Visiting the FDA on Friday, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had several “off -the-cuff” remarks which stunned many staffers present, according to a POLITICO report.
The outlet obtained a transcript and audio of the speech where Kennedy claimed, “The Deep State is real. And it’s not, you know, just George Soros and Bill Gates and a bunch of nefarious individuals sitting together in a room and plotting the, you know, the destruction of humanity.”
The speech only became worse as he claimed, “‘every institution that’s created by human beings’ is inevitably captured by powerful interests.” Kennedy later added that “We want to break away from this so we can make our kids healthy.”
“Kennedy last week called the culling of roughly 10,000 employees a necessary action, promising that HHS would find ways to ‘do more with less,'” the report noted.
Nothing terribly shocking reported, click-bait title. RFK sounds like a more or less normal, well-informed American. I hope he bans the covid vax, brings on medical freedom from all vaxxes and treatments, cleans up the food supply, and massively helps small organic farmers. I can see a USA where 10% of workers are engaged in small-medium size organic farming, producing great food, widely available. As other industries close due to new tech, quality agriculture will be able to provide a lot of jobs to replace ones lost. ABN
RFK said: “every institution that’s created by human beings’ is inevitably captured by powerful interests.” While this is true, there is a corollary that goes like this: “Concentrated power always and everywhere becomes corrupt.” The key word is “concentrated”.
FDA and CDC are concentrated power and because of their reach, they become a target for corruption by Pharma. When Pharma captures the FDA and CDC, they’ve got the whole country. How much more difficult would it be for Pharma to capture 50 FDA-like bureaucracies of each state? And even more difficult if only some states had their own FDA, but others had none! I would move there!
I believe this is one reason why US Founders wanted a small limited federal government where most of the powers of government would be held by state and local governments or by the people. They had seen how concentrated power in the form of the East India Company had corrupted Parliament, and they wanted to avoid such concentration of power in the new republic.
RFK believes that he can reform the FDA and CDC, get rid of the “bad apples”. I believe that is a quixotic endeavor. He may get rid of a few bad applies, may actually reform it for a time. But because concentrated power always and everywhere becomes corrupt, it will become corrupt again, and probably very soon.
The only solution is to completely dissolve the FDA and CDC (and all of the federal bureaucracies) and return the power they wield back to the state and local governments and to the people.
How could we have ever thought it would be a good idea to give power to a bunch of unelected career bureaucrats that lets them tell me what I can and cannot buy in my local drug store? We gave away our freedoms and created a Nanny state where our government treats us like children.
I believe power would concentrate again under almost all circumstances. It always has. The only thing that can stop it would be a power greater than those forming new power concentrations, but that power would have had to have arisen somehow, and it would be likewise subject to takeover by a concentration(s) of power within it. KOBK is basically the ultimate or bottom line game theory of power.