federal trade commission is looking at this practice of the big name pharmaceutical companies when their patents run out and their big name very expensive high profile drugs. are vulnerable to competition from from generics they're giving money to the generics manufacturers not to bring these products to market sort of like you know horace if you decided that you were going to go find everybody was a potential guest of the tom hartman program and pay them so that every single day you were on the show. somehow that just doesn't that's what i did i mean it was your extraordinary talents and go all of that. the question isn't this or if i went out and i found every talk show host in the three to six pm radio slot and paid you know i paid off sean hannity not be on the air anymore and suddenly i'm monopolizing the airwaves i mean isn't that a bio isn't that a fundamental violation not just of the sherman antitrust act which is the f.t.c. is asserting but of reasonable and rational business practices if you're going to

any kind of a market based economy actually i don't believe this constitutes an enterprise violation. a company simply offering a nother company amount of money x. that they will do the make with selling their product or not selling their product is just a business transaction i don't necessarily like it but it's just a business transaction but in the words action as a cucumber prices high for consumers or so this current means of to get together and agree that they're all going to do that then you'd have an answer trust but you know what tom if i'm shocked that you're taking this position like big pharma is bad because you know what it's really bad it's the generic manufacturers who are not allowing their product to be sold on the market at a lower price they're the ones hurting the consumer because they'd rather take the money from big pharma then put their lower price drugs on the market they're the ones who are saying you can't pay me enough that i will hurt low income people by not putting this low cost you out of the bargain that a crime is being committed now. i'm not i'm just saying are wrong is being done

well i'm saying if there is a wrong business in your view i would think you would take say how can these generics both of them. think about profit over helping they're the ones who hold the generic second help low income people and they're the ones who are more interested in big pharma as money than helping low income people and i would think that's an aside and beyond and i hear i hear sort of a course of saying i think this room on this is borderline collusion because you have two firms who are you know close the competitors they were going to sort of work together to fix the price because that is sort of a price fixing scheme when you tell the company i'm going to pay you so that our price can stay all abated and your lower price your lower price good came into the market it's borderline collusion they're working together to keep the price high and the sherman antitrust act is very simple any two parties two or more parties who collude to to inhibit competition are guilty of a crime you. i'm sorry i'm so fixated on the law you have patent law patent law says i've got to have

a six month patent law say asinorum of though you are allowed to negotiate with my infringer to work out in the i am list of the i'm going to do you do you reside or the. story of this story is pretty clear that when the patent and you would bet into your generic market your generic drug into the market then what it said it all or says horace's is technically right because the pattern extends beyond the period of protection for the for the brand name right they continue on the patent on it what what we have done outlaw is we've essentially forced to generics on the big name companies because these because we been extending pads this is what this is what me was there was that a policy not to do i mean jefferson you know in his first letter back to madison seventy seven we first saw the constitution he said there needs to be a ban on monopolies and commerce he wanted there to be antitrust violations built into the constitution and he didn't he did not want to have for that was to last more than three years. i would rather not had the extended patent laws rules that

we presently have and big business has been very effective at doing patent long extending them copyright laws a lot of these intellectual property rules in a way that are just serving the consumer supreme court is going to the supreme court doesn't have the right i don't believe to say we're going to disregard the existing patent law which hasn't changed just because of this problem but it. does have the right to say that you know these companies are acting in a sort of thing they're colluding and the same court has the ability to rule and say you guys indeed are colluding to. benefit consumers because it's the. law does not trump the rights that people have under the pet law unless you had the multiple companies sitting down together you know that we would have a we have basically two laws that are competing going to be interesting to see how this gets played ok a housekeeper at the army's west point was busted with a bag full of meat balls and she's looking at a couple of years in prison that's more time than trent mays one of the

steubenville ohio convicted rapists got. isn't this an example of a broken judicial system we've got people in jail for fifteen twenty thirty years for smoking pot and we're throwing a woman in prison for stealing food i mean that's that's how australia got populated by irishman was because they got arrested for stealing food during times of famine in the british were this is bizarre richard this is completely bizarre this is not the first or second time that we've seen such just system sort of put out these crazy sentences that you know harm people and i think you know it's a broader it's a broader context right like now in this particular situation look at all the other time that the justice the justice system has sort of punished people on rightfully and they're going to the fact they can't afford the legal service they can't afford a good legal teams they take a really bad plea bargain they're in jail for twenty five years for a very minor crime and somebody who has the ability to get a good legal team they're in jail for a day or two or like lindsay low and never in jail and she should have we have to criminal justice system sorest. one for you know rich people and one for everybody

