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Re: Obama Administration Set to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns 

By: monkeytrots in CONSTITUTION | Recommend this post (1)
Tue, 27 Sep 11 8:19 PM | 96 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Constitutional Corner 		Msg. 15374 of 21975
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Regulation as law - bypassing the U.S. Constitution - impeachable.

There IS however that nasty little oversight clause (or, due to America's tiny size at the time, a necessary concession to continued existence ) about 'treaties' taking priority and usurping the 'rule of law' as laid out in the Constitution.

Of course, 99% of these so-called international agreements have NOT been in the form of Constitutionally ratified treaties. The Panama Canal 'non-treaty' is one very obvious example of this illegality from the non-guardians in office.




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Obama Administration Set to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns
By: lkorrow in CONSTITUTION
Tue, 27 Sep 11 8:00 PM 		Msg. 15372 of 21975

Obama Administration Set to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns

3:00 PM, SEP 23, 2011 • BY MARK HEMINGWAY

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-administration-ban-asthma-inhalers-over-environmental-concerns_594113.html

Remember how Obama recently waived new ozone regulations at the EPA because they were too costly? Well, it seems that the Obama administration would rather make people with Asthma cough up money than let them make a surely inconsequential contribution to depleting the ozone layer:

Asthma patients who rely on over-the-counter inhalers will need to switch to prescription-only alternatives as part of the federal government's latest attempt to protect the Earth's atmosphere.

The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday patients who use the epinephrine inhalers to treat mild asthma will need to switch by Dec. 31 to other types that do not contain chlorofluorocarbons, an aerosol substance once found in a variety of spray products.

The action is part of an agreement signed by the U.S. and other nations to stop using substances that deplete the ozone layer, a region in the atmosphere that helps block harmful ultraviolet rays from the Sun.

But the switch to a greener inhaler will cost consumers more. Epinephrine inhalers are available via online retailers for around $20, whereas the alternatives, which contain the drug albuterol, range from $30 to $60.

The Atlantic's Megan McArdle, an asthma sufferer, noted a while back that when consumers are forced to use environmentally friendly products they are almost always worse:

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