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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just a note from a citizen in the real world who pays your salaries in the form of my (hard-earned, private sector derived) tax dollars:

Half of you would never be missed.[/quote]

Just a note from the world that ensures your food isn't contaminated, the flu doesn't kill you, and clean water flows into your home and private sector business: [i]federal employees pay taxes, too.[/i]

If you want to rely on a profit-driven sector for all these basic necessities, you may be surprised by what you would miss.[/quote]

Don't mean to bash the feds, but e coli kills dozens every year, the flu kills thousands  and the Flint water crisis wasn't caught by the federal watchdogs either. Try again.[/quote]

The numbers killed by e coli and the flu would be exponentially higher without the feds the you don't mean to bash, but you'd never know the number without the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  But lets randomly cut some regulations on food production and let Pharma set prices for flu vaccines and see how we fare.

By the way, the Flint water crisis went unreported because Michigan's governor, a business man who sought to use public funds for a private venture, stifled the state EPA and any other government employee who had something to say about it.  It would have cost Flint about $1000 a year to add a simple agent, orthophosphate, to the water to prevent lead and copper from leaching off the pipes.  But maybe business people don't know about that kind of thing. http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i7/Lead-Ended-Flints-Tap-Water.html%20
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No they wouldn't be exponentially higher.  The government can't possibly inspect the entire food supply or even a fraction of it.  They just make you think they do. Businesses like Chipotle and Walmart know they can be sued and possibly put of of business if they allow tainted food to be sold.  One of the biggest ground beef processors was put out of business a few years ago due to an ecoli outbreak.  The food inspectors didn't prevent it or catch it until it was too late.  Food processors and sellers, and their insurers police themselves for the most part. They are their own watchdogs due to self-preservation. The CDC just investigates and tallies up the figures when screw-ups happen. Private lawyers and insurers serve the same function. Same with flu vaccines. The flu vaccine last your largely didn't work.  Oops, but no consequences   The Flint comment is also an example of the government pretending to protect water safety when all they actually do is respond after the fact.  Flint and Michigan would have figured this out this on their own.[/quote]

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