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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read the article and wasn't convinced it was a real problem. A dozen babies possibly died?

The FDA is a bureaucracy. They don't actually encourage manufacturing, they just put up barriers that increase manufacturing costs.[/quote]

You are missing the point. In this case, the government needs to subsidize the manufacturing of these nutrients. [b]And we need to pay taxes to make that possible[/b].[/quote]

Okay, and then you will have others, including DCUM readers, screaming "the government should not be in the business of manufacturing and subsidizing the drug industry.  the government should allow free enterprise to prevail".  [/quote]

Sure, there will be people who scream like that. Fortunately, there are also the more intelligent people who understand that certain things cannot be left to the free market, but need to be taken on by everyone together as a society. Because that is what government is: what we do together as a society. I know many people in this country don't understand this and see government as some extraneous entity that is somehow against them and their freedom.[/quote]

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