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(ABC 4) Scary Ever wonder how Wal-Mart is able to offer prescription drugs for such low prices? Turns out they've been getting them via illegal alien couriers   (abc4.com) divider line 128
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Cubansaltyballs [TotalFark] 2009-04-24 11:06:05 PM  
And I thought the Mexicans just brought ALL their kids to Walmart because it is cheaper then a theme park... turns out it is bring your kids to work day.

/who's insensitive?
//I'm not farking insensitive!

 
EviLincoln [TotalFark] 2009-04-24 11:07:24 PM  
Something we have in common.

 
RagingLeonard [TotalFark] 2009-04-24 11:12:39 PM  
Why is anyone surprised? Illegals are building our houses, cooking our food, cleaning our hotels, paving our roads, picking up our trash...Why should we be surprised that they are transporting our products as well?

As bad as our economy is right now, it would be even worse if we have to pay American citizens an honest wage.

 
Dr.Knockboots [TotalFark] 2009-04-24 11:13:15 PM  
when i lived in San Diego, there was an expose done from one of the local news channels about clinics and their prescribed drugs. It turned out -to nobody's surprise- that a lot of the clinics were going across the border, buying the drugs, applying their own labels and selling them for a huge mark-up.

Random example: my cousin buys his inhalers 3 at a time for 15 bucks total in Mexico. The local clinic he used to get them from charged him $45 each.

 
namegoeshere 2009-04-24 11:15:34 PM  
What do we know about the quality of these drugs? Are we sure they're the real thing?

My vet swears the PetMeds on line are poor quality fakes.

 
Cubansaltyballs [TotalFark] 2009-04-24 11:24:47 PM  
Dr.Knockboots: Random example: my cousin buys his inhalers 3 at a time for 15 bucks total in Mexico. The local clinic he used to get them from charged him $45 each.

Why do you hate businesses hippy? You should go work for the B. Hussein Administration. Health care isn't free!! But ole Barry doesn't get that.... he thinks people shouldn't get rich by squeezing the sick and the poor. Sounds like a Neo-fascist-pinko-commie-marxist-sociallest idea if you ask me.

 
brainiac-dumdum [TotalFark] 2009-04-24 11:49:22 PM  
Further evidence that the private sector cannot be trusted to act in the public's best interests.

 
Kiddo Young [TotalFark] 2009-04-25 01:03:26 AM  
RagingLeonard: Why is anyone surprised? Illegals are building our houses, cooking our food, cleaning our hotels, paving our roads, picking up our trash...Why should we be surprised that they are transporting our products as well?

In my hometown, they also pick the grapes to make all the wine the snobs drink!! ;)

 
WorldCitizen [TotalFark] 2009-04-25 01:26:44 AM  
Kiddo Young: RagingLeonard: Why is anyone surprised? Illegals are building our houses, cooking our food, cleaning our hotels, paving our roads, picking up our trash...Why should we be surprised that they are transporting our products as well?

In my hometown, they also pick the grapes to make all the wine the snobs drink!! ;)


True snobs don't drink American wine.

 
antialias [TotalFark] 2009-04-25 02:05:33 AM  
Capitalism is farked. Communism is farked. But so far, no one has a better alternative.

 
legrandbatard 2009-04-25 02:08:20 AM  
antialias: Capitalism is farked. Communism is farked. But so far, no one has a better alternative.

Socialism?

 
guerrillero de fark 2009-04-25 02:09:32 AM  
is it just me, or does the one on the left look kinda...white?

 
qwave54 2009-04-25 02:09:46 AM  
*ring ring*
"Hello?"
"Would you like to deliver boxes for drugs for $150 and a tank of gas?"
"Sure."

How could that possibly seem like a good plan?

www.abc4.com

oh...right.

