[merrylander]

Perhaps China's getting its knickers in a twist over arms to Taiwan and afternoon tea with the Dali Lama will result in enough rancor that we will close the damn border to their crap. Then watch their GDP head for the toilet - and they know damn well that they need us. As for all the treasuries they hold, run the dollar down to 20 cents and repay them. Our exports go through the roof and all those offshore jobs go poof.

Figuring out details for our tax accountant I found that prescription drugs went from $2650 in 2008 to $3100 in 2009 for exactly the same prescriptions, no more no less. Unless my math is bad that was a 16% increase in a year where they said there would be no SS COLA because we had no inflation.

We don't need health care reform we just need to take a few drug company CEOs out behind the barn and shoot them.