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Once Is Enough

8.22.08 @ 12:01AM

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Pharmaceutical companies will curtail research and development, since lower profit margins will not justify enormous, speculative investment.

Medical tourism to other countries will flourish.

American life spans will shorten (though this will be welcomed by those who recall the private medical system).

Subsequent generations won't notice the degradation of take-home pay or medical care.

Fait accompli: People of the Government, by the Government, and for the Government.
-- David Govett
Davis, California

ALL THE COLORS
Re: Mark Tooley's Over Here, Over There:

You're going to be getting a lot of e-mails on this one. The Rainbow Division was not the 69th of movie fame. It was the 42nd Division. Their Chief of Staff was General Douglas MacArthur who gave it their nickname since the soldiers were from the National Guards of 26 states, "They arrived from across the nation like a rainbow."
-- Michael Skaggs
Murray, Kentucky

BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME
Re: Robert Stacy McCain's Overrated Obama:

Aside from the fact that Democrats everywhere claim that any criticism of Obama is racism, all of Obama's pronouncements about every conceivable topic are vague and as useless as screen doors on a submarine. Even though the main stream media is reluctant to criticize. They are having trouble finding things from the mouth of the candidate that make even rudimentary sense. A man with no accomplishments, no work background, no military service, no common sense, and a healthy relationship with 60's radicals who regret that they did not cause more destruction and kill more innocents than they did is not someone who inspires confidence. All this being said, I realize that this same main stream media and the rank and file of the party will march lockstep to the voting booths to cast ballots for him. I often wonder how liberals avoid recognizing the failures of communism and socialism that stare them in the face. Unfortunately, there are enough of these voters and media people to make Obama's election an impending reality. The only good thing that will come of this is that the combination of Obama, Reid, and Pelosi will bury this country so deep in the muck of economic hard times that it will take the rest of the century to restore and reassemble the party if, indeed, that can be done at all. Yes, Hope and Change! We will hope we survive because we will have only change to spend.
-- Joseph Baum
Garrettsville, Ohio

SHAMELESS PLUG
Re: RiShawn Biddle's H-1B Education:

RiShawn Biddle's story barely scratches the surface of the H-1B visa scandal. The focus of the H-1B visa program is the wholesale, permanent displacement of experienced American citizen technical professionals by "fresh (inexpensive and imported) young blood." While the nation as a whole loses in this exchange, the economic elite are enriched. Millions of Americans have had their careers destroyed by this program, which the elites such as Bill Gates, III continually demand be expanded. The banker class has been driving this program since the passage of the 1976 "Eilberg Amendment." My pair of articles provides considerably more background. The involvement of Microsoft lobbyist Jack Abramoff in this scandal is documented in the second article, which was published in January, 2008.

The Greedy Gates Immigration Gambit, Fall 2007

Career Destruction Sites - What American colleges have become Spring 2005

Missing table regarding H-1B visa usage by NIH Grantees:

Organizations such as NumbersUSA, with about 700,000 members, provide free citizen activism tools to press for reform of this corrupt situation.
-- Gene A. Nelson, Ph.D.
Arlington, Virginia

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