/let's go over this again, slowly... when driving in a car packed with drugs, and your an illegal, and you have illegals in the car with you, DO NOT SPEED like fark sakes, it's not that hard of a concept...

 
hovsm 2009-04-25 02:10:34 AM  
Holy Crap! The aliens look just like us......frakin cylons! I wish they would not refer to non-citizens as aliens.

 
antialias [TotalFark] 2009-04-25 02:13:25 AM  
legrandbatard: antialias: Capitalism is farked. Communism is farked. But so far, no one has a better alternative.

Socialism?


Not too bad, but even so, flawed. Ask anyone who lives in a country with socialized medicine, they will tell you all about it.

 
Jus_Wyerd 2009-04-25 02:14:06 AM  
So Wally World subcontracts out their courier service, and the courier company violates the law.. How the hell is that Wally World's fault? (Assuming the company was authorized to transport prescription medication)...

 
IStateTheObvious 2009-04-25 02:15:19 AM  
Dr.Knockboots:
Random example: my cousin buys his inhalers 3 at a time for 15 bucks total in Mexico. The local clinic he used to get them from charged him $45 each.


I buy the wifes inhalers from overseas myself (as well as antibiotics), but I don't live anywhere near the border. I've gotten them from Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, and India. Every time they have were manufactured by Glaxo Smith Kline. Same quality as bought locally, and they cost about $15 each (shipped) compared to $45 locally. Plus it saves a $100 doctors visit to get the scrip. And if customs intercepts the shipment, they will reship the entire order for free until it gets through...and one time the original was just delayed and I got 2 orders for the price of one.

 
rackrent [TotalFark] 2009-04-25 02:16:08 AM  
Down at the office had to fill out the forms
A pink one, a red one, the colors you choose

/It's no fun being an illegal alien

 
Robert1966 [TotalFark] 2009-04-25 02:16:41 AM  
Why am I supposed to find this scary? Because it means our pharmaceutical corporations overprice their products so much that they cease to be competitive? I already knew that.

 
EdgeRunner 2009-04-25 02:17:04 AM  
No no no, people... Wrong kind of alien couriers.

i218.photobucket.com
Stop getting your prescriptions filled at Wal-Mart IMMEDIATELY.
Once you see these wandering around your house, it's already too late.

 
jm105 2009-04-25 02:22:47 AM  
Jus_Wyerd: So Wally World subcontracts out their courier service, and the courier company violates the law.. How the hell is that Wally World's fault? (Assuming the company was authorized to transport prescription medication)...

Because they didn't do any research on the contractor to ensure the safety of their meal ticket customers, they just went with the lowest bidder.

\works at wally world

 
Great Janitor 2009-04-25 02:22:58 AM  
EdgeRunner: No no no, people... Wrong kind of alien couriers.


Stop getting your prescriptions filled at Wal-Mart IMMEDIATELY.
Once you see these wandering around your house, it's already too late.


Actually, if you see a few of those, trap one, my girlfriend thought they were so cute.

/they don't grow up do they?

 
Anhydrous Dihydrogen Monoxide 2009-04-25 02:23:14 AM  
PROTIP: When you are smoking dope, have $30,000 in prescription drugs in the trunk, and are an illegal alien to boot, don't drive 96 mph.

/at least these guys weren't building the house you're going to live in
//or cooking your food

 
Helos 2009-04-25 02:27:26 AM  
What an illegal alien courier might look like...

acct.tamu.edu

 
ktybear 2009-04-25 02:27:51 AM  
democratic socialism or, for want of a better phrase, "conforming anarchy" ie a greater good is acknowledged with smaller, more regional goals to work towards... village mentality on a global scale

 
omnimancer28 2009-04-25 02:31:12 AM  
Pshaw. They have some amateur pharmacists in Utah. Here in Florida, we do things the legal and equally evil way. Purchase drug from legit USA dealer. Mark up 1000%. Profit. Hell, we even discount automatically when you buy in bulk (just like your local street pharmacists).

