BULLDOG
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Sadly, americans by and large are clueless as to the labor, environmental, and property rights struggles history of this land mass. Regulations arose to constrain the feudalistic urges of concentrated power and wealth, but of course, concentrated power and wealth will always be reaching for more. The masses have been very well programmed to distrust govt, over which they at least have the pretense of the vote for representation, so they turn to concentrated corporate power for refuge and salvation, a framework within which they have no say at all. It is a form of human sacrifice.
Well regardless of what you claim... the fact is regulations have done more to do exactly what you claim they were created to contain.
Regulations concentrate power and wealth in the hands of the few, because the many can't afford to meet those regulations, and thus are unable to compete with the few.
Sure the wealthy will always be reaching for more. If you could not profit from doing something... you wouldn't do it. Same with the rich. No rich person spends millions to invest in a project they know will lose money. You wouldn't either.
But what regulations do, is keep YOU and ME and the average citizen from being able to reach for more ourselves. Now only the wealthy can reach for more, because they are the only ones with the financial ability to meet those regulations. You and me.... we go broke, can't compete.
Regulations always benefit the wealthy, at the expense of the poor. Yeah, trying to prevent that may have been the argument for making those regulations, but this is the practical result regardless of intentions.
So you think our goal should be to see how poorly we can do things? Odd that the right is willing to give up clean air and water, but still insists that PP can't exist if the halls of their buildings aren't 12 feet wide.
I'm simply saying what is true. What you conclude from the truth, is your deal.
But the truth, is the truth, whether you agree with it or not. Whether you support is or not.
If you support endless regulations, then you support harming the poor, for the benefit of the rich. That's how it is.
I kinda like clean air and water, and before retirement, I was glad to have a safe place to work. Sad that you don't see those things as helping the poor.
Right, and every person wants to believe that regulations is what did that.
If you want to believe in myths, that's fine. But it's not the truth.
Before regulations existed, working conditions were improving. Before the EPA ever existed, pollution was decreasing.
The left-wing likes to pretend that regulations are the only reason we have clean water. This is entirely false.
The left-wing likes to pretend the only reason we have a safe place to work, is because of regulations. That is entirely false.
I can cite hundreds of examples. The very first big work place safety push, was in the rail road industry, when the rail companies started installing air brakes on cargo trains to reduce accidents and injuries. It wasn't because of government, or any regulations. It was business making that push, and it always has been.
It wasn't government that improved the safety standards on cars. It was car companies. If car companies had never created an air bag system, the government would never have required them to be installed.
Regulations only make it more costly for people to buy the products they need or want. They never make the products they buy better. The companies making the products do that.
You're a blithering idiot. You really believe child labor laws were not needed, or that factories stopped spewing their polluted crap without laws to require that? You're an idiot.