Congress again raises sports drug law

[MD Buckeye]

Congress again raises sports drug law - Yahoo! News

Originally Posted by yahoo.com

Congress again raises sports drug law

WASHINGTON - Once again, professional sports and their leaders were hauled up to Capitol Hill on Wednesday by lawmakers who say they might try once again to legislate drug-testing policies for U.S. leagues.

Facing a House subcommittee that also held hearings on steroids in 2005, commissioners sat side-by-side with their sport's union chief: Bud Selig was inches away from Donald Fehr; the NBA's David Stern was next to Billy Hunter. Then there was the NFL's Roger Goodell and Gene Upshaw, and the NHL's Gary Bettman and Paul Kelly, who rounded out the day's first set of witnesses.

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[Jake]

How about our Congress legislating that they can't spend money they don't have while putting trillions of dollars in debt on our backs?

Then maybe they can explain to us why they continue to place many domestic oil reserves off limits for production, artificially limiting supply and exascerbating already record high oil prices in the face of unprecedented global demand?

After that, they can explain how in the hell they intend to fund social security, and proposed "universal" health care plans, without taxing the [censored] out of us when they fall billions short every year under current expense levels?

I can think of about 97 other things these worthless bums should be doing than grandstanding about steroids in an election year.

[wells]

Originally Posted by Jake

Then maybe they can explain to us why they continue to place many domestic oil reserves off limits for production, artificially limiting supply and exascerbating already record high oil prices in the face of unprecedented global demand?

Domestic oil reserves are not the solution to oil prices, and future energy needs. They are far more valuable an asset kept in reserve for war, an actual crisis, or fifty years from now when there is none left.

[Taosman]

Why is it that politicians always seem to lack common sense?
Or maybe;
We have a broken system. We are slaves to big money influence.

[Jake]

Originally Posted by wells

Domestic oil reserves are not the solution to oil prices, and future energy needs. They are far more valuable an asset kept in reserve for war, an actual crisis, or fifty years from now when there is none left.

I'm not talking about our strategic reserves. You're right, they are not the solution to oil prices. I'm talking about the stuff that's still in the ground but our government won't let the oil companies drill it.

We have a global supply problem and we're beholden to a cartel. Increasing supply or decreasing demand is the only way to bring the price down and the reality is demand isn't coming down any time soon. There aren't enough viable replacements to run modern economies at this time, and no one is willing to revert back to the 18th century.