And sadly, 1000% is not some blown up and sarcastic figure. Saw a $5 bottle of meds marked up to $200 while I was doing invoices today.

 
ktybear 2009-04-25 02:32:38 AM  
for example
acknowledging the desire to end human poverty
locally help those around you towards self sufficiency
acknowledge the world is changing
locally support industry and communities that work towards practical solutions ie new crops old farms

 
84Charlie 2009-04-25 02:35:31 AM  
I don't care about those people who work for Wal-Mart, make things for Wal-Mart, or who deliver things to Wal-Mart. I care about getting my stuff cheap and in one convenient location.

I enjoy watching people fall all over themselves to look the most concerned about all those terrible evils Wal-Mart is responsible for, and how they HATE!!!111OMGWTF Wal-Mart and wouldn't shop there for a gallon of water if their testicles were on fire. Because I know that for all of their biatching and moaning, I'm still going to Wal-Mart later and buy me some cheap ass stuff and LIKE IT.

 
Uakari 2009-04-25 02:47:44 AM  
84Charlie: I don't care about those people who work for Wal-Mart, make things for Wal-Mart, or who deliver things to Wal-Mart. I care about getting my stuff cheap and in one convenient location.

I enjoy watching people fall all over themselves to look the most concerned about all those terrible evils Wal-Mart is responsible for, and how they HATE!!!111OMGWTF Wal-Mart and wouldn't shop there for a gallon of water if their testicles were on fire. Because I know that for all of their biatching and moaning, I'm still going to Wal-Mart later and buy me some cheap ass stuff and LIKE IT.



I doubt any of us care that you enjoy your wal-mart shopping experience so much.

 
KrispyKritter 2009-04-25 02:47:52 AM  
namegoeshere: "What do we know about the quality of these drugs? Are we sure they're the real thing? My vet swears the PetMeds on line are poor quality fakes."

Was QC Inspector in an OTC drug & vitamin manufacturing plant in Hillside NJ. They mostly shipped bulk finished product for others to private-label. It pissed off the owner that mail order vitamin sellers were not bound by the same laws his company was. Made it incredibly hard to compete - and their products were mostly ersatz.

 
Harry_Seldon 2009-04-25 02:49:57 AM  
WorldCitizen: Kiddo Young: RagingLeonard: Why is anyone surprised? Illegals are building our houses, cooking our food, cleaning our hotels, paving our roads, picking up our trash...Why should we be surprised that they are transporting our products as well?

In my hometown, they also pick the grapes to make all the wine the snobs drink!! ;)

True snobs don't drink American wine.


Three Buck Chuck by the case $35.99.

 
GWSuperfan 2009-04-25 02:54:22 AM  
Harry_Seldon: Three Buck Chuck by the case $35.99.

last time I was in TJoe's, it was TWO Buck Chuck

 
phunkey_monkey 2009-04-25 02:55:21 AM  
legrandbatard: antialias: Capitalism is farked. Communism is farked. But so far, no one has a better alternative.

Socialism?


Socialism is just communism dressed in drag.

 
bhcompy 2009-04-25 02:55:31 AM  
RagingLeonard: Why is anyone surprised? Illegals are building our houses, cooking our food, cleaning our hotels, paving our roads, picking up our trash...Why should we be surprised that they are transporting our products as well?

As bad as our economy is right now, it would be even worse if we have to pay American citizens an honest wage.


Well, that's not entirely true. In California, illegals cost billions in public funding(mainly health, education, and other public services). The state wouldn't be nearly as much in the hole without that burden, which means they wouldn't have increased my vehicle license fees, my income tax, and my sales tax while axing my child tax credit on top of it

 
Harry_Seldon 2009-04-25 02:56:37 AM  
I buy my prescriptions at Costco. I buy two generic prescriptions at Costco for $16 a month (total). This means I don't need to use my insurance deductible.

Those same two prescriptions at Walgreens cost $70.

I realize Walmart has those $4 prescriptions, but that doesn't seem right either.

Costco rules! Good prices, workers treated fairly, etc.

