Why I would eliminate the FDA - An example on how the Government can kill you

Time and time again I have professed my solemn belief that certain government agencies can be abolished wholesale for the simple reason that they are counter productive and a waste of taxpayer money. The many people I have shared my beliefs with could not even fathom how I could hold such philosophies. Government agencies are apparently 'necessary' and without them we'd 'die.'

One particular agency I would wholeheartedly abolish outright without any remorse whatsoever is the FDA.

"Are you nuts???"

No, I'm not. Time and time again I've come across articles which are solid proof on how the FDA's very existence can kill you.

As many of you know, the FDA has set up an elaborate process in order to obtain approval for a drug. Typically, only large drug companies with vast resources are able to afford to undertake such a process. In addition, the FDA seems to hold favoritism to more well known drug CO's, thus interfering with the free market. If a new drug threatens the market share of an existing drug company of it's market share, dimes to donuts you can bet your rear end that they will try to lobby, and do whatever they can to squash the innovation of such companies.

Not many people understand the power of the free market, they fear that it will just go completely "out of control" and that greed will drive everything to the detriment of mankind. In the short term, yes - there may be abuses. But long term, the free market corrects whatever problem exists and fills in the void Government left. Companies are focused on their long term sustainability, and therefore, would not take temporary short cuts for temporary gain. On the contrary, the Government's involvement usually is the one to encourage this through legislation or regulation of some sort. As is the case with the current "credit crisis" and abuses in the mortgage market - of course, when you take the power away from the market to regulate its own interest rates and underlying value of the currency, this debacle is the result.

I came across the following article: Family Sues to Get Experimental Drug

The article is about a family who has a son with a fatal form of Muscular Dystrophy. The bottom line is, the boy is going to die left alone. Only one drug is available to combat his illness, however, the drug company is refusing to provide the family with access to the drug. Why? Because it will interfere with the FDA's process to certify the drug. This is the boy's last hope to survive, but the Government has written his death certificate.

The Food and Drug Administration has agreed to fast-track PTC124, but a best-case scenario would be approval in 2011, Finkel said.

By the time the FDA gets around to giving approval to this drug, many people will have died. The family physician is more then willing to administer the drug, but the Government stands flat in their face.

It's time for Americans to wake up, and take back from the Government the liberties which were entrusted to us by the founders of this country, and the Constitution of the United States. The decision to chose our own fate should rest in our own hands, and our hands alone.