by Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, reposted with permission
(Mar. 27, 2023) — Insulin price-hikes are symptomatic of the greater problem of drug price gouging of the US public and taxpayer by Pharma. Newsom’s move is the CA government joining in the profiteering, and it is not the answer.
The headlines herald “Millions stand to benefit from Newsom’s promise to get in the insulin game” (Opinion (yahoo.com)), yet Newsom’s not interested in what caused the diabetes epidemic.
Commiefornia has unseated New Jersey and now can boast it is the state with the largest population of kids with autism, according to the latest numbers from the CDC.
Of course, now Pharma sees the ASD pandemic as a new market for Pharmaceuticals.
Now, the entire pharmaceutical market is open for government backing via the generics backdoor.
I was banned in 2015 after my first – and only – article on Daily Kos. (Oddly, the article is still there, I’m just not allowed to edit it, or add more articles). In that article, I wrote:
“I’ll say it first: we no longer live in a democracy. We live in a fascist Pharmatopic Republic.”
I meant it. And I outlined all the ways that Pharma was breaking the rules – or re-writing them – so they could do things that were previously illegal and immoral – especially highlighting the vaccine sector.
From time to time, about once a year, as my predictions come true, I get a phone call from people who tell me how prescient the “Pharma Bulls” article was. I actually wrote it in response to some pablum article written by Clinton-era economic genius Robert Reich, who, after helping to turn the world’s largest deficit in history at the time into the world’s largest surplus, has since slid so far into socialist/communist left he tweets nearly daily how the rich should just give their wealth to those who have less. Through a government-mediated process, of course, call tax-the-rich.
Reich argues one day that the solution to the missing workforce is that corporations should just pay everyone more, and the next day calls for massive increases in taxation on corporations because CEOs make tons of money and get bonuses. I agree that during hard times when people are being laid off, it should look bad to all when CEOs rake in millions of dollars (as in the pension-raiding scandal a decade ago).
But liberals like Reich have not figured out that you can’t take water from the same well twice. So now they want the government to back massively profitable pharmaceutical initiatives – as if the already top-turvy pro-industry regulatory system is not bad enough.
Right now, all eyes are on the big banks… under the “too big to fail (TBTF)” argument. The banks, of course, expect that the Fed will bail out their customers up to $250,000 deposits, as well as themselves. But again, who will replenish the well with Biden’s Treasury Secretary reporting a planned 6-trillion-dollar deficit spending budget without batting an eye, without first accounting for the trillions of dollars the US government keeps losing – and no one knows where it goes?
And Biden’s budget will shore up clean energy – which I’m all for since the prospect of invading countries for oil turns my stomach. The carbon emissions narrative, however, falls apart when one factors in the carbon production by the energy spent transitioning society off oil (not likely to happen).
So the madness of “inject the kids with mRNA” King Gavin includes all-electric cards, yet no one knows how so many E-cars are going to be built, or even if there are enough mineral resources to create enough batteries. An entire shipload of E-cars set themselves alight when saltwater from the ocean splashed onto them (oops). One wonder while the lights might be on over there is Lefty Land, is anyone at home?
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