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 Posted: 02/27/05 - 22:50 Post subject: Democrats own
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Democrats tell Republicans:
"Stop sucking the fat c**k of big business asstards"
Hey f****d up republican administration...How about instead of ...you know...spending like a drunken sailor, creating an entirely unsustainable deficiti then cutting a bazillion good programs to look like youre trying to save money, why not instead actualyl DO SOMETHING GOOD FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
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Democrats: Lift ban on buying medicines from Canada
U.S.-made prescription drugs sell for 'half the U.S. retail price'
Saturday, February 26, 2005 Posted: 8:20 PM EST (0120 GMT)
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Why allow bad beef to enter the U.S. from Canada and not allow safe medicine?
-- Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer
(CNN) -- Montana's Democratic governor thinks it "makes no sense" that the United States can import "cattle, hogs and logs" from Canada -- but not cheaper prescription drugs.
Speaking in the weekly Democratic radio address Saturday from Helena, Montana, Gov. Brian Schweitzer said "local pharmacists should be allowed to reimport safe, affordable prescription drugs from Canada, where American-made, U.S. taxpayer-subsidized medicine is sold for as little as half the U.S. retail price."
He said that for five years, the government "has had the ability to lower the prescription drug cost for every person in America by as much as 50 percent. In five years, they've not delivered. Since they continue to sit on the sidelines, states have no choice but to do it for themselves."
Safety concerns about Canadian drugs "manufactured by American companies, are unfounded," Schweitzer said.
According to the governor, a top Food and Drug Administration official said last year that "there has never been a single documented case of an unsafe prescription drug coming across the border from Canada."
"In fact, Congress' own General Accounting Office issued a report last year reaffirming that prescription drugs purchased from Canada are just as safe as those purchased in the U.S.," Schweitzer said.
Schweitzer notes that the U.S.-Canadian border had been shut after the first case of mad cow disease was discovered in recent years.
"Now, on March 7th the President Bush is planning to open the border again to beef."
Schweitzer said that when Bush was in Montana recently, "We had just one question for him: "Why allow bad beef to enter the U.S. from Canada and not allow safe medicine?"
The administration has contended that buying drugs in other countries is unsafe. U.S. drug companies are thought to be upset at the practice because it would hurt their profits.
Schweitzer, a longtime Montana political figure elected governor last year, has chartered buses since 1999 to bring senior citizens over the border to purchase drugs "at a savings of more than half or one third of what they were paying in the United States."
"On the bus rides I would give the seniors citizens clipboards.
"They would tally all the trucks they saw with Canadian plates heading into the United States carrying cattle, hogs and logs and yet prescription drugs, made in the U.S., shipped to Canada aren't allowed back across the border. This makes no sense."
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kbarr
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Joined: 05 Oct 2004
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Location: New York, now go fuck off...
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Posted: 02/27/05 - 23:13 Post subject:
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Hey!
Guess what!
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Posted: 02/27/05 - 23:17 Post subject:
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| Kbarr wrote: | Hey!
Guess what!
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I hate Illinois nazis
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Frax
RealPoor Master of Posts
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Location: Fuck yoiu fucking fuckers
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Posted: 02/27/05 - 23:18 Post subject:
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| Jack Crow wrote: | | Kbarr wrote: | Hey!
Guess what!
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I hate Illinois nazis |
LOL
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xammer99
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Posted: 02/28/05 - 00:03 Post subject:
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While I'm sure this won't sink in for ya, might as well give a hope that someone else gets it.
Big Business and the US government very much tied together and that is not a Republican thing its both sides of the aisle. Business, with the exception of a couple of real hardcore idealogs, is entirely out for business and as such will always go where most friendly policies are at, and at the moment that is putting the Republican Party in the lead a bit. However, as with investments, business is quite skittish and should the Republican Party change or the Democratic Party become more probusiness, then Big Business's 'loyalty' will change as well.
This is nothing new at all, and has been proven time and time again. Till 1912 business was very cozy with the Republican Party, Wilson comes in and they saddle up to him and the Democrats till 1920 when the Republicans are Back. They stay loyal throughout the 20's cause times are good till the crash and business switches again to the Democrats with FDR and sticks with him because he was a HUGE friend to it. Same with Truman, Johnson, and Clinton. About the only exception to this is Carter, but he got in because everyone was p****d at Ford for pardoning Nixon as well as some other things.
Regardless, it is an unquestioned truth that big business supports both sides fully and with huge amounts of money. The question becomes who it supports more, and that is determined by who is most friendly too it.
So when you say that the Republican Party should stop playing to big business, well my friend, thats just rather ignorant of just how important business is to government and how intertwined their relationship really is. Hell most of the senior staff of every department is or was at some time a major player in big business.
And to this I say...YAH! Cause I do love capitalism and it keeps the wacko idealogues from getting outta hand.
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Zorin
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Posted: 02/28/05 - 01:38 Post subject:
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The wacko idealogues are out of hand.
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Tura
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Location: Raleigh, NC
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Posted: 02/28/05 - 01:53 Post subject:
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hey jack/nah....how do you and abi get along? Him being a republican that is. 
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Posted: 02/28/05 - 02:46 Post subject:
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| Tura wrote: | | hey jack/nah....how do you and abi get along? Him being a republican that is. |
we have a little "debate"
Sometimes abi takes the Pro sometimes he takes the con
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kbarr
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Location: New York, now go fuck off...
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Posted: 02/28/05 - 02:50 Post subject:
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f*****g f*g.
LOL
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ATM Banana
RealPoor Master of Posts
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Posted: 02/28/05 - 03:19 Post subject:
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thats a knee slapper, f*g f*g f*g
Didn't they retire this word to middle school use and to describe stupid people.
I never call gay people f**s, I call them queer.
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