Past Twilight the back story
Fall: 2011
Twitter Point: Government abuse: Government for a
small group of people and not all people is just as bad as to much government.
Tea party people claim that the government is too bloated and excessively
involved with ordinary citizens. Certainly at times, especially in the criminal-justice system government
officials have behaved badly at times and put the wrong people in jail or on death row. But my guess is that is not
what whips the tea party people into a furor as much as worthless people(minorites) on welfare, public employees
getting good benefits though a union and Planned Parenthood where every client walking though the door wants a
godless abortion.
What irritates me about government is not so much what the government is doing
but what the government should be doing. A democratic government, aside from protecting its' citizens from
foreign threats, has two major obligations: to provide services its' citizens cannot effectively get
elsewhere, to protect its citizens from people(rich and/or criminals) who are in a position to take advantage of
them.
There are plenty of examples of the government's failure to act. Without
doing any research, I can list some that any TV viewer should know about. How about the Enron scandal. How about
Bernie Madeoff bilking several thousand investors. How about the Wall Street scandal where the government when it
did get involved it used taxpayers money to save several fat cat investment banks. To this day, I am still waiting
for one of those flilthy rich executives to do the 5pm perp walk. How about the agency that was supposed to
regulate the oil and gas industry. Tough to do when some of the regulators were literaly sleeping in bed with hired
prostitutes supplied by people in this industry. When will I see a perp walk on this? How about the FDA, you seldom
hear about this agency on TV, but decisions this agency makes can be a matter of life and death for some
people.
The mission of the FDA
"The FDA is responsible for advancing the public health by helping to speed the innovations
that make medicines and foods more effective, safer, and more affordable; and helping the public get
accurate, science-based information the need to use medicines and foods to improve
their health." Sounds like some really good stuff: an agency that is scientific and impartial, but is
that what the FDA is really about?
In 1993, the FDA approved a drug called 'Trasylol' despite some data that showed this
drug inflicted severe kidney damage in animals. Of course, the same kidney damage started occurring in humans. In
2008 after a lot of lawsuits, Bayer took the product off of the American market. Some experts have stated had the
FDA taken the product off of the market when the first negative reports about the product came out some 22,000
lives could have been saved. Yes, this is the same FDA that made threats to Cherrie and Walnut growers for
promoting the health benefits of their foods. One seldom hears about ex-FDA executives getting sweetheart
jobs with the Cherrie and Walnut industries. Could that be a factor? For a full report on the Trasylor case and
other incites on how the FDA conducts business, please click on lef.org William Faloon of the 'Life Extension Foundation' has stated the
following:
"If you ever wonder why medical costs are bankrupting the United States, look no
further than the fraudulently approved drugs that permeate the market-place. When government approved
medicines inflict this kind of carnage, the inevitable result is an explosive growth in the numbers of
Americans requiring chronic healthcare."
Goverment employees's are just like everyone else. The can be good, bad or ugly
depending on their own personalities and the organization they work for. If the agencies they work for have
mediocer leaders with hidden agendas that will benefit only the leaders, than from top to bottom of that
oganiization everyone will take their cues from the leaders. The only way to change this situation is
for voters to hold their politicians accountable for the people they put in charge of these
organizations.
Please let your elected officials know how you feel. Copy and paste
your Comments on to their web pages.
http://www.house.gov/representatives/
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
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via links from other sites. Also if people like your content they may click on your site and like your site's
content. If you are a author, maybe they might even buy a copy of your
novel.
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