>Brad, I liked the first half of Scott also. But when the government
>really wants
>the job done well, they do not turn to the corporations. The
>Manhattan Project is
>a case in point.
>
>In terms of pharmaceuticals, we are not asking the government
>scientific community
>to develop packaging or marketing, but to develop good medicine.
I bet the U.S. government can do a pretty good job in packaging & marketing as well. It sold the world on abstract expressionism, for instance. From animated cartoons to modernist paintings, the U.S. government has proved itself to be a master of multimedia.
Yoshie