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To: tejek who wrote (137963)	7/6/2001 4:17:01 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1584437

>>>>> For me a negative outcome means it doesn't work..plain and simple. >>>>> Ofcourse I don't view it as likely that triming regulations and cutting taxes will have a negative outcome. >>>>> Not where it really counts....as in oil and natural gas. From my understanding, alot of natural gas was burned off in our attempts to get at the oil. >>>>> We are still one of the world's largest oil and gas producers with pretty large reserves. I agree that burning off the gas at oil wells can be seen with 20/20 hindsight to have been a bad thing, but oil production did have regulations and even if regulation was greater it very likely would have said nothing about preserving the gas. As for the scooters do you think there should have been regulations against them?? Or do you think the regulators were too wise to buy them for their own children? It is (or at least was) a fad. But I don't think that fads call for government regulation unless they put people in danger. My 12 year old brother Chris has a scooter BTW. >>>>> They and that included children worked 18 hour days, breathing in noxious fumes and working with the most rudimentary of machines. The quality of those working conditions depended almost solely on the largesse of the owners.....and unfortunately, most were not very generous. >>>>> Exactly the working conditions where often horrible but people sought out these jobs anyway so I can't imagine that breathing noxious fumes of 18 hours a day was typical. Long hours and hard work yes, but probably less hard (or with better pay) then the farm laborers of the time. >>>>> It would be nice to get rid of those regs. but trust me, soon after, people would resort back to their old ways very quickly. Left to our own devices we tend to be piglets...and that's why there is a need for so many regs. >>>>> I'm not arguing against work place safety laws and regulations (although there are perhaps some that could use revaluation), but conditions would not be so bad as they used to be. Only part of the reason for improved conditions was regulations. Greater wealth and greater societal concern for health and safety helped a big deal. But I do think that getting rid of all these regs would be a bad thing. I just think that more effort should be taken to simplify them and any new regs should be considered very carefully. We have had regs outlawing 18 hours of working wiht dangerous machines that produce noxious fumes in cramped, unlit, locked rooms for a long time. The majority of modern regulations are of an entirely different nature then that. I'm not even proposing taking an axe to these newer regulations, but perhaps just triming them a bit. >>>>> And even with that we have building disasters where the inspectors were paid off and the work not done to code. >>>>> The more difficult it is to build up to the code, the more incentive there is to try to get around it. And once someone decides to try and cheat on it they might cheat a lot rather then just not comply with one or two particuarly difficult or seamingly useless regulations that caused them to cheat. You make a good case for having some level of regulation, but to those point really support regulations taking up so many pages you can't even carry them let alone easily have a good understanding of them? Tim BTW - You where right about the order filling. I went to change it and it all ready had filled at $22.50.

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