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    Quote Originally Posted by CFM View Post
    Hopefully you'll need one, can't pay it, and will die as a result.

    You continue to make claims about my financial situation yet have provided nothing to back it up.
    There's one thing about you that's obvious, and that is that you're intellectually bankrupted

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    Quote Originally Posted by CFM View Post
    No, you are what he called you.
    Well on that note, I called you a pea brain, so therefore you are a pea brain, right???

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trumpet View Post
    There's one thing about you that's obvious, and that is that you're intellectually bankrupted
    I'm not the one making claims like that about you without backing it up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CFM View Post
    I'm not the one making claims like that about you without backing it up.
    (There's one thing about you that's obvious, and that is that you're intellectually bankrupted)

    I dot have to back up that statement, you're the one doing it for me.

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    Any REAL american with an actual heart wouldn't even think of charging.


    The love of money is the root of all evil.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TTQ64 View Post
    Any REAL american with an actual heart wouldn't even think of charging.


    The love of money is the root of all evil.
    It's sad that you don't have a brain. It really is. You apparently have no clue how much money it costs to bring a new drug (or vaccine) to market. Maybe all pharmaceutical companies should give away every drug for free, despite the fact that it costs billions to get a drug approved. Not to mention that most drug candidates never actually get approved for commercial use, so they end up being a giant waste of money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sirthinksalot View Post
    It's sad that you don't have a brain. It really is. You apparently have no clue how much money it costs to bring a new drug (or vaccine) to market. Maybe all pharmaceutical companies should give away every drug for free, despite the fact that it costs billions to get a drug approved. Not to mention that most drug candidates never actually get approved for commercial use, so they end up being a giant waste of money.
    So they want the innovation that comes from capitalism but just expect others to do it at their own risk, cost and time to just give it to them for free. It’s just a complete lack of understanding basic human psychology and behavior. (But it’s a hell of a virtue signal, because who can argue against it right?)
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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    So they want the innovation that comes from capitalism but just expect others to do it at their own risk, cost and time to just give it to them for free. It’s just a complete lack of understanding basic human psychology and behavior. (But it’s a hell of a virtue signal, because who can argue against it right?)
    look man, when you're embracing too big too fail, it's not capitalism anymore.

    doesn't capitalism sell itself as the most upliftingest thing for everybody?

    what about when it just becomes a murderous machine of domination and destruction? you need to factor that into your neocon schtick.

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    shrug, atlas, and get the fuck on to your hidey hole. we don't need you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sirthinksalot View Post
    It's sad that you don't have a brain. It really is. You apparently have no clue how much money it costs to bring a new drug (or vaccine) to market. Maybe all pharmaceutical companies should give away every drug for free, despite the fact that it costs billions to get a drug approved. Not to mention that most drug candidates never actually get approved for commercial use, so they end up being a giant waste of money.
    Fuck off........no one said give all drugs away for free.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    look man, when you're embracing too big too fail, it's not capitalism anymore.

    doesn't capitalism sell itself as the most upliftingest thing for everybody?

    what about when it just becomes a murderous machine of domination and destruction? you need to factor that into your neocon schtick.
    LOL, neocon? Who’s embracing too big too fail? Don’t blame capitalism for choices the government and the Fed make. And what does too big too fail have to do with the innovation that capitalism and market forces unleash? You think some socialist ‘paradise’ will outperform and out-deliver free(er) markets?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    LOL, neocon? Who’s embracing too big too fail? Don’t blame capitalism for choices the government and the Fed make. And what does too big too fail have to do with the innovation that capitalism and market forces unleash? You think some socialist ‘paradise’ will outperform and out-deliver free(er) markets?
    don't call what we have capitalism, and stop defending it then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    don't call what we have capitalism, and stop defending it then.
    Sorry, I will always defend capitalism until a better economic system comes along. Go ahead and support socialism or whatever you believe. No economic system has brought more people out of poverty around the globe than capitalism and no economic system has unleashed the forces of innovation and advancement like capitalism has. And because the Fed has fvcked up doesn’t change that fact.

    But hey man, Bernie’s not out of the race yet if you’re pushing for socialism in America.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    What if a for-profit company comes up with a vaccine, but it's run by somebody like that Schkreli guy, and they decide this is the ultimate get-rich tool.

    What if they get a vaccine and decide to charge $50,000 a dose?

    (Even if it only costs them pennies to make it)

    Hey, it's their technology.

    Capitalism says they can charge whatever they want for it.

    Insurance companies could never afford to cover everybody for that. They could call it 'experimental,' and not pay.

    Pay up and you can live. No money? Take your chances.

    The rich could afford it, no problem. But the middle? Only if they give up their life's savings.

    Should people cash in everything, just to stay alive?

    And the rest may rest in peace?

    Could happen.

    What's to stop it?

    How could the free market possibly serve a population in times like these?

    It is a reason that health care should be done not for profit, but to serve we the people.
    Isn't Pharma bro still in prison?? What stopped him??

    Given a national emergency I would imagine they would find a way to nationalize it, pay him a pittance for the zillions he could have extorted...
    "There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."



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