Of drugs for severe illnesses and as a result of this work that i was doing on drug pricing in the United States looking at these issues, i eventually began to get more aware of the International Discussions about the u. S. Could do and what was happening in the countries in 1994, i was invited to argentina and brazil by people that have picked up my name as someone working on these issues and i really became aware for the first time the extent to which the United States and the state department and through the trade office and the whole apparatus of the Foreign Policy was putting pressure on the developing countries to extend and put in place monopolies on pharmaceutical drugs so wha a lf developing companies have excluded the pharmaceutical drugs from the patent system and you could buy drugs from argentina and others and at that point also from brazil and the u. S. Was pushing all these countries to put those in place but also going way beyond that. And i remember when i was at arge
On monday, the Supreme Court issued the stupid opinion which we talked about forgive you for calling that a compromise decision. Thats how i do it. Just imagine for a moment if during this period of a 44 split on the court, brown v. Board of education have come up. I cant help but think about that and in the context of other cases that are bound to have come up to the court during this period. Senator leahy, i am glad that you pointed out that we have some civics students seated behind us here today. I hope they are learning something, but think of the lesson that where we are at this moment in connection with this nomination teaching them is teaching them. These are matters that should be of critical importance to all of us on both sides of the aisle. The future really is at stake. These kinds of decisions that were issued on monday have real consequences. In brown v. Board of education, you had decisions in one part of the country that went one way, and in delaware in particular my f
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Genuinely aware of the fact that money plays a role in politics, but we are making the argument across a very dangerous threshold to the point has created such paralysis in our politics and policymaking that we are losing our democracy. Host what are the examples of what youre talking about . Guest if you look at every number associated with money in politics, theyve all grown exponentially in the last 20 years. Weve gone from 500 lobbyists 20 years ago in washington to h 12,000 registered lobbyists. Within a 5000 increase in what is called dark money, which is money not disclosed in the lastn decade. The 2000 election cycle is an aggregate of 3 billion election cycle. This is supposed to be a 10 billion election cycle. That is the math. But what patterns are created in washington is the inability to legislate on behalf of the common good are the public eye. The special entrees have sowed early rig the game and how such control over politicians and policymaking on behalf of the public
Afghanistan. It means half have nod not but its bang for the buck. Best money we spent in eastern afghanistan was 5,000, and how much does a drone cost . How much does a tank cost . How much does daves salary cost . 5,000 to do what . We basically provided taxi fare for all of the bus students to get in the come down from the mountains and go to host university. The only role the americans had was to make sure that the drivers dropped them off at the university, and took them back. Thats 5,000 bucks. Just trying to be wise more than smart. I think wisdom west. Coms at the end. As i gatemer gray hair i can relate to that. Time for one moreey. Sounds like the money was spent you did the best you could. You were directing us through the photographs in the book and i spend time on the photos. I was taken by this one here that shows barneys cereal bowl on display in the bush library with ai and mia badges and bracelets. A damning picture and showed the attitude. The host question comes at t