Re: The Indisepensable IMF

[Carl Remick <carlremick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> The New York Times
> May 15, 1998, Friday, Late Edition - Final
> The Indispensable I.M.F.
>
> By Paul Krugman,  CAMBRIDGE, Mass.;  Paul Krugman is a professor of
> economics at M.I.T.
>
> ... the International Monetary Fund is all that we have, and it is a lot
> better than nothing at all....

[A current piece by Krugman in the NY Review of Books offers the nugget
below.  Ah, all the wonderful things Clinton had planned for the nation if
he hadn't been so cruelly denied a third term in office!  I can only assume
the executive order for implementing the food-safety regulations mentioned
here was in the Clinton's in-box ... right after Marc Rich's pardon ... when
the clock ran out on his Administration.]

Review

Strictly Business

By Paul Krugman

... Bill Clinton, with his close ties to the Arkansas chicken industry,
wasn't particularly good on food safety issues in the early years of his
presidency. But by the end his officials had devised and were on the verge
of implementing regulations that would have greatly reduced the risk of
Listeria infections from such foods as ready-to-eat turkey. The Bush
administration killed those regulations ...

<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16790>

[BTW, here's some background info from a foodservice industry trade
publication, Restaurants and Institutions (3/15/01):]

Bush Receives Clinton's Last Word on Food Safety
Final report of Council on Food Safety offers specific goals and how to
reach them.

By Deborah Silver R&I SENIOR EDITOR

Former President Clinton left the Bush administration a final parting gift:
a report, seven years in the making, which spells out a plan for food safety
and ways to achieve it.

Taking the form of a five-year plan, the President's Council on Food
Safety's report focuses on a number of objectives, including risk assessment
and management, research needs, legislative actions, and the role of private
enterprise, with the overriding goal being a 25% reduction of foodborne
illnesses by yearend 2005....

<http://www.rimag.com/601/Ops.htm>

Carl

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