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Shardik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-09 12:43 AM
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When is the bailout for the drug/insurance companies coming?
Really? Why not?

Oops. I forgot. They have managed to insert themselves so indelibly into the American economy that they will not suffer until the last American spends their last penny.

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Mind_your_head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-09 12:49 AM
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1. Never! Unless they provide the cure for cancer. n/t
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KT2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-09 12:55 AM
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2. Next time you open the bill
they believe in direct pick pocketing
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Fireweed247 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-09 01:04 AM
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3. I think the oil companies are next
The price of oil is dropping, they might not make the record breaking profits they are accustomed to.

And I also think that blackwater might need a bailout, they will need the money for their war crimes trials.

Halliburton and KBR definately need a bailout, and possible Monsanto. Did I miss anyone?
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-09 01:07 AM
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4. Profit is evil. nt
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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-09 01:29 AM
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5. Not when it's an honest profit nor excessive.
But the "Free Trade" and "offshoring" bullshit have got to stop.
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Abq_Sarah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-09 02:44 AM
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8. When my company makes a profit
It allows me to expand my business, purchase new equipment and hire more employees.

You can't do that if you don't make a profit.

That said, I don't like the idea of long term patents on medicines. It allows the pharmaceutical company to literally hold us hostage for a decade with critical life saving drugs. I understand the companies need to recoup the money spent on R&D and the FDA approval process but there has to be a better way.
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GReedDiamond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-09 01:49 AM
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6. Insurance companies?
What about AIG (American International Group)?

In the trillion-esque dollars "financial services" bailout, they've looted well over 85 billion, I'm sure you'll recall.

And didn't they beg for and receive another 25bil, or am I thinking of some other gang of corporate thieves?
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Shardik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-09 02:23 AM
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7. Point taken...
I guess they have all ready "bellied up to the bar."
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