An item from the Associated Press says it all:
"A North Carolina syringe factory linked to hundreds of sicknesses and five deaths operated for almost two years without an inspection despite a series of complaints that its needles were dirty or filled with colored particles.
"Court documents in the North Carolina case show the U.S. Food and Drug Administration only inspected the AM2PAT Inc. plant in December 2007 after an outbreak of illness was reported.
"Federal investigators contend that the company shipped syringes filled with saline and the blood-thinner heparin from a dingy facility without ensuring they were sterile.
"Authorities are now searching for the Chicago-based company's Chief Executive Dushyant Patel, who was indicted last week. They believe he fled to his native India. Prosecutors don't know if Mr. Patel still has an attorney.
"An FDA spokesman didn't have an immediate explanation for why the facility wasn't inspected for so long. But inspections at AM2PAT were frequent by FDA standards."
So whether it's highway speeders or derivatives traders or air-traffic controllers, "starve-the-beast" small government is best, especially when it comes to law-enforcement. That is, until we realize how much it costs us.
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