Any epi-pen users here? What are you doing now that epi-pens are expensive??!?

[John Connor]

About 664,000 people were added to a record 94.7 million Americans who are no longer considered to be part of the labor force, according to the Department of Labor.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/a-f...oking-for-work-and-most-of-them-are-under-30/

This all stems from corporate inversion and becoming an asinine service industry. We simply don't make things anymore and THAT has got to change! TPP and NAFTA don't help in that regard.

How does this tie in with the Epipen? Competition! The U.S. can't compete to cheap Chinese shit propped up by China manipulating their currency and having what amounts to slave labor. To add to that crap the damn Fed fuckers overburden companies state side with high taxes and regulation. It's no wonder why companies get out of dodge.

So how can a POTUS fix this? Reduce the God awful 35% corporate tax, reduce BS regulation that hinders job growth, get rid of NAFTA and TPP (YES!), Create equal trade. Not a lopsided trade. History has shown time and time again that a lopsided trade causes problems. Ever since the Chinese Junks were sailing around and delivery spices, the black death, etc.

 

[norseamd]

Right, so basically a gigantic pile of Bush Dub debt, the rate of growth from that was halted by nearly half with Obama. I mean, that's what these numbers actually show.

And of course Reagan doubled that debt for the first time, only to see it start shrinking until Dubs showed up and nearly tripled it

The debt increase of Reagan over Carter looks to be way over doubling, and even way over the tripling of debt that Dubya brought us.

 

[ScottFern]

I am loving the right wing spin about how our "choice" has been eliminated and since only Epi-Pen is on the market its every Democrat's fault due to evil regulations.

 

[norseamd]

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/a-f...oking-for-work-and-most-of-them-are-under-30/

This all stems from corporate inversion and becoming an asinine service industry. We simply don't make things anymore and THAT has got to change! TPP and NAFTA don't help in that regard.

Except fixing that will require less government actions and regulations in some areas, and more government actions and regulations in other areas.

 

[John Connor]

I am loving the right wing spin about how our "choice" has been eliminated and since only Epi-Pen is on the market its every Democrat's fault due to evil regulations.

http://nypost.com/2016/08/24/ceo-who-gouged-price-of-epipen-is-daughter-of-democrat-senator/

There, happy? LOL

 

[John Connor]

Except fixing that will require less government actions and regulations in some areas, and more government actions and regulations in other areas.

I don't understand. Why would there be more government actions in other areas? Are you saying because the Fed needs to cut taxes and regulations, or...

 

[norseamd]

I don't understand. Why would there be more government actions in other areas? Are you saying because the Fed needs to cut taxes and regulations, or...

Various areas, including one very particular one.

http://www.ushistory.org/us/43b.asp

 

[John Connor]

So that's like Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Google, ComcastNBCUniversal, Timewarner, etc, etc, etc of our day.

Keyword: Competition! Foster it!

 

[JimKiler]

The freedom to charge whatever you want for medication?

Exacty. It is as if John Connor has no clue that there is good reason for most regulations our government has created. Yes it gets out of hand at times, but their intent is good and i am sure there are specific examples where it has helped us.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Just found this Epipen that a dying friend once gave me, he felt it was really important I have it, it was literally his last words "TAKE THIS!". Wonder if it would be disrespectful to sell it for profit.

 

[ViRGE]

John, please take it to P&N. Once you're talking about Reagan, you've clearly ventured into politics.

 

[senseamp]

Other developed countries have figured this one out. All of them. So it's not that we don't know what to do, it's that we don't want to do it.

 

[nakedfrog]

Just found this Epipen that a dying friend once gave me, he felt it was really important I have it, it was literally his last words "TAKE THIS!". Wonder if it would be disrespectful to sell it for profit.

Someone already made this joke, and they didn't mangle it like you did

 

[zinfamous]

Someone already made this joke, and they didn't mangle it like you did

I don't get the joke--or the humor. What I mean is, I have no problem laughing about sick, dying people and all that--but what am I missing here?

 

[sdifox]

I don't get the joke--or the humor. What I mean is, I have no problem laughing about sick, dying people and all that--but what am I missing here?

my interpretation is that you were supposed to use the epipen on the person giving it to you.

 

[nakedfrog]

my interpretation is that you were supposed to use the epipen on the person giving it to you.

That's it!

 

[zinfamous]

my interpretation is that you were supposed to use the epipen on the person giving it to you.

That's it!

Ah! It is so obvious now and I feel really stupid. But I did laugh.

I'm basically the idiot in the joke that received the pen, because I was thinking "Eh, OK, it's nice that his dying friend thought enough of the guy to try and give him a valuable item that he realized he wasn't going to need anymore--but not really funny."