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[A. Pole]

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A lot of research is financed by public grants. Also a large part of price is caused by the expensive legal requirments.

It is strange that the same people who feel sorry for the companies which could suffer losses if prices are not controlled, do not feel sorry for people who invested years of their life and tens of thousands of their in education money to see their jobs sent abroad.

Free market should work both ways.

[MamaDearest]

I used to work for a company that was owned by a very well known pharmaceutical company. Millions were invested in this company that manufactured an additive used to increase paper brightness. One sales meeting was in St. Lucia (tax deductible no doubt). Add the cost for plants built all over the country. They had financial interest in a major cosmetics company. They divested their interest in the cosmetics and paper additive companies, which prevented association with the well-known pharmeceutical name. Nothing preventing key personnel from being on the board of directors of offshoot companies. No, I believe it is manufacture cheap and sell high because they are unchallenged and it is highly profitable at our expense.

[Paul Ross]

It has always struck me that the WTO rules could be successfully invoked against Canada and any others similarly threatening to nationalize the licensed drug production...in exchange for what I call 'Governmentally-Coerced Dumping' of a valuable commodity.

The fact that these WTO rules are NOT being enforced against Canada makes it amply clear that the WTO, as it functions today, is profoundly inimical to the U.S. economic well-being. But the CATO-ites love it.

As someone else said in Human Events this week: "Turns out, they are the champions of the biggest government of all--internationalism. They hold an almost religious belief in a world without nation-hood."

The failure of our government to respond to these brazen, 'in-your-face' extortionist shake-downs of our companies by foreign governments is hand-in-hand with our government's paralysis to defend against predatory foreign industrial subsidies and dumping intended to destroy our own productive capacity. They pick and choose how they will attack us. And, with CATO-ite traitors preventing the U.S. government from doing its constitutional duty, we just supinely get jacked.