So you're saying that you expect the doctors to find out about drugs themselves? You must be, because "educating" doctors is actually called "marketing" to doctors. Drug company representatives visit doctors to tell them about their new drug and all the great things it can do. Sounds a lot like marketing to me.

Your assertion of there being a "fixed" number of people who need a drug is false. People become sick all the time! People get old. People hurt themselves. The demand for drugs increases as the population with the affliction increases.

Medicine is a business. Without the promise of profit, we'd still be using leaches and blood letting to "treat" patients. If it only mattered that we care about people, you would have people who care about people being doctors, not necessarily the smart people who could actually make improvements.

Government will never... let me repeat that NEVER be successful at doing this research. They don't have the pressure of getting results. They just have to wring more money out of the tax payers if they aren't making any headway.

If I were Bayer, I wouldn't sell so much as an aspirin in India. They probably don't anyway. That was out of protection years ago.

OK... You just spouted 4 statements purporting to be facts. Where are your sources for this information?

You really don't expect me to believe an anonymous coward, do you?

Occupy Facts!

No, not against them getting richer. Just against them getting richer without having to do anything to help themselves.

Solyndra?! Helloooooooooooooooo?

I say that everyone who believes in Man-made Climate Change should give all of their "unnatural" stuff away, move to the country onto one big plot of land. Then we'll all be saved, and we can travel there to visit them and thank them!

Oh... I forgot they're mostly a "Do as I say and not as I do" kind of group, so I guess we'll just keep waiting to follow their lead.

Keep an eye on that new island-forming volcano. I'd be willing to bet that it puts out more atmospheric pollutants over the next few years than man could over the last century. Of course, that depends on the magnitude of the erruption.

Well, if it weren't for all of the massive government spending created by Mr. Roosevelt, it would have ended a lot sooner. There was another recession in 1920 that could have led to a depression had Presidents Harding and Coolidge not lowered the massively high tax rates from ~%73 down to %25 for the highest earners. The tax revenues actually went up. Look up the "Laffer Curve".

The tax rates now are just about right. It's the spending that is killing us. Cut the spending to bring some clarity to what the future holds and businesses will loosen the purse strings.

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It has to stop. We can't pay for everyone's everything. There aren't enough people being paid.

Please define "fair share"! You can't! You won't!

If you completely liquidated all of the assets of the 1% and all of the assets of the Fortune 500, you could run the bloated government for less than 2 years!!!! Who will be next in line to pay their "fair share" then?

It has to stop. We can't pay for everyone's everything. There aren't enough people not being paid.

So let's take all of the assets of these corporations and all of the assets of the 1%. You just funded the government for less than 2 years. Now what? There isn't anyone left who has any money to invest in new ideas or start a new business.

Who is to decide what is "good enough"? The protesters can decide to not take the jobs that are offered for whatever reason (pay, benefits, etc.) They can create their own opportunities.

The 1% have not borrowed anything from the rest of us. Have businesses been provided money from the taxpayers? You bet they have. Did they deserve it? Not in the least. Government should not be giving out our money to bail anyone out. If they made bad decisions, let them fail. If I make a bad decision, let me fail. Maybe I'll make a better one next time. If you bail me out, you can bet your a$$ that I'll keep gambling with your money!

The answer isn't to take money from those who have succeeded. Everyone should succeed to the level they can. Nobody owes anyone else anything, and nobody should expect anything from anyone else. It's OK for someone to ask and the other to provide as they wish.

Name one thing that the Government currently does, that they do better and more cost effectively that it could otherwise be done by someone else.

The bigger government gets, the less significant you (or I) become. That IS a big part of the problem right now. We are unable to "donate" enough money to get their attention. They pass laws that are lobbied for.

It's time to start applying some of the checks on their power as laid out in the Constitution. Only when we get it (government) under control, will it do what we need it to do.

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Their morals which focus on greed, as opposed to your morals which lack respect of human life.

Their morals which lack greed as opposed to yours which lack respect of human life.

Capitalism means that you are free to share your food with those in need. Socialism means that you are forced to provide for those who can't or more importantly... won't.

Do you invite the less fortunate to eat supper with you? I doubt it.

Nice statement. Where is the evidence that the Tea Party movement was manufactured?

I consider myself part of the Tea Party. Nobody contacted me. I just became fed up with the Government spending too much money on things that it shouldn't be spending money on, like bailing out corporations that took too much risk. They should have let them fail. It would have been painful, but it would have been over by now.

Did you ever get a job from a homeless person?

Unless you create your own wealth, then you rely on those who will employ you. They will get wealthier while you work for them (if they know how to run their business). You will also become wealthier, but not at the same rate. You are free at any time in this process to strike out on your own to compete. Maybe you have a better way to serve customers, great! You have the freedom to pursue that, but just remember that you have the same freedom to fail.