Conflict of Interest? Paying for Regulatory Inspections

[Loki]

That bit from politico was stupid. All it means is that President Obama doesn't know which department of the government might deal with these vaguely defined regulations that may or may not exist. Once you call the wrong organization, it's not surprising you'll get a runaround. If I call the FDA to find out something about my prescription drug coverage because, well, they're the Food and Drug Administration, why would I expect they'd know precisely who to direct me to? So, Obama was wrong, but that doesn't really seem to be an indictment of the USDA or anything else.

I know lots of people who deal with the housing agency here, and you won't believe how incompetent (or more likely, lazy) they are. People have been waiting 3 years to get a simple piece of paper. Documents are lost repeatedly. Things are entered into a computer by one person and don't appear in another person's computer. People who go to the agency themselves are treated like sub-humans. Frankly, the Soviet Union wasn't particularly worse than some of our agencies.