On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Mark White <kayakmark_at_gmail.com> wrote: > It's not just BP skimping on safety. We've had (too many?) years of > hands-off government oversight of the oil industry and overly-cozy > relationships between industry and government. > It's abundantly clear to me that "deregulation" doesn't work. Not only that, it never worked. Yet whenever someone seriously proposes more regulation (over any industry) six someone else's jump up and yell "big government". Maybe not even regulation works. How do you regulate a coal industry that can seemingly ignore regulatory laws with impunity? How do you regulate any industry unless a vast majority of the public is paying attention? How stupid do you have to be to complain about gasoline that costs $3 a gallon while paying $4 a gallon for bottled water at the same place:? Where in the Constitution of the United States of America does it give the same rights to corporations as it does to individuals? How did we get into this mess, anyway? Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA www.nwkayaking.net *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed May 12 2010 - 07:26:35 PDT
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