Posted on 02/06/2016 3:47:00 PM PST by JSDude1
Last evening, Ted Cruz was at a town hall meeting in Salem, NH, when he was hit with a question about drug abuse. If you’ve followed Cruz’s campaign, you know that his own family has experience loss due to drug abuse. His older sister, Miriam became addicted to pain pills following and accident and slid into a life of drug abuse. Because it is a campaign season, the left used the town hall as an excuse for some low-level street theater.
Not a day goes by on the New Hampshire campaign trail without residents grilling the men and women running for president on how they will address the prescription drug and heroin epidemic sweeping both the state and the country.
Sen. Ted Cruz’s Friday night town hall in Salem was no different. From the back of an elementary school cafeteria packed to capacity, Michael DeLeon called out questions to Cruz on whether he would order a federal, mandatory prescription drug monitoring program and if he would consider restricting how much pharmaceutical companies can market their products on television to unsuspecting consumers. Many cheered the question, but Cruz declined on both counts, citing the constitutional rights of big pharmaceutical companies.
“Under the First Amendment, anyone has the right to speak out and communicate with the people,†he said. “I think bad things happen when Washington decides, ‘We don’t like this speech but we do like that speech.’†While Cruz acknowledged that more oversight of the pharmaceutical industry is needed, saying, “We do have a problem with over-prescribing and people getting addicted,†he would not endorse a federal monitoring program. In fact, he called for loosening regulations to allow the Food and Drug Administration to more quickly give new drugs the stamp of approval.
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Does that mean goldman sachs is withdrawing it’s support?
Put them in rehab and make withdraw happen. When they get back to reality and return to abusive drug use, cut them off the teat.
No, they are Banking on a winner.
Big pharma is probably glad that prohibition is over, but I don't think the public is better served by "ask your doctor" commercials.
I don't think it is a first amendment issue either or we would see cigarette commercials again.
I agree 100%. If big PHARMA can do advertising and commercials even though it takes a speed talker 30 seconds to name the side effects of their drugs, then so should big tobacco whose only side effect is you will die.
Removing big money from politics is the only chance we average schmucks have of saving our country from corrupt politicos, and from elites that are much worse than many other so called corrupt countries.
From Trump? No way he ows them too much money. Just like he owes any number of Wall Street banks. Cruz owes them nothing.
Are there any other freedoms you care to abridge?
And right after that, maybe you can show us your method for eliminating the sale of heroin or marijuana in this country, and after that show us how to square the circle.
Politics is corruptible, and moving the money to under the table doesn't help. We would just see more of things like the Hillary book and the Billy Clinton speech/money-making episodes. And no, you can't write the bill to eliminate such after-the-fact payouts. Money will find a way to get where it is useful.
My belief is exchange the absurdity of bribery from the few for volunteerism from all. You want free speech then knock on doors.
The result of bribery has been open borders and runaway immigration and drugs. Close and secure the borders and it would stop much of the heroin. It would save the USA money and lives.
The crony capitalist oligarchs want free unbalanced trade, open and no control on campaign money, free flowing bribes, open borders, and gun control for the serfs, none of which will ever make us a freer or greater nation.
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