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To: algernonpj
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.

17 posted on 11/02/2011 12:19:32 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mase
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Once again 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 referred to as the ‘common tendency’ of ‘mankind’ ‘when they can’ to ‘live and prosper at the expense of others’."

The only people I know of who blame big government to the exclusion of human nature and confuse capitalism with cronyism, crony capitalism, and fascism are communists, marxists, the OWS protesters.
18 posted on 11/02/2011 12:51:19 PM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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