[lbo-talk] Lanier v Merck: masterful lawyering

[Carl Remick]

>From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
>
> > >True enough, but again, what's your point? Should
> > we fight for a different
> > >FDA, or just give up on everything?
> >
> > I thought it was self-evident:  The US should stop
> > dosing itself with
> > capitalism immediately and switch to an intensive
> > regimen of socialism.
> > Absent that, we can expect the toxic side effects of
> > for-profit medicine to
> > continue and worsen.
>
>Infantile leftism, V.I. called a close relation of
>this view.

Well, I must admit that V.I. is remarkably well preserved considering his 
age, so if for some reason he was against the swift imposition of socialized 
medicine, I'll defer to him as the healthcare expert.


>We aren't going to do this, and if we did
>today, it would probably be a balls-up because last
>time I checked, no one really has a clue how to run a
>socialist economy.

Couldn't we invade Finland and force them at gunpoint to tell us their 
secrets?


>Socialism is not a panacea, and
>it insults the intelligence of the working class and
>destroys whatever shreds of credibiluty we may have
>among whatever slivers of it where we are are not held
>in hate and contempt to treat it as if it were.

I don't think socialism is a panacea, just a big improvement over the 
plutocratic mess we have now.  I don't see how it insults the IQ of the 
working class to suggest that they would live healthier, happier lives of 
greater material and personal security if they lived in a society like 
Finland's.

Carl