[algernonpj]

... You seem to have a problem with "big" companies which, at least to me, means you have a problem with success. ...
If you have a problem with crony capitalism then your problem is with "big" government because government is the enabler of crony capitalism. ...
The FDA kills most of these new offerings before they even reach the clinical trial stage. Yet, you want us to believe that "big" pharma and the fedgov are joined at the hip helping each other out. ...

Maybe that's what it means in your mind, but I notice you ignored the possibility that only 'big' companies have the resources to indulge in crony capitalism and deter competition from new and small companies. We live in an age of profit "uber alles", an age in which the only obligation companies have is to earn profit for their stock holders.

To deny that there are those out there who place money and profit above all other things is to deny reality. There is a dark side to human nature that Bastiat in The Law refered to as the ‘common tendency’ of ‘mankind’ ‘when they can’ to ‘live and prosper at the expense of others’.

Big pharma wouldn't use lobbyists on K street to pass on campaign contributions to buy favors now would they?
The FDA didn't violate its own regulations to speed all those new inferior HFA inhalers to market when there already was a medical exception to the Montreal Protocol did they?
Dupont didn't join up with the greenies on the theory that chloroflourcarbons cause the ozone hole because their patent on an efficient process for producing chloroflourcarbons did they?
Big pharma didn't bribe and subsidize:
The American Lung Association (ALA)
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA)
The Allergy and Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA)
The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI)
The American Academy of Pediatrics
The American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC)
The American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI)
The American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP)
The American Thoracic Society (ATS)
to 'educate' consumers on how to use the new HFA inhalers did they?
The FDA didnt' have the gall to tell consumers of asthma inhalers, i.e. people have difficulty breathing, that "It is important to remember that it is the deep breath that you take with each puff that gets the medication into your lungs, not the force of the spray." did they?

[Mase]

Maybe that's what it means in your mind, but I notice you ignored the possibility that only 'big' companies have the resources to indulge in crony capitalism and deter competition from new and small companies

Yet the global economy is more competitive today than it has been at any other time in our history. You're whining.

Big companies cannot participate in crony capitalism unless they are enabled by government. You keep missing the truth here that government is the problem, not the industries you continue heaping your animus upon. You appear to have a great deal of ire for American industry, but little contempt for our overbearing government. Very telling.

We live in an age of profit "uber alles", an age in which the only obligation companies have is to earn profit for their stock holders.

You and I have always lived in an age of "profit uber alles." It is the profit motive that allows you to live the incredible life you do today. I keep detecting an anti-capitalist bent to your posts. What's up with that?

To deny that there are those out there who place money and profit above all other things is to deny reality

You're not making sense again. I said your problem should be with government but you don't seem to think government is the problem. You want to demonize American industry, apparently, for the things government has done. That's nonsensical.

You also seem to be deluded into believing that the economy is a fixed pie and that if someone is successful, that success comes at the expense of someone else. A course in basic economics would explain to you why such a belief is absurd.

Big pharma wouldn't use lobbyists on K street to pass on campaign contributions to buy favors now would they?

Wow, industry hiring people to petition the government. Sounds illegal, but it isn't. You also seem to have a real problem with freedom. Just how many favors do you think "big" bad pharma buys from the fedgov when it costs 13 years and $800 million to bring a new drug to market? Yeah government is really looking out for "big" pharma. What a bunch of class warfare crapola. Are you posting from Zuccotti park?

Big pharma didn't bribe and subsidize:

Bribe? You're accusing them of committing illegal activities? If so, I'm sure the government is looking the other way because, after all, they are all the best of buddies.

Again, your problem is with government. They hold almost all of the cards over industry, especially the drug industry. Instead of laying blame for your concerns at the feet of government, where it most certainly belongs, you choose to denigrate American industry. Nice.

Are you a Ron Paul supporter by chance? It's unfortunate you never learned on which side your bread is buttered. Otherwise, you wouldn't come across as some misguided crusader for bigger government.