evil..just plain evil
Posted on 10/22/2005 2:30:54 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember
Our political leaders keep telling us to fear the avian flu, and in one sense they're right: We should all be scared to death about how much damage our political leaders will do responding to the avian flu.
Whatever the risk, some good will come out of this public alarm if we use it as an opportunity to understand why the U.S. is now so poorly armed to cope with a deadly flu outbreak. The reason is that our political class has spent the past 30 years driving the vaccine industry out of business with its own virus of over-regulation, price controls, litigation and intellectual-property abuse.
The U.S. today has only three large vaccine makers--down from 37 in the 1960s. This is the reason that, as recently as 2001, there was a shortage of eight of 11 critical childhood vaccines.
The feds have also done their best to remove any financial incentive--i.e., profit--for developing new vaccines. The Vaccines For Children program, a pet project of Hillary Clinton back in her First Lady days, has been especially destructive. The program now buys more than 50% of all private vaccines, and it uses this monopsony clout to drive prices down to commodity levels.
The larger point is that if politicians want private industry to develop new cures and vaccines, they can't steal their patents or confiscate their hope of making money.
The solutions to getting more vaccines aren't complicated: Push the FDA for faster approvals, shield companies from tort robbery and get the government out of the business of buying routine vaccines. Politicians can't be held responsible for knowing when the next animal virus will strike the human race. But they will be responsible if their hostility to business leaves us unable to cope with its consequences.
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It's about money.
I'd have to vote for a third party before I voted for Hillary. Or write someone in. Anybody here willing to throw his or her hat in the ring?
You would then become the world's busiest Shabbos Goy.
I am sure the remaining companies lobby hard to keep the status quo. No competition keeps them happy.
You got it! I don't think most American's realize just how deeply involved she was in every aspect of that adminstration.
She won't care if they are all conservatives (or "far right wing exremists" ~LOL~)..
Yet, look what group turned out to vote her into the Senate in New York State,
Will someone please explain to me why that is?
That's gotta suck - no?
Do you realize how dangerous that would be? It's exactly what she is counting on and exactly what got Bill elected in the first place... whoever is on the GOP ticket will be better than Hillary and must be voted for over any third party candidate.... otherwise we'll be saying Heil Hillary 6 years from now.
evil..just plain evil
Perhaps you could explain why anyone would want to run for President in this day and age?
It takes either a power-mad or service-oriented personality. Or someone completely nuts. Or a combination thereof. That's all I can figure!
"37 manufacturers soon became 3
No research is being conducted"
...
1 loaf of bread
1 chunk of wax cheese....
.... sounds like a communist country.
If by "Thief/Fool" you mean "Democrat," then yes, LOL!
He was our Attorney General. Tommy Thompson (R) WAS our Governor (love him or hate him, he got things done) until Bush tapped him for HHSS. There was a special election and our Lt. Governor (McCallum, R) lost to Doyle through voter fraud and other money deals behind the scenes.
So, Wisconsin conservatives are really looking forward to '06 to get rid of this guy, if that's even possible; he vetoes anything and everything to do with voter fraud and campaign finance reform that comes across his desk, and his favorite words to explain his actions are, "disenfranchised voters." He's a slippery, leftist lawyer. We expected as much. :(
The democrat party is a vasy, corrupt money making scam, an organized crime entity of the worst sort.
The democrats utterly control the Lamestream media in general.... and in the specific case of the Clintons, the secret to their newly found vast stolen wealth was their exceptional talent at PR and spin control.
The vaccine industry in the US was socialized by Hillary in 1993. That is why we are royally mega-screwed in the Avian Flu mutates to human-human transmission.
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