What does it tell you when pharmaceutical ads dominate?

Money drives American democracy and suppresses the needs of the needy in health and life. We need to change the election system and undermine the influence of corporate greed

• Stop giving money to foreign countries. Invest more in our own people and make the foreign countries earn our support based on how they treat their own people. End the Federal tax on Social Security. Make healthcare free to all. Support th sick and provide work for the healthy poor.

• Radically change our election system. Block all fundraising. Have a new kind of primary in which anyone can run and the government gives them equal time on a Government Website to express their ideas and share their experience — everyone uses the internet. The public selects the top five best candidates and then America votes again, online.

• Politics and corporate greed are making America worse. We are seeing our decline take place right before our eyes.

By Ray Hanania

Paid/politics/ Sunday March 17, 2024

The COVID pandemic gave license to politicians and businesses to pursue their own needs and priorities over the needs of the public.

It's all political BS, of course, when people claim the economy is great. It's not, unless you are making a fortune. Everyone has seen the cost increases for groceries. Everything has gone up.

When the prices skyrocket and then drop, slightly, politicians disingenuously argue the price crisis is over. It's not. Prices went up because big corporations exploited the pandemic dramatically increasing their profits.

You know things are really bad though when television ads are dominated by one industry. If you haven't already noticed, the pharmaceutical industry dominates TV ads. It’s a symptom of bigger problems that plague even our political process.