nothing is going to change until Trump and all of his enablers are out of office. The only hope I have is that I believe Biden and Harris both have empathy and have critical thinking skills and can think “outside the box.” It starts from the top, and hopefully Biden will put qualified intelligent people in charge who will be willing to listen and acknowledge the “unintended consequences” and devastation that is being done to chronic pain patients and will not be afraid to speak out and start to fix this horror we are going through. One of many reasons IMO to vote no matter how hard Trump and his cronies try to invalidate ballots.
Does anyone know what Biden/Harris platform really is ? First of all they are both ATTORNEYS… We had that also with Obama/Biden 8 yrs… Biden got his license to practice law in the early 70’s … not sure if he ever really practiced law… but at about the same time that the DEA was created. Around the same time that I got out of college and I know the propaganda/fear that the DEA spread around back then. They were actually going after the cartels, because there was no computerized PDMP databases for them to data mine on prescribers.
Harris is also an attorney and according to Wikipedia she si She is the first African-American, the first Asian-American, and the third female vice presidential running mate on a major party ticket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris. But her parents were from Jamaica and India. According to this website https://www.quora.com/Are-Jamaicans-living-in-the-United-States-considered-African-Americans-Do-they-consider-themselves-African-Americans it is unusual for some from Jamaica to identify as black or African/American. Maybe she is just following in Elizabeth Warren’s footsteps when she claimed that she was a “native American”
Those hoping that Biden/Harris will listen to the chronic pain community on being unfairly treated, but according to her felony conviction rate:
Felony conviction rate
Just prior to Harris taking office the felony conviction rate was 50 percent;[51] by 2009 it was 76 percent.[52] Convictions of drug dealers increased from 56 percent in 2003 to 74 percent in 2006.
It has been reported that she sent 1500 people to jail for smoking MJ, yet in a public interview… admitted to using MJ. Didn’t we have another President – who was an attorney – that admitted to “trying” MJ ?
During the Presidential debates Harris accused Biden of being a racist and agreed with the women that accused Biden of inappropriate touching. Now that doesn’t seem of concern to her ?
Yesterday during one of their first public appearances, they refused to take any questions from the press that was in attendance ?
This is Biden’s THIRD TIME running for President – the previous two times .. he never got any traction and Harris’ attempt this time, she dropped out of the race BEFORE THE FIRST PRIMARY.
Of course this has happened before, Nixon lost to Kennedy and then came back a few years later to be elected President and this Presidency brought us the Controlled Substance act/DEA , Watergate, and his resignation and his VP Spiro Theodore Agnew had resigned – only the second VP in our history to do so and we got Gerald Ford as President .. because he was Speaker of the House and next in line in our order of succession.
If you consider what both Biden & Harris stated during the Presidential debates… they are for “Medicare for all”… but what has been described is really “Medicaid for all” … no premiums, no deductibles, no copays… price tag… about 3-4 trillion/yr… and if they confiscated all the assets of the billionaires that would pay for the first six months and then confiscate all the assets of all the millionaires would pay for the second 6 months… I guess they haven’t thought out how they are going to pay for it after the first year.. If anyone wants to get a idea of what a national health insurance would look like.. just look at our VA medical system… that is a single payer system.
They indicated that they want to get rid of fracking… there goes a lot of jobs in PENN & Ohio… fuel prices jump dramatically… remember back in early 2000 when fuel was $4.00+/gal ? and we will no longer be energy independent… and have to purchase energy from some countries that really are not our friends.
Both Biden/Harris has indicated that they want open borders and Harris has stated in a interview that she wanted everyone that is in our country would be entitled to safety, education and healthcare.
But wait, while she was CALF Attorney General she wanted more money to fund police but now she is behind defunding law enforcement or just rearrange how money is used by law enforcement.
She has already stated she is in favor of a “mandatory buy-back of AR type guns”.. by the way “AR” stands for AUTOMATIC RIFLE and only the military have AR’s that are capable of shooting automatically..the ones sold to the general public are SEMI-AUTOMATIC and those AR guns are only involved in < 1% of mass shooting. Beside a mandatory buy-back of guns is basically a confiscation of guns. First it is rifles… then it will be all hand guns… and there goes the second amendment ! They want to defund law enforcement and disarm our citizens.
Just pay attention, Illinois has one of the most strict gun ownership laws and yet Chicago typically has at least a couple of dozen of shooting EVERY WEEKEND.
According to this Harris is a anti-catholic bigot and Biden is a active practicing Catholic
Our national debt was 10 trillion when Obama took over and he passed a 20 trillion debt to Trump and if Nancy & Chuckie gets want they want on this next “pandemic money” our country will end this fiscal year (09/30/2020) with a national debt at or exceeding 30 trillion.. We are quickly becoming the Argentina of North America.
My Father’s had a favorite saying … that I heard often when I screwed up as a kid… “now that you have shit in your nest… you will just have to learn to sit in it’
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Pharmacist Steve,
AR stands for ArmaLite Rifle and does not stand for Automatic Rifle, as you state, it stands for the brand that originally designed and manufactured the semi-automatic AR-15 rifle from 1959-1964. This is the ArmaLite Rifle.
Why would national health care policy have to include the costs of the fraud components that are natural to a capitalistic system?
Let me, or most anyone who has had to work hard, run it.
First order, build a funeral pyre on the mall in Washington DC. Do it all upfront, with honesty and justice.
I believe the whole country would endorse a transparent transition.
