Lowell, can you link it back to the Campaign site.  Thanks. 

I think a lot of seniors need to see the CONTRIBUTION section on Jim Webb's Web Site, www.webbforsenate.com

and vote with their pocketbooks and wallets until they can vote at the booth in November. 

Hello Seniors, attach two cents to the last part of your contribution to show that you are NOT HAPPY with Senator Allen's use of border patrol resources, and to also indicate that you saw this article on the web, and are a fellow senior netrooter.  Have fun and happy reading.

kc

thanks lowell, it works. kc

If corporations want to go overseas or cross the borders to seek lower expenses (i.e. personnel expenses) it's OK.  But if individual citizens want to go overseas or cross the borders to seek lower expenses (i.e. prescriptions) it's not OK.  Something is VERY wrong with this picture!!  This is not the free trade the Republicans keep touting AND THEY KNOW IT!!  The global economy is not for individuals, it is for shareholders only.

Interesting insight on Allen, mmc0412.

I note that Allen Voted NO on repealing tax subsidy for companies which move US jobs offshore (Mar 2005), and he supports using the Border Patrol against people who go to Canada for lower priced prescription medicines.

Curiously, he voted YES on allowing reimportation of Rx drugs from Canada (Jul 2002). That's odd because he's voted along the Bush administration lines on every healthcare issue, and is rated 0% by APHA, the American Public Health Association, indicating a anti-public health voting record. (Dec 2003)

Looks like he favors corporations over individuals all right. Fortunately, individuals cast votes.

Is what the Republican Party has become.  I honestly don't know how they live with their greedy, bribed selves.  Remember  Medicare-D (taxpayer funded welfare for the pharmaceutical industry)?  Estimated costs to the treasury $725,000,000,000 over the next ten years, and guaranteed profits for Pharma.  And the legislation prohibits negotiating for better pricing. Not only is the fox guarding the henhouse, he's charging rent. 

Once again, Felix proves that he will stop at nothing to acquiesce to the Bush Administration's agenda.

Even killing Grandmothers to curry favor with his Republican handlers, George Felix Allen denies Seniors access to affordable health care so he can get more Big Pharma money.

As I always say about David Brooks: "Here's a man who's never met a fascist ideal he couldn't embrace and a liberal grandmother he wasn't afraid of."

you're damn close to invoking Godwin's Law.  But it certainly wouldn't be the first time.

So who did Allen kill? 

This is an issue I know alot about professionally and I can tell you that it is no laughing matter. George Allen -- and John Warner by the way -- voted against this amendment to the Homeland Security Administration appropriations bill. It was introduced by David Vetter of Louisiana and passed overwhelmingly in the Senate with many Republican senators voting for this common sense amendment. It will prohibit the U.S. Customs and Border Protections from stopping seniors crossing the Canadian border and importing prescription drugs that are FDA approved drugs. Two doctors in the Senate split their vote -- Frist, who knows better -- voted against the amendment and Coburn voted for it.

So what are our HSA customs people doing? Since mid November 2005 they have stopped thousands of seniors from receiving drugs that they need to stay healthy from chronic conditions such as congestive heart failure, pulmonary disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and from diseases such as breast cancer. People over 65 have an average of at least three chronic conditions and take four or five medicines each day. If you take one drug a day you know how much it can cost.

WHY is it considered a role of HSA to stop seniors from buying medicine at a price they can afford? Well, the excuse our senators give is that getting these "FDA approved drugs" poses a threat to safety and security. Senator Judd Gregg went so far as to tell Associated Press that a terrorist could "produce a can of Lipitor and make it look like an original bottle of the drug then fill it with anthrax. This is so absurd I can't even begin to comment.

The senators play the fear card saying that these drugs from Canada are "not safe"..These are FDA APPROVED DRUGS that are manufactured by the same exact drug companies in the U.S.They are cheaper than the same exact drug sold (and manufactured in the U.S.)because the Canadian Health System negotiates discounted prices for the drugs with the manufacturer so that Canadians can afford their health care.

George Allen and his cronies voted for the new prescription drug law passed in 2003 that PROHIBITS the U.S. government from negotiating discounted prices from these same pharmaceutical companies!

I could go on ad nauseum on this because it makes me so mad. We should all be mad as hell that our parents and grandparents are used as political pawns for these people who are putting millions of dollars into the coffers of drug companies...and facing customs agents at the border.

BTW, is it entirely unreasonable to think that rather than stopping my father or your grandmother from buying heart drugs our government should be trying to find Osama Bin Laden? Just a thought...

Interesting....

George Allen... "voted for the new prescription drug law passed in 2003 that PROHIBITS the U.S. government from negotiating discounted prices from these same pharmaceutical companies!"

I wonder why he did this.  A lobby move?  Did he get a free airfare out of it? Will dogpile it for fun to see. Should be public record.

Thank you to Jim Webb for challenging George Allen's vote and speaking out for our seniors. Just another reason why I have and will support him wholeheartedly. He is a refreshing candidate who shows every day why he is for the little guy and a true Democrat!

Unfortunately the misquided policies of our "alleged" representatives do kill.  From the victims of an illegal invasion, to selling out to the greedy pharmaceutical companies people die all the time because of these policies.  Life saving drugs are withheld (or sometimes not even put on the market)....this results in needless deaths.

I think we should strip health care benefits from all our congressmen until national health care is passed in this country.  Someone should propose a bill that pharmaceuticals have to sell drugs in the USA for the same prices they offer to other countries....OF course, Allen would never sponsor nor vote for such a things.  He's been caught "red handed" with his hands in the corporate cookie jar on issue after issue....

Unfortunately, conservative in these times means a cold hearted, greedy, corrupt, "extremist."  I'm shocked that anyone would want to be known as a conservative considering what's being done in D.C. by "conservatives."

With all the folks ready to help Webb out I think Felix is going to be in for quite a shock this November.  The people are fed up!!
buzz buzz,
mosquito 

Bush said it in his speech, Medicare cuts are going to happen and happen they must for they are not helping HIS economy.

http://www.gop.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=6425

"To solve the problem, we need to cut entitlement spending. We need to do something about it, is what we need to do. One reason Secretary Paulson agreed to join this administration is because he wants to get something done about these entitlement programs, and I want -- and I want to work with him."

In Medicare Part D.  And he made it bigger than it had to be by prohibiting the negotiation of group prescription prices for the program (something that the Veterans Administration can do).  Conservative government? Fiscal restraint?

don't know what he is going to do now, maybe slash and burn economics is alive and well. kc