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To: TimF who wrote (138733)	8/10/2001 7:19:03 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575622

Maintaining your home is fine but what if some regulations required you to put in a $15,000 air purifier system when the air is just fine, and then after you had it installed and running a few years the regs changed and the old system was no good and it had to be replaced? Tim, you didn't tell us you were having so many problems with your house. ;~)) You want your home, either your house or the earth to be kept reasonbly nice, but the cost and benefits both have to be considered. Even a bunch of regulations that might make sense individual can cause problems when they are combined and the net result is a regulatory straight jacket. Are you telling us the upkeep on the Earth is too much and we have to move? <g> This problem becomes even worse when you add the regulations that don't make sense, and the fact that the laws and regulations can be so complex that even when a company is willing to spend a lot of money to comply they can't always be sure that they are in complience, and after making an expensive and difficult effort they still get slammed for violating some regulation or regulatory interpretation. I agree...most gov't regs are a pain in the butt and difficult to interpret. Having been on both sides, I can undertand the private sectors complaints. At the same time I understand the gov't's side as well. Gov't is usually responsible to multiple constituencies...therefore, trying to turn a law into an administrative reg. can be very problematical. Each side wants their say and often times there positions are contradictory. Further, the new reg can be subject to different interpretations by each enforcer, making matters more confused. Further complications can result depending on the level of competency/quality of the enforcer. All of these elements help to create what can be a gov'mental headache for the private sector. Unfortunately, I don't know what to do it......its the only system we have and gov't by its very nature does not always attract the most capable people. I strongly encourage gov't to streamline their operations whenever possible but until someone comes up with something better, we are stuck with the present system. ted