I haven't yet 'counted' the number of infringments of human rights existing in the USA under the Bush administration, but, it has to be a record setter.
DEREGULATION, budget cutting and downsizing government in vital areas of National Security is NOT an option.
In a country that is supposed to value 'health' and 'access' would find it more prudent to prevent disease than treat it. A country that has NO vested interest in the cost of health care would find it better to defer 'survival' to those that could find access and treatment through wealth while removing all safeguards in the way of government regulation. Dereglation 'at any cost' provides profit to companies that want to squeeze every cent or fraction there of out of their products.
What occurred in the eight years of the Bush Administration that actually facilitated a $14,000 DOW?
Planter: ‘It’s safe to eat peanuts’ (click here)
Mississippi man comes to Georgia to talk up the peanut, which is still suffering from the salmonella scare.
By Mark Davis
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Don Self has come from Hamilton, Miss., to Atlanta this weekend to spread the word: You need Arachis hypogaea.
That’s what scientists call that gooey stuff in the jar, the bag of edibles you get at the Braves games. We call them peanuts.
“We’re trying to let the public know that it’s safe to eat peanuts,” said Self, handing out free stuff at the Health & Fitness Expo on Friday at the Georgia Dome. The festival continues today....
Judge: Bush White House Wanted Right-to-Lifers on FDA's Contraception Panel (click title to entry - thank you)
By Jim Edwards
March 24th, 2009 @ 12:01 pm
A federal court ruling on Teva’s Plan B “morning after” contraceptive reveals how the Bush White House corrupted the internal operations of the FDA, encouraged decisions not based on science, and led to months-long delays in approvals process.
Judge Edward Korman’s ruling makes Plan B (pictured) available over-the-counter instead of behind-the-counter, ending a long and wasteful drama over Teva/Barr’s contraceptive.
The ruling describes in juicy detail how the Bush Administration twisted the FDA in knots in order to appease right-to-life constituents who were opposed to young women getting contraceptives. The office of the commissioner even proposed right-to-life campaigners be added to an advisory committee on Plan B.
The judge wrote that “These political considerations, delays, and implausible justifications for decision-making are not the only evidence of a lack of good faith and reasoned agency decision-making.”...
