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Let Them Eat Zoloft


US Politics & Gov't  (tags: healthcare, healthcare, politics, government, usa, corruption )

Cal
- 82 days ago - motherjones.com
So far, just about every new turn in the health care battle is confirming what many have known for some time: The US health care system is run largely for the benefit of these corporate giants, rather than for the American people, and no piece of legislat
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Roseann D. (83)
Wednesday November 18, 2009, 10:02 pm
Who needs 'em anyway. The future of medicine is non-invasive, anti-pharmaceuticals. Hypocrates knew what he was talking about when he said, let food be thy medicine.... bodies will heal themselves given the chance. Big Pharma are the snake oilys of today.
 

Tierney G. (357)
Thursday November 19, 2009, 7:09 am
I agree 100 % with Roseanne!!! let them choke on it!! the thieves..
 

Cynthia Davis (283)
Thursday November 19, 2009, 9:03 am
There are 3 things we have a abundence of in any town or city in this country just look around you and what do you see, Banks, Insurance Companies and Pharmacies. Small town main streets are gone and have been replaced with these corporate vampires which are sucking the poor and middle class, young and old to death. We have let these corporations take over our lives and turn us into a bunch of sick zombies. We are even feeding our kids drugs that they have never needed before. We are the walking dead and that's just how these corporations like it.
 

PeaceDreamer LLP (65)
Thursday November 19, 2009, 10:38 am
There are a lot of doctors who are wined and dined as soon as they entered medical school by big pharma. Not all fall into it but too many become so involved that they are pushing these drugs for kickbackes to pay off the loans they took out to get their education. My husband was told by a Neurologist 5 years ago "don't you know this is a prozac nation?" and this doctor thought that was hilarious. Too many people have turned their heads away from the truth and now look where we are. It has to stop! but will be costly to anyone who is in opposition as we found out. My husband was a whistle blower and our life became a living hell we are still trying to recover from it.
 

Nyack Clancy (834)
Thursday November 19, 2009, 11:16 am
RIGHT!

I am depressesed (and rightfully so with what mankind has done to all of Mother Nature/ Mother earth and all of the non-human species)

So? Doctor? Prescribe me a "HAPPY PILL" so I i will become oblivious to the planet's issues and rendered unconcious while big Oil Companies and Logging Companies rape the planet...

Write me a presciption, and charge my Insurance Company, while you render me as just another "hysterical female" (most likely a victem of the unexplored and greatly feared female hormone phemoneon)

OH! and if a pill wont cure the evil, do a hysterectomy for that blasted :Female Thing" and the surgeons can charge my Insurance Company for the surgery, as well as the happy pills...

Anything to shut that woman up!
 

Bee Hive Lady (392)
Thursday November 19, 2009, 11:17 am
Many people need this particular drug, it is taken orally, should not be called invasive. I refuse to believe that some of my best friends are speaking out against this necessary medication.
 

Cary Vizzutti (24)
Thursday November 19, 2009, 1:05 pm
How much more proof does one need to see.

Secret societies ( Rothchild empire, red shield) and other International bank-sters
run, control, and bribe the US Congress and have them in their BACK pocket.
They are all sell outs to the American people. Very few exceptions.
And if you will notice those back pockets have a LEFT side for the Dems,
and a RIGHT back pocket for the Repubs.
Totally disgusting, and they are not finished with us yet unless we expose them.

When ever there is a bill on the table to pass
it should be MANDATORY they cite which part of the constitution
that new bill refers to. If it doesn't match- toss it out.

Knowing how crooked, dishonest, and morally unbalanced these drug companies are
how are you ever going to get health care reform through without putting all of them in jail first.

Before health care can be reformed, the Congress should be held accountable first.
STOP listening to the lies they feed us. Start looking at their actions from now on.

... and AUDIT the Federal Reserve which is the biggest PONZY scheme going.
Bernie Maddoff scam is nothing compared to these animals.
The US dollar right now is only worth about 4 cents,
the cost of paper and ink.
 

Cary Vizzutti (24)
Thursday November 19, 2009, 1:25 pm
.... and these are the Misfits you are counting on to pass " Climate " reform.
Good luck on that.
Can you see why so many people don't trust the other
bought and paid for scientists and their opinions on global warming.
Just ask yourself- who benefits and who pays.

Now they are training kids in school to rat out there parents
for using the wrong light bulbs or leaving the tap run when you
brush your teeth. How will this end ?
 

Judy Cross (83)
Thursday November 19, 2009, 2:43 pm
The story is also about the misuse of eminent domain. They destroyed peoples lives for a corporation by taking their homes away.
 

Cary Vizzutti (24)
Thursday November 19, 2009, 2:47 pm



Message to Congress
The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775 - you've had 234 years to get it right; it's broke.

Social Security was established in 1935 - you've had 74 years to get it right; it's broke.

Fannie Mae was established in 1938 - you've had 71 years to get it right; it's broke.

The "War on Poverty" started in 1964 - you've had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor"; it hasn't worked and our entire country is broke.

Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965 - you've had 44 years to get it right; they're both broke.

Freddie Mac was established in 1970 - you've had 39 years to get it right; it's broke.

Trillions of dollars were spent in the massive political payoffs called TARP, the "Stimulus", the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009.... none show any signs of working, although ACORN appears to have found a new source: the American taxpayer.

