Re-importation is a totally insane idea.
Rather than forcing the drug companies to charge certain reasonable prices, we are going to import drugs that are being manufactured someplace else by the same companies? Because the government refuses to exercise the powers that are available to it? Just think about this for a moment! We are looking for a solution far away, when it is right in front of our nose. If Canada has lower prices that here, it is because they have a law forcing drug companies to charge lower prices. If that is so, so can we.
In France, each drug is sold, by law, in generic and branded forms, and must have 2 companies manufacturing. This only shows what we have in this country is a perverted regulatory system, controlled by the drug industry.

Not the odometer, odormeter.

You are putting blame in the wrong place. Blame belongs in Washington. If you let your dog sit on your head, it will. China will push the rules until told to stop. Trade is a protection racket, and Chinese are protected by Washington. It is the will of the owners of this country that this should go on, therefore it does. How do you explain that not a single financial criminal has gone to jail? Same forces are at work in trade.

I believe the financial problems we are witnessing in Europe and here are the result of trade policies. The reason is that our ruling establishments have decided that rather than have immigration, they would rather send jobs to China and import from there. The elites are the only winners in world trade. However, West has lost control of its economies. We are dealing with problems we never had to face before, and we don’t know how to solve them. And the only way to solve the problem of trade is to stuff the genie back in the bottle, and go back to compartmentalized economic policies, where you can shut the door on problems at the border. The entire world is now a floating ship with doors open between compartments, so the water is flooding in. If you think about it, though, there is no need for trade. What we really need are good economic policies, to entice manufacturers to come in and make products in a particular country for that market only. There is no reason to export from China. An American company can manufacture products in China for Chinese markets, and here for domestic market, and sold at different prices in both countries, since each has different manufacturing costs. Any imports should be subject to huge duties. But you can’t just have stick alone. Governments should also have carrots, why a factory should locate in that country. I like what Fernandes is doing in Argentina, but it is all stick, no carrots. Money likes certainty, and countries should find ways to help businesses that want to manufacture here, instead of making it difficult to establish manufacturing operations here. Instead of wold trade, why don’t we have standardized investment rules.

He is doing absolutely the right thing: why should he be paying taxes on income he receives in other countries? I don’t believe this is all about money. Since no one asked for his reason for renouncing his citizenship, why do we assume it is only about money? And Schumer, a putz that he is, tries to gain political advantage. Why does he not go after Wall Street? He knows who is buttering his bread. It is possible that Saverin refused to contribute to Schumer’s favorite charity, himself. And why should Saverin live in a country populated by dumbest people in the world? What is going on in this country politically is unbelievable. It is probably the only place on the planet where people will vote against their own economic interests. So, until someone speaks to Saverin and finds out why he did it, lets just look in the mirror and see what we would have done in his place. Plus, with this this kind of money, he is way more sophisticated financially than an average American.

Please, not Schneiderman, this corrupt wimp.
My vote is for Spitzer. A man with balls, in more ways than one, and willing to lay them on the line. A rare quality in today’s Democratic party.

Another success by our vigilant “intelligence” agencies. These guys don’t sleep trying to come up with a plot that sounds credible. These are plots for children, and only simple American minds will swallow this without questioning it. This story is utter nonsense.

This is what happens when industry captures the regulators, if there is anyone even regulating.

The only way to “solve” Washington is constitutional amendment forbidding political contributions, which are nothing more than legalized bribery; with stiff fines of violations of the law. We all know by now that whatever law is passed by Congress is going to be declared unconstitutional by the Supremes. And while at it, how about a way to have a parliamentary system. Lets splinter our political system into as many parties as possible. Let coalitions bloom.

I don’t have a problem with paying for health insurance. Where I have a problem is paying extortionate premiums. And the rates are not going to go down because of ACA, they are going to go up no matter what, as long as private insurance companies are involved. Except now we are going to be penalized for not being able to afford insurance. As long as health insurance is in private hands, there will always be affordability problems, because there is going to be manipulation of rates for the sake of profit. That is why the only way this can function is if the government takes over health system, to take profit motive out of it. Just this past week I saw some figures about health costs in the developed countries, and France has health costs that are close to half of what they are here. I have been in a hospital in France, and spent 3 days there, for a procedure where a doctor here told me this would be an office visit. And he was laughing at how inefficient their system is. But I can bet anything that this same procedure, with 3 days stay in the hospital still costs less than one hour procedure in doctor’s office here. The health system is surrounded by sharks who are feeding off it, and everyone is blaming everyone else for the exorbitant cost of health care. The government has the power to control everyone’s greed, if it chooses to, but it gave up that power because our politicians are larded by bribes we call political contributions to do nothing while the whole thing is dysfunctional. We know how to solve the problem, but are paralyzed by greed.

You can be sure of one thing: when the insurance companies realize that there is subsidy, they are just going to increase rates. There is never a bad reason to raise rates. Does anyone trust insurance companies to restrain their greed? I certainly don’t. We are simply going to go from one crisis to another. Plus, the fact that you have to buy insurance means that there will be no place to go except into the pen to be picked clean. And all this with government approval. The rates are not going down, you can be sure of that.

We are not going to leave until the next war starts. How else can you launder money and have theft on a huge scale without control? Our establishment is in dire need of income. Are you trying to destroy its livelihood? Do you think they lard Washington for no reason?

This was a gift to the insurance companies. We shall be herded into a pen and have a turkey shoot. What is there not to like here?

More than likely he did not even exist, but CIA and Cheney needed a good enemy. Hence, Bin Laden. He died when Obama needed him dead, having served his function. Perfect ending to a perfect life. If not for his death, there probably would not have been a withdrawal from Iraq. He did not die in vain.

Unless he throws cads of money at politicians to get them elected, he is not a leader. People like Kochs are the power, not Limbaugh. He is just a puppet the money guys use to manipulate the rabble.

The talk of Israeli attack on Iran is just a bluff.It will never do it on its own. But what Israel is trying to do is to draw U.S. into attacking Iran, if this is what they really intend to do. There is no way Israel, with a population of 7 mil. can attack a country of 70 million, 1000 miles away. Unless it is a nuclear attack. And I don’t believe Israel is ready for that.
I am more inclined to believe that this is a ploy to drive oil prices higher, and speculators are participating in this, and are making a killing. Who knows how much money is flowing into Obama’s coffers for his reelection.

There is only one way to create jobs, and that is to bring back manufacturing. No matter how much money is going to be poured into government created job, it will be of no use. It is like having a leaky tank into which you keep pouring water but it is just leaking out. I know politicians would like us to believe that these jobs can never come back, and they are not as long as we long as the corporations keep paying off to keep these jobs overseas and have low duties on imported products. But this is the only place where the jobs are. So until we fix our political system, it is not possible to fix the economic system. We may have to wait a few decades for the current economic cycle to run its course, until the time when manufacturing is going to be more cost effective here than, say in Africa, which could be the next place where the search for cheaper labor will take us after China. Trust me, China will never allow importation of cheaper products into China. That would be political suicide. I believe their recent revolution is still keeping the fear of God in their elites, and they know that empty stomachs can be very explosive.

I really believe that liberals are just incurable romantics, as in
What do you call a man who has syphilis, gonorrhea and AIDS? An incurable romantic.

What is a liberal? You can play with the meaning of the word and adjust poll numbers to mean almost anything, and, for that matter, nothing.