>>>>>>>Wait a minute here. The goverment is missing a great opertunity. They should be taxing us for our rights and freedom. The more you pay, the more you get.
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>>>>>>Well that's kinda true as it is...heck just ask O.J. or Michael Jackson....
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>>>>>>>My 0.2 cents (how much freedom does that get me?)
>>>>>>You can can 3000 breaths of USA air per day.
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>>>>>Aren't you kind, thanks. Are you tring to sale me LA air or Florida air?
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>>>>Well the gorevnment would provide a discount for LA air since it more dirty - this way more people would use it, and then more people would get sick, thus needing drugs to 'feel' better - thus enabling the politicians to line their pockets via the pharmacitial industry. And oh yeah if you can't afford the drugs - do NOT get them from Canada! They might not be safe!...ya know because some jungle-tribesman in Montreal probably mixed it in the backwoods-jungle of canada in an old clay pot over his campfire!
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>>>Nonsense, we stopped using clay amost 2 years ago.
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>>Whew, what a relief. You're still not using those wooden branches to sture the stuff are you though?
>>Really, this is one of those things that is insane. The same drugs cost a fraction of what they do here in other places. I have some retired grandparents that live in Phoenix, AZ - they live in one of those giant 'over 55' communites...where they have a zillion houses and such, but ya gotta be over 55 to live in the sub-division. There is a standing joke there about this. They actually charter a couple of busses once a month that takes a bunch of the homeowners down to Mexcio once a month. The residents out there call it the 'monthly drug run trip'. Most of the people who take the 1 day trip do so in order to fill their high-dollar rip-off perscriptions in Mexico. Heck my grandma takes a few pills a day and if she was paying full price it would be over $2800 PER MONTH!
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>I know. It really is insane. I had a real good chuckle when Dubya said that you shouldn't buy prescription drugs from Canada because they might not be safe. Remember which North American country did NOT sanction the use of Thalidomide?

Alan;

Speaking of buying prescription drugs in Canada, many of the drugs named are manufactured in the United States, and sold to Canada. The cost to Canada is a fraction of what we are charged.

I have concluded that:

1. Our government is protecting us from prescription drugs sold to Canada. The quality cannot be guaranteed.

2. It is anti American to pay less for prescription drugs then is demanded from United States Pharmacies. Attention Homeland Security!

3. Someone has to pay for all the advertising American pharmaceutical companies do.

4. Someone has to pay for all the lobbyists that American pharmaceutical companies use.

5. Someone has to get screwed.

The solution to this problem is simple. Do not use pharmaceutical products. Just do not put yourself into a position where you require such things.

Oh did I mention that you should invest in American pharmaceutical companies and Medical Insurance companies? You may as well make a profit for two industries that are out of control. :)


Tom