Message-ID: <001501c4edc2$e7c37040$a82efea9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> From: "Joe Fulton" <jfulton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: {FORGED?} Re: Tidal wave in Asia Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:24:41 -0800 That was a backhanded compliment if ever I saw one. Doc, most of us on the list are still our there working for a living. I'm not demeaning your disability because I don't know much about your situation. However, the first rule of business is "stay in business" and that means companies have to make a profit. Where else are they gonna make the profit but in the places where people can afford it. Kudos to Nick's employer for giving to the effort. I don't care what their motivation is. I almost never give to charity and I avoid the Red Cross like the plague but I was motivated to call a charity and donate for this cause. Joe Fulton Salinas, CA +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Where SOME people can afford it Joe......... and with the closing of manufacturing in the USA permenantly - you'd be supprised where the once could afford it middle class are shopping - or not shopping - these days. My bone to pich with Big Pharma is their pricing as it is Punitative to the Majority of US citizens......... let alone our Seniors / Disabled / Children . And before you come roaring back - you go check the stats. President George W. Bush made it Illegal to negotiate prices on bulk ordering outside of the VA orders - I watch CNBC daily - and - even their dedicated Right Leaning members were taken aback by President George W. Bushs two faces application as to Affordable Drug Importation today - where is his 'Outsourcing is Necessary for Free Trade Competetiveness' speech stand with this thinly cloaked move ? Now - President George W. Bush went to Canada & strong armed their Gov't to stop selling / filling Prescriptions from the USA - claiming that their MDs signing off on a Prescription Order is 'Unsafe' - , but seeing as you must have YOUR MDs Prescription to PLACE the order initially, ...... why Hell! This smells like more George Shit for the Big Guys again !.......... like going to war for non-existent WMDs! - or - dismanteling Social Security under the Guise of 'Fixing It' - a platform the Right have sought since Social Securities Inception - to stop the masses from living in ally ways and hovels in their old age ........but 'Unbiased' Economists have stated - 'Ain't Broke' and this includes Greenspan......... Bushs' current Illegal Immigrant Worker Plan and President George W. Bushs' - Foreign Worker Plan for 'Educated' Worker Placement @ cheaper wages - it seems to me that President George W. Bushs statements on how good 'OutSourcing' is to Free Trade here in America doesn't apply to his Big Pharma Cronies........... now Does It ? Kinda' like opening your Southern Borders to Illegal Workers just after being attacked by Terrorists - call it 'A Good Decision' ....... sorry....... my background is Economics / Poli- Si - and I have contentions with certain Erraticities in Logic and concepts of National well being that Frat Boy G.W. has out to the highest bidder - as does our Congress & Senators ........... they must raise 10K a week for re-election each time! Brien. NEW YORK eagle registry #501 eagle kammback registry -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.6 - Release Date: 12/28/2004