There was a time when "FDA Approved" was a vote of credibility. We could purchase a product and feel safe because the government watchdogs had checked it out thoroughly before allowing it to be sold.

There was a time when "FDA Approved" was a vote of credibility. We could purchase a product and feel safe because the government watchdogs had checked it out thoroughly before allowing it to be sold.

Now, "FDA Approved" means "The company that produced this product has enough money and clout to allow it to be sold."

Many people rely on the FDA as a source of knowledge and safety. Their recommendations mean something to folks who feel as though someone is watching out for them and that in America if something was bad, the government wouldn't allow it to be sold. They believe that the drugs are tested and approved for our benefit and that the manufacturers of Big Pharma are at the mercy of the fierce protectors who are advocating for the people.

Unfortunately, it couldn't be further from the truth.  This is all part of the giant marketing deception perpetrated on a trusting public.

Some people are so snowed by what the FDA does that they want it to be even more powerful. There is actually an "alliance for a stronger FDA" whose mission reads like a diary entry from a hostage with Stockholm Syndrome.

With responsibility for products that comprise more than 20% of all national consumer spending, theU.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) oversees aspects of several industries that are key to our nation's growth and prosperity.

A science-based, predictable, and efficient FDA helps these industries — including the food, drug, medical device, and cosmetics industries — to innovate and to create high-paying jobs here in America while improving our balance of trade.

The Alliance for a Stronger FDA works to ensure annual appropriations that will adequately fund the FDA's essential missions, and we believe that the American people expect this too. There is no backstop, no other agency, that performs this critical work.

The federal government gives the FDA about $8 per year for each American (an "appropriation" of $2.561 billion for FY 2014). Nowhere else in the federal budget does so little money need to go so far. The FDA has just 10,000 employees to monitor food safety, review the safety and efficacy of medical products, assure the safe use of those medical products, and protect the American people, their pets, and their farm animals from poorly made, counterfeit, and illegal food, drugs, and cosmetics.

Recent research on a variety of topics has led me to note some astonishing facts about the GMO Food and DrugPushers Administration. Like a bad penny, it seems whatever topic I'm looking into, the FDA keeps turning up. The FDA has a central role in the increasing tyranny in the United States and we, as taxpayers, are funding them to do this. Be warned, you aren't going to like what you read below, but unless you are mired in intractable cognitive dissonance, you're going to see a pattern of abuse and deception.