The FDA and The TSA

The people at the FDA are working as hard as they can with the budget that they have to destroy medicine and small businesses in USA.  Anestesiologists are struggling with a drug shortage. What?  IN America?  Here is a round-up of the problem.  You'll note it all stems from the lack of a free market in medicine.

Here is what the FDA has to say:

There is no quick solution that solves this critical public health issue; addressing it will require a multifaceted approach. FDA plays a unique role in responding to and helping to prevent drug shortages. Today’s meeting was a constructive step in the right direction.

I doubt that.  The market would give us a quick solution.  Always does when there is a supply problem.  But we do not have a free market in medicine.  More meetings in which peoples lives are ruined while "stakeholders" sort out who gets what, and then leaves the FDA to protect those who are chosen to be the winners and destroy those chosen to be the losers is not a solution.

People pretend the FDA serves a role in making medicine safe and plentiful in USA.  It does not.  It does help fund empire by making drugs hard to get.

The opium trade is ancient and once offered the world palliative care.  Now suffering goes on so we can have empire.  This is nothing new.  Japan financed a fair portion of its empire with drug trade, by making it illegal and having a monopoly on the illegal drug.  Sound familiar?

I've blogged on the FDA efficacy before:

Let’s run some numbers:

2009 FDA had “about”(they don’t know) 8800 employees and a budget of 2.4 billion.  This means each FDA employee costs the taxpayers about $272,727 a year. Extrapolating from these facts, let’s say in 2010, they had 12,100 employees, given a budget of $3.3 billion. That is about a 50% increase, so now they should be able to inspect 1.5 pounds in a million. With their 2011 budget of over $4 billion, they nearly double their 2009 capabilities, so they can inspect almost 2 pounds per million, with 14,666 employees.

Let’s get serious:  If we believe inspections matter, we want at least 10% inspection right?  That would be 100,000 pounds per million. So we can reckon with a 2011 budget of $4 billion, and 14,666 employees, to get from 2 pounds to 100,000 pounds per million, we need to bump this up 50,000 times.  OK.. so to get where we inspect 10% of the imports (and note this is only the imports, let alone domestic inspection), or in other words let 90% of our imported food slide by uninspected, we need a FDA budget of 200 Trillion dollars (with a T) and 733 million inspectors, that is twice the population of USA today.  Better open those borders, and hire illegal aliens, if we want to get serious about food safety.

Of course, every cook inspects every meal, so we need no FDA whatsoever.  The FDA is just the TSA groping dead animals.  Why do we pretend the FDA can enhance food safety when they cannot, why do pretend cooks cannot when they do?

The FDA is trying hard to be worse than the TSA, and I suppose which is worse depends on if you are sick or you travel.

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