various dangerous chemicals play a key role in the development of childhood behavior problems, along with Americans’ blind trust in mainstream medicine to cure their ills.

“If you really want to help your kids instead of abusing them, take them out of government schools now!!”

Where did you go to school?

“Public education is a drone factory;”

PRIVATE education is a drone factory. Most of our working lives are drone factories.

“I went thru it too, had to slough off all that accreted bs, but for most, the barnacle-coat is for life”

Every level of our lives involves dealing with propaganda of all varieties. Some people are obviously harder suckers for it than others; that’s one of the goals of parenting: to instill a HEALTHY skepticism in our children. The goal is to be aware of the system and fight for its change, but maintain your sanity as you’ll always have to live within it. I’ve met plenty from the lunatic fringe who make these same arguments and accusations who also cannot deal with life as it is. These people will never be happy.

“(does that make me more, or less credible?)”

Neither. The question was not asked as a litmus test of any kind.

“To be fair, Swami, the differences cited between W. Europe & America is one only of degree.”

But they are degrees in opposite directions: government schools in more socialist societies, less medication. The contention was that government schools here are at fault. If this is so, then these other countries should experience at least the same degree of effect of childhood medications. This sounds stupid because it IS stupid. As the article and my post stated, there are many interrelated causes.

“ not to mention the possibilty of loosening the state's grip on the hearts & minds of posterity”

Does sending kids to Catholic school do this? How about private schools? I know on at least an anecdotal basis that it’s a very mixed result. Government schools may be a part of the problem but they are not THE problem.

“Last, Europe (Prussia) invented 'public education' for purposes of regimentation & indoctrination . . .”

I know, and Halloween began as a Celtic ritual to gain access to the spirit world and Christmas began as a pagan celebration. And yes, I’m fully familiar with the leftist demagogues who are hell-bent on social engineering.