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7.22.2003
Going Where the Getting is Good OkiePundit: "Millions of Americans are buying their medicines from Canada for the simple reason that the price they pay for a drug from Canada is much lower than the price we pay for the same drug in the USA. Canada puts caps on drug prices - we don't. US pharmacies and drug companies do not like this trend - and rather than lower their prices in the US their greedy solution is to cut off Americans' access to drugs from Canada. " I wish Alfalfa Bill over at Okiepundit would get a comments section... yeah, that would be nice. I always like what he has to say. Another broad issue that comes to bear discussing this Canada/Drug problem is the dawning realization that those crazy "anti-globalization" people may have a point. They (meaning myself included) never thought that trade between peoples of the world was a bad idea. But what happened is that businesses and government set up the chirade of the so called "free trade" movement under a complete set of false pretenses. Anyone in the third world could explain to you why setting up a global system of trade laws that are heavily stacked in the west's favor will ultimately lead to widening global disparity. Its akin to staging a duel where you give yourself a machine gun and your rival a water pistol. Technically you each have a gun, and your both armed but... its hardly going to be a contest. You may or may not realize that giving the investors all the power means that the west (where all the investors live) will always win. The whole business wrapped itself in the cloth of "free" trade, as opposed to what it should be more rightly called "rigged trade". I say rigged because the whole process takes as an assumption that investors can migrate around the globe taking advantage of whatever favorable conditions they can profit from while the inhabitants of those communities are bound to their geography. The instance of people using the laws of Canada to their individual advantage is a rare case where people themselves are using the process that has until now been the sole domain of investors, namely, going to where the getting is good. We see how the system is rigged because this tactic, fair as it is, has raised the hackles of the drug industry who has found itself on the receiving end of the "screwing". Instead of lauding the ingenuity of the individual American, we see that now "something has to be done" about this "problem". And indeed, as we witnessed earlier this month, the American Government has ponied up massive new spending to protect the drug companies interests. As you may have noticed, many of the issues raised by those "wacky protectors" have now entered the mainstream discourse. good! | |
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