{"id":28266,"date":"2023-08-29T14:11:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=28266"},"modified":"2023-08-29T14:11:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:11:33","slug":"the-two-parties-are-no-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=28266","title":{"rendered":"The two parties are not the same&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;you know, I am so damn tired of people saying they are not going to vote at all since both political parties are the same&#8230;I wonder if it is willful ignorance or if it is just them trying to fake being cynical that will make them look cool&#8230;and you just have to look at the news announced today to see how wrong they are&#8230;just today, the Biden administration announced the first ten drugs that Medicare is going to start negotiating prices on&#8230;in just those ten drugs, Medicare spends 50 billion dollars a year&#8230;yep, that&#8217;s billion with a b so if they can get a 50% reduction, or to the price in other countries who don&#8217;t allow the price gouging that the repubs have written into the laws here, this one thing could save people on Medicare 25 billion dollars a year since a lot of these are barely covered as it is&#8230;have you ever seen a repub support saving ordinary citizens this much money? No, you haven&#8217;t&#8230;I&#8217;ll save you the work of going out to look&#8230;if it doesn&#8217;t give tax cuts to the rich or corporations, they hate it&#8230;so voters, just vote on this one issue if it&#8217;s too much work for you to look for all the ways the Biden administration is working for you and me&#8230;but don&#8217;t vote for any damn repub&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;you know, I am so damn tired of people saying they are not going to vote at all since both political parties are the same&#8230;I wonder if it is willful ignorance or if it is just them trying to fake being cynical that will make them look cool&#8230;and you just have to look at the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=28266\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The two parties are not the same&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3745],"class_list":["post-28266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-medicare-drug-price-negotiation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28269,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28266\/revisions\/28269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}