Trump Trainwreck - Ongoing diary of betrayal and evil

[David Horn]

(12-07-2016, 09:49 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(12-06-2016, 05:36 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(12-05-2016, 03:56 PM)Galen Wrote:

(12-05-2016, 03:49 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: ... We need those regulations...

No we don't.

Take just a minute and look at the map of the worst superfund sites, all the direct result of too little regulation. 



Note that none of them were or will be cleaned-up by the ones who did the polluting, or even at their expense.  After all, no one said no.

There was too little regulation when they were created, and too much regulation now.  Those two things are not contradictory.

How do you thread the needle?  How do you know when the "too much" threshold is crossed?  Remember, it isn't just the EPA, though the effort to kill that is underway.  Deregulated banking nearly killed the entire world economy, yet the bankers got off (after all, no one said no) even though the rest of us are still taking a beating.  The Telecoms and Big Pharma set their own prices ... take it or leave it.  And don't get me started on the mythical benefits of Right to Work Laws, pursued solely for the benefit of employers. 

The history of the last 30 or 40 years is not good.  Too much regulation is not the problem.  Too little ... maybe.