 
Harry_Seldon 2009-04-25 02:59:14 AM  
GWSuperfan: Harry_Seldon: Three Buck Chuck by the case $35.99.

last time I was in TJoe's, it was TWO Buck Chuck


You are in California. It is $3.00 a bottle in Oregon due to higher distribution costs.

 
rcain [TotalFark] 2009-04-25 02:59:26 AM  
I FARKENG KNEW IT!!!
I TOLD THEM IT WAS BLUE PILL, NOT BROWN!!!
------ WOULD NOT SHOP AGIAN *blaaaaaaaahhhhrgggghhhhh!*

 
MayorYana 2009-04-25 03:00:33 AM  
walmart denies sues illegal aliens at 11!

 
GDubDub [TotalFark] 2009-04-25 03:01:52 AM  
The only way to get rid of the illegal immigrant and illegal importation problem is to make the punishment far more extensive than the profits that can be obtained.

Example: find an illegal working at a restaurant? The entire restaurant gets confinscated. Find an illegal picking lettuce? The entire farm and its assets get confinscated. Find an illegal working at a construction sites? All of the tools, trucks, contracts, and inventory gets confinscated.

The government doesn't have any problem seizing a car if one joint is found in it. Doesn't have any problem seizing large sums of cash if you can't "prove" it didn't come from illegal sources. Whats wrong with seizing everything if anyone is deemed illegal?

Well the government will never do this because of the dirty little secret that our economy depends on paying illegal sub-minimum wages for stuff. Not to mention, any politician who comes out against illegals is dubbed a racist. Finally, all of the companies that routinely hire illegals insulate themselves with plausible deniability.

Naw, it is time to shiat or get off the pot -- either admit all of the dirty little secrets, or just start nationalizing all of the offending industries. I doubt there would be more than a few dozen non-government-owed taxicabs left in the entire nation.

 
Relatively Obscure [TotalFark] 2009-04-25 03:02:16 AM  
Helos: What an illegal alien courier might look like...

Awesome.

 
NicoFinn [TotalFark] 2009-04-25 03:03:57 AM  
antialias: legrandbatard: antialias: Capitalism is farked. Communism is farked. But so far, no one has a better alternative.

Socialism?

Not too bad, but even so, flawed. Ask anyone who lives in a country with socialized medicine, they will tell you all about it.


I live in a country with socialized medicine and it's fine. So far my experience has been more good than bad.

 
That_Bob_Guy 2009-04-25 03:06:27 AM  
Harry_Seldon: WorldCitizen: Kiddo Young: RagingLeonard: Why is anyone surprised? Illegals are building our houses, cooking our food, cleaning our hotels, paving our roads, picking up our trash...Why should we be surprised that they are transporting our products as well?

In my hometown, they also pick the grapes to make all the wine the snobs drink!! ;)

True snobs don't drink American wine.

Three Buck Chuck by the case $35.99.


I live a mile from the Bronco Winery (they make 2 buck chuck, BTW) so I'm getting a kick ... bla bla bla.

The smell of rotting grapes mixed with a couple of dairies and a sewage treatment plant ... the smell is epic.

 
WildMonkey 2009-04-25 03:15:20 AM  
The real tragedy is such a horrible, inefficient, corrupt, and expensive system that plays with the lives of all.

 
myinternetname 2009-04-25 03:18:51 AM  
Ah, Fark.com

Where you are guaranteed to run into the snob who thinks they are better than everyone that shops at Wal Mart and the hoplophobiacs who are convinced all republicans are in the klan.

 
CygnusDarius [TotalFark] 2009-04-25 03:20:51 AM  
Well, as Fark's most outspoken mexican citizen, I've lived with 25 years of using those meds (the ones they bring to the US 'over the counter'), so let me tell you that they're just as good as the american meds.

Sure, the hail falling out sometimes, the mutated arm that grows in your back, the eyes that appear in your gooch, and the human head that grows in the tip of your penis are somewhat shocking, but some girls digs that.

