Who needs inner strength or faith when we have Market Forces?

Right JDR! If I can afford the bottle of pills, why work on something unseen? That would not make someone else huge amounts of $$$!

Shalom

"represented expensive answers from huge, extremely profitable business enterprises."

Oh, you were talking about pharmaceutical ads. For a minute there I thought you were talking about some of the proponents of 'religious faith'.

I always think these articles are funny when they say "talk to your doctor about Azmetacin" when the ad never really tells you what the drug is supposed to do or treat. Like my doctor just sits around and chit chats with me. I'm lucky if he looks me in the eye in the whirlwind that is him entering and leaving the room.

Sorry, it must be Monday.

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I'm still waiting for a pill that we can give to our beloved neocon! So far there is no cure for "Stupid".

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"I'm still waiting for a pill that we can give to our beloved neocon! "

Tried Midol yet?

I agree with the above posts. People should rely more on moral fiber and less on fancy drugs. If people would quit whining so much about their ailments and do sensible things like exercise, they wouldn't need 18 prescriptions. That would make everyone happy: libertarians like me (since we wouldn't have to shell out for sick people), hippies like Darryl and Rockefeller(since big pharma wouldn't pocket the proceeds). We all win!!

yep, market forces, Brian!

"People should rely more on moral fiber and less on fancy drugs. "

Tell that to the Viva Viagra crowd!

"People should rely more on moral fiber and less on fancy drugs."

Tell that to the viva Viagra crowd!

Good one, Hugh!

I've always wanted to take Viagara. I don't need it but it sounds like it would be fun.

Too expensive, though.

brian444 thanks for categorizing me as a "hippie!" That is a first.

nit, to have to depend upon a drug to help one maintain an erection suitable for intimacy is not something fun to think about. There are countless men who have to take it for this reason who are not aged, etc. Yet, due to extreme medical conditions are unable to "naturally perform." So, be careful about what you wish for, you may get it!

Shalom

come on hugh - that's just the MARKET FORCES you so adore ..

Hugh,
I'm still mad that Viagara has stolen the Elvis song and changed the words. The King would no doubt have used viagra, as he used every other prescribed medication, but to cannibalize the song for erectile dysfunction just puts the func back in dysfunction.

Viva Las Vegas, baby!

With adequate amounts of moral fiber, erectile dysfunction shouldn't be a problem. And even though I'm getting pretty old myself, I still find the idea of old people (like the ones on the commercials) having sex pretty creepy. In a few years, I plan to stop altogether, thereby depriving the medical industrial complex of further profits.

From an overmedicated society to musings about e.d.- medications that help overcome a physical anomaly.
Yeah, pharma is a big bloated money-maker- but who is responsible? If we demanded our doctors provide natural alternatives to the drugs we use (and there are many that are available), then we are complicit in the growth of these 900 pound gorillas.
Kinda like big, bloated government, isn't it? We are also complicit in our absence from the polls, the forums and the town halls.
God bless the stagnation of market forces, eh JDR?

Not sure I fully understand your post, WJ ..

My positions can be generalized as All Things in Moderation. Pharma is a big bloated money-maker? Sure, that's sorta OK .. but it is their lobbiests working with the bloated fed' government to hold back natural alternatives, and there is no development of replacement anti-biotics because there's more money in limp penus'.

Is that Pharm's fault? Maybe not, but as you say, by not speaking out on these issues we ARE "complicit in the growth of these 900 pound gorillas". Personally, I've never had a problem speaking out!

Ditto American's absence from polls, forums and the town halls ... although as my Bush Bash of the day, when they allow only to ra-ra supporters to attend their "town hall meetings", I would suggest that is market manipulation.