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Al Taught Liberal Candidates the Art of Lying |
From the Master himself :-)
ALL R&D
October 17; third presidential debate, St. Louis
CLAIM: "The big drug companies_are now spending more money on
advertising and promotion _ you see all these ads _ than they are on
research and development."
TRUTH: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation reported in July that
drug companies spent between $5.8 billion and $8.3 billion on
marketing and $21 billion on research in 1998, according to CBS News.
THE GIRL WITHOUT A SEAT
October 3, 2000; First presidential debate, Boston, Mass.
CLAIM: "I'd like to tell you a quick story. I got a letter today, as I
left Sarasota, Florida. I'm here with a group of 13 people from around
the country who helped me prepare and we had a great time. But two
days ago we ate lunch at a restaurant and the guy who served us lunch
sent _ got me a letter today. His name is Randy Ellis, he has a
15-year-old daughter named Kailey, who's in Sarasota High School. Her
science class was supposed to be for 24 students. She is the 36th
student in that classroom, sent me a picture of her in the classroom.
They can't squeeze another desk in for her, so she has to stand during
class."
October 4, A.M. Tampa Bay, 970AM WFLA
TRUTH: Dan Kennedy, principal of Sarasota High School: "I think the
facts that he was provided with were inaccurate because we don't
really have any students standing in class, and we have more than
enough desks for all of our students. . . .[What Gore was referring
to] was probably one of the first days of school when we were in a
process of leveling classes. [Kailey] did have an opportunity to use a
lab stool, which was also available in the classroom. But we were
refurbishing that classroom, and in the back of that picture, if you
look carefully, you can see probably about $100,000 worth of new lab
equipment that was waiting to be unpacked, which is one of the reasons
the room looked as crowded as it did. The teacher did not notify us
that he needed another desk. Had we known, we would have put one in
there immediately."
BUSH'S EXPERIENCE
October 3, 2000; First presidential debate, Boston, Mass.
CLAIM: "I have actually not questioned Governor Bush's experience."
TRUTH: In an interview printed by the New York Times on March 12, Gore
said: "You have to wonder whether [Bush] has the experience to be
president. I mean, you really have to wonder. ... You have to wonder:
Does Governor Bush have the experience to be president? ... Again you
have to wonder: Does George Bush have the experience to be president?"
SLICK GORE
Washington Post, Sept. 24
CLAIM: At Sept. 22 press conference, Gore says, "I've been a part of
the discussions on the strategic reserve since the days when it was
first established."
TRUTH: President Ford established the Strategic Petroleum Reserves
when he signed the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) on
December 22, 1975 _ two years before Al Gore became a congressman.
OFF KEY
USA Today, Sept. 19
CLAIM: Addressing a Teamsters meeting, Gore spoke of lullabies from
his youth and sang, "Look for the union label."
TRUTH: The song was written in 1975, when Gore was 27.
ARTHRITIS PAIN
Sept. 20, 2000; Associated Press
CLAIM: The vice president told Florida senior citizens in an Aug. 28
speech that his mother-in-law pays $108 a month for the same arthritis
medicine he gives his dog for $37.80 a month.
TRUTH: The figures he used were taken from a House Democratic study
and did not reflect his family's own costs. Moreover, the study's
figures referred to wholesale prices, not prices paid by the consumer.
DEBATING BUSH
July 16, 2000; NBC'S Meet the Press
CLAIM: "I've accepted for two or three months now your invitation to
debate on this program," said Gore on NBC's Meet the Press. "How are
you going to persuade [Bush] to say yes, Tim?"
Tim Russert: "Well, maybe you're helping today."
Gore: "Well, do you think so? But what kind of approach _ can you get
Jack Welch involved?"
TRUTH: On the Today show on September 4, Gore refused to make good on
this pledge.
Matt Lauer: "I do want to remind you that back in July, you had
already agreed to the Meet the Press debate with Tim Russert."
Gore: "Sure."
Lauer: "Why now reject it?"
Gore: "I still agree to it. But first, let's do the commissioned
debates."
SOFT MONEY
March 15, 2000; CNN
CLAIM: "What I did yesterday was to call on the Democratic National
Committee_and they'll comply with this_to not spend any of the
so-called soft money on these issue ads unless and until the
Republican Party does."
TRUTH: "The Democratic National Committee announced a $25 million
summer ad campaign, paid for with soft money. The Republicans, so far,
have not bought ads with soft money for Bush." (for full story, click
here.)
