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Subject: Dept of Education and FDA


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James
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Date Posted: 22:51:16 11/06/00 Mon
In reply to: Terry 's message, "Hmmm..." on 19:51:54 11/03/00 Fri
 Now where in the constitution does it say we need to have a federal dept of education? Ah hah! nowhere. And what Does the DE do exactly? All it is is a stupid bueacracy that issues crap-ass standardized tests for people across the nation. The tests are lame, and it just comes out to making more paperwork for us. The FEDs only make up about 6% of all money for schools in this country. 6% that is obviously made up in tests that don't tell us anything about the studants and damn annoying paperwork for parents teachers and studants.

Also they try to dictate to schools what needs to be taught. Well I think the idividual states and their departments are much better at determining what studants need to learn since they are dealing with a much smaller population and are more in touch with the real world. Let's face it ever since the federal gov. started butting in to education as much as it has been our students have become pretty dull. We used to be #1 in education now we're ranked pretty low for the last remaining super power. And when we were #1 the federal gov had very little to do with education. If we let the states run their own school like we should then the quality will go up because they won't be regulated by the Gov't.

The FDA, well Maybe we shouldn't get rid of it completely. But I should definatly say I woul want to reduce it's powers. Perhaps an FDA that only reports on what certain drugs do, and approve them as safe. However they should not ban other drugs from comming in. If people want to by non-FDA approved drugs then let them! Let the free market reign!

And if the drug companies make a killing then GOOD! because that means they'll be in business longer so they can provide for us quality drugs. THe FDA should not dictate to the people what we can and can't buy. If we wanrt a non-fda drug we should be allowed to get it. There are so many drugs out in europe and stuff that we can't get in America because of the stupid FDA. Well they should be allowed here whether FDA approved or not.

And if there is a problem with that then we can put a nice big stamp on them that says "FDA APPROVED" or "NOT APPROVED BY THE FDA" So people will know what they're getting into.
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now you're a wacko!Donny13:33:08 11/07/00 Tue
James... are you ON drugs?Terry07:55:30 11/08/00 Wed

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