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"Bush were also under attack. The republicans differentiate between Pioneers (raising more than $100,000) and the Rangers (raising more than $200,000). Nothing wrong with this, despite critics have said that half of the republicans funds come from those Rangers and Pioneers, and that this money doesn't represent "THE PEOPLE" anymore - but OK! What makes this money really interesting is 55 http://www.saynotodrugs.org/ 56 John Abramson, M.D., Overdosed America, the Broken Promise of American Medicine, (HarperCollins Publishers, 2004,) p." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "In the 1999/2000-election cycle, the republicans "received about 76% of the drug industry's financial largesse."56 Lobbying Congress cost the pharmaceutical industry hundreds of millions of dollars. In the 2004 election year, with its surprising outcome, the mega-fundraisers of George W. Bush were also under attack. The republicans differentiate between Pioneers (raising more than $100,000) and the Rangers (raising more than $200,000)." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"In effect, Mills had taken the AMA's ammunition, put it in the Republicans' gun, and blown both of them off the map." The restructured bill moved swiftly through Congress. On July 30, 1965, President Johnson flew to Independence, Missouri, to sign Public Law 89-97 at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library. In attendance was President Truman himself, the first chief executive to publicly support government health insurance. Mills was hailed by senior citizens' groups as one of the fathers of Medicare, which was a good sign for his presidential hopes." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Big pharma is also one of the biggest spenders in Washington (and statehouses), hedging its bets by supporting both republicans and Democrats. Add to their expense accounts all the lawyers they pay to defend intellectual property rights and to attack generic drugs, and it is a wonder that they have any money left to pay for actual research. Ten years ago I founded a group called the International Working Group for the Harmonization of Dementia Drug Guidelines." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Money from the drug industry has been pouring into politics, with the balance of support tipping progressively more toward the republicans, who received about 76 percent of the drug industry's financial largesse in the 1999-2000 election cycle. It's not often that we get to see what this money actually buys, the actual quid pro quo laid out in black and white." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"In 1994, the House went to the republicans as well. A solidly Republican government is naturally pro-business. Sensing the changed public attitudes that had elected them, these lawmakers were much more pro-business than their Democratic predecessors. This change in Congress has boosted public confidence in the stock market, because of a variety of controls that the legislature can exert over corporate profits and investor returns. No sooner had the Republican Congress been seated in 1995 than proposals to cut the capital gains tax became prominent." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The republicans and the AMA were pushing a competing bill, dubbed "Bettercare," that did cover physician fees. But there was another difference between the two pieces of legislation: Bettercare would allow recipients to have a small deduction taken from their Social Security checks. Those deductions, which were entirely voluntary, were to be used, along with funds from the general treasury, to purchase private health insurance policies only for the senior citizens who wanted them. Bettercare was entirely voluntary, and it would give private insurers a piece of the action." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "At the meeting, Mills told the republicans he liked their Bettercare idea so much that he intended to fold it into the Medicare legislation, creating a three-tiered program. The bottom layer would become Medicaid, which would cover the indigent; the middle layer would be Medicare, which would cover the costs of hospital, nursing home, and home health care for the elderly; and the top layer he borrowed from Bettercare, a voluntary supplemental insurance to cover doctor's fees, in and out of hospitals. Cohen said later, "Like everyone else in the room, I was stunned by Mills' strategy." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "It exerted constant pressure on its friends in Congress, most of them republicans, but also many powerful "Dixiecrats," Southern Democrats like Tennessee's Albert Gore Sr. The group arranged for incessant phone calls from influential constituents and organized letter-writing campaigns by physicians back home. It launched "Operation Coffee Cup," a campaign to get thousands of physician's wives to hold afternoon letter-writing parties." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Nothing wrong with this, despite critics have said that half of the republicans funds come from those Rangers and Pioneers, and that this money doesn't represent "THE PEOPLE" anymore - but OK! What makes this money really interesting is 55 http://www.saynotodrugs.org/ 56 John Abramson, M.D., Overdosed America, the Broken Promise of American Medicine, (HarperCollins Publishers, 2004,) p. 90 the fact that the Pharmaceutical Industry is one of the big spenders. Bayer, PoxMeyer Heath Corp., Maxor National Pharmacy, Direct Meds Inc, Pfizer, and AstraZeneca all belong to the big spenders." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Change of subject: during the 2008 election cycle Democrats received about $4 million from the Pharmaceutical industry and the republicans obtained close to the same amount. Is Big Pharma buying our politicians? Well the above numbers are facts, not a weird conspiracy theory. Let us repeat: the industry is "spending" tons of money on the members of USA House of Representatives and the USA Senate. It goes to "decision-makers," to opinion leaders, to KOLs (Key opinion leaders). So what does that mean? Well it simply means that Big Pharma protects its profits." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Democrats responded to the 9/11 imagery with far more activity in the amygdala—the part of the brain that responds to threats and danger— than did the republicans. The UCLA neuroscientist who conducted the scans didn't think much of the traditional methodologies used by political scientists and consultants, like focus groups, to gauge the mood of the electorate. "It seemed so last century," Professor Joshua Freedman said. "Consultants were quoting Freud as if it was cutting edge. It was all about interpretation instead of using new technology to measure what's actually happening in the mind." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "There is a neat party distinction, by the way, when politicians get into psychic trouble: Democratic politicians and their wives tend to suffer from mental illness (Eagleton, Kitty Dukakis, Tipper Gore), and republicans from drug abuse (Betty Ford, George W. Bush). Only one in five voters said the press should report that a presidential candidate is taking antidepressants, placing it below spouse abuse, income tax evasion, exaggerated military or academic record, ongoing or past affair, homosexuality, cocaine and marijuana use, or a past drinking problem as an area of concern." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"The Alien and Sedition Acts did not survive the struggle, expiring in 1802 with the rise of the party of Jefferson, the republicans. In all but one of its parts (the Alien Enemies Act still in force today), the Alien and Sedition Acts disappeared from the code books, but did Jefferson and Madison's views carry the day? One hundred and fourteen years later, in Lee v. Weisman, the Supreme Court finally recognized that the Alien and Sedition Acts undeniably violated the First Amendment,153 but did that put an end to federal government use of prior restraints to censor speech?" - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"These efforts reinforced the natural instinct of most republicans (and more than a few Democrats) to accommodate the interests of private enterprise when making policy, if at all possible." Pharmaceutical money, "natural instinct," accommodation, republicans, Democrats, the FDA: what, exactly, remains of the old, independent buffering force? It is, to reiterate the wisdom of Medical Marketing and Media, totally "out of sight." And mind. At least until lately . . ." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"For the growing number of republicans who have long closeted their environ-mentalism or who desire to build for themselves a coherent conservative outlook that includes proenvironmental policies?the message in this book can help to clarify the links between environmentalism, conservatism, patriotism, and national security. Our elected leaders also need to recognize finally, if belatedly, that environmentalism can help to win the war on terror. When it comes to international diplomacy, we need carrots and sticks." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"On the Sunday public affairs shows you'll find republicans, Democrats, republicans who love too much, and Democrats who love republicans. On "A Current Affair" or "Oprah Winfrey," you'll find self-proclaimed werewolves, worshippers of Madonna, and doomsday prophets from the lunatic fringes of American society. Unfortunately, what you won't find can kill you. Diet for a Poisoned Planet is a serious, important contribution to the public debate over health, the environment, and food safety. It fell victim to a PR campaign designed to prevent it from ever reaching the "marketplace of ideas." - John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry (Get the book.)