TEXAS GOVERNOR
May 2, 2000; Washington Post
CLAIM: "You know [Bush] has never put together a budget. The governor
of Texas is by far the weakest chief executive position in America and
does not have the responsibility of forming or presenting a budget.
He's never done that."
TRUTH: Texas law defines the governor as "the chief budget officer of
the state" and orders him to distribute his budget to every member of
the legislature. And Bush, in fact, has formed and presented budgets
as governor.
BUSH CRIME RECORD
May 2, 2000; Atlanta YWCA speech
CLAIM: "Under Bush, Texas' recidivism rate has increased by 25
percent."
TRUTH: Nobody knows what has happened to the recidivism rate under
Bush because those figures haven't been published, due to extensive
lag times in reporting. The most recent numbers are from 1994,
according to the Texas Criminal Justice Policy Council.
BUSH DEBT PLAN
April 25, 2000; Association for a Better New York speech
CLAIM: "He provides for no reduction in the debt _ and no reduction in
interest on the debt."
TRUTH: By promising to reserve excess revenues generated by Social
Security payroll taxes for Social Security, Bush essentially promises
to retire federal debt with this money.
BUDGET SURPLUS
May 2, 2000; Washington Post
CLAIM: Describing the Clinton administration plan outlined in the 1999
State of the Union address to have the federal government invest some
of the budget surplus in the stock market: "We didn't really propose
it. We talked about the idea."
TRUTH: Page 37 of the Clinton administration budget submitted to
Congress in February: "The President also proposes to invest half of
the transferred amounts in corporate equities." From last year's
budget: "The administration proposes tapping the power of private
financial markets to increase the resources to pay for future Social
Security benefits."
TOBACCO #1
March 1, 2000; San Jose Mercury News
CLAIM: "It's not fair to say, `Okay, after his sister died, he
continued in the same relationship with the tobacco industry.' I did
not. I did not. I began to confront them forcefully. I don't see the
inconsistency there."
TRUTH: The same month Gore's sister died in 1984, he received a $1,000
speaking fee from U.S. Tobacco. The next year, he voted against
cigarette and tobacco tax increases three times and favored a bill
allowing major cigarette makers to purchase discounted tobacco. In the
1988 campaign, Gore bragged of his tobacco background: "I want you to
know that with my own hands, all of my life, I put [tobacco] in the
plant beds and transferred it. I've hoed it, I've dug in it, I've
sprayed it, I've chopped it, I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in
the barn, and stripped it and sold it" (Newsday, 2-26-88).
TOBACCO #2
March 1, 2000; San Jose Mercury News
CLAIM: "My family had grown tobacco. It was never actually grown on my
farm, but it was on my father's farm."
TRUTH: Gore had already admitted growing tobacco on his own farm: "On
my farm, we stopped growing tobacco some time after Nancy died" (Cox
News Service, 4-26-99). Also, Gore received federal subsidies for
growing tobacco on his farm (Wall Street Journal, 8-10-95).
ABORTION #1
February 20, 2000; New York Times
CLAIM: Gore said he has "always, always, always" supported Roe v.
Wade.
TRUTH: In 1977, Rep. Gore voted for the Hyde Amendment, which says
that abortion "takes the life of an unborn child who is a living human
being," and that there is no constitutional right to abortion. He cast
many other votes favorable to the pro-life cause and earned an 84
percent rating from the National Right to Life Committee.
CROWD ESTIMATE
February 4, 2000; New York Times
CLAIM: "We had a huge event with 3,000 people at Ohio State
University."
TRUTH: "Officials at that rally said the room where it had taken place
did not hold more than 1,200 people, and, given the area needed for
the staging erected for the occasion, they estimated the crowd at
500," reported the Times.
NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY
February 2, 2000; Good Morning America
CLAIM: "We won in every single demographic category" in the New
Hampshire primary.
TRUTH: Bill Bradley carried male voters and voters aged 18-29,
according to exit polls.
BRADLEY VOTING RECORD
January 8, 2000; Democratic debate in Iowa
CLAIM: "Why did you [Bill Bradley] vote against the disaster relief
for Chris Peterson when he and thousands of other farmers here in Iowa
needed it after those '93 floods?"
TRUTH: Bradley voted for $4.8 billion in flood aid and opposed an
amendment, also opposed by the Clinton White House until the last
minute, to add $900 million in disaster compensation.
