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To: TigerPaw who wrote (9691)	4/18/2002 4:31:24 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

If you lump every possible federal law into one category and call it regulation then I can't possibly defend them. OK. Let's talk about OSHA specifically. You said Bush had cut their budget. 2001 $426B osha.gov 2003 $437B osha-slc.gov WHAT budget cut???? You also said this: I have an old truck (1950). I am now amazed that something with that many protruding knobs and steel levers with no seat belts was ever produced. I am very protective of the truck as I drive, but I also think what it would be like to hit that big steering wheel post at 40mpg, versus what it would be like to hit the airbag in my car. YOu are aware, I presume, that airbags are computerized. And that in 1950 computers took up entire large rooms. How do you propose to fit that inside a Ford truck? And who could have afforded it?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (9691)	4/18/2002 8:53:15 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

If you lump every possible federal law into one category and call it regulation then I can't possibly defend them. Technically law is passed by a legislature and regulation is the implementation by a bureaucracy, but I believe when we where arguing over regulation we where including both the regulation and the laws that it is based on. Problems in Europe are not related to preserving common resources, Nothing about the word regulation implies that it has to be for the purpose of "preserving common resources". Tim