<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">On Fri, Nov 6, 2026 at 12:51 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"> </span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-7837096810027653299"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-7837096810027653299WordSection1"><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="m_-7837096810027653299gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>></span> </span></i></span><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">If you consider a drug too expensive, don’t buy it.</span></i></blockquote></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…Great choice<span class="m_-7837096810027653299gmaildefault"> you have given us</span>, don't buy <span class="m_-7837096810027653299gmaildefault">the drug</span> and die<span class="m_-7837096810027653299gmaildefault"> rich</span>,<span class="m_-7837096810027653299gmaildefault"> or buy it and live in poverty…. John K Clark</span></span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-7837096810027653299gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-7837096810027653299gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>But if we defund medical research</i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i></i> [...]</span></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>OH FOR DARWIN'S SAKE! You keep repeating that silly straw man argument like a parrot without even attempting to answer my fundamental questions, like why the hell are American consumers and American consumers ALONE responsible for repaying the entire research and development budget for every drug in existence <u>regardless of what country the research or the development or the manufacturing occurred in?</u></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>But perhaps it's just me, does anybody around here think that Spike's argument is logical, or even coherent?  </b></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-7837096810027653299"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-7837096810027653299WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-7837096810027653299gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><b style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">  <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span></b><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif">John we already know you are not libertarian,</font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>If you are a libertarian then I am not <span class="gmail_default" style="">o</span>ne. If you are not a libertarian then I am one.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> </b></font></div><div><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default"> John K Clark</span></b></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>