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To: Cogito who wrote (90403)	10/16/2008 6:19:51 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541777

I don't have a problem with businesses being required to provide a safe environment for their workers. There's a big difference between the idea and the implementation. I'd bet that if you actually studied OSHA regulations you'd throw a good portion of them out. And a good portion that Sober would keep. I think that people's attitudes about such government functions are a question of whether you're looking at the full part of the glass or the empty and thinking it the glass.

To: Cogito who wrote (90403)	10/17/2008 9:06:01 AM
From: Sober	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541777

At the time, radium's danger was not well understood. OSHA's field workers are now pretty much required to go out and find ANY violations in order to justify their jobs, so a business will get written up for the most rediculous offenses. The bigger government gets, the more they live off the workers. As you can imagine, I am a big fan of Atlas Shrugged. en.wikipedia.org Sober

To: Cogito who wrote (90403)	10/18/2008 8:28:46 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541777

When such regulations did not exist, we saw things like factory rooms full of women painting watch dials using paint brushes dipped in radium. The women were told to wet the brushes with their mouths. Most of them developed cancer of the lips and tongue, and went on to die horribly. I thought of you as I watched last night's 20/20, John Stossel's politically incorrect politics. One of his points about government regulation is that it's always aimed at solving ancient problems, which is regulations fatal flaw. Did anyone else see the show? It's such a treat to encounter a libertarian POV for a change. I'd be interested in seeing any comments.