I don’t know what annoys me more, that this Administration thinks I’m gullible enough to believe this transparently bogus bullshit, or that there are actual voters out there who will believe this transparently bogus bullshit.
And in case someone brings it up, he noted that the drug companies marketing expenses and profits are significantly greater than the R&D expenses. Also, most of the basic breakthroughs come from government funded research anyway. And that the drug sector was the most profitable over the last number of years I don’t remember.
And spooje - companies usually donate to both parties, just in case. But it’s another reason to vote for Kerry - despite donations from special interests, he’s still advocating what is right for the country.
Yet in our own country there are crooked pharmacists and distributors replacing sought after prescription narcotics with drugs that are less expensive and sometimes result in patients dying. AFAIK, Canadian prescription drugs are safer due to tighter pharmaceutical regulations.
It’s not Democrats or Republicans making the donations. It’s lobbyists. They don’t have a party affiliation, because they’re prostitutes - they give to both parties (in order to make sure both sides feel indebted to them) but they always disproportionately support the side they expect the most support from. I couldn’t say what the pharmaceutical trade PAC does with their money here in Michigan, but most lobbying organizations give to both sides.
If Republicans are receiving more of the money, it’s probably because they expect them to be more supportive of their lobbying goals, and thus want to help them win their races. In this case, clearly the pharmaceutical industry feels it has more friends in the Republican party.
Incidentally, the Democrats in our state legislature have been outspoken in support of importation of prescription drugs. Just sayin’.
Quick! Does someone have the e-mail address for the Department of Homeland Security’s Chicken Little Directorate? I need to report the possibility of terrorists buying advertising time and poisoning our minds with television commercials!
The time is at hand! Man the ramparts! Ram the manparts! Advertising must be destroyed now, ere advertising destroys us!