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    Default Ignorance is bliss

    http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/200...ance-is-bliss/

    Ignorance is bliss

    That is, your ignorance is the drug makers’ (and the medical equipment makers’) bliss.

    This is really unbelievable:
    The drug and medical-device industries are mobilizing to gut a provision in the stimulus bill that would spend $1.1 billion on research comparing medical treatments, portraying it as the first step to government rationing.
    Because freedom is all about laying out vast sums on medical treatments without knowing whether they’re actually doing any good.

    Remember this the next time someone talks about “entitlement reform” (which will probably happen in the next three seconds or so.) Health care costs are the main reason long-term fiscal projections look so scary — and here we have corporate interest trying to prevent us, not from trying to spend our health dollar more wisely, but from even trying to find out what we get for the health care dollar.

    This is truly vile.
    "Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34

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    We have a government by the corporations and for the corporations.
    The people became a support group for corporations a long time ago.
    Bush doubled the debt from 5 trillion to 10 trillion.
    Proving tax cuts work!

    Bush asked for and signed for the TARP money.
    The Republican senate leader backed Bush on this.

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    Your own ignorance of our entitlement spending must be bliss.
    There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

    -Oscar Wilde

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    government by the people and for the people....
    Bush doubled the debt from 5 trillion to 10 trillion.
    Proving tax cuts work!

    Bush asked for and signed for the TARP money.
    The Republican senate leader backed Bush on this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Epicurus View Post
    our entitlement spending
    Not enough.
    "Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34

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    usc=most blistfull
    The stone that the builder refused
    Will always be the head corner stone

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    Big Pharma is just like any other monied interest.

    Bottom line is the ONLY thing that matters.

    We need to regulate the shit out of these people and fund gov studies into treatment.

    There are indevors of man that are not well matched with a profit first and only as their driver.

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