Free Drugs Are Bad?

The Drudge Report runs big headlines for this article :

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sfl-0806publix,0,1726442.story

and the comments that people have made about it reveal the absolute stupidity of the American people. It seems that no one is being taught to think critically any more. Large numbers of the posters complain that even though the seven antibiotics are to be given away at no cost to the patient, the store charges high prices for everything else. Other posters jump on the quack science bandwagon and complain that making the antibiotics a "free" commodity will lead to abuse and bacterial drug resistance. Others seem just plain unhappy that someone could benefit from the program.

No good deed ever goes unpunished, I say. If you read carefully, every one of the negative comments to the news story has as its underlying theme the laziness and self-gratification of the poster. These are the same people who will take out an equity line of credit to pay off their credit cards. They are the same people who fill their grocery carts with heat-n-eat meals because they are too lazy to cook. They are the same people who pass zoning laws prohibiting people from growing vegetables in their front yards instead of grass. They are the same people who play shoot-em-up video games but who call the police when they hear a strange noise because they are afraid to go find out themselves what it is.

Idiots, all.