 
Nightmaretony 2009-04-25 03:25:46 AM  
Cubansaltyballs: Dr.Knockboots: Random example: my cousin buys his inhalers 3 at a time for 15 bucks total in Mexico. The local clinic he used to get them from charged him $45 each.

Why do you hate businesses hippy? You should go work for the B. Hussein Administration. Health care isn't free!! But ole Barry doesn't get that.... he thinks people shouldn't get rich by squeezing the sick and the poor. Sounds like a Neo-fascist-pinko-commie-marxist-sociallest idea if you ask me.




0/10. The trick is to use fresher bait. Try again and keep the waargarbl to a minimum.

 
100 Watt Walrus 2009-04-25 03:34:06 AM  
84Charlie: I don't care about those people who work for Wal-Mart, make things for Wal-Mart, or who deliver things to Wal-Mart. I care about getting my stuff cheap and in one convenient location.

I enjoy watching people fall all over themselves to look the most concerned about all those terrible evils Wal-Mart is responsible for, and how they HATE!!!111OMGWTF Wal-Mart and wouldn't shop there for a gallon of water if their testicles were on fire. Because I know that for all of their biatching and moaning, I'm still going to Wal-Mart later and buy me some cheap ass stuff and LIKE IT.


7/10

 
Xerxes99 2009-04-25 03:40:20 AM  
i140.photobucket.com
/GIS for "Mexican Walmart" wtf?

 
Krieghund 2009-04-25 03:49:24 AM  
NicoFinn: antialias: legrandbatard: antialias: Capitalism is farked. Communism is farked. But so far, no one has a better alternative.

Socialism?

Not too bad, but even so, flawed. Ask anyone who lives in a country with socialized medicine, they will tell you all about it.

I live in a country with socialized medicine and it's fine. So far my experience has been more good than bad.


I think what he meant was "ask any American Republican what they think someone who lives in a country with socialized medicine would say"

 
unyon [TotalFark] 2009-04-25 03:54:35 AM  
antialias: legrandbatard: antialias: Capitalism is farked. Communism is farked. But so far, no one has a better alternative.

Socialism?

Not too bad, but even so, flawed. Ask anyone who lives in a country with socialized medicine, they will tell you all about it.


Canadian here. Love the universal health care. I didn't use it much of my first 38 years, but I've had cause to be a client again for the last couple years. Everyone in the system is fantastic, appointments have been easy to get, and drugs are cheap. Do you know why it works? Because it's adminstratively efficient, compared to a patchwork of insurance companies and HMOs. An American GP will spend 5 timesmore than his Canadian counterpart. How the hell does that make sense? Are people moving data around and acting as gatekeepers the place you want your health care dollars going? The problem with Obama's health care is that its too half-assed. If you're gonna do it, you gotta go whole hog if you want it to work.

bhcompy:
Well, that's not entirely true. In California, illegals cost billions in public funding(mainly health, education, and other public services). The state wouldn't be nearly as much in the hole without that burden, which means they wouldn't have increased my vehicle license fees, my income tax, and my sales tax while axing my child tax credit on top of it


What should be done? Is it realistic to think they can all be rounded up and shipped home? If there's no reasonable way to do that, what then? It's a shame there's no way to convert those folks into taxpayers...

CygnusDarius: Well, as Fark's most outspoken mexican citizen, I've lived with 25 years of using those meds (the ones they bring to the US 'over the counter'), so let me tell you that they're just as good as the american meds.

Sure, the hail falling out sometimes, the mutated arm that grows in your back, the eyes that appear in your gooch, and the human head that grows in the tip of your penis are somewhat shocking, but some girls digs that.


Very nice. As an unlicenced freelance English field examiner, I'm here to tell you this: You've passed English lesson #245- "Describe genitalia in shocking terms'.

Lesson #246 is to successfully troll an anti-immigration thread as an Arizona Minuteman. I'll be watching.

 
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