OT Yep, what we need is another agency

On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 02:14:05 GMT, "Daniel-San"
(Rot13) wrote:


"Steve" wrote ...
Epidemiologists also warned consumers last week to stay away from some
bottled carrot juice after a Florida woman was paralyzed and three
people in Georgia experienced respiratory failure, apparently due to
botulism poisoning.

Also on Friday, an Iowa company announced that it was recalling 5,200
pounds of ground beef suspected of having E. coli. The government said
no illnesses have been reported from consumption of the beef.

The outbreaks have sparked demands to create a new federal agency in
charge of food safety. Sens. Charles Schumer and
Hillary Rodham Clinton, both New York Democrats, are sponsoring
legislation authored by Sen. Richard Durbin D-Ill., to create the
unified Food Safety Agency.

"This recent outbreak must be a wake-up call to get our food safety
house in order, because right now it's in pure disarray," Schumer said
at his Manhattan office. "We need to have one agency take charge to
ensure the next outbreak isn't far worse."

What they are calling for, and what is described in your own post, is a
single agency that will be responsible for food safety.

Naw, what they are doing is trying to find anything at all to get in
front of the camera and microphones...anyhoo...

Have a look at
http://www.foodsafety.gov/~fsg/fsggov.html for a list of the myriad agencies
currently in "control" of food safety in this country. So, contrary to what
your post's subject line indicates, this would *reduce* the number of
agencies involved at the federal level from approximately 15 to one.

Oh, you poor naive child...let's look at some other, past, um
"reductions" or other instruments of governmental efficiency...

You had the FSLIC, but things got FU'ed, so it was replaced by RTC,
whose sole job was to put itself out of business, but instead, it
transformed into the SAIF, and made a part of FDIC...

FEMA, which was once generally its own thang, was folded. along with all
sorts of other stuff, into the DHS, where instead of doing a fair job
while only wasting millions, it became a bog of bureaucracy, where it
could do nothing, all the while wasting billions...(and no, Bush and his
administration is not to blame, but neither are Dems)

And one of the biggies...ladies and gentlemen, children or all ages,
Dingaling brothers and P.T. Barnum are proud to present the one, the
only...drum roll, please....TA-DA!!!! The Social Security Act, ch. 531,
49 Stat. 620, 1935, supposedly meant to prevent the truly elderly, the
truly disabled, children, and a few others from starving during the
depression...now, 62-year-old retired millionaires and "disabled" folks
cash SS checks on their way to the golf and tennis club...and best of
all, this safety net does all of this wonderful stuff and only needs
some 65,000 employees to do it...

By-the-by, in its first year, 1936, $250,000USD was the admin
budget...run that through a historic or relative value calculation...

Here's a pop quiz...don't panic, it's easy...

Question 1. List all the involuntarily unemployed bureaucrats that you
know.

See, wasn't that easy?

HTH,
R