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Title: Republican Senator Holds Up Food Safety Bill …Is Reducing The Deficit More Important Than Preventing Contaminated Food From Being Sold?
Source: Tucson Citizen
URL Source: http://tucsoncitizen.com/view-from- ... aminated-food-from-being-sold/
Published: Sep 17, 2010
Author: Tucson Citizen
Post Date: 2010-09-17 14:50:31 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 17555
Comments: 31

This interesting bit of news from the Washington Post:

GOP Senator Tom Coburn from Oklahoma is holding up a food saftey bill because he’s afraid it will add to the deficit.

All the more reason to have home gardens and raise your own chickens….

GOP senator says he will hold up food safety bill

WASHINGTON — A Republican senator is threatening to hold up food safety legislation that would give the Food and Drug Administration more power to prevent outbreaks, saying Democrats must find a way to pay for it.

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#5. To: Brian S (#0)

How the hell did we survive before the FDA existed?

Ibluafartsky  posted on  2010-09-17   17:12:43 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Ibluafartsky (#5)

How the hell did we survive before the FDA existed?

Many people didn't. That's why we have an FDA.

I gotta love republican thinking. Fighting a war install social welfare states in countries of people they hate is small government. Regulating food safety is totally unnecessary bureaucracy

Rhino  posted on  2010-09-17   18:32:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Rhino (#9) (Edited)

Many people didn't. That's why we have an FDA.

Complete horse shit.

Leftist power mongers site small statics, out of context, to create problems where there are none. They do this to gain power for themselves.

The fact is that the FDA does more harm than good because it drives up the costs of bringing life saving medicines to market and it also prohibits life saving medicines from entering the market that are on the market in Europe and Japan. The Europeans and Japanese DO NOT die more frequently from bad drugs than Americans. We waste time and money for no reason.

The U.S. has the most screwed up government in the entire developed world. It's time that change.

jwpegler  posted on  2010-09-17   19:44:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: jwpegler (#11)

Complete horse shit.

Leftist power mongers site small statics, out of context, to create problems where there are none. They do this to gain power for themselves.

The fact is that the FDA does more harm than good because it drives up the costs of bringing life saving medicines to market and it also prohibits life saving medicines from entering the market that are on the market in Europe and Japan. The Europeans and Japanese DO NOT die more frequently from bad drugs than Americans. We waste time and money for no reason.

The U.S. has the most screwed up government in the entire developed world. It's time that change.

What kind of education did you have that you haven't even read The Jungle?

Rhino  posted on  2010-09-22   0:09:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: Rhino (#13) (Edited)

What kind of education did you have that you haven't even read The Jungle?

A more modern education than 1906 when the Jungle was written, including numerous trips to more than 25 countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Dude, you are living in the past. Put the joint down, clear the smoke, and take a look at reality.

jwpegler  posted on  2010-09-22   15:49:34 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: jwpegler (#18) (Edited)

A more modern education than 1906 when the Jungle was written, including numerous trips to more than 25 countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Dude, you are living in the past. Put the joint down, clear the smoke, and take a look at reality.

The Jungle explains the reasons the FDA was created. Which is why I asked after someone said there was no reason for the FDA. There absolutely was. The only reason we are living in the past in re: to food safety is because of the FDA.

Furthermore with tainted food from Mexico and China, that need still exists.

Visiting the world isn't an education it's a holiday.

Rhino  posted on  2010-09-23   16:20:13 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#25. To: Rhino (#21)

the FDA

You don't think that the Europeans and Japanese regulate food and drugs too?

Of course they do.

They also have life saving drugs on the market that the United States has outlawed.

There are NOT higher death rates from bad food and drugs in Europe and Japan than there are in the U.S.

The U.S. government is run by blithering idiots at the behest of extremist cranks, all of who are scared to death of trail lawyers.

That's the problem in a nutshell.

jwpegler  posted on  2010-09-23 21:16:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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