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Fri Jul 6, 2012, 06:17 PM

53. While traveling abroad in '07 I wandered into a pharmacy and asked if a certain antibiotic was

available. It was and I bought out the supply for under $100.00. In all, I purchased 13 courses of this antibiotic which in the US sold for $48.00 per course.

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113 replies	Author	Time	Post
Why Marxism is on the rise again [View all]	xchrom	Jul 2012	OP
Read this late last night	malaise	Jul 2012	#1
For a taste of the Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse is	coalition_unwilling	Jul 2012	#84
Have a good friend who loved Marcuse	malaise	Jul 2012	#92
Marxism on the Rise Again	Iggy	Jul 2012	#2
Ding ding ding	alcibiades_mystery	Jul 2012	#10
Indeed!	chervilant	Jul 2012	#3
Capitalism is the chief cause of socialism. Socialism is the chief cause of capitalism.	RadiationTherapy	Jul 2012	#4
I don't think so, Tim.	JackInGreen	Jul 2012	#5
Gilead has fallen my friend. have you forgotten the faces of your fathers?	dionysus	Jul 2012	#7
That is so true. I like the European idea of a marriage of BOTH systems.	loudsue	Jul 2012	#6
here in the EU, we (the government health care providers) pay sooo much less for pharma drugs	stockholmer	Jul 2012	#13
While traveling abroad in '07 I wandered into a pharmacy and asked if a certain antibiotic was	Citizen Worker	Jul 2012	#53
big pharma does research?	HiPointDem	Jul 2012	#95
'The Truly Staggering Cost Of Inventing New Drugs'	stockholmer	Jul 2012	#98
they spend more on marketing than research, & most of the real research is funded by the government.	HiPointDem	Jul 2012	#107
thanks for the links, and I despise big pharma, btw	stockholmer	Jul 2012	#109
Agreed, Right Now	Iggy	Jul 2012	#57
With a 'real' unemployment rate of some 15-18%, capitalism is failing to	coalition_unwilling	Jul 2012	#86
where do they have it sitting, under the bed? i'd bet it's invested in something, just not in	HiPointDem	Jul 2012	#96
I read one article	Iggy	Jul 2012	#99
i find that hard to believe. if $ isn't invested in something it loses value, and even more so	HiPointDem	Jul 2012	#106
I'm Not Convinced	Iggy	Jul 2012	#110
It seems to work	Prophet 451	Jul 2012	#81
Um, feudalism was the chief cause of capitalism - n/t	coalition_unwilling	Jul 2012	#85
You have to be careful	unreadierLizard	Jul 2012	#8
The USSR was as much Communist as the Nazis were Socialists.	Egalitarian Thug	Jul 2012	#19
N/M	BOG PERSON	Jul 2012	#21
The USSR never claimed to be communist. They claimed to be socialist and a democracy.	Puregonzo1188	Jul 2012	#27
That's the point. I'm glad that people are educating themselves. Hopefully it is not too late	Egalitarian Thug	Jul 2012	#28
Back when it was the Anarchists and Bolshiveks, it was actually working towards Communism	Taverner	Jul 2012	#49
I'd rather go down the road of Norway and Sweden.	backscatter712	Jul 2012	#41
Sweden has a free market capitalist economy	hack89	Jul 2012	#71
both have moved to the right since the 1980s.	HiPointDem	Jul 2012	#97
The Soviet Union was not Marxist	lunatica	Jul 2012	#45
I'm already in poverty, so I don't have to be careful... nt	Comrade_McKenzie	Jul 2012	#48
Ding, ding, ding. Bravo! - n/t	coalition_unwilling	Jul 2012	#87
The major problem with the Soviet Union was its totalitarian political system and NOT	kestrel91316	Jul 2012	#52
i think the major problem with the soviet union	BOG PERSON	Jul 2012	#62
I will rave about how the USSR kicked Nazi Germany's ass along a 2,000-mile front while	coalition_unwilling	Jul 2012	#88
Well that part was admirable.	kestrel91316	Jul 2012	#90
Josef Stalin and Chairman Mao were Socialist much like Pastor Hagee is Christian.	Zalatix	Jul 2012	#59
no true scotsman	BOG PERSON	Jul 2012	#61
Doesn't apply here.	Zalatix	Jul 2012	#63
so what are these big tenets of socialism?	BOG PERSON	Jul 2012	#65
Everyone is equal, for one.	Zalatix	Jul 2012	#67
So is this "pissing on marxism"?	hughee99	Jul 2012	#68
But that doesn't make Socialism bad.	Zalatix	Jul 2012	#69
No, it doesn't.	hughee99	Jul 2012	#70
"squalor"?	BOG PERSON	Jul 2012	#72
Unregulated Capitalism and inherited wealth will be the downfall of us all, if things do not change.	Ikonoklast	Jul 2012	#9
Drones.	Zalatix	Jul 2012	#64
I can see why.	ananda	Jul 2012	#11
Because the Teabaggers hate it!	Crowman1979	Jul 2012	#12
With either system, the temptation is for the 1% to enrich themselves	Lydia Leftcoast	Jul 2012	#14
Thanks for sharing this Lydia.	Puzzledtraveller	Jul 2012	#20
aren'tt fascist parties gaining in Europe too?	Green_Lantern	Jul 2012	#15
