"3 TRILLION dollars PER drug applying for approval."
No.
While I agree with your sentiment, and that the FDA is coopted by Big Pharma into being little more than a marketing department for their drugs which needs to be abolished, it is physically impossible that $3T is spent on each new drug FDA approves.
Honestly, there isn't enough money in the world to do this for all the drugs the FDA has approved.
Please math better.
The FDA was created to defend US citizens from bad food and drugs. It no longer is capable of doing either, and hasn't for a long time, since it has been utterly corrupted by Big Pharma. Since it is a government agency it has a monopoly on defending Americans from bad drugs and food, and since it isn't doing that anymore because it's corrupt, Americans are being harmed by bad drugs and food. This is why it needs to be abolished.
Since we are free people who bear the responsibility of protecting themselves, we can do so by privately and collectively funding testing on drugs and food. When tests reveal that a drug or food product is harmful, we can pursue tort actions against the manufacturer(s). Since we are the consumers of drugs and food - the market for these products - who will be harmed by them, we CANNOT be bribed to accept them by Big Pharma.
Government rhetoric is dangerous, even fatal, when corruption is actual reality, and government doesn't do what it says it does.
We don't need it, because we can do it ourselves. We can't be corrupted, because we'll get the cancer (or whatever) from bad products, so allowing government to pretend to protect us IS THE ONLY WAY to harm us with bad products.
Freedom isn't safe, but it's safer than being slaves.
Thanks!
I stand corrected. This helps, thank you. Soon after commenting, I finally got around to listening to a recorded Georgia Legislature session where AKA chairman (American Kratom Assn.) stated figures I used to revise. Itś still second hand knowledge but reasonable to assume that he is within accurate range. Perfect timing.
I am happy to find another person that is seeking evidence necessary to inform their actions regarding given matters. Given the impact of food and drug industries, it's hard to better target such education.
Thanks!