I agree, however, my "conservative-bashing" includes wolves-in-sheeps-clothing
like Henry Waxman, who never say a paternalistic law to control your behavior
because you're-too-stupid-to-do-it-yourself that he didn't champion.
Waxman's Answers
Drugs/steroids in sports! - Ban steroids from all uses.
Michael Jackson dies of painkillers. -Ban painkillers.
Vitamins compete with drugs, according to FDA in the federal register. -Make
vitamins into prescription-only items.
Yes, he's truly a control-your-life-conservative in liberal clothing.
Michael Mooney
www.michaelmooney.net
www.medibolics.com
--- In PozHealth@yahoogroups.com, Brian Mailman <bmailman@...> wrote:
>
> Michael wrote:
>
> > This scare on acetaminophen, based on my experience is complete
> > bullshit....
> >
> > Just another powergrab by conservative liars who want to control more
> > people's lives and control the use of painkillers and drugs, in
> > general.
>
> It's very popular these days to "conservative" bash (dog knows, I do my
> share of it as well), but I wish Political Science 101, or even 99.5 was
> taught more widely.
>
> It's actually the trad *liberal* position to centralize government in
> this fashion as well as expand its powers, expand the "nanny state," and
> mandate this kind of control in people's lives. The trad *conservative*
> position would be to make it all available, unregulated, and let people
> make their own choices, informed or less so.
>
> B/
>