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James Johnson
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Posted: 19 December 2025 at 7:37pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
JB doesn't like for this forum to be too heavily 47 focused, but I want to toss this out here.

On the subject of prescription medication:

Can someone explain to me how can the American public save 200% on those drugs?

300%? 

400%? 

500%?

Am I going to be reimbursed the cost of the drug and then some?

Can a 47 supporter (or anyone for that matter) on this forum please make sense of this? 😕😕😕

Defend your fearless leader........
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Posted: 19 December 2025 at 8:42pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
I ready to start being paid to take this handful every morning!
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Posted: 20 December 2025 at 1:01pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
Howard Lutnick has been out polishing this turd incessantly.
Something like: if it costs $7 and it goes up to $14, it’s a 100% increase. So reducing it from 14 to 7  would be a 100% decrease. 
So, and I’m dumb as hell, but the idea that a medicine is being reduced 500% means it SHOULD cost $10 but it’s being sold for $5000? ( not that I doubt this actually taking place). But the math somehow stems from what the medicine SHOULD cost?

Show me an abacus that does that.
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Posted: 20 December 2025 at 1:53pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
if it costs $7 and it goes up to $14, it’s a 100% increase. So reducing it from
14 to 7 would be a 100% decrease.

*******

No, that’s a 50% decrease. Is it wonder our economy is the way it is with
math like this?
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Posted: 20 December 2025 at 2:50pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
Three quarters of a century puttering around on this planet, and I still don’t understand how percentages work.
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Posted: 20 December 2025 at 3:45pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply
Unfortunately, you seem to be in good, or is that bad, company.

This whole percentages thing regarding drugs really is annoying me to know
end. If a kid answered like that in an exam question, they would receive a
fail.
But because the people they are appealing to seem incapable of stringing a
coherent though together, they get away with it.
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Posted: 20 December 2025 at 5:20pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply
But because the people they are appealing to seem incapable of stringing a coherent though together, they get away with it.

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Hence the quote: "I LOVE THE UNEDUCATED VOTER!"


And he played on their stupidity......twice! Let's you know how easy it is to fool many Americans.


Edited by James Johnson on 20 December 2025 at 5:21pm
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When I look at the headlines on news sites, I find myself wondering if anyone is being taught proper English anymore.
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