04/07/2008
Money changes everything
Truth, objectivity, and scientific integrity are so last century. The important thing is the bucks.
Running those big universities costs so much money, and it's so hard to get government grant money because it's all going to fund the war. Better to let the tobacco companies pay for a major cancer study...
Oh my, how the Democrats speak loudly about helping the po' ol' folks on Medicare and Medicaid, and getting low cost health care to the li'l chilluns. Of course, it would be best if you didn't point out that these politicians who speak so well and long are being bankrolled by the very businesses they're supposedly investigating and attacking. And leading the lobbying effort for the pharma companies is a man you all remember and love from the depths of Bush's Republican cesspool, Billy Tauzin.
What you worried about, friend? Asbestos particles in the walls? Lead in the drinking water? Weird gases from the dump down the road? Well, now that you're spending that $600 tax refund that came out of all the funding that regulatory agencies used to get, the EPA - with a skelton staff - gets its research from the chemical industry.
And while they're at it, those enormous feedlots and chemically treated acres don't need any oversight and emission rules. It's not free market. It's not in the interest of the economy. Just ask the EPA again, who get their info directly from the cow's butt.