{"id":13313,"date":"2016-02-09T10:24:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T17:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=13313"},"modified":"2016-02-09T12:50:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T19:50:59","slug":"the-future-of-a-social-pariah-martin-shkreli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2016\/02\/09\/the-future-of-a-social-pariah-martin-shkreli\/","title":{"rendered":"“Too bad for little ghetto boy” and Martin Shkreli’s future as a social pariah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why shouldn’t Shkreli smirk? In his position, I’d be smirking, too. I’d probably be laughing in Congress’ collective face. In fact, if I were in his shoes, here’s what I’d tell them:<\/p>\n

“You know what–my business practices may be immoral. Yeah, my pricing could mean that a rich person gets my medicine and a little boy living in the ghetto doesn’t. Too bad for little ghetto boy. He might want a Rolls Royce, too, but he doesn’t get that either because he can’t afford it. That’s the system.<\/p>\n

“Now you… Congress… could change all that. You’re the ones who change systems, not me. I just play by the rules that you set up.<\/p>\n

“You could pass laws against price gouging on drugs. You could vote for universal health coverage that would provide little ghetto boy with his drugs.<\/p>\n

“But you don’t, and you won’t, and I’m going to go on doing exactly what I’m doing and you’re not going to lift a finger to stop me. Why?<\/p>\n

“Because passing laws against price gouging would put you at odds with the pharmaceutical companies that make big donations to your re-election campaigns. And you’re afraid to piss them off.<\/p>\n

“Because coming out for universal health coverage would brand you a ‘Socialist,’ and you’re afraid of that, too.<\/p>\n

“Because you’re cowards without the balls to do what’s right if it means you might not get re-elected.<\/p>\n

“Oh, you’ll bluster at hearings like these. You’ll get all holier-than-thou and call me all kinds of names. But you know the one name you can’t call me? You can’t call me a ‘hypocrite.’<\/p>\n

“You’re the ones with the power to change things for the better… to put me out of the price-gouging business, and you won’t do it. You don’t dare. You’re the hypocrites. You’re the cowards. You’re bigger villains that I’ll ever be.<\/p>\n

“And that is why I laugh at you.”
\n
\n[This post was from the Facebook of Jan Strnad<\/a>. ~Editor]<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Is it appropriate for Martin Shkreli’s pupils to be that dilated on such a well lit TV set? Might he simply be taking too many happy pills? Just asking.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why shouldn’t Shkreli smirk? In his position, I’d be smirking, too. I’d probably be laughing in Congress’ collective face. In fact, if I were in his shoes, here’s what I’d tell them: “You know what–my business practices may be immoral. Yeah, my pricing could mean that a rich person gets my medicine and a little boy living in the ghetto […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[579,625],"tags":[1238],"class_list":["post-13313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflected-news","category-update","tag-martin-shkreli"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":202,"url":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2006\/12\/18\/food-and-drink-review-white-wines-for-the-financially-impared\/","url_meta":{"origin":13313,"position":0},"title":"Food and Drink Review [white wines for the financially impared]","author":"admin","date":"December 18, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"WHITE WINES FOR THE FINANCIALLY IMPAIRED by E. 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