I am honest- hear me roar!

The most honest capitalist has got to be Bayer CEO, Marijn Dekkers. The Bayer company created a cancer drug called Nexavar which costs Indians (of the India variety) $69,000 a year. That's a lot of money and you may know how much Indian's love to bargain. In 2012 an Indian court licensed an Indian company to market the drug at a 97% discount. Wow. That's a steep discount. The same drug costs $96,000 a year here. And that's where Dekkers's honesty comes into play. He says the drug "isn't for Indians but for western patients who can afford it." Does it get more honest than that?

Martha MacCallum of Fox news claims there is no pay gap between men and women and that women are paid exactly what they are worth. She added:

“I think most women do not want to be treated as sort of a special class of citizen. They want to go to work every day, they want to get paid for being a professional, for doing their job really well, and they don’t want to be treated like some special group of people who have to be, y’know, given a little special handout just to make sure they’re OK.”

That might be Martha's version of honesty, for all I know. She may really believe that. In fact, she adds that when you factor in the time off women get for dropping babies in the field, they actually make more than men. So there's that!

I just don't know what to make of this honesty. I get the argument that it costs money to develop drugs and yada-effing-yada and that's the end of the argument for any God-fearing capitalist- that you have a God-given, Constitutional right to a profit. It's written somewhere that you do....just not in the Bible or the Constitution.

What I don't get is why medicine and healthcare has to be operated at a profit. And not only a profit but an obscene profit at that.

Well, because that is our system! It's as simple as why women make 77 cents on the man's dollar. It is profit. DUH!

Martha didn't come right out and say it but,  that women work for less is why women work at all. Two things happened in the early seventies that were a direct result of the women's liberation movement. Corporations discovered that women would work for less money than men. And, if you got women out of the house and into the workforce, you could get people to buy more things and pay more for them. Two could spend more money than one. EZ credit made that even more possible and I should say that three things happened due to women's lib.

To Martha and to the GOP and the corporations they serve, this is accepted fact. The CEO's tell us that the country cannot afford to raise the minimum wage. The so-called "GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD!" and we can't afford to pay our women what we pay men and we can't afford to pay our least skilled workers a living wage? Our economic system is so fragile that girls can beat it up? Are you fucking kidding me?

That's why- dickhead that he is- you have to appreciate Dekkers's honesty. You can't afford it and we didn't make it for you. Therefore, you can't have it!

Martha MacCallum and the other Faux blondes are being less honest with us. I mean- has she ever turned down a raise at FOX thinking it might put her into a Hannity bracket? I'm going to say no. I'm rather certain that she has an agent which is like extremely personal Union representation. I'm thinking she's less honest than Mr. Marijn Dekkers. That's probably why he makes more than her. Yeah, that's it.