US Election 2010

Sort of like comparing apples and oranges. Most other countries benefit from the advances made in the U.S. without having to bear the costs. Living abroad I have access to drugs produced in the U.S. at a small fraction of the cost of those same drugs when purchased in the U.S.
I think what Boehner was trying to point out is quality of the medical technology, not the cost which can become quite exorbitant due to the extensive testing that government imposes prior to allowing new products to become available, which is passed on primarily to the consumers in the U.S.

I don't usually pay much attention to such rankings without knowing the full details of how they are being made. Most often the emphasis is placed on producing the results that promote the desired agenda. Currently the agenda is to promote universal, single payer, health care in the U.S.

 

That's great idea. Maybe that would produce enough to provide the perks for Cliburn's newly created position?

 

So...are the old Republicans in congress really going to let the new Tea Party people tell them what to do?

 

Not likely, but at least we might be able to tell which of them really belong in the Democrat party and replace them with real Republicans next election. Looks like the Alaska senate race is going to end up with a Democrat victory.

 

What? You don't make sense. Murkowski doesn't resemble a Democrat in any way.

 

Nor does she resemble a Republican, I guess that's why she's considered a moderate. Let's wait and see how she votes.

 

So there's no room for moderates in your Republican Party?

 

They tend to have more in common with the Democrat party, so they do little to check the left. A chain is only as strong as the weakest link, so I would say no.

 

I don't get the republican party.

They set high moral standards for themselves to try and rise above their opponents. But when their morality gets called into question over a scandal or two, they just fuck themselves over in the hypocrisy spotlight.

Then, they claim they are fiscal conservatives who care about the way they spend money. But when they are caught going on a spending spree, they say "Oh no no, we're not conservatives, we're Neo-conservatives."

 

Just because someone claims to be a Republican, or Democrat for that matter, does not make it a fact. Moral standards are meaningless unless applied equally in judging all. This is why religions became established.

 

All you have to do to be a member of a political party is register with the Board of Elections and check a box on a form. That's a fact.

 

That's true, and both parties have been infiltrated to the point that they are meaningless.

 

Infiltrated by who?

 

By you, well actually just by others like you. It's become the best way of getting reelected, or at least has been for many decades now. Maybe some of the more rational youth today are beginning to take a look at the $13,802,175,353,532.65 of debt they owe as of 11/22/2010, not to mention the $800 billion of new currency the Fed wishes to place in circulation and the effect it will have on their lives and costs going forward into the future.

 

Actually this is the will of the people.

 

Not all the people, and if you wish to say "a majority" of the people, then you will only have proved that majority rule is no better than minority rule, and a very good reason that the Constitution should ALWAYS be employed in making decisions.

 

The Constitution doesn't even mention political parties, and George Washington thought they were a bad idea. I'm not so sure about it myself.

 

I guess they make it easier for voters who don't have time or care to look into the issues.