This is from another thread, not to pick on crep, but it is what reminded me to post this thread about deregulation.
See, I disagree. In a less regulated market, people will make investments, of time, money, labor, etc, but do so with greater caution knowing what they do is less regulated and thus more risky in terms of having to deal with consequences of investment directly and personally. A more regulated market actually means people are more protected from the consequences of their investments and will take more risk on bad investment knowing the regulations will bail them out. That's what happening in the housing market, it was so regulated as to make people think invesment was safe, any investment, giving out mortgaes to people who had no qualifications and doing so with any percentage down in cash, but it didn't matter for when the bubble burst and the market crashed, the government stepped in a bailed them out. More regulation is not safer overall, it's more risky.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
nathanbforrest45 (01-06-2018)
Common Sense Government: Works Better and Costs Less by Al "I Know Which side of the Post To Put Your Fence Rails On" Gore https://books.google.com/books?id=Km...ce CFR&f=false
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Well, it is better than a stick in the eye but as was pointed out government has not actually decreased in size, it has merely moved from the Federal to the State level and the states are even answer less to the people then the Feds do. Four cities for example control all of the regulations in Tennessee, Knoxville, Memphis Nashville and Chattanooga. The governor answers to those four cities and fairly much ignores the rest of us. Every state has the same demographics. Getting rid of 16,000 federales and hiring 140,000 state agents doesn't do much to help us.
It was before the left went off the deep end. The right too really. September 11, 2001, and all that followed really did a number to the collective psyche in ways that are hard to delineate. I still think there is an inherent bitterness/hatefulness in the American soul connected to it and the wars that followed that manifests in some pretty covert ways. The free-floating anger, especially in public discourse/public policy is like nothing I have ever seen or would want to see in America. I am not sure the common sense or bipartisanship are virtues or will ever be again anytime soon.
People who think a movie about plastic dolls is trying to turn their kids gay or trans are now officially known as
Barbie Q’s
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
People who think a movie about plastic dolls is trying to turn their kids gay or trans are now officially known as
Barbie Q’s