else the real problem is that we over criminalize too much because government is dominating in too many areas if we shrunk the size of government and gave people more opportunities to make decisions among themselves and say we're not going to criminalize we're going to let people denounce we're going to let you know who is one of the major lobbyists for criminalizing things is the private prison industry shouldn't we be banning private prison industry is or should we be banning lobbyists i don't want to ban lobbyists i don't want to ban private prisoners but i do think that we need to have a dialogue in this convert in this country about overcoming was a sure i agree with morris i mean yeah is that sent are those two sentences fair absolutely not the rate they should have gotten more she should have gotten less yes we do have problems that we do we need to blow up the whole system now but we need to look at it both sides come together have rational discussions not demonize private prisons or lobbyists or this but really sit down and talk about the issues and what the problems are out there even as private prisons because it's more

expensive for the united states federal government to pay for you to stay in a private prison is you stay in the ritz carlton there's some prison was three hundred forty dollars a night for the united states government paid for an inmate where then i can go if i want to for that amount of money is that the private prisons fault or the a.c.l.u. and the progressives on the court. because i love the lobbying judges because i'm judges are elected so they're influencing election good judges they're influencing elections with the letter they create the laws to begin with. there's a third element here because when richard nixon became president we did not have the largest number of prisoners both on a per capita absolute basis in the world and richard nixon kicked nixon's drug war and from the drug war and now we have more prisoners than any other country in the world both in absolute numbers and we've got a couple of countries like india and china with over a billion people we have more prisoners on either one of them and we have more number more people in prison on a per capita basis it seems to me like the confluence of of a private for profit prison and you know supply goods to. to the police industry

and the you know what all of this together. and the drug is the viewers see it is remarkable if we had justice antonin scalia is prison management policies based on the rulings that he has issued the cost of incarceration would be dramatically lower if you'd everybody you know iraq would be the ones objecting about this execute everybody the day after the trial i mean i think if we could all agree to legalize marijuana we'd be half way there could be all agree on over criminalized it's overcome a lot of crime it's a natural her of the kind of when you can come up with alternatives to prison probably lent when chris is talk about some of these social ills drugs and stealing and whatever it is it's never. i really believe that you guys never want people to suffer consequences for their own decision we do it's always like we do. or hurt him or should suffer because even when everybody has bad mistakes too bad we're going to wipe it away five dollars worth of marijuana should or. should not be in

jail either conversation or five dollars for the meatballs if we didn't spend so much time over litigating the rapist and the other murderers when a marijuana arrest he came to the court he'd have the judge would have plenty of time to be contemplated and to come up well actually the main thing that would cause the judge to have plenty of time is that the republicans would allow some of the judicial nominees from the last five years as a problem in america is not better of course for his group or richard faller crystal thank you for joining us i finally got the last word. is the good the bad and the very very asked of. the good independent senator bernie sanders the vermont senator took a stand for the new deal. friday night teaming up with his democratic colleagues

sanders ensured that the senate attached an amendment to its budget bill opposing any attempt to change the way social security benefits are calculated in recent weeks the white house has floated the idea of changing the way social security cost of living increases or calculated something called the chained c.p.i. a decision that would drastically reduce benefits for millions of seniors over the next few decades using the chain p.c.p. i determine benefits is unnecessary and unfair to all the working americans who have paid into social security over throughout their lifetime although there is no guarantee that the senate's budget will pass it is reassuring to see senator sanders team up with congressional democrats to stick up for progress about. the bad the already police department at city's swat team raided a low income mostly black community as part of a mock fire training exercise last week to the chief of police stephen crow cough the department wanted to use a realistic setting to prepare its officers for military style action and to know

that albany's public servants see a whole neighborhoods as combat zones and police supposed to protect communities not terrified although chief cook off has since acknowledged his department's mistake this incident should be a reminder to everyone that many police departments see all african-americans as criminals even if they've never committed a single crime that was shameful and a very very ugly robert zimmerman jr for many americans george zimmerman the man who shot and killed trayvon martin last february is a symbol of america's deep rooted racism meet robert george's brother a series of tweets this weekend the younger zimmerman compared trayvon martin to a teenager who shot and killed a baby in atlanta last week he also slammed the liberal media for not seeing the obvious connection between martin and the atlanta shooter their race blueberry do a shoot out if what these two black teens did to a woman and baby is the reason people. blacks might be risky. unbelievable level of

