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Lefties desire more money spent on infrastructure after promising to spend nearly a trillion.  Then, spending it on everything but infrastructure.

 

Before the endless paperwork and redtape of government regulations and union regulations, we built the Empire State Building in 410 days.  The Pentagon took 16 months.  That's with much less sophisticated construction equipment than we have now.

 

Boston's big dig took 20 years.  The projected cost went from $2.6 billion to over $14 billion. Don't tell me all those regulations make it safer.  Certainly don't tell the survivors of the collapsed tunnel that killed a family. 

 

The life span of theEmpire State Building and Pentagon will outlast the Big Dig.

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Which regulations are we talking about? The ones that require airlines to perform regular maintenance on their equipment? The ones that discovered and stopped a major  problem with aflatoxin in the peanut industry? The ones that require tire manufacturers to meet certain standards to strength and durability of their products? The ones that limit the number of hours truck and bus drivers may be on the road without rest periods? The ones that have led to the discovery and addressing of dangerous salmonella investations in both the poultry and egg industries, and of e coli outbreaks in lettuce and other produce in California?

 

None of these is perfect, and we can all cite mistakes and failures, such as the BIg Dig. That is no limited to governmnet. It happens in private industry and any other insitution run by humans. Locally, for instance, is the massive waste and fraud in HealthSouth. As testament to that, look at the empty hospital on U.S. 280 in Birmingham. 

 

There undoubtedly are examples of waste and excess in government, just as there are in industry, religion and other institutions. That doesn't mean we should get rid of all those institutiions; rather, we should be vigilant to maintain reasonable oversight and ongoing evaluation of how these regulations and projects are bene****ing society.

Originally Posted by Lionsfan:

Which regulations are we talking about? The ones that require airlines to perform regular maintenance on their equipment? The ones that discovered and stopped a major  problem with aflatoxin in the peanut industry? The ones that require tire manufacturers to meet certain standards to strength and durability of their products? The ones that limit the number of hours truck and bus drivers may be on the road without rest periods? The ones that have led to the discovery and addressing of dangerous salmonella investations in both the poultry and egg industries, and of e coli outbreaks in lettuce and other produce in California?

 

None of these is perfect, and we can all cite mistakes and failures, such as the BIg Dig. That is no limited to governmnet. It happens in private industry and any other insitution run by humans. Locally, for instance, is the massive waste and fraud in HealthSouth. As testament to that, look at the empty hospital on U.S. 280 in Birmingham. 

 

There undoubtedly are examples of waste and excess in government, just as there are in industry, religion and other institutions. That doesn't mean we should get rid of all those institutiions; rather, we should be vigilant to maintain reasonable oversight and ongoing evaluation of how these regulations and projects are bene****ing society.

Viewing the portion of the NYC skyline from the first third of the 20th century, I see the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building, and the French chateau in the sky that is the old NY Times building.  They were constructed before the massive regulations piled upon us since then. They're well constructed and will last longer than many of their successors.

 

Can you honestly say we need all or even most of the regulations piled upon themselves in the last 60 years.

 

If, you wish one example, I'll give the present ethanol mandate. 

 

In 2008 cycle, Congress passed the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Americans now must consume 36 billion gallons of “renewable fuels” annually by 2022—15 billion gallons of which will be corn ethanol.  The present use of  about 11 billion gallons uses about 30 to forty percent of the corn crop.  Can you see where that is going!  Why should congress pass such mandates in the first place, but for special interests!  To mandate that corn be used rather than other sources only

exacerbates the problem!

 

EPA is proposing new regulations without considering the harm that might be done to the economy. Even though the law requires it.

 

Similarly, no review of the results of regulations proposed to enforce the new Dodd Frank financial laws was performed as required.

 

 

 

 

 

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