I Love Paul Krugman

IF George Bush read anything, I like to fantasize that he opens the NY Times and is face to face with Paul Krugman's column. I bet big money it was one of his columns rather than a basketball game that made Bush choke.

Krugman calls it great this week in his column titled "Fear of Eating" -- his conclusions on the cause for the FDA failures:

This isn’t simply a matter of caving in to industry pressure. The Bush administration won’t issue food safety regulations even when the private sector wants them. The president of the United Fresh Produce Association says that the industry’s problems “can’t be solved without strong mandatory federal regulations”: without such regulations, scrupulous growers and processors risk being undercut by competitors more willing to cut corners on food safety. Yet the administration refuses to do more than issue nonbinding guidelines.

Why would the administration refuse to regulate an industry that actually wants to be regulated? Officials may fear that they would create a precedent for public-interest regulation of other industries. But they are also influenced by an ideology that says business should never be regulated, no matter what.

I love that guy! Sigh . . .