"Pharmaceutical money, "natural instinct," accommodation, republicans, Democrats, the FDA: what, exactly, remains of the old, independent buffering force? It is, to reiterate the wisdom of Medical Marketing and Media, totally "out of sight." And mind. At least until lately . . . Lately, Americans have started to ask The Question: What happens when money, shifting social currents, money, advertising, money, political accommodation, money, medical hubris, money, managed care, and, you get it, seem to all go to the good of one industry?" - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"The northern republicans, for example, supported carpetbaggers in southern governments. After Reconstruction, the republicans favored a high protective tariff, and were generally considered the defenders of northeastern and business interests. The party supported the Spanish-American War and the expansion of United States territory overseas. Some republicans were part of the Progressive movement of the early twentieth century. In the 1920s, the party reestablished its reputation for supporting business, and as being wary of any expansion of the place of government in national life." - James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.) "The northern republicans, for example, supported carpetbaggers in southern governments. After Reconstruction, the republicans favored a high protective tariff, and were generally considered the defenders of northeastern and business interests. The party supported the Spanish-American War and the expansion of United States territory overseas. Some republicans were part of the Progressive movement of the early twentieth century. In the 1920s, the party reestablished its reputation for supporting business, and as being wary of any expansion of the place of government in national life." - E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"This legislation was promoted by republicans and Bill Clinton. It allows Cargill to dump crops into a country and undermine their farming economy, all in the name of free trade. In effect, this creates a "peaceful" tool that threatens the self-sustaining population in any country. Mexico is one of the countries on the Kissinger list. It took only two years of NAFTA to wipe out nine thousand years of food security in Mexico. American farmers can produce twice as much corn as Mexican farmers, on the same amount of land." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"There are lots of Democrats who don't think, just as there are republicans who don't think, so this isn't an argument saying that if you voted for Bush you're an idiot. It's saying that if you voted without thinking, you're an idiot, much like at least 50 percent of the population." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Seuss concentrated much of his energy on attacking Hitler, the republicans, isolationists, and German sympathizers, such as Charles Lindbergh. After the war, advertisements, articles, editorials, and testimonials constantly appeared in the journals to address the farmers' fears of poisoning, soil sterilization, crop defoliation, livestock illness, water pollution, and worthless pesticides and fertilizer mixes. It was in the 1950s that the chemical manufacturers' sales program finally reaped real rewards." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"For example, we can see in history how the roles of liberal and conservative have actually reversed position several times (the republicans were the progressives of the nineteenth century), and thus it is likely that some of those who now identify themselves as progressives may in the future find themselves defending the status quo." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"On the Sunday public affairs shows you'll find republicans, Democrats, republicans who love too much, and Democrats who love republicans. On "A Current Affair" or "Oprah Winfrey," you'll find self-proclaimed werewolves, worshippers of Madonna, and doomsday prophets from the lunatic fringes of American society. Unfortunately, what you won't find can kill you. Diet for a Poisoned Planet is a serious, important contribution to the public debate over health, the environment, and food safety. It fell victim to a PR campaign designed to prevent it from ever reaching the "marketplace of ideas." - John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry (Get the book.)

