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15 Ways the Auto Industry Would Change if it Operated Like Drug Companies



By Mike Adams, The Health Ranger

What would happen if you had to buy your car from a company that operated in the same way as the pharmaceutical industries? Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, came up with 15 unsettling changes that would occur.

Cost

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Your car would cost $4.5 million, a 30,000 percent markup over cost.
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The same car would be available in Canada or Mexico for less than $5,000.

Dealing with Competition

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Meanwhile, automakers would be lobbying Congress to outlaw bicycles and airplanes, just as the drug companies try to do with herbs and nutritional supplements.
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All auto imports would be banned. If you drove a Toyota down from Canada, you would be arrested.
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Car dealers would be bribed with money, free vacations, free food, and free cars by automobile sales representatives to push certain cars.

Safety

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Cars with no seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones, or other safety systems would be declared perfectly safe by the FDA, which would instead focus on the dangers of bicycles.
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Driver's ed programs would be cancelled nationwide, and people would be encouraged to buy new cars rather than repair damaged ones or avoid accidents in the first place.
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Safety tests showing that cars were dangerous would be buried, and scientists who produced such results would be prevented from ever conducting car safety tests ever again.
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After being sued by customers injured in the cars with no safety systems, automakers would further lobby Congress to pass laws protecting car companies against class-action lawsuits.
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Any federally mandated warnings about car safety problems would be printed in small type on a tiny label hidden under the driver's seat.
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Driving certain cars would cause side effects like loss of sex drive or full-body muscle pain.

Advertising

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Car companies would heavily promote new models each year, which would be no different from the ones they were selling 30 years ago.
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Car companies would invent reasons for you to buy a dozen or more cars.
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Automobile advertising would be filled with pictures of happy, healthy, energetic drivers, but the cars would break down constantly, fail to perform as promised, and quickly stop working.
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Cars would be sold to you with extra features like a sunroof, air conditioning, or a navigational system, but when the car arrived none of these features would be included, just as drug companies exaggerate the "multiple health benefits" of their products.

Not only that, if you set up a bicycle shop and rightly claimed that bicycle riding could help improve heart health, heavily armed FDA, FTC and IRS agents might break down your unlocked door, confiscate your bicycles and computers, and terrorize you and your staff. Criminal charged might be filed. This is the Criminal Element in Government (CEG) operating under color of law.

Phre0nBurn

You seen that M. Moore video "Sicko"?

Never really liked the dude that much, but that video was awesome!
I recommend it to everyone... Many of us know the basics of it already, and wow, I learned so much more.

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droplister

I saw most of it and do not approve, they play on how it's free elsewhere, but someones paying, someone else is paying. If he thinks our system sucks so much currently why would we give the whole thing over to the government when they are the ones fucking it up the most. And Moore is against the obscene profits the companies make. No one's gonna tell me and my company when we are making too much money.

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barman

great post... it's not funny, because it's true

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"Car companies would invent reasons for you to buy a dozen or more cars."

Bwhahaha Bwhahaha. Great thanks : )

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sleepylee

Generally these are weak and inaccurate comparisons.

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kyleirwin

amen.

If you don't like it, you can invest your own billion dollars to develop and bring your own drug to market, then give it away for nothing.

Fucking liberals.

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jclem

Read Between The Lines.

LazyHippy

and while you're at why not file a load of patents on stuff discovered from public research. They might've done the work for the public good, but you're the one that's going to develop it so you should be allowed to protect it, right?

And fuck kids dying cos their governments can't afford your drugs, that's capitalism... the rich get richer, the poor die... live with it.

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springer

I don't have any problem at all with the drug companies milking their products for all they can get. What I DO have a problem with is the government facilitating it.

If not for the FDA and the FTC being in bed with the drug co's, the market would be a whole lot more competetive and grandmas on SS wouldn't have to eat cat food to pay for their meds.

It's not so much a slam at the drug companies as it is at the American government and their laws and rules made specifically to protect the profits of the drug makers. The druggies own the FDA and the FTC and that's just not right.

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jclem

amen brotha

nop_90

you are actually stupid enuff to believe that ???

my father had to take a certain type of med for his parkinsons disease.
(I can not remember name)
It was manufactured and developed in hungary. (so basically the american pharma company did fuk all).

American drug company had exclusive rights to north america, they bought the pills at 2cents per pill. Cost at pharmacy was like $10-15 a pill.
And he had to take like 5-10 a day.

Luckily my father had insurance and could these meds. So he had not problem, but many others are not as fortunate.

I hope you get sick, need some expensive meds, and have no $$$.
Fuking shit for brains retards like you who actually believe propaganda.

jclem

Glad I started This thread. This shit gets people steamed

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