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| From | AdamGhost@aol.com |
| Subject | those darn communists |
| Date | Sun, 08 Jun 2003 13:58:15 -0400 |
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Kevin -- Very well put. I've been waiting for someone to make this counter-argument for years....
Why some hyper-conservatives and libertarians take their valid anti-government concerns to insane extremes has always baffled me. We once had that wonderful no-regulation society and we also had rancid meat, rivers on fire, and once-plentiful resources hunted and logged into mass extinction.
> By your definition, the fact that the FDA mandates what drugs can and
> can't be sold in the USA is equal to "socialism, or taken to its
> extreme, communism." If Pfizer has a drug that they know doesn't really
> work, but yet they make money from it, why is it in their best economic
> interest to stop selling it? Its not...you need the gov't to step in
> and set things straight for the good of its people. Just
> like in the
> case of smoking in bars.
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