I have written before about Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), the chronic, degenerative inflammatory arthritic disease which I was diagnosed as having back in 1985.  According to new figures from the CDC, there are as many as 1.4 million people with AS in North America, and possibly as many as 2.4 million. AS affects more people than Multiple Sclerosis, Cystic Fibrosis and Lou Gehrig's disease combined.  According to the new CDC figures, it also now affects more people than are affected by Rheumatoid Arthritis.

AS is a devastating, often painful and debilitating disease which can fuse the neck and spine and cause a variety of other problems.  My neck and spine have been totally fused since 1989.

I am sick and tired of hearing about the American workforce losing jobs to countries where the people are willing to work for pennies a day.  Clearly something has to be done, and since, we can't expect American workers to work for pennies a day, the answer is obvious; We must dramatically raise the salaries of all those youngsters in Guatemala that are undercutting our beloved American labor force by working for practically nothing.