you need to learn more about marxism. nt	xchrom	Jul 2012	#16
I've seen enough of it	Green_Lantern	Jul 2012	#17
Appealing to emotion, not logic, like the Tea Party? Applying morality to economics, like	patrice	Jul 2012	#30
oh my god, you don't know ANYTHING	BOG PERSON	Jul 2012	#32
insults mean you have no argument	Green_Lantern	Jul 2012	#33
an argument to what?	BOG PERSON	Jul 2012	#34
no...the worst in someone who ignores history and facts...	Green_Lantern	Jul 2012	#38
So said the first three developers of the wheel.	LanternWaste	Jul 2012	#39
I'm pretty sure a round shaped wheel always worked	Green_Lantern	Jul 2012	#40
no	BOG PERSON	Jul 2012	#43
you have yet to make an argument but please keep insulting me...	Green_Lantern	Jul 2012	#76
you're absolutely right	BOG PERSON	Jul 2012	#82
Have you read any of Marx?	white_wolf	Jul 2012	#42
yes I have read Marx and some his ideas have merit..	Green_Lantern	Jul 2012	#75
And there you have it folks. At least he/she ADMITS.........	socialist_n_TN	Jul 2012	#93
I don't think that was my point...	Green_Lantern	Jul 2012	#100
And bosses are the ONLY ones who can provide leadership........	socialist_n_TN	Jul 2012	#111
you make it sound like I'm being greedy just for wanting to run a business	Green_Lantern	Jul 2012	#112
Why was there a drug test? nt	tama	Nov 2012	#113
I hope more people wake up to the fact that	Blue_Tires	Jul 2012	#18
an older wiser friend of mine said marx was not practicle when a strong middle class was around	dembotoz	Jul 2012	#22
that is usually the result, destruction of the middle class	Puzzledtraveller	Jul 2012	#25
The middle-class is more accurately described as the protector class, They are the serfs granted	Egalitarian Thug	Jul 2012	#31
They create their own gravediggers. nt	Comrade_McKenzie	Jul 2012	#46
Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken to my joyful tidings,	Nye Bevan	Jul 2012	#23
What goes around comes around.	Bake	Jul 2012	#24
Yeah, they do. This is what? The third time in a little over.........	socialist_n_TN	Jul 2012	#58
True, but Marxism fails because people are corrupt.	Bake	Jul 2012	#102
I've been calling myself a "born-again Communist" for years	TrogL	Jul 2012	#26
Bumping	slackmaster	Jul 2012	#29
Most of what Marx said about Communism turned out to be false. Unfortunately..	ThoughtCriminal	Jul 2012	#35
Socialism not Marxism	Mosaic	Jul 2012	#36
Here's the party for you.	Puzzledtraveller	Jul 2012	#37
This message was self-deleted by its author	BOG PERSON	Jul 2012	#44
Capitalism is a religion that only those incapable of logic and reason...	Comrade_McKenzie	Jul 2012	#47
Capitalism is a predatory system that is impossible to maintain forever	Hugabear	Jul 2012	#50
I'm looking forward to a day when Marx is as uncontroversial as Galileo.	Starry Messenger	Jul 2012	#51
Marxism is making a comeback because liberal economics is failing to explain the world we see.	limpyhobbler	Jul 2012	#54
my bad. i thought you meant GROUCHO marxism. eom	ellenfl	Jul 2012	#55
Marxism explains the economy, the political, and the social........	socialist_n_TN	Jul 2012	#56
The single-party political system coupled with state-controlled capitalism appears to be winning.	FarCenter	Jul 2012	#60
LOL...nt	SidDithers	Jul 2012	#66
It still cracks me up that the Communists bailed out	Tsiyu	Jul 2012	#73
so now China is Marxist when it suits your argument but not Marxist when people	Green_Lantern	Jul 2012	#80
Wasn't aware I had made an argument here	Tsiyu	Jul 2012	#94
sorry to get defensive..	Green_Lantern	Jul 2012	#101
No problema	Tsiyu	Jul 2012	#105
Socialism is on the rise because the Worker will Rise up	lovuian	Jul 2012	#74
I'm a capitalist who agrees that if left unregulated capitalism would fail	Green_Lantern	Jul 2012	#77
European Social Democrats, and NOT Lenin were the legitimate heirs of Marx	DBoon	Jul 2012	#78
bad argument FOR Marxism because Social Democrats rejected Marxism...	Green_Lantern	Jul 2012	#79
also rejected communist revolution in favor of imperialist war	BOG PERSON	Jul 2012	#83
Marx wanted Germany to engage in the imperialist Crimean war...	Green_Lantern	Jul 2012	#104
the same german social democrats	BOG PERSON	Jul 2012	#89
Very True. Add to that the Anarcho-Syndicalists, the Zapatistas and the Spanish Republic	Taverner	Jul 2012	#103
Marxism is on the rise because the robber barons are on the loose. nt	rrneck	Jul 2012	#91
FDR and the Progressives of His Time, Knew That Marxism or Facism Was On The Rise	Yavin4	Jul 2012	#108

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