And finally, to set a new record:

"Cash for Clunkers" was established in 2009 and went broke in 2009! It took cars (that were the best some people could afford) and replaced them with high-priced and less-affordable cars, mostly Japanese. A good percentage of the profits went out of the country. And the American taxpayers take the hit for Congress' generosity in burning three billion more of our dollars on failed experiments.

So with a perfect 100% failure rate and a record that proves that "services" you shove down our throats are failing faster and faster, you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government-run health care system?

20% of our entire economy?

With all due respect,


ARE YOU CRAZY???!!!!!
 

John C. (96)
Thursday November 19, 2009, 6:04 pm
Geez Cary! Are you Mr. Good News today or what?
We pretty well have all the problems down, so whats your solution besides everyone's crooked, and no solution will work?
 

Cary Vizzutti (24)
Thursday November 19, 2009, 7:27 pm
expose the fed, and hold politicians to the constitution.
You are not doing either effectively.
Watch what they are doing for self interest and stop them before they dig a hole we can't get out of.
Get involved more is a good solution that will work.
Don't be afraid to speak up against corruption and human suffering.
Basically wake up and study your history.
I didn't create the problem but I feel I am part of the solution for speaking up.

The easy to trap lambs and sheep
are always the first slaughtered.
 

LLOYD H. (9)
Thursday November 19, 2009, 9:08 pm
Some days you just gotta love Karma! Finnaly the fine upstanding citizens that have inficted America with Joe 'the backbiting pharma,health insurance employee' Lieberman have gotten bit in the ass by the same corporate profits firstest with the mostest and people with just enough to keep them feeding the corporate coffers. Good! I know it is wrong to take any kind of satisfaction in the misfortune of others, but as a mere morttal human I willingly admit to a great deal of satisfaction, no actual joy, in the fact that the people of Connecticut have now been given a small taste of what the rest of America suffers daily at the hands of the Soulless Corporate Profiteers that they intentionally turned their State into a posh haven for with tax incentives, lax regulation ... find themselves at the mercy of the mosters they harbor. And now with their local, and state elected corporate employees doing the Corproations bidding at the expense of the people of Connecticut.
 

Lyn C. (37)
Thursday November 19, 2009, 10:23 pm
Just because the pharmaceutical companies are greedy, corrupt corporate entities, to say that all medications should go by the wayside is ridiculous. Sure many drugs are over prescribed and overused, but there are many people who count on all manner of medications to survive. To lump all people and the drugs they take together negatively, is kind of simplistic.

Politicians like Lieberman should not be allowed to take donations like he and many others do, from the big corporations, but they do. We have to actively get involved and see where the politicians and their funding is coming from and then vote accordinly.

Lync
 

Past Member (0)
Friday November 20, 2009, 5:04 am
WE are always going to see some form of greed and corruption in big businesses including Big Pharma. That does not mean we should throw away our blood pressure and heart pills. But it does mean we need a governmental oversight committee, that makes sure these pharmaceutical companies do not jack up prices on their products just because of health care reform. That is just plain wrong! And now we are seeing these huge mergers of already large Pharma companies, which gives them more monopoly over their medications, which I feel is wrong also.
 

Sylvia W. (26)
Friday November 20, 2009, 1:27 pm
Surprise!? Big Pharma is only interested in their bottom line, or they wouldn't constantly be shoe-horning new products onto the market often with minimal, faulty or downright fraudulent data, and because the public is subjected to a bombardment of direct marketing on TV and in the print media, people assume the stuff is safe and demand it from over-worked or occasionally paid-off doctors who comply. Then when the stuff makes them sicker they sue, and the company pays them off and touts the New and Improved this or that and start the cycle over. I don't even use aspirin anymore.
 

Cary Vizzutti (24)
Friday November 20, 2009, 3:02 pm
Gary Null Speaking Out
at the NYS Assembly Hearing | 10-13-2009 | (part 1 of 3)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3XlJB7J5-o&NR=1

5 stars Please WATCH
 

Cynthia Davis (283)
Friday November 20, 2009, 6:02 pm
Everyone should watch these youtube links of Gary Null.
TY for the link Cary Vizzutti.
Then you can get an idea of just how much these Pharmacies are taking from us.
Prozac - costs you $247.47 cost to make 11 cents That's a mark up of 244,073.00%
Why should any drug be marked up at 244,073.00% more then it cost to make. That's not profit that's greed. And we should not allow it.
Why should we allow our Insurance Corporations free rain over us either. Why should we be paying more and more for Insurance each year so they can turned us down when we need it due to an pereexsiting condition. Its time we stop letting these greedy blood suckers drain us dry.
We need Health Care Reform Now!
 

Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (279)
Friday November 20, 2009, 10:32 pm
Thannxxx... I am so amazed at the exhorbitatnt costs that these corporates get away with.. is not medical care suppose to be based of compassion and love.. honour before money.... something is definitely wrong...
 

Sara R. (0)
Tuesday November 24, 2009, 4:41 am
If you think eminent domain is bad (and it is) try living in a State where sovereign immunity is still practiced. I am one of many who was nearly killed by a speeding State dump truck. The State said "so sue us - we've got millions$ and we'll out-money anyone we injure or kill".

transmetteur fm
 

Pat Prest (33)
Thursday November 26, 2009, 12:05 pm
It reminds me of the old adage "let them eat cake!"
Hence, the French Revolution.....
Are we getting that close to "by the people, for the people", before WE the people take some action and start making demands of our own!!
 
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