HUBERT HUMPHREY
December 27, 1999; Washington Post
CLAIM: Gore has suggested that he contributed important lines to
Hubert Humphrey's acceptance speech at the 1968 Democratic convention.
"Young Gore later often told the story . . . [A]s [he] sat in the
convention hall and looked up at Humphrey in the spotlight, he thought
he heard his own words coming back to him."
TRUTH: When Gore's supposed conduit to Humphrey denied the influence,
Gore blamed his recollection on "Faulty memory. Faulty memory."
RESIDENCE
December 23, 1999; ABCNews.com
CLAIM: "I live on a farm today. I have my heart in my own farm."
TRUTH: Gore lives in the vice-presidential mansion at the Naval
Observatory in Washington, D.C. After making this farm claim, Gore
said: "Yes, I live in Washington, D.C., when I'm working there"!
INTERNET PROTECTION
December 17, 1999; Democratic debate on Nightline
CLAIM: "I helped to negotiate an agreement with the Internet service
providers to put a parent-protection page up and give parents the
ability to click on all the websites that their children have visited
lately. That'll put a lot of bargaining leverage in the hands of
parents."
TRUTH: Bartlett Cleland of the Internet Education Foundation, seven
months earlier: "There was no Gore involvement. They hijacked this
issue. He makes it sound like he led the project. I can't imagine what
he will invent tomorrow" (Washington Times, 5-6-99).
LOVE CANAL
December 1, 1999; Concord High School, Concord, N.H.
CLAIM: "I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal.
I had the first hearing on that issue."
TRUTH: In October 1978, Gore did hold congressional hearings on Love
Canal _ which he apparently "found" two months after President Carter
declared it a disaster area and the federal government offered to buy
the homes.
HOME BUILDER
November 30, 1999; New England Business Council, Manchester, N.H.
CLAIM: "I was a home builder after I came back from Viet-nam. . . . I
know a good bit about how to make money that way. . . . To build this
country is a great thing."
TRUTH: A Gore family corporation, Tanglewood Home- builders, built
nine houses between 1969 and 1973 on property once owned by Gore's
father. "I believe he [Al Gore Jr.] came by a time or two, but not too
often," Jewell Dillehay, the contractor for the development, told the
Orange County Register on February 20, 1988.
MCCAIN-FEINGOLD CAMPAIGN-FINANCE BILL
November 24, 1999; New York Times
CLAIM: "Unlike Senator Bradley, I was a co-sponsor of it."
TRUTH: Gore and Russell Feingold never served together in the Senate.
Gore later admitted to the Times that his comment "was a mistake . . .
[W]hat I meant to say was that I supported that."
EITC
November 1, 1999; Time interview
CLAIM: "I was the author of that proposal [the Earned Income Tax
Credit]. I wrote that, so I say [to Bill Bradley], Welcome aboard.
That is something for which I have been the principal proponent for a
long time."
TRUTH: The original EITC law was enacted in 1975. Gore entered
Congress in 1977.
STIFF AND WOODEN
October 23, 1999; Associated Press
CLAIM: "I never got that stiff-and-wooden rap in the House and Senate.
It has been as vice president."
TRUTH: Time, March 21, 1988: "A joke among the press corps is, How do
you tell Al Gore from his Secret Service protection? Answer: He's the
stiff one."
VIETNAM SERVICE
October 15, 1999; Los Angeles Times
CLAIM: "I carried an M-16. . . . I pulled my turn on the perimeter at
night and walked through the elephant grass, and I was fired upon." In
1988, Gore told the Washington Post: "I was shot at. . . . I spent
most of my time in the field."
TRUTH: Gore never faced direct enemy fire, although several times he
may have arrived on the scene shortly after fighting was completed.
Also, Gore was never issued a M-16 outside of limited guard duty.
TEST-BAN TREATY
October 14, 1999; Gore ad
CLAIM: "I ask for your support, and your mandate if elected president,
to send this treaty back to the Senate with your demand that they
ratify it. I've worked on this for 20 years because, unless we get
this one right, nothing else matters."
TRUTH: Gore indeed "worked on" this matter for many years, but often
in opposition to a test ban. During his presidential campaign in 1988,
he criticized his Democratic primary opponents for "the very idea of
having a complete ban on all flight-testing of missiles when we rely
on deterrence for the survival of our civilization" (Washington Post,
2-22-88).
