Marler Blog - Food Safety in the Bush and Obama years - Has there been real change? - Comments http://www.marlerblog.com/ Food Poisoning Lawyer & Attorney : Bill Marler : Marler Clark en Copyright 2012 Wed, 16 May 2012 04:21:09 -0800 Wed, 16 May 2012 04:21:09 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mary Unfortunately, it is much easier to not enforce regulations, to cut budgets and staff, and to create and foster a laissez-faire culture at government agencies than it is to turn those things around. President Obama inherited an absolute mess, and not all of it was created during the Bush presidency. While I would love for food safety to be a higher priority than it is, rightly or wrongly, the economy is going to take precedence over everything else right now.

Factor in that many of the people who joined the federal government during the Bush years did not really believe in enforcement of regulations or their agency's mission are still working at those agencies; that many good, experienced people quit or retired early during the Bush years; and that anything President Obama does is derided as "socialist," "fascist," etc., and I think that real change is going to be slow.

]]> http://www.marlerblog.com/lawyer-oped/food-safety-in-the-bush-and-obama-years---has-there-been-real-change/#9983 http://www.marlerblog.com/lawyer-oped/food-safety-in-the-bush-and-obama-years---has-there-been-real-change/#9983 Lawyer Op-Ed Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:50:41 -0800 bmarler@marlerclark.com (Bill Marler)