ACA Board Chairman and Ossur

[Michael F. Chamness]

Good points, James. Remember also the drug manufacturers who sell to us at
inflated prices while they sell to other countries at a discounted rate, and
threaten to stop selling drugs to any Canadian pharmacy that sells to US
inhabitants, and government agencies that are doing everything they can to
prevent senior citizens from buying drugs in Canada; and a congress that
makes it attractive for whatever business that are left in the US to screw
the citizens of this country. The agricultural companies, like Monsanto,
Cargill, ADM and the rest, sell their products to places like Brazil at a
discounted rate, allowing the Brazilians to produce soybeans at half the
cost of doing so here, thus eventually killing the US soybean market, a
staple of US farmers. And then, there's the billions being spent daily on
wars and police actions around the world by the current administration,
while there's damn little money for medical care and medications for those
who live in this country. But still, talk to most people and they cheer the
president, applaud the congress, think everything is just going along great.
To criticize is to fail to "support the troops". So what's the answer, more
political candidates? More voting? The only thing that matters anymore is
money, and if you haven't got it, you don't count for anything. Citizenship
is becoming a bad joke.

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Michael F. Chamness
PO Box 22
Montpelier, ND 58472
chamness at daktel.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Street" <james.street at comcast.net>
To: "Amputee Information Network" <amp-l at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: ACA Board Chairman and Ossur


> I'm probably being really naive, but isn't this the way everything is run
in
> America?  None of this bothers the super rich who are in control, because
> they can buy anything they want.  It tells you something when the top 1%
of
> the population owns 40% of all the wealth and the "bottom" 50% own only 3%
> of all the wealth.
> The rich eat fois gras and the poor eat MacDonald's while the middle
> classes, who do most of the work and keep the country going, gripe and
fight
> each other.  I'm not a socialist, I'm just stating what seems to me to be
> the facts.  The eye gouging and testicle kicking is being done by a class
of
> people who don't know that their self-interest is to work together.  The
> working class lost its unions and dumped a huge portion of its population
on
> the streets by not understanding how to work for its own self-interest and
> keep the unions going.  End of sermon.