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Change government. Of course government can be bad. It can also be good. If light bulbs started exploding and causing harm government agencies would step in

Change government. Of course government can be bad. It can also be good. If light bulbs started exploding and causing harm government agencies would step in and investigate. Legislation may then have to be passed to prevent the issue from re-occurring. Sometimes industry acts without government intervention and government intervention isn't necessary. Government is, in such cases, the regulator of last resort. FDA does screw up big time. It's what happens when their efforts at enforcement are hampered. It's what happens when regulatory capture occurs. It's an example of the necessity for a functioning government that looks after the interests of society.

dnautics 16y ago
Good luck. Bureaucrats are unelected. For example, exactly what has changed at the USDA since the E Coli outbreak? Government isn't 'the regulator of last resort'. In this case, it's suppressing the ability for private monitoring agencies to come into play. Except for a few corner cases, I think it would be incredibly difficult to create a competing, private monitoring agency. Why? Because government regulatory agencies are privy to the money spigot. They can print their own money. And the notion that there will be zero tolerance for regulatory failure is absurd. It's going to happen. Private or not. Here's the difference. If there's a scandal in a private monitoring agency, then there's a good chance that word will spread and nobody will trust it anymore. And someone else will step in. Look man, government can get away with slapping a gps device on a kid car just because he's egyptian - a blatant violation of the rules that it itself wrote. Even after that, nobody is calling for the FBI to be disbanded.