Friday, September 24, 2010

Government regulation?


SEPTEMBER 24, 2010


I have read this before but I will not guarantee it is accurate

We've all seen statues of famous people who fought famous battles but most people don't know that if the person is featured on a horse, how the horse is positioned tells you a little history about the person. If the horse has both front hooves in the air the person was killed instantly in battle. If one leg is up the person died of wounds received in battle. But, if the horse has all four legs on the ground he was an important part of a famous battle but actually died a natural death.

Cows can be lead upstairs gut they will not go down stairs. The original formula resulted in Coca Cola being green.

It appears the President of Iran is a bigger waste of oxygen than I thought. He spoke at the U.N. yesterday and said something to the effect that everyone knows the United States of America perpetrated the 9/11 attacks to fix our faltering economy. It does not seem to matter to him we were in a pretty robust economic time period on September 11, 2001 at least until the attack or that the hijackers were not American citizens. Several U. N. delegates, including the United States and Great Britain got up and left the room he was speaking in during his speech in a rather sagacious display of “go to hell”. Way to go, folks.

I know murder is illegal. I also know our government has killed and attempted to kill world leaders throughout our history. Why do we have a CIA? Take this imbecile out. It would have been a perfect time while he was in New York City. I think we would survive a little bad press around the world. Hell, half the world hates us anyway. Let’s give them a real reason to hate us.

The U. S. government has finally acted on the drug Avandia, a drug for diabetes. I was prescribed Avandia by my doctor several years ago. Within months, I suffered congestive heart failure. After a week in the hospital, I decided to stop taking the drug, against my doctor’s advice. Five years later, I suffered a stroke. Congestive heart failure and stroke are known side effects of Avandia.

The drug was approved for treatment of type II diabetes in the early 2000s by the FDA. Almost immediately, the drug was getting terrible reviews, being linked to many side effects. The response of the FDA and the manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline was the disease it was treating was worse without the drug than with its use. The drug was approved in an expedited manner. The approval process took less time than the post-approval drug investigation that resulted in its restricted use. Europe banned the drug’s use entirely.

It is obvious the government does not know how to regulate drug and food use and manufacture, the purpose for the FDA to exist. In the last decade, many drugs have been banned or severely restricted after the FDA approved them.

Remember Fen-Phen, for obesity treatment. VIOXX, for arthritis pain. Baycol, for high cholesterol. Bextra, for arthritis. This is just a sample of banned drugs. We also have the food regulation part of this agency. Remember spinach a year or two ago. Eggs this year, Taco Bell tomatoes a few years ago. Numerous meat recalls. The FDA did nothing to stop any of these problems. It did not prevent them. It only got involved after the free market system responded to a problem.

The FDA is sure to reinvent the food pyramid and force restaurants to post calories and other nutritional information. At least we will know how many calories are in the food product we are eating that kills us.

Abraham Lincoln was shot on a Friday, in the head, by a man in a theater who was captured in a warehouse. John F. Kennedy was shot on a Friday, in the head, by a man in a warehouse who was captured in a theater.      

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Have a great weekend.


BRUCE A. BRENNAN




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