Porterville Recorder

Direct your anger at the right source

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I hope many others watched the piece done on 60 minutes, Sunday on CBS. I know must FOX people choose to watch “nothing” but FOX. However if they were to widen their horizons, they would know the pharmaceut­ical corporatio­ns are not beyond the “GREED” of profit making, regardless of who they may kill.

They, the pharmaceut­ical corporatio­ns, stopped making a simple drug that costs only $5 in order to make a medication that costs much more in the interest of making a “profit!” This medication is for cancer patients mostly children! So, parents need to suffer “needlessly” by having to purchase the more expensive drugs, when the pharmaceut­icals could make the $5 medication easily. According to the doctor in the piece, the formula is simple to make.

Why are many mothers agonizing because of the shortage of infant formula? There are 4 large corporatio­ns that make 90 percent of the formula in the United States. When Abbott was shut down, where were the other corporatio­ns? Why didn’t they produce the product? To create a shortage and hike up the price? No excuse endagering our children’s lives!

Watching most news programs, the outrage for the high gas prices, high food prices, high electric bills and anything else that has gone up (rent, housing) is directed at the President. Do people really believe he has that much power? I believe Congress has failed miserably in representi­ng their electorate.

Don’t believe the “MAGA” right, who in my estimation are the American version of the Taliban, who want to make women disappear under the “vails,” strip them of education, and keep them from having their own business, and take care of the “family.” Sound familiar? Barefoot and pregnant!

Most businesses and or corporatio­ns are owned by Republican­s. They lobby and pay big money to the GOP to make sure there are no regulation­s on their products. Will Congress pass a bill on the price gouging?

Oh, my God, another shooting! Where are the voices for “these” children? The antiaborti­onists should be screaming for these innocent lives who had no “voice.” Only because the gun lobbyists don’t want regulation­s, so gun companies sell to 18-year-olds.

Direct your anger at the right source. Corporatio­ns and Congress and the EXTREME MAGA right!

M.A. Reyes Portervill­e

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