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To: neolib who wrote (227212)	4/16/2007 10:14:25 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Profit is not evil. Without profit there is little reason to get up in the morning because you are basically subsisting and doing nothing else. Profit provides investment in the future of a person's life or that of an organization's. How some people make profit is, however, quite evil. They don't earn it. They are a net negative to society. They simply pay off politicos to make laws from which they can glean outsized profits. It's 'profit' through corruption. The 'center' is squarely in what used to be the rightwing. It's ridiculous to hear John Paul Stevens proclaiming himself to be a conservative and realizing that he's the farthest left the SC goes. The USA has moved very far to the right in so many areas and where has that gotten us? We are ever more divided, more stressed, less secure and more paranoid. The pharmaceutical industry spends much less on R&D than it does on marketing and advertising. It does not want to make cures such as antibiotics, it wants to make very expensive patentable medications (on the back of taxpayer subsidized basic research) for chronic conditions like ED. It wants to spend money buying patent extensions instead of coming up with anything new. It wants to spend money coming up with dangerous obesity drugs instead of lobbying against processed foods. As for healthcare costs, there appears to be much gouging, lying and padding going on in hospitals (and maybe everywhere else) these days. If we can get a $100 TV from China, why can't we get $20K open heart surgery from Thailand without having to go to either China or Thailand? If we can ban ads for cigarettes, why can't we ban them for foods that contain high percentages of sugar? We know what to do, we just refuse to do it.