Ron Paul and his typically commonsensical and constitutional approach. The first time swine flu was voted on a few decades ago, one person died from the flu and over 25 from the vaccine. Last year we had 13,000 cases of tuberculosis, and 644 deaths in 2006 from that disease. Now is the federal government more effective, or less effective today than it was in the 1970s? Not that you’ll hear the results of the Department of Homeland Security’s actions.