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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: geode00 who wrote (146111)	11/6/2008 8:47:38 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

I don't say "obviously" about things like "we have two much government regulation (you can search the thread, I haven't said it), but rather about things like "extensive intervention is what we have now", and "most of government is not necessary in order to avoid the collapse of society". Those things are obvious. Right now our government is highly intrusive and that appears to be (who knows for sure) preventing us from going into depression. Well at least you qualify with "who knows for sure", but I disagree with your opinion. If it were more intrusive before, we might have been spared the housing bubble entirely. Or it may have been worse, which isn't unlikely considering that a lot of the intrusion in to the housing market helped to cause the housing bubble. If you are not cleaning your restaurant kitchen then you could indeed be said to be defrauding your customers by presenting your food as clean and edible. Not cleaning your restaurant isn't fraud. Knowingly having a massively messy and unhealthy restaurant, while claiming to your customers that its clean and meets all standards would be fraud, but that's not what's illegal. You can't legally open a restaurant and advertise "dirty and unhealthy conditions", and then actually have those conditions. Not that you would want to (you would probably have no customers), but the point is the purpose behind the law, and the methods behind enforcing the law are connected to health concerns not fraud. Enforcing those laws is no more battling fraud, than enforcing laws against murder is battling perjury since you might lie about the murder under oath in a courtroom.