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To: Robohogs who wrote (14225)	11/19/2004 4:36:36 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 52153

OT OT OT OT OT Jon, Re: What I am for is letting them run their business with as little interference as possible There is a frequent pattern in the U.S. where taxpayer money has funded the CDC, the NIH, the universities and scientists working in other various and sundry institutes who have created breakthroughs in therapeutics which have then been siphoned off into the private sector where your precious "private sector" has made vast profits on what was essentially discoveries in the public domain. I scoff at you naive view of how science is done in America. You have a child's vision of how worthy the private sector is in this nation. Almost all great scientific and techological advances in this nation have been publicly funded research endeavors that somehow, mysteriously, end up profiting a very small cadre of elitists who game the system. To even begin to suggest that the public ought to bend over for this kind of treatment is preposterous. You should be ashamed of yourself for your arrogance and self-interested greed. And, by the way, you make a ridiculous assumption when you say something as naive as "Thank goodness your man lost the election." He was never "my man", and you are astonishingly puerile and Manichean to think in such sophomoric terms.

To: Robohogs who wrote (14225)	11/19/2004 3:50:15 PM
From: jayhawk969	Respond to of 52153

Thank goodness your man lost the election. Jon you are being to kind, his man lives in Cuba and has never had an election. P.S. I have not put Mr Duray on ignore, I am really curious as to what makes someone like this tick. If I put him on ignore I might lose a clue--and some entertainment. Besides it is more fun to bait him on occasion--he never fails to respond. Try googling him--interesting.

To: Robohogs who wrote (14225)	11/19/2004 7:44:14 PM
From: Arthur Radley	Respond to of 52153

OT: Jonathan, I agree with you 100% and Raymond is a full blown idiot. The government shouldn't mess with companies as to how they try to run their business. That is as long as you exclude: 1)Saving and Loan Companies...That debacle cost WE taxpayers a few billion. 2)Wall Street Brokerage Firms and their Analyst...What was their mantra? To their brokers..."Put some lipstick on this pig and sell those shares." To their customers(you and me).."These companies are fantastic and the shares you buy will make you rich." (Enron, Worldcom, HealthSouth, etc.)The government has no right stopping this activity..it is just plain un-American to hold a man to his word about the merits of a company and their stock. Who gives a rip if your mother, father, grandparents lose their retirement..just as long as you bought Global Crossing! 3)Mutual Funds Companies...Take that little investor's money, but let our rich friends and we insiders make the real killing by trading after hours. Why should the government try and stop such a sweet deal for some citizens of our country. After all this isn't Cuba! 4)Insurance Companies...Let's screw our clients and tell them it is the fault that the little guy is getting sick is the reason their insurance plans are costing them so much money. Wink! Wink!!! You are damn right! Government should stay out of our lives...period! You just can't trust the government. Merely look at today's news and our national debt. In the past four years we have incurred more debt than was incurred from our founding in 1776 to 1986. Anyone that can beat a 110 old record in only four years has no "business" trying to tell a drug industry how to run their business.