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"Sounds like kids just out of college with no common sense writing
regulations. "
Have any of you read Temple Grandin's book,
"Animals in Translation"? She's the autistic woman who designs animal
handling equipment for slaughterhouses. She says cows are her favorite
animals, so she doesn't want them hurt or frightened at the end. She says
that the 1970's were the "Golden Age of government regulation in America" during
which most of the regulators were people who had worked in the industry they
were regulating and knew something about it. (Presumably as workers rather
than as industry owners.) Now she says they are college graduates who have
never done any real work.
To my surprise, we heard an
interview on the shortwave regarding industry and how Europe has swept ahead of
the US. The interviewee said that in the 70's America had the best and
safest factories and the best and safest products, and everyone in the world
wanted to buy our products and copy our factories. Now it's Europe, where
he said environmental and worker protection laws are easy to pass because
corporations are NOT ALLOWED to contribute to political campaigns.
Donna
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