graceadieu
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ORIGINAL: tj444
Your food is safe to eat? really? the fact that various chemicals (over 200 of them) can be hidden in the ingredient list as "spices", the fact that Monsanto almost was exempted from the law & have influence to get preferential treatment.. did you miss the Monsanto Protection Act?
Our food is a lot safer to eat than it was before the FDA. Look at China, where they don't have the kind of controls that the FDA puts in place, and the constant reports of tainted formula and milk and so forth that kill hundreds of people. Or a lot of third-world countries where you have to drink bottled water and have a good chance of getting food poisoning if you eat uncooked produce.
The FDA can't prevent everything (especially with the limited funding they get), but when something is proven to be harmful (and GMO has not been proven to be harmful to the consumer, only to the farmer that gets fucked over by Monsanto), it's pulled. When people get sick from eating food tainted with e. coli, for example, the FDA does a very good job tracking down the source and dealing with it.
And having the FDA means that drug companies can't sell you stuff like radioactive water or heroin as medicine, like they used to in this country.
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Social Security is also not what promised cuz of govt mismanagement
Social Security has (so far) been very successful at fulfilling it's promise of reducing poverty among the elderly, widowed and disabled.
The problem with social security is that people are living longer and having less children. It used to be that people usually only lived past retirement age for a few years, if at all, and workers hugely outnumbered retirees. Now, the huge baby boomer generation is retiring and is expected to live for decades more, and they only had like 2.5 kids each, so the ratio of workers:retirees is much smaller.
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rules are gonna be changed to short-change those retiring & dump much of the burden on the kids of today
Because people are living longer and having less children, the current SS payroll tax is soon not going to bring in enough revenue to cover the level of benefits that were promised after the current retirement age. So yes, in order to make sure that Social Security is sustainable and that workers today will get anything when they retire, the government has some hard choices to make: raise payroll taxes, raise the retirement age, and/or cut benefits.
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changes to retirement plans
Which has nothing to do with the government.
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If you think the govt is doing a good job, well, did you miss the shutdown?
Do you forget how crappy it was to have even a little less government services for a mere two weeks? That should give you a hint as to how much the federal government does for us.
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did you miss the 2007 depression (which the US is still struggling with)?
Sure. I remember the recession that happened because the GOP cut government regulation of the financial sector. Yeah, those rules were "burdensome" to the banks and seemed pointless to them - because it kept them from fucking us all over to make a few bucks.
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did you miss the NSA spying?
The NSA is unethical, without a doubt. But they are clearly extremely competent at spying on people.
< Message edited by graceadieu -- 10/31/2013 10:24:03 AM >
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