Do State And Federal Inspectors Actually Work?

In the city I live in there is a restaurant where the bathroom is really gross! No one ever hardly goes in and dines in the restaurant it sits empty all day except for a tiny lunch crowd. They sell mostly take-out and delivery and without that they would have no business at all. If you walk into the bathroom the smell of urine nearly knocks you out... Yet this business stays open despite years of this bathroom never being sanitized. I pity the unsuspecting parents who send their children there to use the bathroom. Why do we have health inspectors if this is allowed to happen?

Then there is Gordon Ramsay, have you ever seen the gross crap he has uncovered in any of his "Kitchen Nightmares" shows?

This may be entertaining and get good ratings but the stark reality is that each and every case he uncovers is revealing that lack of health inspection. Not that we don't have health regulations but someone is not regulating health despite it being their job to do so!

This is a widespread problem because Ramsay finds these egregious health violations all over the country!

What it up with this?!!

How do we regulate the regulators?

There should be a one strike you are out rule! Any verified public complaint should mean someone gets fired in the state and federal level. These inspectors are trained to know what they are supposed to know.

There should also be criminal charges.

Each Gordon Ramsay show should mean someone should be fired on the state and/or federal level.

I am not a regulation promoting democrat only to see the chain of command broken before it gets down to the actual protections of consumer health.

Now much of our meat is processed abroad... We are not even allowed to know where and when!

Can we trust that regulations are followed in foreign countries when we can't even regulate our own country?

This is not an anti-outsourcing thread it is an anti corruption thread, it is a thread aimed at government workers whose sloth allow "Kitchen (and restaurant) Nightmares" to occur on a mass scale! How are we supposed to have confidence in our food when these atrocities are happening all over the place?

What is behind all of this complacency when it comes to public health?

Are we to think it is wide spread corruption or is it just lazy overpaid government workers?

Either way, they are not doing their job!!!

The ones who suffer are the hard working unsuspecting consumers looking for a decent meal.

It takes a man who makes his money revealing this kind of neglect in the public sector to expose this yet the government is strangely silent on the charges of people whose job it was to see that these kitchen nightmare restaurants were sanitary and not a hazard to public health.

Each restaurant was under the supervision of someone paid by our tax dollars, someone who did not do their job at all!

Then there are other regulators, like regulators who protect nuclear facilities, and regulators who inspect deep water oil wells (such as the Deepwater Horizon ), and regulators who sell nuclear materials to people with bogus certificates.

Be scared people, be scared....