Here's the new poster boy for all that is wrong with Washington DC and the federal bureaucracy!!
The Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA should be a four letter word) , in all it's regulatory fervor has banned the sale of Primatene Mist Inhalers from your local drugstore, Walmart shelves!
Why you ask? Well hell, those little pump inhalers that help a couple of million asthma sufferers get through the day are powered by CFC's. That's what makes 'em mist! And our Feds and EPA signed on to some bigger international bureaucracy agreement called the Montreal Protocol and agreed to stop selling these earth killers.
Now keep in mind, that Mexico (to our South) and India (to our East) and other countries have no such bans and use CFC's by the ton for air conditioning units in houses and vehicles - as well as other uses. But do our civil servants in DC care.......... hell no!
The replacement inhalers for these old family friend Primatene Mist inhalers cost three times as much (still under patent, doncha' know) and can only be obtained by prescription. Meaning - pay a doctor a hundred bucks to write out that little piece of paper.
Lord luv a duck........ when are the good American folks gonna pick up the sticks and pitchforks and cross the DC beltway and straighten things out!!!
Do any of you chickens getting plucked out there doubt for even a minute, that any GS civil servant in that EPA building can't get all the inhalers they want for free right there in the tax payer provided, in house clinic? I don't!
When I am reincarnated, I hope it's as one of the chicken plucker class instead of the chickens!!
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