[ModelBreaker]

Big picture here. FDA has failed. The solution is to give it more money and power. Just as giving the education establishment more money year after year has fixed the deficiencies in our education system.

[Zon]

If you want something done right -- competently and honestly -- don't ask the government to do it. 

The single most important purpose and responsibility of government is to protect the citizens and their property from the initiation of force from foreign and domestic sources. There's much room for improvement in the courts, police protection and national defense.

[lucysmom]

The solution is to give it more money and power. Just as giving the education establishment more money year after year has fixed the deficiencies in our education system.

I can't speak to the FDA, but I did work in the public school system - Through a series of budget cuts, I was doing by myself, the work that had been done 5 years earlier by 6 people. Fortunately the man who I reported to was very supportive when he got complaints about the time it took to get projects out.

[hedgetrimmer]

FDA has failed. The solution is to give it more money and power

Our politicians by approving GATT and NAFTA and the WTO are the failures. They have failed to protect the rights of citizens and our national sovereignty. Our federal institutions are not 'failing' per se, but are functioning on a model based on the concept of a nation state, where our politicians are operating on the premise that the nation state must be destroyed so that a global system (the falsely named "free trade", and international institutions) become supreme.