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To: longnshort who wrote (79311)	5/5/2007 4:47:29 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Yeah, "too much regulations" about safety etc. If a machine malfunctions and cuts off a worker's arm, just throw the worker out and get another one, right? What's the big deal?! That's the kind of things they do in the Third World countries. No wonder the corporations and their servants i.e. you regressives, love outsourcing.

To: longnshort who wrote (79311)	5/6/2007 8:36:12 PM
From: cirrus	Respond to of 93284

Laws are a reflection of our collective individual attitudes. We have laws "telling business what to do" because we the people, through our government , realize that businesses, if left to their own devices, would act in their own self interests without balancing the interests of society as a whole. Do you oppose laws restricting child labor? Or should businesses be free to hire children as young as 10 or 12, requiring them to work 12 hours a day, six days a week? Think that's nuts? Well, my grandfather worked those hours in a coal breaker. Did he have a choice? No, because his father was killed in the mines and left the family without resources. There wasn't any insurance, compensation or social security back then. Or the minimum wage and the 40 hour week? That's bad! If the workers can't hack the hours and wages we offer, screw them. Let them migrate to Europe and build Mercedes and BMW cars, Airbus jets and Nokia telephones on 35 hours a week and four weeks vacation and national healt care system. Perhaps there should be no workplace safety regulations? Let the mine operators run the mines as they see fit. If the miners don't like it, let them quit - and starve. While we're at it, lets scrap anti-trust regulations. Why shouldn't Exxon-Mobil be free to buy anyone else so they can set whatever prices they choose? Or for that matter, why do we regulate utilities. Let my electric company charge whatever they want. If I don't want to pay I can use candles, right? And the SEC. Talk about regulations! Why can't we trust companies to provide timely and truthful financial information? Or the FDA. We dshould be able to trust drug companies to adequately and honestly test their products, right? And the FAA? Who needs it. Crashes are bad for business, so there is no need for a government agency to investigate and establish the causes of airline crashes and mandate industrywide operating and maintenance procedures. If it weren't for government regulations that evened the playing field for labor and industry and gave rise to a vast middle class, where what would America be? A third world dictatorship, that's what - and I think you realize that. You just like to rant about government regulation because it's an easy target that no one likes. No one want regulations, but we tolerate them because we need some rules, some standards, to allow civilization to prosper. If you dislike government regulation so much, go to China where regulations are just getting started and your superior product can be knocked off and cheap imitations on the market in hours. Or your intellectual property copied at will by anyone.