Many people believe that Uncle Sam is looking out for their best interests, safety, health, etc. all of the time. Good luck. Yet those in power always praise the agency and those involved with/in charge of it, no matter how awful the response to a problem that the agency should have been on top of. "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job!" and the current federal "healthcare.gov" websites are fine examples. Brownie's agency (FEMA) got massive budget increases and power/authority increases after he left, and HHS will get big financial increases and add more employees because/in spite of their major fudge-up.
Government agencies have zero, repeat zero incentive to be nearly faultless at what they do. If they did, the flow of money into those agencies would be capped/tied to inflation or even cut back, and they couldn't raise heck after the fact to make it look like without them things like this would increase ten thousand fold. 33 people died. FDA'll claim they were understaffed and propose a bunch of new rules. They'll get some extra money and add extra "agents" next year.
Alot of government agencies have gone from agencies devoted to responding to a problem and trying to educate those involved and the public so that problem doesn't happen again to wishfully thinking they can prevent any potential problem all of the time. They soon will try to prevent any theory of any potential problem or any fantastical thoughts anyone might ever have of someone/something ever possibly possessing the potential of causing a problem. EPA is to that point already.
My sympathies to the families of the deceased.
AG
This post was edited by AG in IN at 08:43:34 10/23/13 2 times.
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