John Edwards (D-NC), the vice presidential nominee in 2004, used an S-Corp to reduce his self-employment tax (the S-Corp loophole) on tens of millions of dollars in legal fee income, whereas Gov. Romney did not seek to use this S-Corp. self-employment tax reduction strategy.
An example given in this video is the reduction of local self-sufficiency in popular and effective herbal medicines such as Nardostachys grandiflora and Picrorhiza scrophulariifolia.
Emissions are falling by less than a percentage point a year, and the government has admitted that it will fail to meet a self-imposed target of a 20% reduction in carbon-dioxide emissions on 1990 levels by next year, even though the recession has cut economic activity.
It is particularly associated with a dependence upon sexual activity, our most basic animal instinct, hence the reduction in the sex-drive and a return to a childlike, innocent self-awareness during recuperative states.