INTERNET
March 9, 1999; CNN interview
CLAIM: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the
initiative in creating the Internet."
TRUTH: The Internet is an outgrowth of a Pentagon program established
in 1969. In the 1980s, Gore supported legislation considered favorable
to the Internet's development.
CENSUS
July 16, 1998; NAACP annual convention
CLAIM: "The Republicans know theirs is the wrong agenda for African
Americans. They don't even want to count you in the census!"
TRUTH: Most Republicans opposed the Clinton administration's plan to
conduct the census by statistically sampling the population rather
than actually trying to count everybody.
BUDDHIST TEMPLE
January 24, 1997; Today show
CLAIM: "I did not know that it was a fundraiser."
TRUTH: A DNC memo prepared for Gore made plain that the event at Hsi
Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, Calif., was a fundraiser. A Secret
Service document called it a fundraiser, Gore's staff described the
event as a fundraiser to reporters, and DNC chairman Don Fowler
testified to the Senate that he knew "there was a fundraising aspect
to this event." Six weeks before attending the event, Gore met with
temple master Hsing Yun at the White House with fundraisers Maria Hsia
and John Huang. Later that day, Gore sent an e-mail saying that he
couldn't be in New York on April 28, 1996: "If we have already booked
the fundraisers [in California], then we have to decline."
ABORTION #2
January 22, 1997; NARAL meeting
CLAIM: "I reached out to individuals who are leaders on the [pro-life]
side of this issue" to "make common cause" on reducing unwanted
pregnancies. He went on to imply that Catholic pro-lifers' opposition
to birth control made it impossible for both sides join "together to
make abortions rare."
TRUTH: Despite many queries, no pro-life leader has ever said Gore
approached him on this subject.
PEACE CORPS
February 16, 1992; C-SPAN's Booknotes
CLAIM: Gore said his sister was "the very first volunteer for the
Peace Corps."
TRUTH: Nancy Gore Hunger was a paid employee at Peace Corps
headquarters, 1961-64.
SUPERFUND
April 16, 1988; Democratic debate in New York
CLAIM: "I have written the law, along with one other principal author
of the Superfund law, and amendments to the other major law in this
area, which requires that companies improperly disposing of hazardous
waste must bear the financial consequences of cleaning it up."
TRUTH: Rep. Jim Florio, Democrat of New Jersey, wrote the first
Superfund law in 1980. Gore was not a coauthor but merely one of 42
cosponsors in the House. Eight years before claiming authorship and
praising the Superfund law, Gore criticized it for being "far too
small to make a reasonable start on correcting this enormous
environmental problem" (Congressional Record, 5-16-80).
HOMETOWN
February 1988; two ads
CLAIM: "I'm Al Gore. I grew up on a farm," and "growing up in
Carthage, Tennessee, I learned our bedrock values . . ."
TRUTH: Gore, the son of a senator, grew up primarily at the Fairfax
Hotel in Washington, D.C., in a suite of rooms overlooking Embassy
Row. He graduated from the ritzy St. Albans National Cathedral School,
also in the capital.
SCHOOL DAYS
1988 campaign video
CLAIM: Narrator calls him a "brilliant student."
TRUTH: "His grades were uneven, never approaching the plateau of A's
and B's that might be expected of one who possesses such a pedagogical
demeanor," reported the Washington Post (3-19-00).
MUSIC LYRICS
November 3, 1987; Variety
CLAIM: "I was not in favor of the hearing" on music lyrics.
TRUTH: At the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on September 19, 1985,
Gore said: "Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I would like to thank
you and commend you for calling this hearing. Because my wife has been
heavily involved in the evolution of this issue, I have gained quite a
bit of familiarity with it, and I have really gained an education in
what is involved."
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER
September 27, 1987; Des Moines Register
CLAIM: Gore claimed he "got a bunch of people indicted and sent to
jail" as a reporter in the 1970s.
TRUTH: Two city councilmen were indicted; one was acquitted and the
other given a suspended sentence. In an interview with the Memphis
Commercial Appeal (10-3-87) a few days later, Gore admitted to "a
careless statement that was unintentional."
FEMALE STAFFERS
August 22, 1987; Associated Press
CLAIM: Gore "said half his campaign staff were women, and he would
make half of a Gore Cabinet women."
TRUTH: "But pressed by reporters later to name women on his staff, he
fumbled and then mentioned one name, which later turned out to be
incorrect."
