HUNKER DOWN I

Does anyone deny that, given economic recovery encouraging news, now is the time to hunker down even more, think a boxer having his opponent on the ropes, think we don't want to let the economic crisis off the ropes?

DESPERATE MEASURES V

Does anyone deny that obese people are entitled to a war on obesity in and of themselves, that is to say that, while significant, health care benefits are not the only justification for attacking this problem?

DESPERATE MEASURE IV

Does anyone deny that a war against obesity is an appropriate desperate measure to take in a time of economic crisis?

DESPERATE MEASUTES III

Does anyone deny that a benefit to organized crime flowing from the economic crisis desperate measure of amnesty is integration into main stream society, think Cutty Sark, think president of the United States?

DESPERATE MEASURES II

Does anyone deny that legalizing, and taxing, heretofore illegal activities is an appropriate desperate measure during an economic crisis?

DESPERATE MEASURES I

Does anyone deny that in times of war, including economic war, it would not only be acceptable, but, indeed, foolish not to resort to what otherwise might be considered desperate measures?

AMNESTY I

Does anyone deny that, given that the annual losses by means of health care fraud are pegged at hundreds of billions of dollars, an amnesty program for organized crime may well be the single greatest "cure" for health care available, to say nothing of the otherwise huge "cures" for the economy in general and a major cancer of our society?