Posted on 10/08/2004 5:43:50 PM PDT by andrew1957
October 8th Bush/Kerry Debate
The disparity, from what I've read and heard, is between the various international standards and perceptions of intellectual property and its enforcement. The big Pharm companies give the franchise away to the Canadian, Asian and Euros because they want to protect themselves from the rote reverse engineering theft that can be done with most ANY drug or technology that is science based. They want to protect their brand franchise here, in their biggest markets. So we Americans pay while the rest of the world mounts us again.
Why wouldn't Merck, Microsoft or Paramount want to protect their risk investments? They're inventing something out of nothing, for every success they get return, they have copious investments that fail. They need to maximize their winners, or investment will dry up. But we pay so the Canucks can not only avoid paying for military, but for any intellectual property assets in pharmaceuticals, bioengineering, technology ... etc etc. It's wrong.
It's the World that should be sanctioned for that theft, its not Americans that should pay a premium as ransom to the dismal Canucks or the mortal enemy Chinese.
Let's let Bob and Doug McKenzie invent something for a change, and we'll steal it. I consider this kind of theft an economic act of war. And, our pols are playing right into it. If we start allowing our HUGE Federal buying pools to pay cut rate prices from Canada and Mexico - Upjohn, Merck, Baxter etc will just stop inventing stuff.
Joe Trippi is down here in Sarasota, Florida running the campaign for Jan Schneider, socialist for congress, who is running against Katherine Harris. He must really enjoy losing.
IT WAS HELD IN A BLIND TRUST.
Kerry is an idiot for raising this.
sKerry said W got $84 from a lumber company, and that made him/it a small business. W's response was "I own a lumber company? I didn't know that... Want some wood?"
The media will turn it for him.
As they say in Texas, Gracey, Kerry is All hat and No Cattle.
Acetaminophen.
So we need to cross subsidize the perps, or they will steal the drug company patents eh? Sounds like extortion to me. I don't agree with the scenario, but if it is, bring it on! This cannot stand. It is repulsive.
HOO--AAAH! Thanks.
I noticed how every time F'n was asked a semi-tough question he would quickly segue into an attack on Bush.
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I heard on the radio that CSPAN had the questions on the screen, so viewers could be reminded if the speaker was actually addressing the question. I don't know how many viewers CSPAN has for these events. They never say. Rather they say they do not get any ratings numbers.
It surely would have been easy to see that Kerry didn't stay anywhere near his question so many times.
Ok, You basically want to apply Robinson-Patman to extraterritorial drug transactions. I wonder if the courts will agree that the govt. has this authority.
Your right, somebody's in the DU crowd had somekind of auto play program going..boycott the damn things and do something worth while like DONATE to RNC or Swifties...and if you ain't got the bread, go dumpster dive, don't be too proud..our troops in the Middle East are going through a lot worst.
(Miss Barret, 8th Grade teacher, please forgive me.)
Thanks for that link ... it sure would explain those numbers we are seeing and some of Trippi's comments
Bectcha these numbers are coming from the Deanies
LOL!! I was wondering if W is even aware of the double entendre.
And so, enterprisers have figured out how to counter this strategy by selling back into the USA. What F*ing fails to mention is that, were the government to intercede in this market, there would very likely be no more underpriced drugs provided for our socialist neighbors, and possibly fewer advanced drugs available in the USA.
So if Kerry understands this dynamic, he is a demagouge, and if he doesn't, he's a fool.
No, it won't. On the face of the charge is ridiculous. 84 dollars????
Kerry lost big time tonight and no matter how they spin it, it is going to deflate the hell out of Democrats and give a lot of enthusiam to Republicans.
It was momentum changer. I expect to see this in the polling data soon. (not internet polls)
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