Representative Darrell Issa of California recently sent letters to more than 150 companies, trade groups and research organizations asking them to identify federal regulations that they wanted to see repealed or rewritten.
This is a splendid idea, as we have learned this past decade. No one is in a better position to know what rules are restraining economic recovery than the companies that have to live under their restrictions. Indeed, what could be more intelligent than allowing entities whose fiduciary obligations are to maximize profits by any legal means available to rewrite their own rules?
Can you feel the sarcasm? I hope so.
The list goes on and on. We could talk about Food safety, products that strangle infants, unsafe effluent discharges into drinking water, etc. Suffice it to say that self-regulation by corporate entities has been a complete and unmitigated disaster.
But we will not learn.
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OMG! No one is suggesting that we go back to sweat shops and dumping raw sewage into Lake Erie.
ReplyDeleteIn your defeat, you have decided to become absurd. If we applied a process improvement approach to regulations, we would ask those impacted by the regulations what their suggestions were, and we would ask those benefited as well.
There is nothing inherently wrong with Issa's approach. In an open, and honest debate, we would hear many sides of these issues, and we'd regulate according to what made the most sense for all parties.
Unfortunately, the last 2 years saw only one side debating (that would be Dems) themselves. Maybe you became so used to this, you decided that's the way it will always be.
I hope the GOP heard the message, we expect this Congress to repeal the egregious acts of the previous 2 years, but we also expect open and honest government.
Jay, you are so full of shit. Did you see that open, honest, all-sides input the last time (2001-2006) that the GOP held power? Issa didn't ask for input from those benefitted, he only asked for input from one place.
ReplyDeleteBlinded by ideology as usual.