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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (39026)	11/25/2009 1:47:37 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Still, insofar as the government was prohibited* from negotiating for lower prices with the Big Pharma companies* In order to avoid setting up a monopsony buyer for the drug market for seniors. that there was NO REVENUE SOURCE put in place to PAY FOR any of this new federal entitlement I wouldn't phrase it that way, since I don't look to tying revenue directly to programs, still I think I agree with the general point, we had deficits, where facing worse ones (we didn't know that we would have a recession now, but recessions come eventually, and also we did know about the long term budget problems of the entitlement programs), so any new entitlement program is rather questionable. Also true with the Trillion and a half for the twin wars Probably more like a Trillion, but then they aren't over yet.