bigotry needed to even think of let along make such a comparison is just very very quickly. after the break the hunger games are coming to america right now americans are being left to fend for themselves and fight for the right to survive so how can we stop this travesty tell you and tonight still take. what you have no way to live. when you don't have a family. when you have no one to ask for help you can always count on. this

man is respected by criminals and also it is a like field soundex conviction that it was people like he used to be. done for the homeless. on oxy. potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast it's expected to hit stunning in a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm. but we're watching is the very heavy snow moving into boston proper earlier today it was very sticky you can see it start to become much more powdery down here the bottom line there is still a lot of snow out here a good place for snowball fight. piece and it is going to pretty incredible day there and even record snowfall throughout what's been like nobody's allowed to be driving listens to the emergency vehicles are exceptions.

mission. critical three. years free. range month free. free. free. free both videos for your media projects and free media. in the rest of the us the news as we told you earlier in the program today the supreme court heard oral arguments for one of two separate cases concerning the legality of same sex marriage as a result the future lives of millions of americans now rest in the hands of the nine supreme court justices americans kings and queens and while more and more

conservatives are getting behind the idea of marriage equality there are solos who continue to preach that marriage equality is an abomination and that if it becomes federal law it will have all sorts of negative an unintended consequences on our society that are these unintended consequences just conservative spin or realistic expectations of marriage equality in america joining me now is the reverend bill keller the other of live per dot com who says he'll marry a doc if marriage equality becomes the law of the land rover call it. tom happy easter to you or your listeners gov bush rather well thank you and the same to you you're going to marry a duck seriously. if your argument for marriage equality is your argument then why not if i love my duck and my dog loves me who are you to tell me i can't love my dog in cuba live in peace and harmony with my dog while who is i used to live in a floating home on the lam at river in portland oregon and we had a gay pair of ducks would call them adam and steve who for three years in

a row came every year they'd come you know during the summer and and live behind our house so i guess it is possible but i don't think anyone would if i decide i want to marry three women i mean once you decide to rewrite the decision and definition of marriage you know who is to say well that is the traditional definition of marriage bill that's i mean how many wives that is the traditional definition of marriage is is either a either a man and multiple women i mean a solomon david or you know a man in there and one of the rapes that's in the bible several times that if you rape a woman gets consequence is for what happened you know let me ask you one question what is the biblical definition only did it sure as a man the soloist saw it i'm sorry i said since when did it become a civil right well i guess that's the question is are people born gay or are they choose to they choose to be gay and this is one of the things that concerns me because you know i'm operating out of the assumption that people are born gay and that people who sit around all day but why worrying though what it what scientific

that evidence is there of that i think is a fair amount of it but just looking around what i notice is that straight guys generally don't give this a second thought but then there are some people who sit around all day long worrying about what gays are up to what gay people are up to and what are they doing and what's going on in the gay bars and maybe they should be allowed to marry i think those people are called larry craig. no you know it's not it's not that simple tom here's here's the problem we've got a breakdown in our society in the last forty years we have seen the marriage in family broken down to the extent that we're proverbial this is the same argument that was made in in the one nine hundred sixty s. in the in the loving versus virginia case to prevent miseducation to prevent people of different races from gay marriage but see here the breakdown or marriage black you're born white you don't have

a choice with that when you take your pants off to have sex you're making a choice just like when you take a drink you're making a choice just like when you do drugs you're making a choice and you make that choice long enough that it becomes a good which is exactly what homosexuality is you can't even get peer gay sex with interracial c. i don't know i just don't think that that's something that's that you know somebody who knew who is certain of their sexuality which i think is most people would say i think that something perhaps larry craig would say i think he was very confused about who he was but you know i just. most people say don't have you know i'm straight or i'm gay and there's no doubt about it there's no confusion about it i've known since i was seven years old no no here's this here's the situation god made men women and women that's how god made us you don't have to try to be straight because that's how god made you but god is not going to be homosexual because that is an abomination to what god made in a completely unnatural i was on shellfish according to that part of deuteronomy.

