I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear. This week, O'Mears & Company, we talk about the politics of science and the fate of America's children, with two of the country's top public health experts, David Rosner and Geromarkowicz, authors of the revealing new book, Led Wars.

Do we want our grandchildren to be exposed to this toxic soup?

We're putting hundreds and hundreds of pounds of poison on every home,

and we're just waiting for the damage to occur.

Then, Danielle Bryan and Sheila Crumholz

describe what it takes in Washington to buy the government you want.

Public service is essentially a stepping stone in their resume to make more money.

I don't want that kind of person in my government.

People need to remember that ultimately money doesn't elect our representatives.

We do.

Thanks for joining us.

At the end of a week that reminded us to be ever vigilant about the dangers of government overreaching

its authority, whether by the long arm of the IRS or the Justice Department, let's pause

to think about another threat from too

much private power over public policy.

All too often, instead of acting as a break, government becomes the enabler of corporate power

and greed, undermining the very rules and regulations intended to keep us safe.

Think of inadequate inspections of food and those infections

which kill 3,000 Americans each year and make many millions sick. Think of the 85,000

industrial chemicals available today. Only a handful have been tested for safety. Think of the

explosion of perhaps as much

as half a million pounds of ammonium nitrate in that Texas fertilizer plant. People

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