I recently watched this video about the upcoming British vote to leave the European Union.  As an American citizen, I found it very enlightening, even though not 100% relevant to me.

“The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.”

- Benjamin Franklin

"Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongues."

- Proverbs 17:28

"If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand."

- Mark 3:25

I am writing this post as a follow-up to my previous post about stretches and exercises to help manage lower back pain.  I’ve been using these stretches and exercises to manage my lower back pain for over 5 years, but now that I’ve been to a chiropractor, it’s time to share my new perspective and thoughts:

1.  First and foremost, I should have seen a chiropractor FIRST. 

Instead, I went to my family doctor, an orthopedic specialist, a physical therapist, and a spinal (injection) specialist.  Oops!  All of these people I visited offered advice on how to “manage” the pinched nerve and bulged disc.  The chiropractor’s objective is to actually fix the underlying cause of the pain.  My first chiropractic visit lasted almost 2 hours and the initial adjustment took place in the last 5 or 10 minutes of that visit.  

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Marketri, LLC    Doylestown, PA    2007 - 2009
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Graphic Edge, Inc.    Doylestown, PA    Summer 2006
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Mangos, Inc.    Malvern, PA    Summer 2006
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"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist."

- President Dwight Eisenhower

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks…will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered…. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”

– Thomas Jefferson in the debate over the Re-charter of the Bank Bill (1809)

“Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.”

- Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), founder of the House of Rothschild.

“Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”

― Benjamin Franklin