Martin Longman is the web editor of the Washington Monthly.
He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. Before joining the Monthly, Martin was a county coordinator for ACORN/Project Vote and a political consultant. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
I’m not one who believes everything was just peachy back in the “good old days”. The U.S. was a very racist place when I was a child. But there was one thing that was better. There was this thing called shame that kept people from behaving like greedy pigs in public. Behind the curtain they might get away with whatever they could. But not out in the open. The guy who discovered insulin in 1921 didn’t patent his discovery. Jonas Salk didn’t patent the polio vaccine. These days, pharmaceutical companies will do anything for a buck. Raise the price of… Read more »
Anything for a buck. And they never have enough bucks, so …everything is for sale.
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I’m not one who believes everything was just peachy back in the “good old days”. The U.S. was a very racist place when I was a child. But there was one thing that was better. There was this thing called shame that kept people from behaving like greedy pigs in public. Behind the curtain they might get away with whatever they could. But not out in the open. The guy who discovered insulin in 1921 didn’t patent his discovery. Jonas Salk didn’t patent the polio vaccine. These days, pharmaceutical companies will do anything for a buck. Raise the price of… Read more »