Provenge, Cancer Drug, Costs $93,000: Sky High Drug Prices Impact Life-Or-Death Decisions

US taxpayers have already paid for these drugs through taxpayer-subsidized research, which was originally sold to the American people as an investment in lowering prices down the road (we would basically share the profits and be partners with the pharmaceutical companies that have profited financially from drug patents).  

To open up markets overseas, pharmaceutical companies sell drugs cheapy in foreign countries and have American subsidize the losses.


This is yet another example of both Republicans and the DLC-controlled Democratic Party selling the American people out.  They do not work for us, on our behalf; they are corporate t00Is.
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U.S., Afghan Troops Begin Fight To Drive Taliban Out Of Kandahar

When Obama was in the Senate, he voted against the surge in Iraq. 

Presidential candidate Barack Obama told reporters: "I am absolutely committed to ending the war. I will call my joint chiefs of staff in and give them a new assignment and that is to end the war."

Do you seriously believe that more Americans in the history of this country voted for this man to keep wars going in Afghanistan and Iraq in perpetuity?
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U.S., Afghan Troops Begin Fight To Drive Taliban Out Of Kandahar

How outrageously offensive that is, to imply that a G0d would take any part of such atrocities against any of his creations.  As if a G0d endorses one side over another.

Magical thinking is a child's activity. 
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U.S., Afghan Troops Begin Fight To Drive Taliban Out Of Kandahar

The meltdown of the politically-connected Kabul Bank shows that the rampant corruption of the Afghanistan government is jeopardizing the nine-year U.S. war, alienating the people, and making the Taliban look like good-government reformers. And according to one of Washington’s most prestigious defense wonks, it’s all your fault.

 
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Troops Popping Anxiety, Depression Meds Like Never Before

An untold number of active-duty troops and recent veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are coming home with  mental health conditions inflicted during service — and their spouses and children are suffering too. Now, with solid data slowly emerging from the nearly decade-long wars, the severity of the crisis is starting to show. 

The use of psychiatric medications among 18 to 34-year-olds (both troops and their spouses) soared by 42 percent between 2005 and 2009, Army Times is reporting.

Antidepressants were the most commonly prescribed medication, but the use of anti-psychotic meds — like Seroquel, which is used off-label to treat nightmares and insomnia caused by PTSD — nearly doubled. And the use of anti-anxiety drugs, like Xanax, surged by 72 percent. 


 http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/09/troops-popping-anxiety-depression-meds-like-never-before/#ixzz0yy51G8ej
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Short Sales Sweep The Nation: Troubled Homeowners Walk Away With Less

Those of us on the left predicted this more than 2 years ago, and described that in spite of rosy pictures painted by politicians, what was coming were waves of job losses followed by home foreclosures, causing more job losses and more home foreclosures, interspersed with businesses closing and bankruptcies and commercial real estate foreclosures, rinse and repeat, more of the same, for years.

What was needed to stop and reverse it was a massive stimulus, with money going for jobs, infrastructure projects, a 'Manhattan Project'-style effort on clean & green sustainable energy (something else that Obama talked about during the 2008 campaign that went by the wayside as soon as he got into the White House), and real healthcare reform (lowering costs while getting medical care for all, which is not at all what ObamaCare does, along with educational expansion and job training for the increased medical needs of a nation being 'Spersed with toxic chemicals by Big Corporations around the nation).  

None of it has happened.

Candidate Obama remains MIA, presumably counting his unspent political capital from the 2008, wondering how it's shrinking when he hasn't used a dime of it to fulfill his campaign promises.  
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Steny Hoyer: Stephen Colbert's Testimony To Congress Was 'An Embarrassment For Mr. Colbert'

There was a time when members of Congress took their work and results seriously, and themselves, no so much.

Now it's the other way around.

It really doesn't matter what their stated intentions are -- They are simply ineffective in accomplishing the People's goals. They are not able to get the job done for the people. 

As far as I'm concerned, all incumbents have to go.
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