Congressman Paul Ryan, Ranking Member of House Budget Committee, makes plea to colleagues at markup of FY2010 Budget Resolution: “I believe America is an exceptional nation. It is exceptional. It is the greatest nation on earth. It has done more to bring prosperity, wealth, and growth, and lift people out of poverty than any other nation in the history of this planet. We are a very strong nation in so many ways. We are not the kind of a nation that is going to be defeated by outside forces. We are not the kind of a nation that is going to be defeated by some other country’s military. But we are the kind of a nation that if we dont watch it we could defeat ourselves from within. That is exactly is what this budget proposes to do in my opinion. “This budget proposes to increase our national debt by more than all prior 43 presidents combined. We are going to double the national debt within five-and-a-half years and triple it in ten years. We are going to impose a nearly two trillion dollar tax increase on our economy on everyone in the middle of a recession. And we are going to do this because we think that government has all of the answers. We think that industrial policy bureaucrats, health care bureaucrats, education bureaucrats, energy bureaucrats can better organize these affairs in our lives than we ourselves can. We disagree. We think the strength of this economy, the strength of this country, is its people, not its government. “We are a people with a government, not … Video Rating: 4 / 5
I have a black lab who is about 10 years old, great health, and very active. The only problem is that she pees in the house; she was diagnosed with having a weak bladder, as many older dogs have. She was given medication for it, but it doesn’t seem to help. The peeing happens pretty randomly, mostly when shes lying down and it happens at least more than once a day. Does anyone know of any foods or other medications that could help cure this? Any ideas? Thanks!
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She refuses to let me manage my two cats’ food, because she says that the cats ‘always look so starving’ in the morning, and meow and bug her. They are both under a year old.
I know all too well how to properly care for and feed my cats, but she insists that she control the ‘downstairs’ food. (We have two sets of food and water bowls, one upstairs in my bedroom, and one downstairs. They are fed mainly dry food.)
My problems with her feeding:
1) She continues to give them wet food after I, backed up by our vet, told her that they should be weened off of it, and onto dry only for a while. She tells me that they get only 1/4 of a can per cat each morning, yet I see tons and tons of cat food cans coming in when the grocery shopping is done without my knowledge.
2) She gives them handfulls of treats at a time. Not just one at a time, either. She throws a handfull of treats on the floor and just lets them gobble it up. To me, that’s completely unhealthy, and completely against the whole point of a ‘treat’.
3) She puts WAY too much food in their dry food bowl, and lets it sit out all day long. Almost every single time I check it each day, it’s still overflowing. Yet my cats are nowhere near skinny, so it’s not an issue with their appetites. I constantly tell her to cut it back, and yet it’s still a massive amount.
4) She gives them people-food, even when I tell her not to, or when I tell her to give them just a tiny, tiny peice. I also give them tiny amounts of my own food (a lick of plain vanilla ice cream off of my pinky finger, or a microscopic chunk of cheddar cheese), so I need to know that they aren’t getting extra snacks elsewhere.
I have talked to her endlessly about this, and she won’t give in. She knows all the consequences, and all the health risks.
What can I do to get the point across, and to get her to either let me take total control of the feedings, or have her doing them properly??
My cat lost a tooth several weeks ago and has been taking medicine, drops, flushes, rinses, etc…to take care of it. The problem is (and the vet is aware) that his mouth bleeds regularly every day from the hole in his mouth. We can’t feed him dry food because it hurts him, we can’t feed him wet food because it gets stuck in the hole and further complicates matters. The cat is dangerously skinny as it is and I just want to either stop the bleeding and/or find a better diet that can keep him in better health. Any suggestions?
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