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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RMF who wrote (878935)8/10/2015 11:01:52 AM
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Well, some are good questions. But the reality is that none of them will make any difference in the situation our budget is in. You could eliminate the Department of Education, which I would love to see happen, but $70 Billion/year does not matter unless you cut entitlements. Same with the amount that can be cut from the military.

Drug prices, that's a different matter, because if you cut drug prices you will save money. But you will also be cutting the level of service received from Medicare, since cutting drug prices means that over time fewer life saving drugs will be developed. Not addressing whether it is a good idea or not, but that does actually save money at a cost of some lives (AKA death panels).
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