ARMS CONTROL
1984 Senate ad
CLAIM: Narrator says Gore "wrote the bipartisan plan on arms control
that U.S. negotiators will take to the Russians."
TRUTH: Ken Adelman, director of U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency: "He had nothing to do with what we proposed to the Soviets"
(Boston Globe, 4-11-00).
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26 Jan 2004 08:58:40 AM |
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"The Bandit" <no-reply@idexer.com> wrote in message
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From the Master himself :-)
ALL R&D
October 17; third presidential debate, St. Louis
CLAIM: "The big drug companies_are now spending more money on
advertising and promotion _ you see all these ads _ than they are on
research and development."
TRUTH: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation reported in July that
drug companies spent between $5.8 billion and $8.3 billion on
marketing and $21 billion on research in 1998, according to CBS News.
The claim still stands that the Drug companies are spending tons of money
(8.3 billion is a lot of money) on advertising drugs, many of which are of
questionable value. Because of market trends, the drug companies are paying
more attention to drugs that will make more money over drugs that are
needed.
THE GIRL WITHOUT A SEAT
October 3, 2000; First presidential debate, Boston, Mass.
The truth is that Bush's nitwit brother and the worthless scumbag
Republicans in FLorida have cut taxes. At the same time they get thousands
of new students in Florida schools ever day. Hence even the best schools
have parks of trailers to make up for a lack of classroom space. And many
classes have 40+ students in them, far more then they are made for.
Your "lies" are nothing compared to the lies the Republicans tell.
Where are the WMDs?
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26 Jan 2004 09:05:31 AM |
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abracadabra <abra@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Your "lies" are nothing compared to the lies the Republicans tell.
Where are the WMDs?
Search wolfowitz, perle, libby and feith for the reasons why Iraq was
invaded. Follow the references to the various societies, think tanks and
committees they have set up to promote the Zionists' programs.
These four horsemen of the neo-conservative apocalypse and their army of
pork-eating Zionists have declared a holy war against those who oppose the
invasion and occupation of the land once known as Palestine by the Jews.
"... Paul Wolfowitz - deputy secretary of defense (status of appointment:
decided but not announced)
The Jewish and pro-Israel communities are jumping for joy. While skeptical
regarding the Oslo Accords, Wolfowitz is considered a strong supporter of
Israel. He has been one of the loudest proponents of a tough policy toward
Iraq focused on finding a way to bring down Saddam Hussein's regime.
".....2/6/2001 zacharia in Jerusalem post
There they are, in the minds of the Zionists exhibiting their natural
paranoia. President Bush did exactly what he was told to do by his handlers
and patrons. He even said sneak attacks by Americans are to be the norm
that is when he is told to attack. Search limbaugh +"william casey" +
"capital cities" to learn how is chief spokesman was created and why.
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25 Jan 2004 11:37:52 PM |
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"The Bandit" <no-reply@idexer.com> wrote in message
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From the Master himself :-)
ALL R&D
October 17; third presidential debate, St. Louis
CLAIM: "The big drug companies_are now spending more money on
advertising and promotion _ you see all these ads _ than they are on
research and development."
TRUTH: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation reported in July that
drug companies spent between $5.8 billion and $8.3 billion on
marketing and $21 billion on research in 1998, according to CBS News.
The real, unedited, truth!
http://www.citizen.org/congress/campaign/special_interest/articles.cfm?ID=65
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Rx R&D Myths: The Case Against the Drug Industry's R&D "Scare Card"
Click Here for PDF Versions of the Report, Appendix A and Appendix C
Executive Summary
This new Public Citizen report reveals how major U.S. drug companies and
their Washington, D.C. lobby group, the Pharmaceutical Research and
Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), have carried out a misleading campaign to
scare policy makers and the public. PhRMA's central claim is that the
industry needs extraordinary profits to fund expensive, risky and innovative
research and development (R&D) for new drugs. If anything is done to
moderate prices or profits, R&D will suffer, and, as PhRMA's president
recently claimed, "it's going to harm millions of Americans who have
life-threatening conditions." But this R&D scare card - or canard - is built
on myths, falsehoods and misunderstandings, all of which are made possible
by the drug industry's staunch refusal to open its R&D records to
congressional investigators or other independent auditors.
