UPDATE ON LEGISLATIVE
HEALTH FREEDOM ASSAULT
Please Forward Widely
May 12, 2007
1082: What Really Happened?
The shameful Big Pharma
giveaway called S. 1082, the FDA Revitalization
Act of 2007, was passed by a bought-and-paid
for Senate by a vote of 93-1. Other than
Independent Bernard Sanders (Vermont),
every member of the Senate voted to weaken
the few protections left to the American
people from dangerous drugs and corrupt
regulators so focused on their own conflicted
interests that they regularly allow the
people of the United States (and, through
the "Trilateral Cooperation Charter,
of Mexico and Canada, too) to literally
die while they make a killing.
Follow the Money
It is interesting to
look at the Statistics presented by USA
Today on May 11, 2007 in an article entitled "Senators
who weakened drug bill received millions
from industry".
I am, quite frankly, absolutely astonished
that buying a Senator is so cheap. All
in all, even the "big bucks" of
their purchase prices are really not
that much. Perhaps the non-monetized "favors" and "friends" that
come with Big Pharma's pleasure are worth
much more. As reported, between 2001
and 2007 the campaign donations from
Big Pharma to the Senators that did the
most to pass this dangerous, corrupt
and corrupting bill came to:
* Richard Burr (R-NC)
$520,694 (Burr was the sponsor of Bioshield
III, a the biggest Big Pharma give away
every until 1082)
* John Kerry (d-MA) 304,888
* Joe Lieberman (I-CT) 281,040
* Arlan Specter (R-PA) $259,699
* Orin Hatch (R-UT) $241,850
* Chuck Grassley (R-IA) $216,599
* Max Bacus (D-MT) $199,000
* Chris Dodd (D-CT) $192,025
* Tom Carper (D-DE) $183,749
* Mike Enzi (R-WY) $174,338
* Ted Kennedy $71,000
For Shame!
For shame that the Senate
took no steps to protect food and dietary
supplements, the single greatest economic
competitor to pharmaceutical profits
from a marauding FDA which already seeks
to put the competition, natural medicine,
out of business.
For shame that this Senate
could not protect the American people
from the same FDA that issued their malignant
FDA "Guidance on the Regulation
of CAM (Complementary and Alternative
Medicine)" which Representative
Ron Paul, MD (R, TX) calls "an abuse
of the power of the FDA."
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