{"id":99,"date":"2006-02-12T13:49:49","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T20:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/index.php\/2006\/02\/12\/citizens-and-corporations\/"},"modified":"2006-02-12T13:49:49","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T20:49:49","slug":"citizens-and-corporations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/2006\/02\/12\/citizens-and-corporations\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens and corporations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/meth\/#press\">quote from a purpose statement<\/a> regarding a PBS\/Oregonian special on Meth.<\/p>\n<table width=\"390\" cellpadding=\"6\" border=\"1\" bgcolor=\"#abcdef\" style=\"height: 62px\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px\"><strong>Gene Haislip, a former deputy administrator at the DEA, says: &#8220;They live in the business community, where the name of the game is to make money and sell product. They&#8217;re highly skilled, very well organized and very well funded, and they can be quite formidable.&#8221;<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quoting it, like PBS did, in reference to meth and the pharmaceutical industry. I&#8217;m quoting it to apply to all well funded corporations. From what I understand, any publicly traded company is open to the threat of a stock-holder lawsuit if the management doesn&#8217;t maximize profits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like this quote from a purpose statement regarding a PBS\/Oregonian special on Meth. Gene Haislip, a former deputy administrator at the DEA, says: &#8220;They live in the business community, where the name of the game is to make money and sell product. They&#8217;re highly skilled, very well organized and very well funded, and they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}