The role of the FDA is to make money for their buddies in Big Bad Pharma who used to be their bosses when at the FDA. When Big Boss retired from FDA and ended up working at Big Pharma making three times the money, he knew every freckle on certain handpicked lads or laddies at the FDA, gave them promotions and partied down ... so years later when comes time to visit the old FDA stomping grounds, it is like your friendly Guido coming to collect the "rent". You get all kinds of perks,,, cut in line, friendly assessments, roadblocks for competition. Membership has it's privileges as they say.