Comments on: Pfizer, After Having Its Way with the Good Citizens of New London … http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/ Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method, the Shangri-La Diet, etc. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:53:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: This Post Will Take Forever to Load (but is of Course Worth it) « Out Of My Mind http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/#comment-362778 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:37:53 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/#comment-362778 [...] Corporate assholes: Pzifer goes to the Supreme Court to screw New London, then craps on the town. [...] […] Corporate assholes: Pzifer goes to the Supreme Court to screw New London, then craps on the town. […]

]]> by: seth http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/#comment-362755 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:08:28 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/#comment-362755 hmm. I guess my previous comment was unclear. user@example is joking. hmm. I guess my previous comment was unclear. user@example is joking.

]]> by: Tamooj http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/#comment-362753 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:56:27 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/#comment-362753 user@example.com - Ummm... How exactly is Pres Obama responsible for this? The court case happened a few years ago under the previous administration, and in any event, it was the courts, not the white house, that made this call. I'm coming to dislike all the hate speech, (left or right) I see in these postings almost as much as I am disappointed by all the grammatical and spelling errors. No wonder the world laughs at us. Sigh. user@example.com - Ummm… How exactly is Pres Obama responsible for this? The court case happened a few years ago under the previous administration, and in any event, it was the courts, not the white house, that made this call.
I’m coming to dislike all the hate speech, (left or right) I see in these postings almost as much as I am disappointed by all the grammatical and spelling errors. No wonder the world laughs at us. Sigh.

]]> by: seth http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/#comment-362699 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:28:33 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/#comment-362699 Sasha, I think you and user@example.com agree. Sasha, I think you and user@example.com agree.

]]> by: Sasha http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/#comment-362684 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:36:15 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/#comment-362684 user@example.com: Your statement implies the dangerous, indeed fatal, misunderstanding held by a majority of liberals and progressives in the world today. They somehow see government as being some sort of bulwark against corporate power. But if you look at the reality, the government is really an extension of corporate power. Money is,. unfortunately, just overwhelmingly more powerful in deciding government policy that popular voice. Government is generally used as the pit bull to justify the use of coercion in achieving the corporate agenda. Sure, the corporations may cry for their mommy, and say all kinds of nonsense about how oppressed they are. But that is an intentional smokescreen. This is a case of corporations and government getting together to screw the citizenry, as it is 90+% of the time. user@example.com: Your statement implies the dangerous, indeed fatal, misunderstanding held by a majority of liberals and progressives in the world today.

They somehow see government as being some sort of bulwark against corporate power.

But if you look at the reality, the government is really an extension of corporate power. Money is,. unfortunately, just overwhelmingly more powerful in deciding government policy that popular voice. Government is generally used as the pit bull to justify the use of coercion in achieving the corporate agenda.

Sure, the corporations may cry for their mommy, and say all kinds of nonsense about how oppressed they are. But that is an intentional smokescreen.

This is a case of corporations and government getting together to screw the citizenry, as it is 90+% of the time.

]]> by: Splint http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/#comment-362665 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:32:21 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/#comment-362665 Right, and all you have to do is make sure your politicians aren't corrupt and that Pfizer doesn't straddle any ethical loopholes. Why hasn't anyone thought of that? Right, and all you have to do is make sure your politicians aren’t corrupt and that Pfizer doesn’t straddle any ethical loopholes. Why hasn’t anyone thought of that?

]]> by: Toni H http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/#comment-362663 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:27:03 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/#comment-362663 I guess I'm daft but I just can't understand what Pfizer can do besides lobbying and taking the corrupt politicians for expensive lunches. It's the local politicans that have the final saying and approve the tax breaks and the eminent domain. I guess I’m daft but I just can’t understand what Pfizer can do besides lobbying and taking the corrupt politicians for expensive lunches. It’s the local politicans that have the final saying and approve the tax breaks and the eminent domain.

]]> by: user@example.com http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/#comment-362604 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:33:31 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/#comment-362604 "the company doesn't have a say in this - it's the politicians making the decision!" I was upset when I read this story, but now I see that it's just another example of Big Government and Big Citizen screwing over a poor defenceless company who didn't even want that land to begin with. Damn you, Obama! “the company doesn’t have a say in this - it’s the politicians making the decision!”

I was upset when I read this story, but now I see that it’s just another example of Big Government and Big Citizen screwing over a poor defenceless company who didn’t even want that land to begin with. Damn you, Obama!

]]> by: Splint http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/#comment-362600 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:11:56 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/#comment-362600 "the company doesn’t have a say in this - it’s the politicians making the decision!" lol, awwww, that's cute. “the company doesn’t have a say in this - it’s the politicians making the decision!”

lol, awwww, that’s cute.

]]> by: Toni H http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/#comment-362580 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:54:21 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/11/18/pfizer-after-having-its-way-with-the-good-citizens-of-new-london/#comment-362580 Dude, who's the worse one here - the capitalist drug company simply seeking profits, the politicians that make the actual decision to ruin people's lives (the company doesn't have a say in this - it's the politicians making the decision!) or the sheepish voters that elected those politicians? Dude, who’s the worse one here - the capitalist drug company simply seeking profits, the politicians that make the actual decision to ruin people’s lives (the company doesn’t have a say in this - it’s the politicians making the decision!) or the sheepish voters that elected those politicians?

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