Obama In Collusion With The Big Bad Drug Companies

Are deals made? Of course they are or no major legislation would ever get passed. The drug and insurance companies are too powerful to get any healthcare legislation through without their backing. Anyone that believes otherwise is either naive or very obtuse.

Just all in the course huh? Crap like this is exactly why this country is in it's current shape. The something for everyone mentality simply drives costs on things higher in order for everyone to get their payoffs.

If we've reached the point where we can't get legislation passed without bribery and blackmail, then it's time to scrap this system ( or it's players ) and start over.
Backroom deal making and political favors are as old as this country. It's how important legislation gets passed. That's also how you end up with 6,000 earmarks on a transportation bill, many of which have nothing to do with transportation. As long as we allow large corporations and pressure groups to control congress, then the White House, regardless who occupies it will be making deals.

Well maybe the easiest way to deal with it is to get rid of any lawmakers we find making back room deals. Perhaps we should hold them to the high standards they claim to have when they are campaigning. We as a citizenry, will get exactly what we're willing to tolerate.
 
MIAMI, FLORIDA, May 17, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney scheduled a $50,000-a-plate fundraiser at the home of Phil Frost, the executive of the company that makes the Morning After Pill, on Wednesday night. Plan B One-Step is produced by Teva Pharmaceuticals, Frost’s company.

The pharmaceutical executive’s residence was one of several stops scheduled to increase Romney’s war chest during a two-day swing through Florida.

“It’s a huge disappointment,” Brian Camenker, director of the Massachusetts-based pro-family organization MassResistance told LifeSiteNews.com. “You wouldn’t see someone who was really pro-life doing a fundraiser with somebody who helped the abortion industry.”

LifeSiteNews Mobile | Mitt Romney holds fundraiser with manufacturer of the Morning After Pill

Speaking of pharmaceuticals......
 
Just all in the course huh? Crap like this is exactly why this country is in it's current shape. The something for everyone mentality simply drives costs on things higher in order for everyone to get their payoffs.

If we've reached the point where we can't get legislation passed without bribery and blackmail, then it's time to scrap this system ( or it's players ) and start over.
Backroom deal making and political favors are as old as this country. It's how important legislation gets passed. That's also how you end up with 6,000 earmarks on a transportation bill, many of which have nothing to do with transportation. As long as we allow large corporations and pressure groups to control congress, then the White House, regardless who occupies it will be making deals.

Well maybe the easiest way to deal with it is to get rid of any lawmakers we find making back room deals. Perhaps we should hold them to the high standards they claim to have when they are campaigning. We as a citizenry, will get exactly what we're willing to tolerate.
Control political contributions and you eliminate most of the problems. Unfortunately, the greatest talent most of our congressman possess is their ability to raise money and they're not going to pass any legislation that limits them.
 

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