Posted on 10/23/2014 10:30:43 AM PDT by Prophet2520
This is National Teen Driver Safety Week, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hopes its “Parents are Key” campaign will help parents encourage safe driving habits.
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Better contact the EPA and your state water resources board as well since your rain gutters are “waterways”. /s
“Prophet2520 since August 20, 2014”
BTW I have been around here for years longer than that, but was away for awhile, and forgot my former ID and login.
So while the CDC focuses on teen driving, Ebola snuck right on in. IF they stuck to their jobs, they might have a clue.
What is your opinion of the CDC involving itself in gun control issues.
In response to your defense of the CDC:
If the only aspect of the CDC mission creep was $100 spent on warning teen age drivers to be cautious it wouldn’t be worth the time to comment.
But the truth is that they are involved in many issues that have nothing to do with disease and are spending a great deal of money on them.
Just do a searh on “cdc programs waste money”.
The pure craziness of many of their activities and the taxpayer money wasted on some of their programs is astounding.
But they are no different in the expansion of their authority through “mission creep” than the president and every other federal agency.
The minute they have a letterhead and logo they start to build empires and expand the scope of their operations.
Always use the published title.
Thanks.
Technically the CDC did not involve itself in gun control. They did some studies which were no doubt ordered from higher ups with political motivation, and the RESULTS of the studies were absolutely used by others to try and argue against our right to bear arms.
Accidental shooting at 14,00-19,000 PER YEAR, is a significant problem. Should the CDC be involved. No way. If they were to be involved it should be as a partner to the NRA, police forces and anyone else willing to give firearms training. But it would be better to have them out of it completely.
Good arguments can be made for completely getting rid of OSHA, CDC, DOE, and much more at the federal level. Unfortunately, industry, the courts and individuals are so corrupt and so self-centered that they will engage in a great many things to the harm of others, and never have to suffer consequences.
Having government agencies to provide regulations and guidelines stifles business, consumes taxpayer dollars, and at the same time often saves lives and problems. Unfortunately society has become so corrupt it is a no win scenario. Pull all regulations and we become like China shipping melanine in food and salmonella and other food problems rampant. Medical devices that are unreliable etc.
Keep the agencies, and business is stifled, your spending wealth is diminished, and government just keeps growing.
The far right often likes to act like EVERYTHING the government does is evil and there is NEVER any benefit from the government. This is far from true. But given the choice between the two options, I say send them home. But the liberal judiciary needs to go home with them.
How about we follow the Constitution (original Founders’ intent) vis-a-vis congressional, executive and judicial powers?
Truth be told, I have no problem with having an agency such as the CDC, as long as they are limited to to identifying and dealing with security and health issues associated with communicable diseases. I think such an agency, limited in such a way, fits well within the bounds of “provide[ing] for the General Welfare”.
Why is the CDC spending 1 second and 1 dime on this?
Then they involved themselves in gun control. An honorable agency head would have resigned rather than agreeing to abusing his agency's power and deviate from its constitutional mission.
...deviating from its constitutional mission.
I hate it when I do that.
“But that doesn’t mean that everything they do is evil or incompetent, as most freepers seem to suggest.”
Evil isn’t an act it is an attitude.
“BTW I have been around here for years longer than that, but was away for awhile, and forgot my former ID and login.
That is what all trolls say who have multiple accounts. I smell ozone.”
Of course you are free to suggest I am a liar with no evidence, but that reflects poorly on you not on me.
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