SneekyNinja
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Such spam...no-one reads your links dude.
Mark Blyth, the economist who's making sense
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Grandpapy
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Prescription opioid overdose, abuse, and dependence carries high costs for American society, with an estimated total economic burden of $78.5 billion
McKesson Corp., to pay a $150 million fine
Cardinal Health reached a $44 million
AmerisourceBergen, for instance, will pay $16 million.
The Public pays the difference. Putin says, Thanks FDA!
An estimated total economic burden of $78.5 billion!!
Stand when they play the national anthem! (it's easier to pick the pocket of the distracted)
McKesson Corp., to pay a $150 million fine
Cardinal Health reached a $44 million
AmerisourceBergen, for instance, will pay $16 million.
The Public pays the difference. Putin says, Thanks FDA!
An estimated total economic burden of $78.5 billion!!
Stand when they play the national anthem! (it's easier to pick the pocket of the distracted)
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abandonconflict
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That's how he expects racism to disappear from the earth.
Grandpapy
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Until Corporations can killed on the battlefield they will (slyly) move to any safe haven.
Wont you try to help the race of forgotten Hillbillies?
SneekyNinja
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That's interesting, the right seems to always try make out that liberal states are full of prescription drug filled snowflakes who can't handle life...
Your statistics seem to show the opposite.
ttystikk
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How Big Tech is a threat to our economy and our democracy;
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/interrogation/2017/10/why_it_s_time_to_panic_about_the_power_of_big_technology.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/interrogation/2017/10/why_it_s_time_to_panic_about_the_power_of_big_technology.html
Fogdog
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That map of opioid prescriptions by state in your post looks like it can be overlaid on top of a map of disability across the US. Opioid addiction is a problem but I don't think that people who use pain killers to treat pain should be denied relief.
Also true that cannabis might be or probably is a better option for many if only we allowed research.
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Fogdog
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This is a new tune being tooted against new corporations. Old corporations have been doing shit like this for decades. The problem is corporate power, not tech.
And I'll just repeat tty's rag for him. Fucking Democrats!!!!!!!
SneekyNinja
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He's just a spambot with a butthurt() method.
Fogdog
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Fucking Democrats are the reason 600 people were shot in Vegas!!!!!!!!
If they really wanted to get guns off the streets they would have already done so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UncleBuck
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why wasn't obama tougher on gun control!!!???!!!
ttystikk
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The original red necks were coal miners, striking against the robber barons of Big Coal for better wages and working conditions. When they went on strike, the coal companies brought in companies like the Pinkertons who supplied mercenary fighters for security and to aggressively put down what they saw as a revolt.
The strikers wore the red scarves to differentiate themselves in the ensuing battles. The strikers lost, but the larger labor movement didn't die and eventually strong unions brought reforms.
My Scottish ancestors were among them.
I believe that America needs a labor and worker's rights movement today. Workers are toiling in poverty, with few rights, while the owners and stock holders reap all the rewards. Same shit, different century.
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ttystikk
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http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-october-1-2017-1.4311896/donald-trump-is-the-logical-outcome-of-america-s-fascination-with-irrationality-1.4311993
Interesting interview with the author.
Excerpt;
'Is it conceivable that the biggest fantasy of all is that the United States is a functioning democracy?
I'm not willing to go there yet. I try to be very narrow in what I call a fantasy. But that is a worrisome question.
People like the Koch brothers aren't fantasists at all. They are among the most reality-based people. They have this gigantic and successful fossil fuels company and they have spent a lot of money over the last 10-20 years casting doubt about the science of climate change because that will make it easier for the business to last longer.
They are cynics who understood how to exploit this easy belief in the untrue to their own ends. That's sort of adjacent to the worry about whether or not we have an operating democracy.'
Interesting interview with the author.
Excerpt;
'Is it conceivable that the biggest fantasy of all is that the United States is a functioning democracy?
I'm not willing to go there yet. I try to be very narrow in what I call a fantasy. But that is a worrisome question.
People like the Koch brothers aren't fantasists at all. They are among the most reality-based people. They have this gigantic and successful fossil fuels company and they have spent a lot of money over the last 10-20 years casting doubt about the science of climate change because that will make it easier for the business to last longer.
They are cynics who understood how to exploit this easy belief in the untrue to their own ends. That's sort of adjacent to the worry about whether or not we have an operating democracy.'
Grandpapy
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AMAX was a mining co. in CO with two mines, Climax and Henderson.
Climax had a death rate 6 men a year (even thou union) a real death trap.
The newer Henderson mine paid 1% above scale just so we wouldn't go union.
It's all about Management choosing seeing the benefits of a safe environment as part of the start up plan.
ttystikk
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...and making the idea of cutting corners on safety a cost prohibitive option.
jonsnow399
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my wife's people live in "Bloody Mingo"
ttystikk
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My grandfather's grandfather loaded his family in a wagon and walked west from Tennessee... It took several years but they didn't stop until they reached the Texas panhandle. Shitty working conditions can be a powerful motivator.
Hope your family is doing well, wherever they live.
jonsnow399
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They are doing well, they are retired schoolteachers.
They live about ten miles from Matewan. Everyone check the movie out if you haven't already.
you enjoy slapstick comedy due to it rudimentary-ness.
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