"Democrats and republicans may have very different views of the world but both are valid from their point of view. Doctors are trained to see the human body as a bag of chemicals which is why their solutions usually involve drugs. Practitioners of complementary and alternative therapies view the human body as a complete being of mind, body and spirit/energy so they treat holis-tically. How you choose to "vote" on your healthcare will depend on your perspective and your particular problem but it's important to realize there are options." - Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

"Instead of working together to resolve matters, many Democrats and republicans will get caught up in laying blame and try to gain at least a short-term advantage at the other's expense. In fact, emboldened by a dramatic reversal of fortunes following years of GOP control in Washington, a resurgent Democrat party may well decide that its overriding goal is to obliterate all signs of its rival's legacy, no matter how destructive that course might be. Some die-hard loyalists will press hard for high-profile investigations, impeachments, and even criminal trials." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"In my initial meeting with Congressman Sanders and his staff, who had planned the event, they were very careful to point out that this was a bipartisan issue and that I shouldn't take any political position in favor of republicans or Democrats. That wasn't hard advice to follow, since I considered myself an independent. After a cup of coffee in a paper mug in the large cafeteria with fake wood tables and spindly chairs, we left for the Dirksen Senate Office building. This was a nicer building with elaborate decorations." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"As I mentioned earlier, most food corporations favor republicans because members of this party are more likely than Democrats to protect and promote business interests. Dole Food, for example, gave $15,000 in soft money to Democratic committees in 1998 but gave $382,000 to Republican committees. In 1997-1999, food retailers gave nearly $1.1 million to Democrats but more than $3.8 million to Republicans—for example, Coca-Cola (Democrats $215,500 versus republicans $394,000), the American Meat Institute ($4,000 versus $142,000), and the Grocery Manufacturers of America ($30,000 versus $290,000)." - Marion Nestle, Food Politics (Get the book.)

"I saw myself as a hard-nosed businessman, nursing martinis and bulging stomach, along with all my other corporate friends, most of whom were republicans. Or maybe I just treated people and the Earth as dismissively as any corporate guy would. The corporation fed me, and I fed my woman, and I was a pretty basic guy. I was in your face, in his or her face, ready to displace. Anyone or anything could become a target. But it was not a very good me. But, then, that's what a lot of us thought being part of a corporate culture allowed us to be." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

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