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Quote:What did you think about the $10 trillion America spent on nukes and the delivery system for nukes, the planes, missiles, submarines?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
In other words, unless you worship at the Altar of Maddow, you shouldn't be a Democrat.
You're an idiot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_of_the_United_States
What do you think of the radioactive fallout responsible for 340,000 to 690,000 American deaths from 1951 to 1973?
https://qz.com/1163140/us-nuclear-tests-killed-american-civilians-on-a
-scale-comparable-to-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:What did you think about the $10 trillion America spent on nukes and the delivery system for nukes, the planes, missiles, submarines?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
In other words, unless you worship at the Altar of Maddow, you shouldn't be a Democrat.
You're an idiot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_of_the_United_States
What do you think of the radioactive fallout responsible for 340,000 to 690,000 American deaths from 1951 to 1973?
https://qz.com/1163140/us-nuclear-tests-killed-american-civilians-on-a
-scale-comparable-to-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/
Let's just say they're on my always growing list of reasons that I don't intend to ever make enough money in a year to pay any Federal Income Tax again in my life and leave it at that.
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Quote:You didn't answer the question about hypothetically destroying the world. And you didn't answer about killing Americans with fallout. How about another two questions?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Let's just say they're on my always growing list of reasons that I don't intend to ever make enough money in a year to pay any Federal Income Tax again in my life and leave it at that.
Should America do something about climate change before it kills millions of Americans? Or, in order to lower taxes, should America wait and see how many die, first? For reference: "These skeptics believe in climate change. Why is it so hard to convince them catastrophe is coming?"
https://web.archive.org/web/20210827190516/https://www.houstonchronicl
e.com/business/energy/article/climate-change-global-warming-skepticism-houston-16410884.php
The Houston Chronicle doesn't say it, but the unconvinced are all Republicans who don't want to spend tax money on climate change until after the catastrophe is killing people.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You didn't answer the question about hypothetically destroying the world. And you didn't answer about killing Americans with fallout. How about another two questions?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Let's just say they're on my always growing list of reasons that I don't intend to ever make enough money in a year to pay any Federal Income Tax again in my life and leave it at that.
Should America do something about climate change before it kills millions of Americans? Or, in order to lower taxes, should America wait and see how many die, first? For reference: "These skeptics believe in climate change. Why is it so hard to convince them catastrophe is coming?"
https://web.archive.org/web/20210827190516/https://www.houstonchronicl
e.com/business/energy/article/climate-change-global-warming-skepticism-houston-16410884.php
The Houston Chronicle doesn't say it, but the unconvinced are all Republicans who don't want to spend tax money on climate change until after the catastrophe is killing people.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I won't be paying for any of it.
Meanwhile, half of the taxes line the pockets of the politicians, the lobbyists and the contractors that are in bed for them who get quadruple the going rate to get the job done and hire their union contractors to carry out the work.
Being a taxpayer yourself though, you have a much more vested interest into where the money is going. I can understand that.
Me? I don't care.
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Quote:You didn't answer questions about climate change, either, but here are more questions:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I won't be paying for any of it.
Meanwhile, half of the taxes line the pockets of the politicians, the lobbyists and the contractors that are in bed for them who get quadruple the going rate to get the job done and hire their union contractors to carry out the work.
Being a taxpayer yourself though, you have a much more vested interest into where the money is going. I can understand that.
Me? I don't care.
What will you do when the Federal government shuts down the interstate pipelines for natural gas, petroleum, and gasoline to reduce carbon dioxide emissions? Will you switch to all electricity? Or will you show your independence and only ride a bicycle to the grocery store and only take freezing cold showers at home because there is no such thing as climate change and you refuse to go all electric because you have Constitutional rights as an American citizen to not do what you don't wanna do?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You didn't answer questions about climate change, either, but here are more questions:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I won't be paying for any of it.
Meanwhile, half of the taxes line the pockets of the politicians, the lobbyists and the contractors that are in bed for them who get quadruple the going rate to get the job done and hire their union contractors to carry out the work.
Being a taxpayer yourself though, you have a much more vested interest into where the money is going. I can understand that.
Me? I don't care.
What will you do when the Federal government shuts down the interstate pipelines for natural gas, petroleum, and gasoline to reduce carbon dioxide emissions? Will you switch to all electricity? Or will you show your independence and only ride a bicycle to the grocery store and only take freezing cold showers at home because there is no such thing as climate change and you refuse to go all electric because you have Constitutional rights as an American citizen to not do what you don't wanna do?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I'm not paying for any of it.
