The FDA under the Bush administration, like most other government agencies, has become more geared toward ensuring the political and social agenda of the far right than upholding its purpose as a regulatory body. They delayed approval of the morning after pill for religio-social reasons, causing at least one actual scientist on the board to resign. http://www.reason.com/UserFiles/bigbrotherjoe.jpg
They allow companies to simply rename pharmacuticals in order to prolong the patent in order to prevent money saving generic drugs from entering the market so that the big pharmacutical companies can squeeze every penny out of our suffering. Now they are opening a new facility where the industry reps and lobbiests come to work every day with those people who are supposed to be doing the regulation.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21298130/
Like many other agencies in this administration the FDA acts as if their job is to remove regulatory hurdles for large pharmicutal industries. This is how drugs that lower your cholestoral but increase your risk for heart attacks get on the market. Or in the case of food, how whole sections of the country keep getting salmonilla and e-coli. Instead of being the gate keepers against people who are just trying to make a buck and dont really care about the consequences to us, the FDA is holding the door open for these people.
This is just another example of how President Bush's administration is damaging the country in ways most people dont see or cant appreciate. The federal courts, the US Attorneys, the various regulatory and administrative bodies like the FDA, and EPA, have all been given a far right leaning slant instead of being told to neutrally and beaureucraticly appling the regulations they were created to apply. The administration has done more than just shred the bill of rights and lock us in an unpopular war. With the help of the Republican congress they ingrained a political bias into every level of the federal government in ways that will effect all of our lives for years to come. The world was an unfair, cold and heartless place before, and now it will take alot more work to make it better.
There are alot of people who hate this president and see the damage he has done and want to leave the country. I am not among them. I love the United States of America. This country is still the best country in the world. We have some problems but all the other alternatives on this planet suck far worse. I intend to stick it out with my homeland and work to make it the shining becon on the hill again.
They allow companies to simply rename pharmacuticals in order to prolong the patent in order to prevent money saving generic drugs from entering the market so that the big pharmacutical companies can squeeze every penny out of our suffering. Now they are opening a new facility where the industry reps and lobbiests come to work every day with those people who are supposed to be doing the regulation.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21298130/
Like many other agencies in this administration the FDA acts as if their job is to remove regulatory hurdles for large pharmicutal industries. This is how drugs that lower your cholestoral but increase your risk for heart attacks get on the market. Or in the case of food, how whole sections of the country keep getting salmonilla and e-coli. Instead of being the gate keepers against people who are just trying to make a buck and dont really care about the consequences to us, the FDA is holding the door open for these people.
This is just another example of how President Bush's administration is damaging the country in ways most people dont see or cant appreciate. The federal courts, the US Attorneys, the various regulatory and administrative bodies like the FDA, and EPA, have all been given a far right leaning slant instead of being told to neutrally and beaureucraticly appling the regulations they were created to apply. The administration has done more than just shred the bill of rights and lock us in an unpopular war. With the help of the Republican congress they ingrained a political bias into every level of the federal government in ways that will effect all of our lives for years to come. The world was an unfair, cold and heartless place before, and now it will take alot more work to make it better.
There are alot of people who hate this president and see the damage he has done and want to leave the country. I am not among them. I love the United States of America. This country is still the best country in the world. We have some problems but all the other alternatives on this planet suck far worse. I intend to stick it out with my homeland and work to make it the shining becon on the hill again.
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