I agree with you 100%. You wrote the truth. I disagree however, about the biden/harris ticket. I can’t bring myself to say his name first. It definately is the *** harris/biden**** ticket. He won’t last long. She is tagging along to be *The President.* (he must be REALLY gone to miss that point.) God help us all if that happens. She is more..ahh.. progressive than bernie. We will be on a roller coaster to hell quickly. I show my respect by capitalizing their names.
Wasn’t Harris right along with Sessions when it came to asset forfeiture as well?
I have not ready anything about that.. but Congress is typically about 40% Attorneys… so to take a educated guess… I doubt if she would be opposed to liberally using the Civil Asset Forfeiture Act
Wow people on this site have been really uninformed. If you think just happen with chronic pain and the decrease of opiates this happen because of Obama you are sadly mistaken and have a very short memory. PROP and buddies have been around ever since pain was stated to be treated more aggressively back in the late 1990’s. Trump is not going to change anything but he is planning to away the payroll tax that pays SS and Medicare. If that does happens who care about pain control because we will all be on the darn street and with no care at all. As far as Medicare for all which Biden does not support completely would not be as expensive as your say because just doing thing like having a one pay system would help with the huge adminstration cost with dealing with each insurance companies. Not only that I doubt you are a economist who has looked at all the details of how the program would work. Meanwhile the top1% of American own 90% of the wealth. Meanwhile you have people hungry, with crappy jobs, expensive healthcare that you have to be dying before they treat you and that is why you are having so much unrest. People are sick of it and instead of whining a out if it is a problem in your community then help out with these issue so you community does better. You want independence but you want the government to do it and then when they do you whine about that also. Meanwhile medicare is much easier system and the doctors does not need to waste there time ask for every test to be approved or even surgery from the stupid insurance company. If the doctor over Bill’s then the government goes after the doctor for Medicare fraud but you as a patient not punished by delay of care. With insurance they deny and deny and do it until you are so sick and so much worse. The biggest problem is this country is complaining about everything so we do nothing. Meanwhile you have forgetten that Trump has developed his own deficit, he has ruin our reputation in the world, asked a foreign government to help him win and held military funds as a bribe until he was found out. He has insulted women, disabled people, people of color, he has lost more money in his business then anyone in the USA. The man is huge Fraud who we the taxpayer have paid over 150 million dollars so he can play golf. Trump has lied to over 15,000 times and you think he would be better then Biden. Sorry but that does not even make any sense. I know one think maybe the Democrats will see about stop wasting money on the DEA so the can play wack a mole with whatever evil drug is out there currently and maybe work on the mental aspect of why people get addicted to begin with. As far as Trump dealing with the virus is just plan unconscionable and incompetent. I know that Biden would not have sat on his butt and he would have heard about weeks before Trump did since he would be reading and attending his daily intelligence briefing that Trump does not go to because he know it all. Biden has the qualifications and the understanding of the Constitution and our laws and Trump make jokes as he says “It is what it is” as we still are not getting enough supplies to test properly and hospital and still rationing PPE. This country is having riots because of his 4 year of hateful disgusting, pathetic hate rhetoric he has been using to split the American people as he steals American taxpayer to give to the wealthy and himself. For the virus relief they gave corporations who mostly just used to invest money in there places instead of keeping people employed. In fact if the money was given to every person over 18 years old instead it would have been $35,000. Meanwhile Putin is probably dancing in the street since Trump has made us look like total idiots as the world lose there trust in us. We have broken treaties and promises with our allies. I know Biden will pick people who know there job and will not be a bunch of yes man and will be spending there day lying to him so his EGO feels better or worse hiding things hoping that as President he will forget about because what he wants to do is such a disaster. Why would anyone vote for such a immoral man. How more many lies do we have to hear. Isn’t 15,000 enough for you. As far as fracking the damage fracking does is huge and you need to read about how family farms have been ruined as oil drills are placed just 100 ft from people home with no say and no money. Also 80% of oil that is fracked is sold overseas and not used in the USA and could easily be offset with using renewable energy sources more.
Thanks for posting this Steve ! I think you might have to keep “explaining” I cant believe how incredibly dumb some peeps are I see people posting “Hes the worst!” Forget all that you mentioned What is happening now around the country with lawlessness and cities being destroyed,will be a daily ritual if Gramps and “Weather Woman” are elected. I support Trump But when he tweets and speaks my body almost convulses.. When it comes to loving this Country I truly believe he does. Where as the other 2 will turn this into COMMUNIST AMERICA!!
Steve you are correct. What the person that made that comment doesn’t know or remember is this… The chronic pain patient issue actually started quietly, however, forcefully, in 2012 or thereabouts, under the Obama administration. I can prove that the administration had everything to do with the problem and Trump just ended up with the mess when he went into office. This is truth.
Actually is started a little before 2019… a Congress passed the “decade of pain law” in 2000 and when it expired in 2009 .. a controlled Congress did not renew it. Obama came to office in 2008 and for a decade prescribers were strongly encouraged to adequately treat pain… and then the “rug was pull out from under the chronic pain community” and Gov Scott & AG Bondi in FL decided to clean up all the pill mills that had popped up. and the prescribers that had been legally taking care of chronic pain pts were fish in a barrel for the DEA to impose their own idea of what is appropriate prescribing. They say that it only takes one ‘loose flake” to create a avalanche and the failing to renew that decade of pain law was that “flake”