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Harker
(14,024 posts)on everyone's dime.
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tclambert
(11,087 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,366 posts)Thanks for the thread EarlG.
cstanleytech
(26,295 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)Witness the thousands who have died at the hands of Purdue Pharmaceutical and other opioid manufacturers.
Jordan and Meadows are just as addicted to campaign contributions from donors like the Sackler family as patients are to the poison prescribed by licensed doctors.
erronis
(15,303 posts)And the Sacklers/ilk and politicians/ilk are addicted. Money definitely. Probably other stuff.
Grins
(7,218 posts)Sure. As long as you keep that in quotation marks....
IronLionZion
(45,457 posts)and not that great for everyone else
tclambert
(11,087 posts)If they were virtuous, the peasants would borrow some money from their parents and start a successful business of their own. Right? Isn't that how virtue works?
kimbutgar
(21,163 posts)Big pharma to keep their prescription drugs high. Who are they supporting you or big pharma? This could really be used against them by their opponent and if their opponents bring it up every time as they themselves talk about lowering prescription job prices it could really weaken Jordan and Meadows reelection chances in 2020.
Martin Eden
(12,870 posts)-- as opposed to the interests of the citizens they ostensibly represent.
Texin
(2,596 posts)on prescription drugs and encourage the medical community to keep raising fees for services. It's pretty clear that the KGOP wants everyone but the top 1% of white Americans to just fucking die sooner.
Firestorm49
(4,035 posts)cp
(6,636 posts)What, they got stock in Pharma?
efhmc
(14,731 posts)nt
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)In which he wrote, "There is one and only one social responsibility of business to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud."
This has been taken by the people running corporations as meaning that the sole responsibility of business is to maximize profits.
As another economist, John Kenneth Galbraith, said, "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."