Thanks fer the report, GeeDub...
"Hey Everyone!! Once again, thanks to EVERYONE who participated in the counter-demonstration yesterday in Washington!! Even though we were outnumbered 50,000 to 1, pushed, punched and knocked to the ground, we held our own, and didn't back down!! I have to admit, I have never seen
so many "women" with "crewcuts", and I have never seen so many men who looked like women. Our female Protest Warriors are certainly MUCH better looking!!
I hope everyone had a safe trip home.
I hope to see many of you tomorrow night at VCU, for the Daniel Pipes lecture!!
STAY THE COURSE !!
George
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice..........
Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue"........
( Senator Barry Goldwater )
"Liberals really aren't bad people. It's just that they know so much that ISN'T true"...........
( President Ronald Reagan )
"We will not waiver. We will not tire. We will not falter. And we will not fail. Peace and freedom will prevail".....
( President George W. Bush )
FReegards...MUD
ACU Members, Supporters, Friends and Activists:
The Kennedy-McCain bill introduced in the Senate this week to allow re-importation of prescription drugs would import Canadian and European socialized medicine and price control schemes.
We all know how shortsighted it would be to import Canada's price control scheme. Unless companies can recover the enormous costs of research and development of new drugs, they will have little economic incentive to pursue such expensive efforts. This isn't a problem for Canada, which imports its drugs from the U.S. at artificially low, below-cost, government-set prices. Canadians reap the benefits of the American pharmaceutical industry without having to bear any of the economic burden or risk.
Under the Kennedy-McCain bill, drug companies would be forced to market their products in Canada at artificially low government-set prices or risk losing their patent rights. The bill would allow Americans to purchase these cheap imports from Canada and eventually Europe.
In effect, we would be importing socialized medicine along with prescription drugs. If the politicians succeed in imposing price controls on the U.S. pharmaceutical industry by the back door of re-importation, they will put at risk America's leadership in new drug research.
Kennedy-McCain also could have a devastating impact on the development of so-called 'orphan drugs' to treat very rare diseases, which is very expensive with little potential return on investment.
Type your zip code into the box above and tell your Senators to vote "NO" on the Kennedy-McCain re-importation bill. (or visit:
http://capwiz.com/acu/issues/alert/?alertid=5681801&type=CO) If the politicians cripple the U.S. pharmaceutical industry through this ill-considered legislation, then where will Americans go to get new, cutting edge drugs? Free market conservatives in Congress should reject this shortsighted effort to import socialism.
FReegards...MUD