House Cuts FDA Budget by $285 Million!

Alliance for Natural Health ^ | June 21, 2011

[goodwithagun]

I'm earning my master's degree online through Nova Southeastern, a private university in Florida, and I can't say enough good things about the institution. My current prof is conservative! She was telling us last night that she saw a news report about the FCC warning us to check our telephone bills for unnecessary costs that the company might be slipping in. Well, I check my bill anyway, but she said, “Isn't that what the FCC is for?” She continued to say that if we start doing this and regulating the telephone companies, that pretty much makes the FCC obsolete. She has never said she is conservative, but it's comments like this that make it obvious.

[Sopater]

instead of cutting the budget, eleminate the FDA!

And if they can't eliminate the FDA, they could cut off all funding and they'll probably all just go home... ;-)

[goodwithagun]

Whether GM salmon is healthy or not is not up to the gubmint to decide. It is up to the consumer to decide to buy it or pass it up. This of course means that if people get sick from eating it, we get to punish the companies for selling us food that they claimed was not harmful. However, if it gets FDA approval and people get sick then it's just, “Sorry you guys, our bad!” As I stated in a previous post, if we lived in a capitalist country we could regulate our food ourselves. I prefer non-GM food, but that's just me. Whoever wants to eat GM food can be my guest. It's not my call to tell you what and what not to eat.

[zerosix]

Note to self:

Last but not least, it's NOT THEIR MONEY, IT"S OURS!

A good place to begin, would be their own salaries, healthcare, pension, franking, staff, cars phones, airline travel, then on to the Department of State, each dime to any country that votes against us in the U.N. and speaking of them, cut any and all money to support that anti-American bunch, to keep them in the U.S. one minute longer, now try cutting each and every dime that goes to support illegal aliens, to fund research, to support the "no child left behind," to support the school lunch (now breakfast, dinner, snacks before during and after each meal!)

Then, come to me and try to impress me; nope, no way am I going to be satisfied with mere crumbs from the table from these liars, cheats, womanizers, gay-loving, military-hating worthless slime.

[ichabod1]

Senate can restore it, but the House has already said NO. Senate can’t override the House.

[N. Theknow]

Thus “cut” is nothing more than cleaning one bug off the windshield of a semi tractor after one year of night driving in the South.

[Marty62]

Right the EPA has to go. AND EDU.

[kennedy]

Senate can restore it, but the House has already said NO. Senate can’t override the House.

That's why it will go to a House-Senate conference committee. The bill that comes out of the committee will then go back to the House and Senate for straight up or down majority votes (no filibusters on budget reconciliation bills).

That's how the last budget got passed with no real spending cuts.

[Cboldt]

-- How many minutes will it take the US to accumulate that much new debt at the rate the nation is borrowing? --

About 105 minutes. The US government spends about 3.92 billion more, per day, than it takes in, per day.