The Chevron Doctrine
It’s Overturning is a Victory for the little guy!
I’ll start off by saying that I like clean water, I like clean food, I like safe medicine and safe air travel. But I promise you, none of these regulatory agencies are providing any of those things, and quite frankly they haven’t in the United States for a very long time.
Take OxyContin as an example. OxyContin has been described by chemists as being essentially heroin in a tablet that lasts 12 hours, if taken as directed. And the two chemical compounds are frankly very similar to one another.
But the company took zero precautions to make sure that the drug couldn’t be crushed or dissolved into liquid, and only when people started dropping dead from doing that the company, under pressure, reformulated it to make the drug unable to be crushed into a fine powder or dissolved into liquid. They even lied to doctors prescribing it for good measure, telling them it was “non addictive” to sell more of the drug.
And if you managed to watch the documentary “Painkiller” you would know how exactly a drug that dangerous got approved, without any safety precautions: the man approving the drug was bribed with a brand new, fancier job at the drug company if he simply approved the drug.
See there is nothing to stop someone at a regulatory agency from being bribed with more money and a better job if only they just do what these companies ask of them. There are zero non compete clauses.
People rotate routinely between the public and private sector, and in fact you can even file for “secondary employment forms” and work for both the private and the public sector at the same time! And each government agency has its own policy!
But when these regulatory agencies aren’t busy working hand in glove with the companies they supposedly are “watching” to make sure they don’t poison, maim, or hurt us, they sure are ready to stomp all over the little guy.
The government has no problem handing your house over to bats, it doesn’t matter that bat feces is incredibly dangerous and so are bats, but in Georgia they can essentially nest wherever they want!
And if that doesn’t sound terrible, just imagine that you run a family fishing business and you have to pay these agencies $700 a day, for the pleasure of them telling you what you can do with your own business.
Imagine if the police knocked on your door and said “We need money so you give us $100 right now!” The idea that any government bureaucrat felt that this was okay was absurd. But, see they have no problem stomping all over you.
But when Tyson wants to allow Salmonella and ecoli to run rampant in its chicken products, well the FDA is right there to approve of them doing whatever they want whenever they want. Salmonella causes 1.35 million infections per year, 26,500 hospitalizations and 420 deaths but Tyson makes great money.
I would give you a single source for the Tyson food companies recalls but a quick google search would tell you how many there have been.
Meanwhile the Boeing 737 max is the stuff of nightmares. It’s newer technology MCAS caused it to tilt downward and crash directly into the ground, and essentially would steal control from the pilot, which is terrifying. But it got FAA approval!
And if IKEA wants to sell dangerous furniture that tips and crushes small toddlers, killing five of them? Well that’s the parents fault you see, you have to mount your furniture! In fact I have seen zero public health campaigns about furniture tipping despite the fact that seventeen people are sent to the ER everyday due to tipping furniture!
It took a completely separate law being passed to finally get anyone to do anything about it!
Recalls happen after damage was already done, but what are these regulatory agencies doing to prevent damage from happening in the first place?
Meanwhile the only way I know to protect people is to tell as many people as I know not to buy anything from IKEA, Tyson, or be the first person to try any new drug on the market.
Why? Because these companies are allowed to do whatever they want, and we the citizens suffer the consequences, and pay our taxes for the pleasure of the mere veneer of safety.
And that’s all it is, a veneer. And that is why I support the Chevron doctrine being overturned. We must have Congress actually do its job to pass laws, and it is Congress that is held accountable by the voters, not these alphabet agencies.
The Chevron doctrine being overturned is the best thing that has happened for us, the little guy in a very long time. No more will these government bureaucrats continue to stomp all over their citizens while co-signing corporations.
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