I should have mentioned you’d be cutting back or eliminating USDA because by definition food is agriculture.

Wouldnt it be better to look at those things before spending a lot of additional money to create a separate agency?

Because right now, conflict of interest in the FDA is a huge issue in drug testing. On top of the fact that they are also responsible for testing medical devices, new biologicals, approving testing, etc. takes away from food duties. This on top of a situation in USDA where budgets have not met growth (they simply don’t have enough inspectors) and combined with 10 years of food lobby effort aimed at removing regulation and you get a situation like you have today where known contaminated peanut butter was distributed. By separating the food and drug duties, you make the underlying job simpler. Simpler is alway better. Complexity breeds error. By dividing the duties into discrete areas, you can isolate and remove inefficiencies better than in a dual purpose system that by it’s nature can conflict with it’s goals of BOTH food and drug safety. For that reason, there should also be a Water Safety Agency, because the EPA is doing a crap job with that. Let them regulate industry, but clean water should be the priority, have it’s own agency, enforcement powers and agenda aimed at the common good of maintaining potable water. Being able to drink is far more important than ANYONE’S pocketbook. But I digress, when you split the duties of the agencies into discrete units you also gain the operation efficiency of having an easier to define goal. That usually pays off in hard ways to imagine, often hard to quantify, but a clean, clear and coherent mission statement makes any job easier.

why not just put it under one roof and not create another agency?
That would seem the more efficient thing to do.

Submitted for your consideration:

I heard someone, I didn’t catch his name but he was an Obama appointee talking about possible restructuring of various departments within government to improve efficiency on NPR with Neil Conan. The part of the interview I caught mentioned possibly splitting FDA and USDA joint duties for food safety to create a separate Drug Administration and a Food Safety Administration. While I love this idea for many reasons, I haven’t seen a lot about the nuts and bolts ideas on this kind of practical work that needs to be done in the MSM and the alternative media is just as sketchy so far. I was wondering if you, or any of the regulars, had any more good info on these kinds of proposed changes to the way government delivers services? I’m hoping I can find the link for the rest of that interview after dinner, but so far no luck. Probably not posted yet. Thanks.

Per ABC News tonight: Tommy Daschle, the ETHANOL MILLIONAIRE LOBBYIST KING, fessed up to cheating the IRS of over $100,000 since just 2005! Democrats are having an emergency meeting on Monday to figure out what to do with the SECOND TAX CHEAT that Obama wants to give a Cabinet position to!

HOOOOOOOO-YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Question: Why do apparently all liberals cheat on taxes? Maybe we need to set up audits of every liberal in America!

“Global you cast pearls before swine.”

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Even the biggest bore knows not to insult his host. Why don’t you little boys run along now, and resume your insect torture, er discomforting, among your merry band of hooded followers.

In November 2007 Barack Obama told his supporters in a speech just played on MSNBC that he would employ “ZERO” lobbyists in his White House.

He now has 8 lobbyists employed in his White House – and this report is courtesy of non other than MSNBC – the network fast getting tired of Barack Obama ruining its market share.

Mr. Turley, just WHEN are you going to start challenging these mistakes Mr. Obama is making almost daily? Or is the pittance you get for appearing on Olbermann and Maddow’s show worth corrupting the values virtually all parents wish to instill in their children – by chance maybe even you.

He now has 8 lobbyists employed in his White House – and this report is courtesy of non other than MSNBC – the network fast getting tired of Barack Obama ruining its market share.

Mr. Turley, just WHEN are you going to start challenging these mistakes Mr. Obama is making almost daily? Or is the pittance you get for appearing on Olbermann and Maddow’s show worth corrupting the values virtually all parents wish to instill in their children – by chance maybe even you.

Felony murder is felony murder. You takes the victims as they come, heart condition or not.

what if the woman had a really bad heart and she could have died anyway say at the sound of thunder or some other thing that frightened her. His intent was not to kill her does he have some mitigating circumstance? or is he as Buddha says looking at long hard stretch with green bologna?

Check out the Felony-Murder Rule and it’s little cousin the Misdemeanor-Manslaughter Rule on Google.