Chemicals mixed with the wrong chemical can be deadly!

It seems that profit versus peoples health, has become the priority of our corporate owned government!

I wish that we could have more glass products again! This is one reason why I prefer cooking with my iron skillet and glass bake-ware.

Thanks Mark!

Belief in the infallibility of the free market has won out over conscience.

But the emasculation of regulatory agencies run by the executive branch began under Ronald Reagan. It's been a downhill slide since then, only completely falling off the cliff since W. took over.

To be absolutely clear: The policies of deregulation starting in the 1980s have definitely resulted in less effective government and less protection for citizens--but that shouldn't be used as an argument that governmental regulation can't be effective, or that an unfettered free market will solve all problems. Deregulation and defunding have destroyed the protections regulatory agencies provided quite well when they had the muscle.

Just when I thought it was safe to sniff that new car smell...

But, as you say, it is only as staffed (and sometimes de-staffed) and run by the Bush administration that these agencies fail in their jobs. I just wish the folks who rail against these agencies with legitimate and necessary functions would say "the Bush FDA." To criticize the generic "FDA" plays right into the right wing's anti-regulatory world view.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...

"When they attempted to report those issues to officials higher up the FAA chain of command, they were harassed, threatened and even punished, they said.

"They also said the FAA had gone from aggressively regulating airlines to treating them like customers or clients. Lawmakers and outside safety experts have expressed similar worries about regulators' coziness with the carriers."

maybe its a tie.