If Medicare could negotiate directly with drug companies it could save the federal and state governments hundred of billions of dollars and cut insurance premiums.

Medicaid programs and medicare consumers who must pay a 20% being grossly over-charged while the drug companies increase market share and reap huge profits.

This is what happens when you privatize Medicare. The Medicare prescription drug benefit is a massive giveaway to pharmaceutical companies, creating disastrous health effects for the nation's poor and elderly citizens.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money... but city and state governments cannot.

It's just marijuana -- we don't differentiate, it's all illegal. We enforce federal drug law, and federal law trumps state law.