The significance of Trump’s re-election is that, unlike the four years of the Biden administration, “one plus one will [not] equal three”. The Orwellian exception will be if RFK,Jr.’s nomination is passed by the Senate.
RFK, Jr.’s whole adult life has been spent taking short cuts to political relevance. Every stance he has taken on social, economic, and political issues is not only wrong for America but totally antithetic to the Trump agenda. If he becomes director of Health & Human Services will America react the same way they did under Fauci – rolling over on their backs in submission to unproven medicinal phobias and decades-old discredited health red herrings?
Anyone who thinks RFK, Jr. will provide a fair and balanced hearings before proclaiming his pogrom on the world’s breadbasket believes the proverbial leopard can change his spots. He has spent decades stumping on his selection of information regarding many social, economic and political subjects – and has been wrong on every single issue when actual objectively-tested and nonsubsidized science is allowed into the debate. How is he suddenly going to be correct as HHS Director?
Just because his last name is Kennedy doesn’t make him Gospel canon. Even his brother Jack’s “Camelot” presidency was a farce for anyone looking behind the fawning media. (see: A Dagger in the Heart by Mario Luzo, 1970; and Profiles in Courage – which JFK paid a ghost writer to stay quiet when JFK was awarded a Pulitzer for it. )
The truth is America is the best fed nation in the world. America feeds the world. The FDA isn’t always right but they are rarely wrong. They have a much better record of protecting the public from adulterated food than the FBI has of enforcing the law. The good that the FDA and American farmers have done for the health of this country apparently has fallen victim to consumers’ short-term memory loss and East Coast Madison Avenue and West Coast Hollywood liberal social propaganda.
The Food and Drug Administration is an HHS agency that regulates clinical investigations of products such as drugs, biological products and medical devices. It is the only national agency that does this.
The mission of the Department of Health and Human Services, on the other hand, reads like an example of obfuscation justifying patronage at the public expense. It is an unnecessary and grossly bloated federal bureaucracy. Its’ stated responsibilities should be relegated back to the states and save the taxpayers’ the cost of unnecessary overhead on a massive scale. Musk and Swami’s easiest task under DOGE will be just to review the organization chart of HHS and begin by eliminating the six “Assistant Secretaries” to the Secretary.
Agencies like HHS are Organizational Behavior consultants’ dream. I hope Musk and Swami avail themselves of this free expertise available on many university campuses.
Trump shouldn’t be nominating an HHS Director. He should be eliminating the Agency a la’ the Department of Education.
Does anyone see the fallacy and futility of a federal agency MAKING America Healthy Again without replicating Fauci’s COVID catastrophe? It sounds draconian on the face of it to anyone not suffering from Terminal Trump Euphoria.
Yes, Americans are getting fatter by the year. It has been happening for fifty years. The first social guilt trip was the organic food industry which studies show has little real health benefit over a normal balanced diet and the more educated a consumer is the less they believe the hype.
- “Consumers tend to favor organic food because they believe the advocates who claim it is safer and more nutritious to eat, but there is little or no scientific evidence to support these claims. Others buy organic food because they assume it comes from farms that are smaller, more traditional and more “diverse,” but this is not a safe assumption either. Most organic food on the market today comes from highly specialized, industrial-scale farms, not so different from those that produce conventional food. (Robert L. Paarlberg, Professor at Wellesley College and Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, The Harvard Gazette, Only Eat Organic? You’re paying too much, and it’s not worth it,” February 2, 2021.
- “It doesn’t usually pay to challenge popular beliefs, even with scientific evidence, but some have felt compelled to do so in the case of organic agriculture. Louise O. Fresco, agronomist, is the President of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, the world’s leading agricultural university. In her 2016 book “Hamburgers in Paradise,” she drew a harsh conclusion: ‘Organic farming as a whole is a mish-mash of valuable goals and ideals that have either been insufficiently tested or are completely misguided.’ – Ibid, from Professor Paarlberg’s book “Resetting the Table: Straight Talk about the Food We Grow and Eat, February 2, 2021; 368 pgs.
Despite the science to the contrary, the organic food industry sales in 2023 totaled $63.8 billion. When one reads Edward Bernays’ books Propaganda and Crystallizing Public Opinion it is easy to understand how advertising so easily affects mob psychology and the contradiction between the scientific Truth and human emotions.
Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again” catchy phrase appeals directly to those same innate emotional human needs. But, with RFK, Jr. playing food cop, it is reminiscent of the feckless effort at legislating morality during Prohibition – and will end up with the same end state after wasting billions more of taxpayer money.
Just as we don’t want the government in our bedrooms. We shouldn’t want the government in our kitchens or dining room. If we don’t like traffic cameras on our streets, we certainly don’t want them in our grocery stores, restaurants, or at the dinner table.
Trump bragged about letting RFK, Jr. “go wild” on food and vaccines at a celebrity dinner at Mar a Lago. With a proven zealot at the helm of HHS, our suspicions are not so Orwellian.
