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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (207601)	12/6/2001 12:24:30 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

What is the point of being arbitrary in the process? Nobody says you need to be arbitrary. I'm a big supporter of sunset laws which require that regulations be rejustified periodicly. Regulations are also corrupted in the manner of: EROSION OF THE MYTH OF ADMINISTRATORS OF THE COMMONS "Indeed, the process has been so widely commented upon that one writer postulated a common life cycle for all of the attempts to develop regulatory policies. The life cycle is launched by an outcry so widespread and demanding that it generates enough political force to bring about establishment of a regulatory agency to insure the equitable, just, and rational distribution of the advantages among all holders of interest in the commons. This phase is followed by the symbolic reassurance of the offended as the agency goes into operation, developing a period of political quiescence among the great majority of those who hold a general but unorganized interest in the commons. Once this political quiescence has developed, the highly organized and specifically interested groups who wish to make incursions into the commons bring sufficient pressure to bear through other political processes to convert the agency to the protection and furthering of their interests. In the last phase even staffing of the regulating agency is accomplished by drawing the agency administrators from the ranks of the regulated." [p.p. 60-61] Dealing with the problems inherent in regulating the commons is better than ignoring them. The captive regulators and the "missing" regulators will not be eliminated by general budget cuts, instead it will be those who are most responsive and responsible who will cut back the better run parts of government to favor the most corrupt. The tragedy is not reduced by looking the other way. TP