Never Enough Money wrote:

Patriotism is love of one's country. Seems like a stretch to say
patriotism is political, but maybe 3a applies, maybe.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for
their country.
Bertrand Russell

Couldn't resist ... it looked too much like temptation.

Bill


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Never Enough Money wrote:

There is something wrong when other sell cheaper because of regulation
(or they simply copy the invention) and force the Americans to pay for
the R&D.

True that ... but which regulations are wrong? The foreign companies
cannot compel American companies to sell them drugs below cost so I
gotta think that the pharma companies are still making a profit off
foreign sales ... but just aren't able to gouge them as effectively as
they are able to gouge Americans.

When American companies gouge American citizens I have a hard time
believing that foreign regulations play a large role in the overall problem.


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