And no surprise – its againa woman leading the John Gault charge! Keli Carender totally owns Norm Dicks at his town Hall meeting last week (8/31/2009). She DARES him to come take a $20 bill from her if he wants it so bad! Inspiring stuff straight out of Atlas Shrugged! Ayn Rand would be proud!
“The other side is demanding that your vote culminate in legislation that actively seeks to plunder from some in order to satisfy arbitrary needs as determined by you and other bureaucrats. So here is my question. If you are so keen to forcibly take from one person to give to another who you deem as needier than me, if you believe that it is absolutely moral to take my money and give it to someone else based on their supposed needs then you come and take this twenty dollars from me and use it as a down payment on this health care plan!”
A glimpse into the future of Government controlled markets – they exist at the point of the Government’s Gun – companies must obey – and the Producers have their lifeblood sucked out by the Looters. From Atlas Shrugged:
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another–their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun. “ (Full text of this portion of the book can be seen HERE)
“Price control may deliver some short-term benefits but the long-term negative consequences, not only on the pharmaceutical industry but in other industries, must be considered,” Reiner Gloor, an industry spokesman, said in a statement.
“If price adjustments do not result in market expansion, then affected companies will have to study options to remain viable.”
The pharmaceutical industry is estimated to lose about 7-10 billion pesos ($146-$208 million) a year in sales, making it hard for smaller drug firms that produce and market three or four products to survive, Gloor said previously.
Teach your children…our public education system clearly does not
…..while the cartoon is old, and some of the figures are dated, its theme still resounds….. (minus the regrettably racist depiction of a Chinese worker)