Congress: Full Timers vs. Part Timers

     With nearly all of the Republican Representatives in the House voting to defund "Obamacare", there seems to be hope to reverse Obama's train wreck.  American medicine may yet be able to be saved.  The drastic increases you would be charged in what would be forced health insurance purchases,  that the "Affordable Care Act" mandates, may never come to be.  And, the vice on your employer that coerces him into cutting your hours to part time may be permanently removed.

This last piece of malice in Obama's law is what I would like to discuss in this blog.  Republicans in the House have had the majority for some time now, and yet have seemed to do little good.  However, with the destruction of "Obamacare", voters will find their spirits lifted, their morale restored, and optimism on the horizon.  Those Republicans who desire Congressional careers may get the votes required to reelect them to "full time" status in the political work that they do.  I call these politicians: Full Timers.

Obama's Democrats, on the other hand, are Part Timers with little political future.  They march lock-step in sync with the strangled, but at fault press, and fascist and commie speech writers behind the teleprompter.  They support your economic destruction.  They aim to mess with your employer to get him to cut you down to 29 hours a week.

The battle ahead will be intense.  I predict that it will be like a game of tennis with the Part Timer dominated Senate lobbing a pro-"Obamacare" ball back into the Full Timer dominated House, where they will have to vote together to try once more to save your job.  The best way for the Full Timers to win is for them to discover the moral politics of Ayn Rand who explained that the legitimate government functions include: the police, the military, and the court systems (and that's it!).

Paul Wharton
Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

Special thanks to Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) for being the fuel of my mind

House Republicans Need Objectivist Philosophy

     I applaud the Republicans in the House of Representatives for defunding "Obamacare" today.  However, it is likely that the Senate will send the legislation back to them.  I saw an interview where Texas Senator Ted Cruz laid out a game plan that started with legislation to fund the military.  Philosophy is needed here; and it is the philosophy of Objectivism that stands alone as moral in the politics it offers.  To quote Ayn Rand:

"The only proper functions of government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, to settle disputes by rational rules, according to *objective* law."

Since Obama's goal is to destroy America, he will obviously try to shut down *legitimate* government, while pushing to keep open illegitimate government.  This must be understood.  Do not let him package group legitimate government with non-government.

Paul Wharton
Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

Special thanks to Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) for being the fuel of my mind

The Greatest Gamble

     Imagine that you are a middle-aged man who has a perfect life.  You are intelligent.  You have had a good education.  You have a great job that pays well.  Your ability, effort, and fortune have enabled you to find a beautiful woman to marry and raise a nice family.

But, there is one lethal flaw to the family's metaphysical existence.  Both you and your wife have a genetic history of the same terminal disease.  There is a high probability that you and/or some of your family members will die from that illness.  There is no definitive cure; and the existing treatments can only delay it from killing you.

You and your family have it all in life, but for how long?  One day, you sit down with your wife and offer her a solution that is perhaps the greatest gamble that the family will ever make.

Your plan is to find a promising, pharmaceutical research company, and buy millions of shares of stock--then use your stockholder influence to steer some research effort into working on a cure for your nemesis.

I seek to do this in my own life.  My grandmother died from Parkinson's disease.  The hereditary nature of that illness means that I have a significant chance of getting it.  There is only limited treatment available that offers no cure.  Now, I don't have millions; but, what if I owned 100 shares of the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly? (Which I do).  And, what if I have picked a company that has been increasing research spending while much of the Pharma industry has been slashing R&D? (Which Eli Lilly's done).  Then, what if I campaigned for other investors, and the Eli Lilly company management, to fund one promising treatment that could result in a Parkinson's cure? (Which I just did).

If through my productive investment, I can save my own life in the future, that is, in my opinion, the highest, aesthetic achievement that one can obtain.

Paul Wharton
Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

Special thanks to Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) for being the fuel of my mind

Eli Lilly: Investing in the Human Mind

     Businessmen have long recognized that the root of wealth is the productive mind.  They have sought out schools to improve education in the hope that more talented and intelligent graduates would seek employment at their businesses.  But, what too few have recognized is that certain medical companies play just as important a role in fostering intellectual ability as better education.  Eli Lilly (LLY) is a business that fits this model.

The innovation-driving, pharmaceutical company, Eli Lilly (LLY), is the leader in two areas of mental efficacy.  It invented and sells the greatest mental health medicine ever created--a drug called Zyprexa.  And, as of last year, in the race to develop the first preventative medical treatment for Alzheimer's disease, Lilly's drug, Solanezumab, was the only advanced-tested medicine that showed experimental promise--while those of two competitors fell by the wayside.

Zyprexa is so great a drug that even Lilly's own research laboratories have been having trouble beating it's mental health champion.  Last year, Eli Lilly (LLY) issued a press release announcing that it is ending clinical studies of pomaglumetad methionil--a medicine that would have been a competitor in Zyprexa's market.  However, the research and testing continues.  Jan Lundberg, Ph.D., executive vice president, science and technology, and president of Lilly Research Laboratories reported, "...neuroscience remains a core area of focus at Lilly.  Our clinical development pipeline includes nearly a dozen neuroscience molecules being studied to treat illnesses such as depression, bipolar disorder and cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia."

As Eli Lilly (LLY) exploits the leads from its research and clinical observations in the fight against Alzheimer's disease, and, as the challenged, but determined, mental health researchers forge ahead to invent the human mind's better mouse-trap, shareholders may not only be investing in better products (as such), but the human mind, itself, and all the compounded economic effects that surge forth from that fountainhead of productivity and progress.

Paul Wharton
Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

Special thanks to Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) for being the fuel of my mind

Eli Lilly's Quest to Cure Cancer

     Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) is a business that dates back to 1876.  Its founder, Colonel Eli Lilly, went into the pharmaceutical industry after his wife died of malaria, which had not been dealt with well here in the United States.  Having read three books about the company and its leadership, I believe that the driving goal of Colonel Lilly, in opening the business that he did, was to try to combat malaria so that other Americans would not suffer his loss.  In fact, one of Eli Lilly's first medicines produced was quinine which was used to treat malaria.

Considering that both Colonel Eli Lilly, and his son who ran the company for decades, died from cancer, Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) has been embarking on a massive quest to find treatments, and eventually a cure.  According to the lilly.com website:

As one of the top 10 oncology companies in the world, Lilly Oncology focuses on speeding innovation and improving outcomes for individual patients, and boasts one of the largest clinical pipelines in the oncology industry.

I counted 24 molecules being tested against cancer in either phase I or phase II of that pipeline, with 2 more nearly available to purchase.  Perhaps, one day the company will know that had the Lillys still been alive, the financial fruit of their efforts could have saved their own lives, as they will save so many more when curative drugs are placed on the market.

Paul Wharton
Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

Special thanks to Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) for being the fuel of my mind