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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (533705)	2/1/2004 2:51:00 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"The internet makes available thousands and thousands of people who can perform information based jobs. YOU WANT TO MAKE THAT ILLEGAL!!! HOW is anyone going to control it????" I think this is going to be a problem for prescription drugs, in the internet age there is no way to enforce it. They can police for controlled substances, but most prescription drugs are not controlled substances, so the Fed has no interest in it. And the states have no capacity to police it. Two aspects to this: (1) forget about patents on drugs; and (2) forget about going to the doctor with your sinus infection, just order up some anti-biotics and have them delivered FedEx.

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (533705)	2/2/2004 1:16:23 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Thomas, The point is not to directly control rather it is to eliminate tax incentives that encourage offshoring of American jobs. We need to reverse that process & grant tax incentive to companies that keep jobs at home for American workers. This rush to think of entire world as the ultimate shopping mall does not fly with the majority of the planet's inhabitants whose survival depends on 'local' jobs. In fact, only those multi-national corps who currently strive for their own company's global market monopoly, perceive the 'one world vision' as paradise. Workers rights have been trampled in dust yet again by those greedy global corporations.