because old clinton whether it's senator i me as well no i did that you literally at any injunction against being gay is literally right there between wearing two fabric made out of two kinds of cloth and eating shellfish this is was a bit of the old testament law were no longer under the old testament law moments room this is not an argument that is going to fly so so bill what what is going to happen to society if the supreme court strikes down propaganda and if they are told to write about what the supreme court can't is have a space of time are they are they you know as canada turned into a disintegrating society you know absolutely i mean it would have your or minus a few years and we're right behind them. and right and what's wrong with everybody having fun college education and for and free health care listen that's why the political talk is almost always time because the problem this nation our political spiritual we turn away from god we turn away from his blessings we've been embraced

the infeed the side the slaughter four thousand and six babies every day we perverted god's holy institution of marriage so everything we hear in the burning of wrath of god in this nation so because we're afraid of god we should go back to bashing gays don't we we don't have the best will be those we have to have to wrap it up with bill thanks for thanks for dropping by tonight how it was and should we care good luck with your documentary trial yet. crazy alert olive oil is an essential part of the mediterranean diet it's also apparently an essential part of turkey's national sport wrestling every year be feed turkish men gather in the city of every man. and rub themselves in oil put on their lever the leather chaps and do well in this. the tournament has been

held continuously since thirteen sixty two and is rooted in ancient central asian customs official rules competitors must pin their rivals on villa so set up in order to achieve victory as you can see they're encouraged to stick their hands down each other's cancer at the bottom interesting fact and senior opponents results in automatic victory i don't even want to know what they do with all this. blood. hack is going on in tennessee the associated press reported yesterday that several tennessee state lawmakers were worried that a new floor level sink in a men's bathroom in the state capitol was there for muslims to wash their feet in before prayer after talking to the state capitols facility administrator the

lawmakers were assured that the sink was in fact for janitors to use to rinse out their mops and not for muslims to wash their feet in but this stunning display of ignorance and intolerance in the tennessee legislature is just the beginning as that state just held its biannual health care lottery their way of rationing medicaid health services to the nearly two hundred thousand uninsured residents of tennessee who cannot afford health coverage and who are forced to hold the bar for ever in their favor. you don't. really want to. have to make. them. if you see.

me. yes like a scene straight out of the hunger games tennessee holds health care lotteries where if the odds are in your favor you get a chance to receive health care and live and if they're not you die. tennessee republican governor bill haslam and the rest of his republican colleagues have basically turned on in the idea of dialing for dollars into dialing for your life. tennesseans who need various requirements like falling below a specific income threshold being elderly blind disabled or a caretaker of a child who qualifies for medicaid can call this lottery line to request an application for that state's public health insurance program a program known as ten care as in tennessee but getting the application doesn't give you coverage it just lets you play in the state's health care lottery so if you live in tennessee and are low income and want to get into this medicare program

can call the state phone line and request an application the catch is that the window for getting one of those applications is very tight the phone lines shut down after just twenty five hundred calls come in and with hundreds of thousands of people who may qualify the demand is so high that it's nearly impossible to get through in time russell overby a lawyer with the legal aid society in nashville speaking about the lottery told the new york times that we encourage people to use multiple phones and to dial and dial and dial while those remarks sound an awful lot like instructions for winning a radio contest they're not instead of calling in to win sports tickets for cations or a new car hundreds of thousands of tennesseans are frantically calling in to win one of the twenty five hundred slots that will give them the right to survive the dial for your life phone lines opened up last thursday for the first time in six months and as usual the system was flooded with application requests those who are lucky

enough to get through it now have an application on bus a chance to get the health care they need to survive but those who got a busy signal or called after the few minutes the system was taking calls are screwed they are forced to play a game of beat the reaper and hope to be alive six months from now the next time the lottery window opens up only once every six months and what's particularly out . rageous about this is that it doesn't have to be this way at all tennesseans don't have to be playing life or death games or their health care coverage and they don't need to be dialing for life with their lives twice a year as new york times notes if governor bill haslam was just to accept free medicare money from the federal government something republican governors don't like to do because then their citizens discover that obamacare has something in it for them those one hundred eighty thousand tennesseans who are forced to compete in the health care lottery for twenty five hundred slots all of them would be added to the tenn care program all the slots are filled aslam has yet to say if he's willing to take obamacare as medicaid money which the supreme court ruled states can turn

down this is likely because he's still on board with the repeal obamacare at all costs notion that argues that obamacare is the worst thing in the history of the world and that our health care system is just fine the way it is. crazed republicans playing politics with health care combined with a five to four supreme court ruling that turned something as vital and basic as health care coverage into something being decided in tennessee by this insane and twisted lottery system where every six months twenty five hundred people can survive we fought the revolutionary war for the rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness it's time for republicans to stop denying people the right to life just because they can't dial the phone fast enough your ability to speed should not determine whether or not you get access to health care if you live in tennessee or any other state with a republican governor tell him to stop playing politics with health care for the poor and working class people and that's the way it is tonight tuesday march twenty

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