What brought America to the pinnacle of fame was the hard work of millions of Americans. Americans saw problems and set out to solve them. And America had success – bolstered by American values.
Huge companies grew from meager starts. There was little talk of “KILLING” the competition. So, the next BIG idea with meager starting finances had a reasonable chance for success.
It was America’s government – not America’s businesses that allowed for the expanding growth of business. And government’s use of the MONOPOLY tool helped to ensure that BIG BUSINESS did not “KILL” its competition.
BIG BUSINESS came into the forefront of leadership of America’s government during the business-centric rein of the neocons. The MONOPOLY word “died” amid the fan-fare of the GLOBAL ECONOMY words.
The global economy, as practiced by BIG business, means that BIG BUSINESS has access to labor pools throughout the world while consumers are severely restricted in where they are allowed to purchase items that are produced in America.
Pharmaceuticals cried foul and suggested delivery problems to those Canadian businesses selling life-extending prescription drugs to American seniors who crossed the border to buy less expensive prescription drugs in Canada.
An article in About.com says this about Seniors buying prescription drugs in Canada:
Borderline Drugs
Crossing the border to get prescription drugs may save you money.
By Carol & Richard Eustice, About.com Guide
Updated December 10, 2003
About.com Health’s Disease and Condition content is reviewed by the Medical Review Board
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- Arthritis Medications
- > Drug Costs / Drug Expenses
During the year 2000, exorbitant prescription drug prices in the United States became a hot topic. Many politicians spoke out about the need for Medicare reform. Drug companies tried to fend off legislation which would impose price controls. People without medical insurance or prescription drug benefits grew more and more fearful of not being able to afford needed medications.
Unlike other countries, the United States does not have price controls on drugs. According to a Congressional Research Service study, seniors in Vermont pay an average of 81% more than Canadians for the 10 most commonly used prescription drugs. As reports surfaced this year about the significant savings available on prescription drugs in Canada and Mexico, more people than ever before headed for the border. Actually, Americans have been crossing the border to buy their prescription drugs for many years, but the soaring cost of drugs in the U.S. stirred new interest in border bargains.
Some people made the trek themselves. Others crossed into Mexico on sold-out bus trips from nearby states like Arizona and Southern California. To the north, a similar scenario occurred in Canada. A prescription signed by a Canadian doctor is required in Canada, but some pharmacies are said to look the other way.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not prohibit individuals from bringing drugs into the United States, but limits it to a three-month supply of prescription drugs for personal use only, not to be re-sold. Drug manufacturers, however, frown on people crossing the border to buy drugs, citing possible counterfeit medications and the lack of instruction from medical professionals as serious problems. Drug manufacturers defend higher prices in the U.S. by pointing to the high cost of research which is necessary to develop and produce new drugs.
Attempts by Congress and some states to set price controls on prescription drugs have been fought by drugmakers. In May, the state of Maine passed a law which created a commission to negotiate drug prices for its uninsured residents and impose price controls in 2003 unless drugmakers lower costs. In Vermont, a similar bill was proposed but was defeated following a strong lobby against it by the drugmakers. Congressman Bernie Sanders and Senator Jim Jeffords, both from Vermont, have also worked on legislation which would allow American distributors and pharmacists to re-import FDA approved prescription drugs into the U.S. from Mexico and Canada at the low prices offered in those countries.
As drugmakers fight back against re-importation and price controls, and as the U.S. government seems far from consensus about a solution to soaring drug prices, people are doing whatever it takes to obtain the medications they need. Some people reportedly have been forced to choose between food and their prescription medications, while others have cut their dosage in half to extend their medications. Comparison shopping and online pharmacies have provided significant savings in some cases. Yet for many people, making the trip to the border has been the remedy.
http://arthritis.about.com/cs/druggen/a/borderlinedrugs.htm
When your business product keeps people out of coffins, there is a natural motivation for people to buy that product. And, correspondingly, “life was good” for the pharmaceutical industry. How good? See joejolly’s post here.
With the pharmaceutical industry handling the health care business of the neocon government, the neocons could then turn their attention to the financial industry. De-regulation of that industry freed up more of the neocons government’s time. That meant that the neocon government could engage in what is clearly a government function – WARS!
One might think that if the neocons specialized in WARS, wars would be their “strong suit” but “perish the thought”. From the jungles of South America to the sands of the Middle East and on to the door-steps of Russia and the Georgia war – there is nothing outstanding about the neocons war effort.
The neocons’ war effort produced neocon sanctioned selling of crack cocaine in minority areas of the American city of Los Angeles, California. That was done to help finance their war in the jungle of South America.
The neocons’ war effort produced the Iraq war. What triggered the Iraq war is known only to a privileged few. Although the resources used by the neocons belonged to America – America has never been told(the truth) why the Bush team started the Iraq war.
The Iraq war killed more human beings than did all the terrorist acts in all of the world. And nobody don’t know why it started.
Only huge natural disasters stands a chance of competing with the neocon’s killing activity. It can be that way when war is the primary tool of diplomacy.
When you agree with the neocons eight out of tens times – you are their friend. Otherwise you are their opponent. And America’s arsenal – in the hands of such mental thinking could be a catalyst for war.
An early American victim of the neocons’ war on terror was AMERICA’S PRIVACY. The neocons “needed fer to know” what was on the minds of America as the the neocons fought their war on terror. The act of spying on Americans without a court order was illegal but who has the “guts” to point a finger at the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – WHO ALSO IS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF AMERICA’S ARMED FORCES.
Who can “whup” America’s president? This was just one more act that the neocons got away with because they were willing to challenge America’s laws by just ignoring them and putting a secrecy classification on the illegal act. After getting caught it was a trivial matter for America’s Congress(pre-2006) to change laws to better reflect the behavior of the neocons.
Twenty – some – odd years of the neocons saw business manage what the government should have been managing.
Health care for Americans should have had government oversight. The financial industry should have had government oversight. Lack of government oversight of the financial industry produced a disaster. Lack of government oversight in the health care industry is likely to have the same effect.
Business is about its “bottom-line”. Government is about its people. Democracy separates government from business. Fascism merges government and business. The neocons have spoken of socialism but have shed no wisdom on fascism.
The neocons have certainly made their marks on America and indeed the world.
Minority neighborhoods in Los Angeles California will long remember neocon sponsored crack cocaine. Valerie Plame will likely remember the neocons. Iraq will long remember the death and destruction of the neocons’ Iraq war. Georgia will likely remember the visit of the high ranking American politician who showed up during their war with Russia. HAMAS won’t likely forget the even-handed display of fairness by the neocons. Israel will likely remember the occasion of their 60th birthday which actually turned out to be Palestine’s 60th obituary day. And the United Nations will likely remember how the neocons “held its feet to the fire” in an attempt to get it to follow the “Bush Doctrine”. And outer-space is likely to remember how it became the possession of the neocons.
All-in-all, the neocons have presided over some of the most damaging years of America’s history. And they “ain’t” responsible for any of the train-wrecks they caused. The “BUCK NEVER STOPPED ON A NEOCONS’ DESK”. Try – “They gave your mortgage to a less qualified minority” as being the cause of the 2007 recession.
America survived the twenty-some-odd years of neocon “leadership” but it still remains to be seen if America’s values can be restored. The elasticity limit of America’s values may have been exceeded – meaning that pre-neocon values may be impossible to return to. And that is a “crying shame”. Naming stuff after an American President who presided over the illegal sale of crack cocaine to minority neighborhoods of Los Angeles California is a “crying shame”.
