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Old 26th Mar 2009, 21:13
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Gomer Pylot
 
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SASless, nevermind the Doritos, how about peanut butter? Due to the rush to limit government over the past 8 years, inspection of all sorts of food products has been dispensed with, as being too costly to the companies being inspected, and to the government paying the inspectors. That has resulted in many deaths from contaminated food products, which everyone assumed was safe because the government was supposed to be inspecting them. Limit the government too much, and people die. The FAA has been limited as much as any other department, but has always used its power arbitrarily, as shown by the Bob Hoover fiasco. Without continuous Congressional oversight, we will never have adequate safety regulation or enforcement. What we have is the golden rule - those who have the gold get to make the rules, and the rest of us have no say in anything.
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