Let me tell my story: last late summer, early fall, my blood test results of cholesterol piling up to 285 hastened my new medical doctor to prescribe pravastatin to reduce my cholesterol.    The doctor told me of the correlation of high cholesterol and heart attacks.  Fine.  It was a $4 special at Walmart.  Just another medicine to add to my seven-day weekly pill holder.The statin medicine did just fine to lower my cholesterol to a 'healthy' range around 200.  Then six months later I go to see a chiropractor because of extreme pain in my legs for the last four months.  I no longer 'walked' but hobbled as the pain in my right leg almost disabled my motion.  The chiropractor asks me if I am taking a statin cholesterol drug because it may cause leg pains.  'Oh' I reply and put the piece of information to a back-burner in my mind.The a few days later, in my usual daily email note from Newsmax.com, there is a link about cholesterol lowering drugs.  I click the link to see information not told to me by my MD.  It turns out that the statin cholesterol drugs do indeed lower cholesterol, but it is not selective on which kind of cholesterol it destroys; good and bad cholesterol is destroyed.  But in addition, besides destroying cholesterol, it destroys a half-a-dozen GOOD chemicals your body produces and needs.Your body PRODUCES cholesterol.  It is the needed chemical to build the water-proof linings of each of your body cells!  So statin drugs have a good-to-bad yield of 1:6, one positive for six negatives.  So that night, I dumped anti-cholesterol statin drugs and stayed taking fish oil.And the next day I noticed that I did not have such an urge to 'hobble' as I tried to walk!  Five days later, I am able to climb a stairway using both legs and not just pulling my right leg up a step.   And online there are many other witnesses of the bad effects of statin drugs.Fine.  Just another story on the bads of statin drugs?  Or is there an underlying problem?  Why did the FDA put the 'stamp-of-approval' on statin drugs?  The statin drug scene reminds me of the shuttle take-off crash.  In stories I read, one Cape Canaveral engineer warned that an outside temperature at freezing or below may have bad effects.  But the general project manager, with a lot of outside pressure to get the first flight with a school teacher in the crew, decided to to launch and see what bad things may happen.  After a few millions bucks for a destroyed shuttle and all the lives of the crew, the manager found out the bad effects of freezing temperature launch.Was the FDA pressured by drug companies to approve statin drugs?  A statement by President Eisenhower in 1953 comes to mind:  "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." The 'privileges' for some Americans go further than drug manufacturers, but to the financial institutions and the auto industry.  Are the 'bail-outs' by the government constitutional?  I deeply recommend a book by Larry Burkett, The Coming Economic Earthquake.  Mr. Burkett outlines history of Germany and Argentina very well of their times of hyper-inflation caused by a money supply not backed up by solid collateral, like gold (which happens to be in the Constitution in Article 1 Section 10 but the Federal Reserve in 1917 changed that, and Ft. Knox went out of business in the early 1970s.)But President BHO has a plan.  The American vote 'spoke,'  let's see what happens.Donald Syvanen