It will never happen in our lifetime, but if we ever do shut down natural gas and petrol you're going to have a lot more to worry about than taking cold showers. We'll put a pin in that one until it happens.
Meanwhile, start building that moat for your ivory tower, "rich guy".
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Quote:This is your fantasy that I am weak, frightened and stupid while you are strong, brave and intelligent, but your fantasy is backwards. I'm sure from looking at Texas Trump voters' lives that they aren't competent and they can't understand why life is hard for them when the Trump haters lives are easy.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Meanwhile, start building that moat for your ivory tower, "rich guy".
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Second, allow me
6isStringJack,
NFW are you a democrat. Didn't you read the sign? Now GTFO this thread.
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Yup. He's the most static and 1 dimensional character that ever trolled the RWED.
Tragic.
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The Great American Science Heist
After malaria and yellow fever killed more of their soldiers than bullets in the Spanish-American War, the U.S. Army and Navy spearheaded the government’s entry into infectious disease research. It has since expanded its medical purview to other maladies affecting its ranks, from PTSD to cancer. Since 1997, the Defense Department’s Prostate Cancer Research Program and the National Institutes of Health have spent tens of millions of dollars supporting research at UCLA. An early trial funded by the Pentagon showed that one of the candidate drugs to emerge, enzalutamide, showed promise in extending the life of late-stage prostate cancer patients.
The “reasonableness” of that drug’s monopoly price in the U.S. market is at the center of a march-in petition currently awaiting judgement before the Department of Defense and the NIH.
In 2005, the University of California, the enzalutamide patent holder, cut an exclusive-rights deal with a Bay Area biotech firm called Medivation. To finish trials and bring the drug to market, Medivation partnered with a Japanese firm, Astellas Pharma. In 2012, the Food and Drug Administration approved it for sale under the brand name Xtandi. Four years later, Xtandi was making Medivation-Astellas more than $2 billion a year globally. Most of these profits were generated in the U.S., where a yearlong course was priced at $130,000 — several times higher than in any other member-country of the G-7, where governments negotiate drug prices. Medicare Part D spending for Xtandi topped $900 million annually.
These numbers drew the salivating attention of the biggest multinational drug companies, but there was a problem. The U.S. government was named alongside UCLA researchers on three of the drug’s key patents, leaving the drug vulnerable to a march-in petition. Sure enough, in 2016, two medicines-access groups filed a petition with the Department of Defense and the NIH to pull Bayh-Dole’s march-in trigger and license generic competition. All of the pieces were in place: a formal petition, a clear government stake in the rights, and a flamboyant violation of “reasonable terms” that placed a huge and unnecessary cost burden on Veterans Affairs hospitals and Medicare.
“You would think the military has a strong interest in not paying more than $100,000 for a drug it paid to develop and has manufacturing costs in single digits,” says Robert Sachs, a retired lawyer and prostate cancer patient who joined the Xtandi march-in petition in 2018. “Nobody is trying to micromanage prices. Just compare the U.S. price to other developed economies, and if it’s unreasonably higher, authorize competition.”
The missing ingredient was a self-respecting government. HHS was quiet on the petition. Inside the Pentagon, no Adm. Rickover came forward to take up the cause. Only after the Army, White House, and NIH all quietly declined to back the petition did the drug majors feel secure enough to descend with buyout offers. A bidding war ended with Pfizer acquiring Medivation and the Xtandi monopoly for $14 billion.
The pricing scandal continued to simmer during the Trump administration. In July 2017, the Senate Armed Services Committee added to the National Defense Authorization Act a new standard for determining the “reasonableness” of prices on drugs emerging from military grants. That standard — the median price of the drug in the G-7 countries — was never applied.
“The July executive order forces the government to finally make a decision on Xtandi,” said James Love, director of Knowledge Ecology International, one of the groups that filed the 2016 march-in petition. “It should be a slam dunk. Biden did the right thing in stopping the NIST proposals. The question is, does he have the guts to take next step?”
The answer will open a window not only into the administration’s viscera, but also the balance of forces between a number of senior officials with ties to the pharmaceutical industry and the “antitrust dream team” of Jonathan Kanter in the Justice Dep
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