Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Broken Government? Your Assignment: Fix It

Mike Adams,the creator of the above cartoon, thinks things are bad at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA):"Of all the cartoons we've ever done on the FDA, this is the one that people seem to like the best."


It addresses the issue of FDA conflicts of interest. The Food and Drug Administration, an agency that suffers under the hallucination that it protects the public from dangerous foods and drugs, has actually become the marketing department of Big Pharma. It actually takes money from drug companies in exchange for evaluating and approving their drugs, and the decisions concerning which drugs to approve almost always come down to a panel of "experts" who have strong financial ties to the very companies impacted by their decisions.''

Well, if it's "Broken Government" then it's your job to fix it.

Before you start with your poster/policy pitch assignment due Monday, consider this article from US History.org
http://www.ushistory.org/gov/8d.asp (take note or the merit system and bureaucratic accountability).

Breaking News: Tuesday the Senate passed a Food Safety Bill at a cost of $1.4 billion over the next five years to increase FDA inspections of domestic and imported food.

4 comments:

Brian N said...

The FDA should not be able to take money from food and drug companies. When they do this they open themselves up to questioning from the public. They public will have a negative view of the FDA and will assume that there could be bribery involved. These thoughts of bribery could lead to people thinking that their food may not be as safe as the FDA says. The best possible solution would be to take the FDA off of the pay roll of these food and drug companies.

Snaha R. said...

This is really outrageous. At times like this, our country should be saving as much money as possible to get out of the recession. And now the government has turned into a market where you have to pay to keep yourself healthy. I agree with Brian; this issue would lead to dispute and distrust of the government, a body that tricks people and forces them to pay money.

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