Third Debate: Your Comments

Anybody with a web browser and an IQ over 90 can buy canadian drugs.

Pundits who actually watched the thing thought Bush won and I suspect most who watched it will agree. The dems have obviously figured out how to game the online polls, but I don't picture it helping them.

There used to be a couple of dozen companies which made flue vaccines; now we're down to two or three and this is due to out of control lawyering courtesy of people like John Edwards.

RfromP wrote:

I haven't seen a thread about this yet so here it is.

The fact that it went that long tells a story, i.e. you know perfectly well that if the dems thought they'd even broken even they'd be all over it.

What'd ya'all think of his view that education (or lack thereof) makes one poor? So if you are unemployed, it's because you're uneducated. If you've been discriminated against, you're uneducated. You have no healthy insurance? You're uneducated.

With a B.A. in biology where I live, you can land a job at Office Max, Borders, on the police force, continue to clean houses as self-employed, or go on to school for anothe year and get your teaching certificate, or else leave the island...

This is not true:

gungasnake wrote:

There used to be a couple of dozen companies which made flue vaccines; now we're down to two or three and this is due to out of control lawyering courtesy of people like John Edwards.

Drug companies are not interested in producing flu vaccine because the profit margin is extremely low. Chiron's current year vaccines are contaminated and deemed unsafe. The FDA was going to approve using them anyway, but the labs were forcibly shut down (by a different government) due to unsafe manufacturing conditions in the plant, so the vaccines were not shipped.

Lawyering is not the cause of medical insurance going up, Gungasnake.

If you would like to know what HAS caused it to go up, we'll start with a question: what do insurance companies do with your money once you give it to them?

Cycloptichorn

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Fossil fuels lead to pollution. .

Any reference to World Net Daily is subject for ridicule and scorn.

I'm still flabbergasted by the Presidents response about the shortage of the flu vaccine, "Don't get a flu shot." What will his response be when families have to take money from their grocery budget to pay for gasoline? "Don't eat as much" or "Ride a bicycle to work."

I was however impressed by his solution for creating jobs was to improve the education system. We will have the most educated unemployed workforce in the world.

SCHIEFFER: Mr. President, what do you say to someone in this country who has lost his job to someone overseas who's being paid a fraction of what that job paid here in the United States?

BUSH: I'd say, Bob, I've got policies to continue to grow our economy and create the jobs of the 21st century. And here's some help for you to go get an education. Here's some help for you to go to a community college.

We've expanded trade adjustment assistance. We want to help pay for you to gain the skills necessary to fill the jobs of the 21st century.

And so the person you talked to, I say, here's some help, here's some trade adjustment assistance money for you to go a community college in your neighborhood, a community college which is providing the skills necessary to fill the jobs of the 21st century. And that's what I would say to that person.

So what is he implying here? I should chunk my University diploma in the garbage and get myself enrolled at my local community college? Apparently they're the only ones providing the necessary education to fill the jobs that have been sent overseas.

His "comprehensive strategy" is really starting to frighten me.

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Lawyering is not the cause of medical insurance going up, Gungasnake.

If you would like to know what HAS caused it to go up, we'll start with a question: what do insurance companies do with your money once you give it to them?

Cycloptichorn

Thank you for pointing this out. This fake issue is only being brought out by republicans because of Edwards being on the ticket. I'm glad somebody else sees through this contrived bullshit. All of a sudden there is a big problem with lawyers. Where was all this compassionate conservative concern before they were up against Edwards and Kerry?