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As we debate the largest takeover of the private economy by the Federal government in the history of our country, we are also facing a pandemic, accompanied by what has become almost a chronic shortage of vaccines to deal with this situation. Could there be threads connecting these two events? Yes, there are very relevant threads, but you will not hear about these threads from our Fifth Estate (the so-called Main Stream Media).

So, let’s go with the obvious first: Why is there a shortage of vaccines?

The reason for this vaccine shortage is the same as it has been for ten or twelve previous shortages: there are only five vaccine makers that are certified to sell vaccines into the U.S. market. Only one of these companies resides in the U.S.

That much has been reported by the media, but Peacock has always been trained to ask the question “why” three times.

So our second of three whys is: Why are there only five vaccine makers qualified to sell vaccines to the U.S.?

The reason that there are only five vaccine makers is because, thanks to our government, the production of vaccines is no longer a profitable business.

Thirty years ago, there were no fewer than 25 companies that produced vaccines for the U.S. market, but only five remain today since they could not make an economic return on the production and sale of vaccines.

So, what about that nagging third question: Why could these companies not make a profit?

The answer to the third “why”, as you might have guessed, has to do with government involvement in the market. The National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine has pinned much of the blame on a federal vaccine-buying program.

The origins of the program go back to 1993, when Hillary Clinton’s “Vaccines for Children” program was first implemented. The big idea was to use the power of the federal government to ensure universal immunization. The government agreed to purchase a third of the national vaccine supply at a forced discount of half price, then it was distributed to the poor and un-insured. This resulted in not only a declining financial incentive to develop and produce new vaccines, but also a decline in investment into newer technologies to manufacture these vaccines more rapidly.

The irony of the program is that, at the time it was implemented, the U.S. had one of the highest vaccination rates in the world. After implementation, vaccination rates barely improved. As a capper, Mrs. Clinton had the gall to attack President Bush for shortages of vaccine that occurred during his administration! Talk about lack of accountability.

So, does any of this sound familiar? A worthy goal, to insure universal vaccination by using the power of the government to reduce prices, resulting in shortages and rationing of the product in question.

At the risk of emphasizing the obvious, or for those not familiar with how commercial enterprise works, Hillary’s bill that reduced the price of vaccines to one-half did nothing to reduce the cost of production to one-half. Her bill therefore wiped out the profit involved in making vaccines in the U.S. When you don’t make a profit you can’t pay employees. If you can’t pay employees then you can’t find anyone who will work for you to make a product. If you don’t have people to make a product you go out of business. When you go out of business the unemployment rate goes up. Clearly, Hilary, like many others in government either doesn’t understand the basics of the free enterprise system or is just playing for votes to feed her addiction to political power.

To paraphrase an old saw: For want of a profit an employee was lost. For want of an employee a vaccine was lost. For want of a vaccine a life was lost

Regardless of how noble the cause, government fails spectacularly at everything it does, yet it has an inexhaustible appetite to do more.

With this history, there is actually a fourth why that everyone needs to ask themselves: Why would any person in their right mind want government to do more?