Using government studies, company filings with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission and documents obtained via the Freedom of Information
Act, Public Citizen's report exposes the industry's R&D claims:
a.. The drug industry's claim that R&D costs total $500 million for each
new drug (including failures) is highly misleading. Extrapolated from an
often-misunderstood 1991 study by economist Joseph DiMasi, the $500 million
figure includes significant expenses that are tax deductible and unrealistic
scenarios of risks.
a.. The actual after-tax cash outlay - or what drug companies really spend
on R&D - for each new drug (including failures) according to the DiMasi
study is approximately $110 million. (That's in year 2000 dollars, based on
data provided by drug companies.) (See Section I)
a.. A simpler measure - also derived from data provided by the industry -
suggests that after-tax R&D costs ranged from $57 million to $71 million for
the average new drug brought to market in the 1990s, including failures.
(See Section II)
a.. Industry R&D risks and costs are often significantly reduced by
taxpayer-funded research, which has helped launch the most medically
important drugs in recent years and many of the best-selling drugs,
including all of the top five sellers in one recent year surveyed (1995).
a.. An internal National Institutes of Health (NIH) document, obtained by
Public Citizen through the Freedom of Information Act, shows how crucial
taxpayer-funded research is to top-selling drugs. According to the NIH,
taxpayer-funded scientists conducted 55 percent of the research projects
that led to the discovery and development of the top five selling drugs in
1995. (See Section III)
a.. The industry fought, and won, a nine-year legal battle to keep
congressional investigators from the General Accounting Office from seeing
the industry's complete R&D records. (See Section IV) Congress can subpoena
the records but has failed to do so. That might owe to the fact that in
1999-2000 the drug industry spent $262 million on federal lobbying, campaign
contributions and ads for candidates thinly disguised as "issue" ads. (See
accompanying report, "The Other Drug War: Big Pharma's 625 Washington
Lobbyists")
a.. Drug industry R&D does not appear to be as risky as companies claim.
In every year since 1982, the drug industry has been the most profitable in
the United States, according to Fortune magazine's rankings. During this
time, the drug industry's returns on revenue (profit as a percent of sales)
have averaged about three times the average for all other industries
represented in the Fortune 500. It defies logic that R&D investments are
highly risky if the industry is consistently so profitable and returns on
investments are so high. (See Section V)
a.. Drug industry R&D is made less risky by the fact that only about 22
percent of the new drugs brought to market in the last two decades were
innovative drugs that represented important therapeutic gains over existing
drugs. Most were "me-too" drugs, which often replicate existing successful
drugs. (See Section VI)
a.. In addition to receiving research subsidies, the drug industry is
lightly taxed, thanks to tax credits. The drug industry's effective tax rate
is about 40 percent less than the average for all other industries. (See
Section VII)
a.. Drug companies also receive a huge financial incentive for testing the
effects of drugs on children. This incentive called pediatric exclusivity,
which Congress may reauthorize this year, amounts to $600 million in
additional profits per year for the drug industry - and that's just to get
companies to test the safety of several hundred drugs for children. It is
estimated that the cost of such tests is less than $100 million a year. (See
Section VIII)
a.. The drug industry's top priority increasingly is advertising and
marketing, more than R&D. Increases in drug industry advertising budgets
have averaged almost 40 percent a year since the government relaxed rules on
direct-to-consumer advertising in 1997. Moreover, the Fortune 500 drug
companies dedicated 30 percent of their revenues to marketing and
administration in the year 2000, and just 12 percent to R&D. (See Section X)
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26 Jan 2004 05:04:25 AM |
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"ZenIsWhen" <ZenIsWhen@anywhere.com> wrote in message news:<10199te2u68qsdb@corp.supernews.com>...
"The Bandit" <no-reply@idexer.com> wrote in message
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From the Master himself :-)
ALL R&D
October 17; third presidential debate, St. Louis
CLAIM: "The big drug companies_are now spending more money on
advertising and promotion _ you see all these ads _ than they are on
research and development."
TRUTH: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation reported in July that
drug companies spent between $5.8 billion and $8.3 billion on
marketing and $21 billion on research in 1998, according to CBS News.
The real, unedited, truth!
http://www.citizen.org/congress/campaign/special_interest/articles.cfm?ID=65
Uh, no it isn't. See what these citizens groups do is take the free
sample medications that are given away free to doctors as a marketing
expense, which accounts for half or more of the marketing figures
these groups come up with and cite. Those free samples end up in
consumer hands who cannot always afford purchasing them. To inflate
marketing exspenses by billions from lumping the costs of free samples
to doctors is very very misleading.
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