Stop telling me what I believe. I believe that crooks like Enron,
Halliburton and the like are way worse than anyone else. Some have suggested
that they steal 2 or 3 times as much as street criminals.
Why are you blind to this:
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2874922&page=1
"So it's not surprising that the sales of Provigil - the first prescription
drug to treat excessive sleepiness - are exploding.
The drug brought in $800 million last year. Financial analyst Eric Schmidt
of Cowen and Co. says, at least for Wall Street, this so-called "awake pill"
is a dream, because the market of sleepy people is enormous."
...
"Wesensten compared Provigil to caffeine in terms of how well the soldiers
performed on tests and how alert they were, and she also looked at side
effects. The result?
"In our hands, at the dosages we tested, modafinil did not work any better
than caffeine," she said."
So Cephalon are making a billion dollars out of a pill that works no better
and perhaps worse than coffee? And it's fucking LIBERALS you are whining
about?
And how much did people spend buying Nintendo Wii's?
Sure, it's a silly, expensive pill for most people, and silly people
will waste their money to buy it. In a few years here, these silly
people will complain about the expense of it, and demand that other
people buy those silly pills for them, to cover the expense. And they
will.
At least for the time being I don't have to buy it for them.
When was the last time liberals screwed the public out of a billion
dollars for nothing?
_All the time_, and trillions, not billions. Clearly you don't
understand the magnitude of things.
Social Security, for example, takes 13% of my income toward my
retirement, an amount which, if I were allowed to keep, would fund my
retirement in 8 years. Social Security, however, does not save and
invest that money, as I would, but instead immediately pays it out to
other people I don't know, whom I've never met. And then the money is
gone.
(That math works for everyone, not just me, because everyone pays
the same 13% rate. Anyone who can save 10 years' expenses, and invest
at 10% (~12% is the long-term stock market average), can live off the
interest. Anything more you can save is gravy.)
Medicare's prescription benefit will cost even more. And even those
sky-high costs will soar--creating an entitlement to pricey drugs
gives companies and customers a license to make and sell super-
expensive drugs, without regard to cost or benefit.
More than half of California's $130 billion dollar budget goes to
schools with stats that are so shockingly poor they condemn a much of
generation to ignorance, illiteracy, poverty, and crime. What's the
cost of that?
And even though they get enough money to feed, clothe, house, AND
educate each student, yet provide merely 6 hours of babysitting and 2
square frankenfood meals for it, the cry is always that the money
isn't enough. More money will make it better, they say.
These are just a few examples. Try adding up the amount the U.S.
has spent on fighting poverty since 1960 with well-intentioned
entitlements, and compare this to the national debt. It's stunning.
Am I?
Best,
James Arthur
