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To: jlallen who wrote (940908)	6/17/2016 11:58:36 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Recommended By locogringo Respond to of 1573342

Jlallen, You're delusional.....HRC never worked for, nor cared about anyone but, herself.... John Stossel put it best when he described his lunch with Hillary. Her answer to EVERYTHING is "This is why we need regulation!" Anyone who disagrees must be ignored, because Hillary is on a mission to solve all of the nation's problems with big government. Tenchusatsu My Lunch With Hillary I sat next to Hillary Clinton. She was very friendly—for a while. Being a provocateur, I brought up a local controversy: Some Chinese workers were sleeping in old shipping containers, four to a container. They had moved to Anguilla to help build hotels. "This is why we need regulation!" she told me. I pointed out that the workers weren't slaves. They'd come to Anguilla only because their alternatives in China must have been significantly worse. Of course, the housing the Chinese workers inhabited wasn't up to American standards, but the standards Clinton wants would raise costs. That would eliminate opportunities. Some of those workers might never have gotten the chance to leave China and better their lives. Our well-intended rules often create nasty, unintended consequences. For example, after Western media complained that Bangladeshi workers were abused in "sweatshops," many of those businesses closed. "Good!" said the media. "We stopped the abuse!" But then Oxfam researchers discovered that many of those now unemployed workers were begging for food on the streets. Some became prostitutes. Clinton replied, "I heard about that study, but most regulation improves living conditions: zoning rules, affirmative action, licensing, minimum wage..." I responded, "Well, I'm a libertarian and ..." "I know who you are!" she interrupted. We were off. I give her credit: She argued with me for half an hour. Finally, she'd had enough. She just ignored me for the rest of the meal. Clinton's wish to regulate workers' sleeping arrangements is a symptom of "lawyers' disease." Like most politicians, she assumes problems are best solved with new rules. She doesn't notice that most new rules create new problems. Worse problems. Problems that often take away opportunity altogether.