Quote: (04-21-2011 03:02 PM)Fisto Wrote:
Yes thank god for the fda, always banning things that would kill us like vitamin b17, trans fats and that horrible chemical that makes fruit ripen. Plus theyre always on top of food recalls. Dude now I feel like youre just being obtuse
Well, that's exactly the point. The FDA is less effective today because 30 years of conservatives (and I include Clinton as a de facto conservative, by the way), have stripped a lot of its power and money in one way or another. It's not black-and-white. Bush perfected the technique of keeping regulation agencies in place, but putting people in charge of them that aren't going to do shit they're supposed to do.
That way, when shit goes haywire (as it will when you have people sleeping at the wheel), they can point at the FDA and say, "see, regulation doesn't work." That exact thing happened with that oil spill in the gulf, Hurricane Katrina, etc.
You can't have anti-government people running the government. They spend their whole time dismantling it and trying to prove that it doesn't work. It's like having vegetarians running your butcher counter. If you don't believe in government, don't govern.